What was history's biggest mistake?

your birth

The Catholic Church. We're about 200 years behind because of them.

Not even memeing.

>>1473114
Fall of Constantinople

South Korea

The decline of Rome.
Just imagine it.

A global empire.
A Christian empire.
A noble and honorable empire.
An empire which has defeated its enemies, and can live comfortably.

It would give people more social mobility too.

But no, it had to divide, and it had to fall.

Just take a moment, and think of how close we were to this world power.

>>1473121
You may not be meming, but you are objectively wrong

>>1473227
I think you have completely misread the history of rome

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>>1473121

>>1473227
>global empire
no thanks. i prefer self determination.
>christian empire
muh christianity. muh jesus.
pleb tier religion
>noble and honorable empire
whats your'e definition of noble and honorable?

>>1473227
>It would give people more social mobility too.
Are you mending or a actually serious?

>>1473231
>>1473241
>>1473252

Obligatory people from /lit/ who don't care about Western Culture or their own people, and just want to push their commie agenda.

I blame China

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>>1473236
>kangdoms

>>1473227
Fuck off, /pol/. Roma only great during pagan rule.
Christian is fucking plague

>>1473231
>You may not be meming, but you are objectively wrong
No. Ask yourself why the Enlightenment was in Italy but the Industrial revolution was in England, 200 years later. Why did the Italians, with their new ideas and rabid interest in science, not start the Industrial revolution, why was it a rainy Island in north west Europe?

The Catholic church, that's why. Early thinkers and scientists of the rennassiance were simply unable to pursue their ideas much further due to the Catholic church stifling them, Protestant England however had no such problems. Newton, had he lived in Italy would have been forced to denounce his claims, but in England he was free to say what he liked. Whereas Galileo who was in Italy had to give up his findings because of the Church on pain of death, and even then he was still imprisoned.

>>1473114
Communism

>>1473227
Fuck you christcuck. Rome fell divided because of Christianity and not your refisionist bullshit.

Fucking isreal

this thread

>>1473767
Why not America?

Getting pushed all the way out of NK by a literal peasant army.

>>1473114
England.

>>1473493
no from /pol/ actually.
since when did commies believe in self determination?

>>1473121

I'd say just the papacy and restrictions on usury. Without those Europe would've been more peaceful and entered into mercantilism and the age of discovery much sooner.

>>1474030
I think the divide is because since protestants translated the bible into other languages it gave the protestant churches a reason to improve literacy and later, wider education for the masses.

>>1474030
You are actually a fucking moron. Italy was a Peninsula of city states and the Papacy. Theres banking, people don't rely on the feudal system, but make money through trade and commerce. Living under the protection of the Pope was also a pretty sweet deal at times. People patronized art, literature, the sciences. Also, the fucking Renaissance happened in Italy, the Enlightenment was Western European in general.

England had huge iron and coal deposits, and they also perfected the Bessemer process.

The Catholic Church was a political institution and lazy wops can't be bothered to tell the Church to worry about itself. Every time someone brings up MUH SCIENCES WAS DISRUPTED BY THE CATHOLICKS I want them to shoot themselves in the goddamn face. Tell that to the fucking monks who hand copied original memes from antiquity so you can benefit from them today.

The state and every political system

>>1478820
You can undress and start eating from trees to live your wonderful utopia