ITT: Countries who have historically never done anything wrong
>>2942743
>>2942743
India
They have spent the entirety of their history defending themselves from aggressive Muslim and Mongol invaders, and later from racist British imperialists/colonialists
*unzips my civilization*
Well, this thing aint gonna suck itself
Why did people stop identifying as Phoenicians?
>>2942314
>tfw 20 Phoenician colonies in Sardinia but no Phoenician DNA
They surely weren't good at replacing the natives
>>2942331
Is it time to kill myself? Mother fucking G*rmans
>>2941670
>When you are so insecure and filled with /pol/ memes that you give your genetic information to a private company
>>2941670
Americans really are a mongrel race
>>2941673
>private companies are eeeeeevvvviiiillllll
>implying /pol/ hates germans
Is the aphorism our era's philosophical format?
>>2940591
It is nothing new. In ancient greece they have done it. Sentences like: "Being moderate is the best." The work starts with single observations that are written laconic, from time to time you add something to it and make conclusions with such premises. It´s like a snowball getting bigger when it´s rolled in snow.
>>2940591
Yes
http://mundusmillennialis.com/
>>2940726
The question is not whether it's new, but if it's the preferred/main format in which philosphy is written nowadays. I would say yes. Not only philosophy, but blogging, poetry, and prose literature too have an aphoristic quality, which is facilitated by the short-format of the majority of WWW media like tumblr, and twitter.
OH NO. You've just been stopped by a highwayman. He's going to kill you and take all your money! Fortunately, you can summon one person from history to help you out. There is a catch though, this person must have a first name that begins with the second letter of your last name. You have 5 seconds to pick!
I'll take andrew jackson
King Solomon
>>2936735
I'll take Uriah the Hittite.
>Claimed to be a Pharisee but couldn't read Hebrew
>Claims to have been sent by the High Priest to persecute Christians in Syria
>High Priest was a Sadducee, why would he send a Pharisee to do his bidding?
>Christianity was a tiny sect, why would the High Priest care about it?
>High Priest had no authority outside Israel, why would he send anyone to Syria?
>Claims to be a pupil of Gamaliel
>Gamaliel commanded his disciples not to hinder the proselyting of Peter and was sympathetic to Christians
>>2936077
Fuck off Ahmed.
>>2936077
>Christians lying to trick people into worshipping their absurd religion
This shouldn't need to be pointed out.
>>2936082
Typical Christcuck non-answer. You "people" are beyond satire.
How the fuck could they go battle with such clothes?
On a summer day, walking in the countryside with that coat, which I'm sure is not like a modern jacket
It's fucking awful, didn't they get a heat stroke or whatever?
battle in those times was about formality and aesthetics rather than actual functionality and tactics
Imagine wearing this during summer.
>>2935736
I was watching a historical movie once with English cops in the full bobby outfits like searching a rural area looking for a missing woman or a body or something on a hot summer day. I had the same question and dad suggested that they were obliged to wear the same outfit year-round and that all told, it's better to be too hot in the summer than to be too cold in the winter. It seemed to make sense but we were concerned with a fictional narrative of course.
I do get what you're saying about heat stroke but IIRC it only really gets dangerous around 95F, which is just below human body temp. This, because it's around this point that the human body loses its ability to shed excess heat into the ambient enviroment (it's got no place to go, the two are already close to equilibrium). My suggestion being that if it's in the 80s (F) or colder, it'll suck but it won't be dangerous for most younger guys. And this Summer Suck is preferable to losing one's digits in the winter.
Philosophically speaking, what is the culture of the /his/ board? What are our memes? What is our Baneposting?
>H >R >E
>anne frank porn
>hitler's dick
some that I could think of
We have some culture.
How was the life of a little girl in the middle ages?
>>2928848
short mostly.
>>2928865
This, they grew up eventually
Too many factors. which decade, country, social class
Would Russia be better if the Soviet Union never fell?
>>2948278
You mean if it peacefully transitioned into, a... well i hesitate to call it a market economy because it's not quite like that in Russia and Ukraine right now, BUT held territorial integrity?
Yes, yes it would be. And yes, that's what Putin means when he says that the fall of the USSR is a tragedy, not the fall of communism, but the fall of Russia as a geopolitical giant.
Russia is an aggressive shithole exporting only misery and death. Every time it shrinks is a good day for normal people.
All Russia's problems originate in the mongol invasion
Argue me
Would South Africa really look like this without European colonizers?
No matter how racist you believe the South African apartheid was the blacks loved living amongst racist whites. It's interesting that they talk about opression when their ancestors migrated to live near whites who were building a great society.
And now the said blacks wish to claim a society built mostly by whites as their own while pretending they were held back.
>>2948199
Well for one there would be no Bantus there and the entire place would basically be vacant.
>>2948199
Niggers are useless. We all know it. What is the point of these thread?
>>2948199
who is this THICC succubus?
What caused the Bronze Age collapse?
How come we have no solid evidence of what happened?? It was a huge disaster!
The Hittites fell, The Egyptians were BTFO for centuries to come, the Greeks forgot how to write! What???
Iron technology replacing bronze caused destabilisation
here's a whole lecture on it. you'll learn more from that than from random posters on /his/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRcu-ysocX4
>>2948264
Not really, he doesn't say much about the sea peoples, he just talk about them generically for like 2 minutes.
I've made more informative posts about them on his before
>Mediaeval Ghana and Modern Ghana don't overlap at all
>Neither Sudan nor South Sudan are in the Sudan region
What's going on here? Are these terms unrelated and the similarity is coincidence? Is it caused by nomadic groups taking terms with them? Or is it some weird version of wewuzzing?
>>2947446
the word 'sudan' is literally just arabic for 'place of black people' or something like that IIRC
the modern state of sudan took it's name from the arabic word for western africa because black people i guess
in short, arabs aren't very creative with names
>>2947460
So kind of like "Niger" and "Nigeria" both meaning "black" (ultimately from the Niger River, aka river for black people)?
>mfw there are 2 Albania's
>>2947428
yeah das kapital was clearly a satire you fucking numbskull
>>2947428
It's been pretty accurate so far.
>>2947428
Pretty much every liberal believes in linear progression
So I'm wondering if piracy more or less really died out after roughly 1730, commonly labeled as the end of the "golden age of piracy". Did piracy really go away almost completly? What about south america and Africa?
Also, there were a lot of big wars in the 1700's and early 1800's, surely the big powers still used privateers, even though that's not exactly the same thing as piracy. Did any of them turn to outright piracy after wars like the seven year's war, american war of indepence, french revolutionary wars/napoleonic wars?
Also, who's your favourite historical pirate? Mine's probably Black Bart.
>>2947401
My cousin's husband is literally a mercenary that gets hired to stand on cargo liners and shoot at pirates as they round the Horn of Africa. Piracy is a very real thing.
>>2947463
This.
Piracy is actually a big problem around the Indian ocean still.
>>2947401
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih
Maybe the end of the "golden age of piracy" for the Eurocentric view, but in China, they still roamed supreme. Infact, I'd say the Golden age of piracy only ended with her.
If I had to guess, I'd say she commanded more pirate ships than the entire European pirate ships combined. But thats just my guess based don the limited scope of the European piracy.