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What is the best defence against a army of heavy cavalry and horse archers?
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Forts
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>>2944638
I'm partial to Tarkans and Huskarls
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>>2944638
Ask Hungary.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Mongol_invasion_of_Hungary
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>most of world has never heard the gospel in the year of 2017
Wow this plan of salvation has been a real success so far
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>>2944539
Portugal? Really?
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>>2944566
greece too, literally one of the earliest bastions of Christianity. who came up with this shit?
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>>2944566
>Moortugal
>Christian
Pfffft
t. Portuguese
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>>2944409
>it's a another pointless battle of WW1 that achieved absolutely nothing
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>>2944426
Indeed
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*throws colonials at you*
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>The empire of Brazil and the empire of the ottomans had slaves until the 1880s, as well as many other less relevant countries, and they both had more slaves than the southern U.S.
>The North didn't nearly fully oppose slavery and we're fighting the war to preserve the union
>Most Native American tribes were on the southern side (This isn't really related I jus thought I'd point it out)
>Southerners viewed the war as fighting for independence, not to preserve slavery even if that was the reason that the south seceded
>The North pretty much destroyed a large portion the south and it still has a lagging economy today
So /his/, why do you guys think confederate symbolism is so hated?They don't seem that evil compared to lots of European empires that would follow.
NOTE: This isn't supposed to be political, this is a historical discussion
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because they tore up the union just because of slavery
I don't really care what your opinions are, the historical fact is that the south was fighting to preserve slavery
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the reason the war happened was because of the southern economy was almost completely based on slavery and the south threatened to sell cotton to europe and asia instead of the north. think about the poverty that would happen if all the sudden 18 wheelers were illegal.
anybody who tells you the north was fighting for virtue or the south was fighting for independence is full of it.
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>Start a revolution over "muh represention" and "muh taxes"
>Less than a century later crush a rebellion over "muh states rights" and "muh economy"
I assume this is a gross over-simplification but how are the Yankee's not hypocrites?
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Realistically could Castro have exported the revolution to the US?
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No, not in the slightest
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>>2944162
The fact he even succeeded in Cuba is amazing. But no, he would have been curbstomped if he tried to export it to America.
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>>2944162
Nah the US has been going through generations of Anti-Communist propaganda.
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What were the defining features of Jomon culture aside from no rice?
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How did the Yamato replace them?
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>>2944682
genocide right? Bigger numbers due to being able to make more food.
What features do you mean particularly? Art? fashion? Culture? ethnicity?
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THICC
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History's main characters
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>>2943795
Me but I'm still in the "I'm just a regular person"
chapter
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The Wise Father
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Was it actually that common for nobility to bed the maid/stableboy/whatever? It comes up pretty often in fiction, but I rarely, if ever, see it come up in historical documents.
It seems to me it could go in either direction. Frowned upon generally, because nobles are essentially wasting their time on lowborns, but at the same time people in power have a tendency to not care so long as said power isn't threatened. Biggest issue I could see is the potential to disrupt a marriage, and thus a political alliance, unless both lord and lady did it and just didn't care (which wouldn't be too surprising, considering they were almost always arranged marriage.
If it was fairly common, were the cases usually consensual ("part of the job")? Did ladies partake as much as lords?
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Women? Fuck no. They usually went for their guards or higher ranking military officers if EVER.
Young men would often enjoy the sensual delights of comely maids, but as they grew older they'd have a steady series of more classy mistresses and courtesans. Monogamy was seen as being for chumps and poorfags. One Roman senator was actually ridiculed by his colleagues for being genuinely in love with his wife and refusing to cheat on her.
Young men were virile creatures expected to go chase women. Older men needed at least two women: a wife to manage his household affairs and bear legitimate children, and a mistress for love & sexual gratification.
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In my country is very common to have "maids". Even for the poor or middle class. I think is something that came from the past.
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>>2943713
Yeah of course, they fucked them silly.
Heck, even today that's very common. Young rich boys in Iberian countries tend to fuck they maid when they get in age. Lot's of Mucama/sirvientas/barragans had illegitimate bastards than lived more or less close with the official sons, if the wife got pissy about it you sended her and the kid to the village and pased them some almoiny or whatever. How do you think so few men spreaded they genes so much? Rape babies is a silly concept, they would be killed be the mothers or mostly die of disaes like any kid in those ages.
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What were ancient Egyptian armies like?
Pre-Ptolemaic. Old, Middle or New Kingdom eras.
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No one alive today was there, so it's impossible to say.
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>>2943283
I'm more interested in what tactics were like in the bronze age, Hittites vs Egyptians kind of warfare.
I'll give you a bump in hopes someone can shed some light.
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>>2943290
Mummy checking in.
I was there bro.
Surprisingly, Ancient Egyptians were mostly Japanese post old Kangdom. Old Kangdom was rules by Abbos.
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Would Italy be better off if they cut off the T*rrone?
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Why do you pastafags hate each other so much? Get your shit together.
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>>2943198
It's a false flag.
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>>2943198
One only has to go to Napoli to see why the Terrone are subhuman. They're like the Catalan of Italy except the good part of the country actually wants them to leave, but they stay here like a vampiric cist
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A hero or war criminal?
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Heroic hero
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>this thread again
Obviously, he's a criminal. Like every soldier in a war. Dammit, "war crime" is a retarded idea, you can't regulate war with civil laws.
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>>2942733
Aerial bombing isn't a war crime unless you're deliberately bombing civilian structures.
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well, /hum/, was he right?
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Does it imply you can't have ideas without them being formulated into language? I think that is false.
It is essential for transmission though. If he meant that his world is communicating with others, then that statement would be true.
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I'd say the limits of his material body are the limits of his world.
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>>2942736
>Does it imply you can't have ideas without them being formulated into language?
No. What you're saying is essentially a metaphysical statement. He would never say any such thing.
>If he meant that his world is communicating with others
Language is communicating with others. That's totally obvious and wouldn't be the basis for a reputation.
He wants to change the way we talk about the relationship between language and the world. What was the relationship before?
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What virtue is most important one?
What is your greatest virtue, anon?
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I think most important one is discipline.
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>>2942428
Discipline can be used for good as well as evil, so no it can´t be discipline. It is subordinate.to justice, equity, fairness, justness or however you wanna call it.
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>>2942297
Humility ez
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Imagine that Europeans forever stayed in Europe. What tribe would dominate America?
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The Incas
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Incas. The decadence of the aztecs would have destroyed them by the time incas get to mesoamerica.
Also incas would either lose the south of their empire or conquest the mapuches. Aldo the empire would purge the uncivilized tribes leading the spread of civilization and a pseudo-competence aggresion between potential civs on the east coast of south america and the mainland of the incas.
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>>2942257
>counterfactual history
fan fiction
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Is Western civilization exhausted?
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I've been thinking about the 1960s a lot lately, from Montreal's Expo '67 where the world came together to celebrate progress, to the excitement of the moon landings, to the historically unprecedented forms of music and art which appeared at this time. After a brutal world war, it seemed like mankind had rebuilt himself. In spite of the fears and setbacks, we had a true sense of optimism for the first time in many decades. People were coming together and incredible new things were being done.
But now it feels like we've done it all before. Nothing is original in music; it's all the same shitty formats and themes. "Art" is talentless and boring; unlike 20th century modern artists who embedded complex themes in their work, nowadays a painting of Donald Trump done with menstrual blood is considered a masterpiece of social commentary. People and their attitudes are shittier. Facebook turns people into shallow attention whores, while the news media of the far-left and far-right gets them angry over issues that have zero bearing on their lives. World leaders are brainless fuckwits eager to jerk off over how awesome they are, while having no real vision at all. "High culture" is dead, and being perceived as too polite or posh is considered a bad thing.
In short, I think Western civilization itself has become exhausted. We're going nowhere. Instead we're just sitting around and trying to cannibalize our past. Anything "new" we do is trivial and driven by the worship of mammon. My generation does not get a moon landing, but we do get to watch SpaceX improve its reusable rocket technology, thereby lowering the cost of launching low-orbit communications satellites over time. Wow!
Could there be some way to kick the life back into us? Preferably something that wouldn't involve another terrible world war?
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>Nothing is original in music; it's all the same shitty formats and themes.
Proof you only listen to the top 40 hits. Now is actually the best time for music, with the internet allowing obscure artists to get noticed.
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I agree anon, and I got the perfect solution for this. You see the CHRISTIANS came into europe with the SEMITE religion and made us forget our ancestors, our way of life! We used to work on land! It's not too late, go out and buy yourself a big parch land, become a self sufficient farmer, get a white wife, and start practicing Odalism! Blood and Soil!
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>>2940957
>Could there be some way to kick the life back into us?
Who do you fucking think?