No Stupid Questions

Real talk, why is Belarus independent? Does it even want to be? It hadn't been for some 700 years prior.

What's this boards discord again?

Why didn't Venice unify Italy

>>2764054
I want to know this too.

What was peasant life in early Ayutthaya like?

>>2764065
They didn't want nor need to, they were merchants not conquerors
What do you gain from controlling land and castles that bring only trouble if you can just get rich by selling shit only you have

>>2764065
Venice expanded quite a bit, but the geo-politics of the italian peninsula were always a huge fucking mess. It was more profitable to keep an eye on the neighboring states and juggle with economic and political power rather than waging expensive war against states that were rather small, but could maybe count on numerous allies.

Also, the idea of the unification of Italy came very late in history, with all the bullshit dick-measuring-contest imperialism, so there wasn't really a cultural push to make the peninsula whole again.

In medieval India, how much "money" (current day) would an elephant cost?

Were the ancient Egyptians black or not.

>>2765070
Egypt was a melting pot because of the amount of land they owned. Not everyone was arab- not everyone was black.

Discussion over.

What did Aztecs do/use to wipe their ass? Genuinely curious as I am doing a comic set in that period.

>>2765099
I can't help you, but I'd love to see your stuff so far.

>>2764130
Basically the same as any other place in medieval southeast Asia. They lived communally in highly autonomous villages, which paid the central government taxes in the form of rice and corvee labor (or conscripts in times of war) but were otherwise more or less left to their own devices. You were almost certainly illiterate, and medical care involved going to see the local priest. You probably go to a nearby walled town to sell whatever it is you make and buy things a few times a year, but otherwise you don't get too far from home very often.

>>2765099
I don't have any actual evidence for this, but given what their contemporaries almost everywhere did, probably local leaves.

>>2765147
Any other cool details?
> I'm running a campaign in a world that's going to Not!Asia, and Not!Thailand might be a faction

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If Tuscany didn't joined Italy could be a Switzerland tier country?

Why Italy wasnt ready for WW2, if they had experience in Ethiopia and Spain?

>>2766553
1) Italy had no sufficient industries and raw material
2) The generals and commanders were in charge only for their names and not for their competences: in the majority they were noble heritage or old members of the PNF
3) Spain and Ethiopia weren't a useful experience because of the imbalance of the forces: Ethiopia was like sticks and stones
4) Italy fought on the wrong side: Italy and France were historically allied, and, in the same way Italy and "Germany" were historically enemies
5) Mussolini was a moron who thought to defeat the British Empire

>>2764033
It's a buffer state.
>>2765099
Probably some leaves.

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What is this uniform that monarchs (especially in 20th century) wore? Is there an official name for it

>>2766553
The events in Ethiopia and Spain were a significant drain in resources and equipment the Italians could not recover from in time for their entry into the second world war.

Mussolini was also very opportunistic and only joined the war because western Europe was getting steamrolled by the Germans. Mussolini knew that Italy was not prepared for war and was advised against it but did so anyway.

What made Kemal's nationalist guerilla forces so successful in driving all the European powers out of Anatolia, right after WW1?

What did physicists teach each other before Newton invented basically all of contemporary physics?

>>2767034
That's not a stupid question, but it ain't /his/

>>2766616
I thought they just wore flag officer's dress for either army or navy, with top ranks and all awards and orders pinned on?

>>2767034
Astronomy, mechanics, pneumatics, optics and hydrostatics are all older disciplines than Newton. Also probably still aristotelian physics too.

>>2766553
To add what others said, Mussolini was also told(by advisors) and knew he needed to wait till late 1940's before Italy had any hope in a war in terms of tech/industry/supplies/training and Hitler had constantly assured him war was a long way off. Italy needed time.

Why did the Morocco-American Treaty of Friendship not dissolve when the French and Spanish conquered the country?

>>2764065
French intervention at the end of the 15th century stopped their expansion and the War of the League of Cambrai scared them for life, so they never tried anything all too risky again.

>>2766541
There is nothing pointing to it, because at that time they had been completely irrelevant for quite some time. They also had neither any particular strategic advantages nor a good defensive position, so could easily be invaded.

>>2767021
Greek incompetence.

>>2767793
Because the treaty of Fez didn't really make the sultanate of Morocco a protectorate, it only made most of its territory a protectorate while retaining sovereignty.
It's basically just a point of law, a decision made by the international court of justice in 1952.

>>2767801
>the War of the League of Cambrai scared them for life, so they never tried anything all too risky again
More like they spent the following 200 years bankrupting themselves while fighting turks, leaving neither the time nor the resources to focus on european conflicts. They still did occasionally oppose the Habsburg when the turks were calm.

>>2764021
Why are Jews historically exiled and hated?

>>2766588
What are you smoking on the fourth point dude, we got cucked by France and napoleon III, that was not an Alliance
And we were enemies of the Austrians not Germany

>>2764021
Why is Turkey considered for EU membership but Morocco isn't?

>>2768038
Everyone else is just a filthy anti-semite. Never forget the 6000000.

>>2764033
Youngest nation in Europe. Actually most of the "Lithuania" of the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is today's Belarus. So it's kind of a mix of that and Ruthenian peoples living east of Poland similar to Ukraine. Memes that these countries don't exist and that it's simply Russia aren't very accurate but /pol/ likes Putin so there's that.

>>2764021
Why didn't Spain or Portugal try to end pirate threat once and for all and conquer Morocco/Algeria/Tunis?

>>2768065
You mean aside from Turkey actually having territory (including the fucking biggest city and like a fifth of the population) in Europe and actually having (had) interest in joining?

>>2768065
Because Turkey occupies former Greece.

>>2768108
They tried multiple times actually.

>>2768108
Spain and Portugal did have enclaves in the coast, but I imagine that conquering a massive stretch of land that's got mountains up the ass and a completely hostile native population just wasn't worth it
Besides I don't think the Ottomans would have been happy about it either

>>2768114
It has territory in Europe but it's not European.

is fascism a good ideology? it didnt last very long

>>2768065
Because Morocco has to be underappreciated forever.

How early could a war similar to world war one have happened?
What technologies made the sudden mechanization of warfare viable, and when were they first put into effect?

When did USA and Liberia stop co operating? Why did the nation fail and all that when it had once been an American colony that had all the opportunities of development as any anglo settled island? Not asking about race

How easy was it to break a spear shaft?

>>2768204
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYmOqPFyJPw

>>2764054
>>2764089
https://discord.gg/UzyxX

>>2768526
hello r e d d i t

>>2769127
> being tired of fascism as a topic
> reddit

>>2768038
Because Christians were prohibited from usury, it was rarely profitable for them to go into money-lending. Meanwhile, Jews were often prohibited from land, and were at constant risk of expulsion (so large land holdings would have been stupid). Thus, Jews go into money-lending. But nobody, regardless of religion likes to pay interest. So Christians would often use the law (which was naturally biased in their favor) to try to get out of paying. So the Jews became more aggressive in demanding payment. So the Christians sought more legal power. And so on.

Moreover, Jews were often seen as different. They didn't worship Jesus, so they couldn't go to Heaven. But unlike Muslims, they weren't really a military threat. So they were seen as "sneaky" rather than outright dangerous. It also didn't help that Judaism was highly exclusive (most Jews in the Middle Ages would be really Orthodox today).

Lastly, Judaism encourages basic literacy, which was uncommon through most of history. This made them a threat to rulers and further set them apart from their neighbors.

>>2764033
>customs union with russia
>refuses to allow foreigners in unless they're belarusian/russian, can speak russian, or know a native
>last European dictator
It's pretty much just a puppet state

>>2768582
Link is dead.

How did people clip their toe nails before nail clippers were invented?

>>2768469
>blacks leave America, get to Africa
>see themselves as superior to locals because they were Europeanized
>essentially run the country with little to no input from local population
>Cold War comes around
>native African stages a coup in 1980
>US doesn't give a shit because he's still on their side
>he executes a whole bunch of the Americo-Liberians
>Civil War breaks out at the end of the decade
>America no longer cares too much about who wins now that Cold War is over
>country falls really far really fast

Essentially, they were doing good until 1980.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia#History

>>2764021
What's the relationship between the Southern Americas tribes and empires (Aztec, Incas, Mayan and such) and the Northern Native American?

>>2768048
>Wars of Independence
>WW1
>We copied their flag and values

Yes, our old eternal enemy, France.