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Why is there such a divide between the north and south in England? I know London is an expensive place but not all of the south is comprised of London. I was talking to a friend who lives in Manchester (works in the tech industry), wow did he hate the south. As far as I know his family was never in the coal industry, so I don't think Thatchers reforms affected them. But as a burger I really don't understand why there is such a divide.
>>382925
It's a meme and a tradition with no real foundation beyond Thatcher and other economic difficulties of the 20th century in which the North was disproportionately affected while the south moved to service industries and prospered.
These days northerners just hate southerners because it's a tradition passed down from their parents.
t. welshman
>>382940
Is there that much of a difference when in comes to living standards? Say someone in London moves to the city in Manchester? Also aren't picrelated in both the North and South?
>>382925
Northerners have a chip on their shoulders much like the Irish, Scots, and Welsh (just speaking RP is enough to set them off sometimes).
Though actually Northerners reserve most of their vitriol for each other. The Yorkshire/Lancashire split still gets them going.
Who is your favourite New Atheist /his/?
>>382722
I dont know this meme, so none.
>>382722
Dennett desu senpai
Dennett > Dawkins > Hitchens >>> Harris
Dennet is ok but boring
Dawkins is based as fuck when it comes to politics but too much of a fedora tipper for my taste otherwise + naive logical positivism typical of STEMtards
Hitchens is basically irrelevant, people just suck his nuts for "muh charisma and wit", literally made a life out of "debating" christians, you can't sink much lower, never did anything worth noting in his life
Harris is a cosmic abortion
Not being /pol/ or anything, but how is it that the indigenous writing came about in Egyptian through various descendants managed to create indigenous writing systems in europe, india, south east asia, the middle east and even korea. But some how never managed to go south down the nile (besides ethiopia which sort of falls into the MENA sphere of influence) to other parts of Africa?
In other words why did subsaharan africa neither develop their own written language nor were able to adapt/adopt the written languages of either Egypt, the Berbers or Ethiopia (or perhaps...
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>calling fucking Cyrilic a "Slavic" alphabet
Russocentrism much?
>>382657
>nitpicking
>implying i made this
>>382661
It's addressed to whichever fucktard made it.
Also Egypt wasn't the first to invent writing.
Is Judaism the most autistic religion?
It's arranged, structured, organized in the most systematic autistic way possible. They even have rabbincal literature that is dedicated to interpreting scripture, jewish law, tradition, religion, etc using logic, philosophy, and other forms of argumentation.
Go through the wikipedia page on rabbincal literature. I fucking dare you.
Here's my honest opinion of Jewish people; they're an entire race of idiot savants. Jews are obviously very intelligent but they are completely autistic when it comes to dealing with other races. Things like banking and accounting are perfect examples of how the Jewish brain works; they require impressive computational analysis but are relatively useless skills from a "practical" perspective. Of course, banking and accounting have become ingrained components of our society (coincidence?) so we need Jews around to maintain the massive economy that we have...
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>>382506
Tell me about the Proto-Indo-Europeans
>>382464
muh haplogroups
They were true White Nords (probably descended from ancestors see stories of ancestors from space most likely from Orion's Belt world) with true master of telekentic power? How else build pyramids??? Also complete human sexual free... Only degeenerate human history corrupt indo-Aryan purity
>>382464
They originated when Eastern Hunter Gathereds in Samara Russia along the Volga mixed with migrants from the Caucasus mountains
They eventually spread across the Eurasian continent when there forest homeland degraded to a steppe because of climate change when they were the Yamnaya civilization
You map is very misleading because it suggests they originated in Anatolia, which is a theory no modern scientist even supports
Let's imagine a nation with Christian values deeply embedded into every part of it - politics, government, economics, culture, etc.
Can a society such as this work? Charity would be extremely common. Killing would be absolutely forbidden (which would also mean no death sentences). The average citizen would try his best to follow the teachings of Christ.
How would such a nation survive in the modern world, or manage to keep exisiting at all?
Doesent America have some christian sect that basically acts literally how the bible tells them to?
>>382344
The Kingdom of Heaven is eternal.
>>382344
The Capetian dynasty of France stood for 1,000 years and was succeeded by another Christian dynasty.
Did people forget who they were supposed to be fighting against and alongside during the Cambrai War?
>>382238
>Cambrai War
The French seemed to know what they were doing.
>>382245
Did they? How do you know who the fuck you're fighting?
>>382238
Once you understand that
-Spain and HRE = Papal State's lapdogs
-England wants to piss off France but is too cowardly to engage in a war against it without many allies
It all makes sense
France and Papal State had an argument, Papal State switched side against France, its puppets followed and England joined
Then Venice switched for France because the other side was full of shit
/his/ approved podcasts.
I've been listening to the Ancient World podcast by Scott C., but the guy's a total drag.
Any good podcasts about Prussia, the Age of Exploration, or the Enlightenment?
Also, feel free to name any other /his/ related media you consume.
(Pic of badass definitely related)
New Books Network
bumping with this for the 2 newfags who haven't read it yet
I have recently played the WW1 podcast by Carlin and was surprised to find a bunch of mistakes in it, minor(-ish) but like quite a few in just the first half an hour or an hour or whatever about the start of WW1 and Princip etc. Like sequence of events, number of people involved, repeating debunked myths (about minor stuff). It was not "podcast-breaking" but it was something rather basic which you would expect from a "Not A Historian (tm) Just A Fan Of History". Made me sort of wary about the rest of his work.
Hello /his/torians, I am a final year student of history in glorious eastern Europe university. I am a few months shy of having to sustain my thesis so I could acquire my Bachelor's Degree, and i am in a bit of a pickle…
I want to write the thesis in the domain of medieval archaeology but I find myself in trouble of making my mind upon one subject.
What I ask of you sirs is to give me an idea, a subject, just that. A siege, remnants of an old town, something interesting (that has been attested archaeology). The only things I could come up with are "Religious...
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>>382151
That if you are studying in Eastern Europe you should check something nearer to you.
Your teachers should be able to give some advice about interesting subjects around your country.
>>382212
DESU teachers don't usually suggest local stuff, even though i plan to develop my career locally, archaeology is not a really big thing around here. It's almost always better to do your thesis in a non-local subject, mostly for recognition abroad.
>>382151
Do you need something local?
Here's 4,000 year old siberian bone armour
http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/archaeologists-unearth-4000-year-old-siberian-knight-armour-102090
Who was the man in the Iron Mask most likely, /his/?
Carozzo Ronah.
>>382094
Beat me to it.
>>382091
No one cared who he was till he put on the mask
>Islam wasn't spread by the sword
What's the logic behind this? I can't even grasp it in meme terms. Is it because of the pseudo-tolerance imposed on the conquered? Or conveniently ignoring anything that isn't Malaysia?
>>382048
Because Western historiography uses Islam to mean three different things: Islam the religion, Islam the culture, and Islam the geopolitical power. More accurately these would be called Islamic, Islamicate, and Islamdom respectively, but just like how the ERE is the Byzantine Empire it's hard to change convention.
The Arabs of Islamdom's expansion conquered for vague and not yet fully understood reasons, but the spread of Islamic faith seems to have been far from their minds at the time. Instead the religion...
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>>382048
>Or conveniently ignoring anything that isn't Malaysia?
explain?
>>382311
muh peaceful trade
What historical inaccuracies are there in the Bible?
There are people who claim it has never been disproven, and on a metaphysical level, maybe not. But are there concrete examples of glaring errors in historical accuracy?
>>382018
We have yet to find evidence of this big Jewish Empire that covered the levant that the OT keeps on talking about.
So far, all we can see is a city state around Jerusalem.
>>382018
>There are people who claim it has never been disproven
The same people claim the world started six million years ago.
>>382049
>six million
I heard that the Song Dynasty was on the verge of industrializing before the Mongols fucked everything up. Is there any truth to this or is it a crock of shit?
Also thread about the Song dynasty I guess.
>>382015
China is always on the verge of industrializing
Also the Song fucked its own shit up by being Administrative Geniuses but titanic military/foreign policy idiots.
This is why its not part of the Han-T'ang-Ming Golden ages.
They were already decadent by the time the Mongols came. If they were not decadent, the Mongols would likely not have conquered them.
Chinese history has plenty of those cycles.
>>382015
Given the amount of cheap labour available, I'm not sure mechanization was really that likely of a prospect.
Is Denmark the oldest remaining colonial power?
>>381822
No
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Overseas_Territories
>>381822
Greece and Lebanon
Who here likes BBC history documentaries?
I love the BBC.
>>381668
So does yo momma.
Are there any good historical documentaries on Netflix?
It looks like all of them are about the Nazis.
