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>>2898444
wow that's pretty cool, i have no idea, i'd say he combined multiple local maps, if i were to guess

>>2898444
By travelling along the coast and measuring distances and angles? Seems pretty easy to me. 1568 is like 50 years after the peak of the discoveries, plenty of time to travel and measure.

>>2898444
>>2898515
After looking closer at the map im actually more intregued by what firmamento is, what takes 36k years to orbit earth?

>>2898428
Look, senpai, you aren't going to make yourself believe. Not honestly, at least. Belief comes naturally or it doesn't come at all. What you really want is a sense of connection and purpose. That is simply caused by action. Go to the nearest charity and apply for volunteer work. Within the faces of those you help you might feel God, or you might not. But you will definitely find that which you seek - connection and purpose. You might also like to start working on yourself. Be the man you would like to see everyone else become, that is enough of a goal for any person.

>>2898428
read some hermetic books

Believe in yourself, not god.

we /History & humanities & politics/ now?

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>>2898121

>Old people are entitled to free stuff just because they're old

Who comes up with this bullshit?

>>2898272
It seems we always were.

>>2897805
They did, but they couldn't maintain them. A combination of hostile natives ("Skraelings") and the end of the medieval warm period made the settlements untenable.

Jared Diamond's book "Collapse" talks about it quite a bit. And yes, "Collapse" is MUCH better than "Guns, Germs, and Steel".

oh look a fat larping autist with a tranny wife has a completely unfounded opinion

>>2897967
>Why Vikings never establish permanent settlements in America.
>'They did, but they couldn't maintain them.'

Holy shit you're either dumb or illiterate.

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>tfw Italy could've gone socialist were it not for the US interfering

>>2897616
the land of my ancestors :)

>>2897644

>All those UNESCO heritage sites and untouched European identity not ruined by commie brain washing and hideous grey blocks of shit

Good

the ultimate redpill
we are all plebs

>>2897541
Is this supposed to be sad or something

Imagine playing minecraft without knowing the rules. How long would it take to discover some random crafting recipe?

IRL is like that, there ae plenty of smart people, they just never stumbled across iron smelting or a better saddle that allows horses to breathe better or somesuch. Being smart improved their chances but chance had a lot to do with it.

>>2897334
More awareness of it really, people likely often dismissed it as being sad or lazy in the past.

>>2897334
Middleclass grew too large
Lack of catholic faith led to the new gods of veganism, sex, and raves

Because big pharma wants you to believe that daily antidepressants intake is heathier than polishing off three or four glasses of wine a day in the town square with all the other members of your community. On wait nobody goes out any more because everyone is glued to the tv instead and communal bonds are considered passe.

I guess you better drink alone while watching the price is right then.

>>2897208
>Could they have made it
If they stopped killing each other over ideology and cooperated then yeah. One of their biggest downfalls, especially in the civil war, was their inability to work together, communist and anarchist would sometimes have shoot outs.

>>2897208
No, there were even more civil wars inside the republican side.

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Republican side: Stalinists, anarchists, Trotskyists and 'plain' left-wing republicans each one waging war on its own.

Nationalist side: Carlists, Falangists, hardline Catholics and regular right-wingers all fighting under the same banner.

>>2895749
If anything dragons are proof of ttraditional intelligence, as dinosaurs confirm the dragon theory has been at least 90% accurate with little evidence.

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Not exactly a monster but what the heck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Volga

>Black Volga (Polish: czarna wołga) refers to an urban legend widespread in Poland, Russia,[1] Belarus, Ukraine, and Mongolia,[2] mainly in the 1960s and 1970s. It was about a black (or in some versions red) Volga limousine that was allegedly used to abduct people, especially children. According to different versions, it was driven by priests, nuns, Jews, vampires, satanists or Satan himself. The car is described as having white wheel rims, white curtains or other white elements.

>Children were kidnapped to use their blood as a cure for rich Westerners or Arabs[2] suffering from leukemia; other variants used organ theft as the motive, combining it with another famous legend about kidney theft by the KGB. The legend surfaced again in the late 20th century, with a BMW or Mercedes car taking the Volga's place, sometimes depicted with horns instead of wing mirrors. In this version, the driver would ask passers-by for the time and kill them when they approached the car to answer. In another version of the legend, the victim would die at the same time a day later.

>>2895749

>bus-sized lizard could come down from the sky, light everything I own and love on fire, and move along with me being completely powerless to stop it.

Are you talking about dragons? Because dragons were not isolated to Slavic mythology.

>>2895171
Some forms of hedonism are just people trying to cope with their failiures in other areas.
Epicureanism is where it's at.

>>2895171
Maybe. If you were immortal. Why would I want to be able to do whatever I wanted? Sounds boring, tbqhwyfam.

Death and taxes, friendo. Somethin's gonna keep you in check whether you like it or not.

"Life" doesn't end in "-ism".

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Bedouins are still scrupulous in their practice of hospitality.

Not sure how Christianity managed to destroy it. However, Zeus was the God of suppliants so to treat a visitor poorly was to ask for trouble with the gods.

>>2894591
It's an integral part of human psychology called reciprocity. We give each other things, and receive things in return. As for where it comes from, I don't know. Evolution, probably.

Source: Dr. Robert Cialdini's writings on social psychology

>>2892317
You could just show facts to him instead of being a moron.

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>>2892317
The English language is in the same family as Iranian. What else do they fucking need?

>>2892321
If you need to know anything in this world it's that facts don't win anybody over, but rather telling them A) what they want to hear and B) things that are easy to understand
>>2892347
I'm talking racially.

>Postmodern neo-marxists
>Best

Ebin, simbly ebin

Not even trying to be /pol/, but it's becoming more and more obvious that post-modernism is the cancer killing humanism as a scholary disciplin.

>>2899760
How is postmodernism killing humanism?

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>>2899760
This

post real great fags.

>>2899174
>He has short hair like a Germanic instead of long hair like a Briton

>>2899250

didn't germanics have some kind of top knot?

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King Arthur is a part of grail mythology, and so the most "accurate" portrayal is naturally one that highlights the qualities and aspects that actually characterize this mythology, not by being "historically accurate" which is hardly the priority in a subject matter that is essentially suprahistorical (i.e. in its symbolism). In that case the only film version I know of that comes close is Excalibur (1981).

vid contains spoilers kinda
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>>2899022
India was great in the Golden years... 90s.

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>EEEHEEEHEEE. OOOOOOO

4chan was always a pro-India website, then came /pol/ shit.

>>2899037
Literal shit, as in toilet humor. The kind of jokes made by either children or adults of the mental equivalent.

>>2899022
Don't take meme's as peoples serious opinions honestly.
India's development is nothing short of impressive for the backround it came from