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>persians had 100,000 soldiers
>theodosius had 100,000 soldiers
>constantine had 100,000 soldiers
where did this meme come from?
>>331762
Gives the idea of alot.
>>331762
It means a gorrillion soldiers
Herodotus started the meme of overestimating the enemy forces whilst underestimating the Greeks. Eventually people decided to just overestimate both sides.
Why don't people die for their nations anymore?
The security of the state was everything back then. Today it's just a fly ticket.People change countries like it means nothing to them.
Because you keep using nation, state and country as synonyms.
>>331551
They may not be exactly the same, but they share the same meaning.
>>331544
Why should i throw away my life so some shitty government decision against another government. Hell, why should i kill another man because my government disagrees with his.
Hey /his/, how do you feel about the current social climate in the USA?
Why is it that we live in an era where people are judged my modern standards even if it isn't a good standard to judge them by?
>For example - The petitions to remove Woodrow Wilson from the college campus because he was a bigot.
>2) - The banning of the "Confederate (battle) Flag".
>3) - The constant argument that if you don't agree with the current president it's because he's black.
How did we reach this point?
Is there a point in having a "freedom of expression" because it seems if you do so in about 20 years we'll erase you from the books because you were a bit eccentric.
Is there a way to fix it?
When do you think it started?
Will it ever be acceptable to have an opinion that's not mainstream again?
Liberalism is a mental disorder. And the lunatics are running the asylum.
>>331524
I was kind of hoping for a more conversational answer.
Why do you blame liberals? Do you not think conservatives had anything to do with it?
I'm not too well versed on the large political scale of things, which may be why I don't understand this so well, but it seems to be if we had more of both sides willing to reach bi-partisan compromises (I was taught our system encouraged compromise).
It doesn't seem that way. It really does seem like politics in the USA have moved to "Democrat, Republican,...
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>>331550
I'm not really giving a very academic response here.
>Why do you blame liberals? Do you not think conservatives had anything to do with it?
Modern "progressives" are the movement within liberalism that operates entirely on the "Appeal to Novelty" fallacy. They believe that new ideas (specifically, their ideas) are better than "oppressive" old ideas. They try to apply modern values to people who existed in a time when these values did not exist, because...
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The more extravagant, the better. Also post the best sites where you can buy helmets from
http://www.re-enactmentsupplies.co.uk/
For UK / EU bros
>>331342
vendel culture helmets are the best.
>>331405
Gorgeous mail veil. Pure and powerful!!
Is this true, /his/
>>331266
>expressionalism
Yeah, nah
First off, no. Second, what is "expressionalism?" Third, field recordings are awesome. Take your shit and get out
>Magnum Opuses
Yeah you know what dude? Today I think I'm gonna make a Magnum Opus. Yeah that's my favorite type of art nice.
How did humans domesticated dogs?
Why dont we have pet bears or lions today?
We have much better understantment and bigger knowledge, better technology could we domesticate them today using violence, technology or just "love??
>>331222
>Why dont we have pet lions today?
For the same reason we don't have ridable zebras
It takes a minimum of intelligence to domesticate an animal specie, and the human who remained in Africa after the "out of Africa" part (also known as "blacks") stopped evolving and are thus still at the early stage of human evolution (not capable of domestication)
You can get a pet bear or lion if you're willing to pay for it. Especially in terms of food would cost you a fortune. And there's always some risk they could snap and kill you.
>>331222
We do have pet lions, they're called, well, cats. Bears, that's a different story, they're propably just way too strong for people from bygone eras to domesticate.
ITT: We post grandpa stories about WWII (If your family did something in WWII, tell us who he was and what he did)
Underage Algerian scout for the French with the rest of his shota buddies desu
Obligatory.
Great-grandfather fought in eastern ukraine. Hated both the Russian and the German but was forced as he was "saved" by the soviets. Killed 4 people without mercy and was honorable discharged when shrapnel fucked his arm up. Him and a couple buddies made their way to the Allied side from a polish soviet hospital and made their way to britain then canada.
Hands down the best US President.
Regardless of your views on the morality of the Mexican American War, it was undeniably what the people of the country wanted, and the country was also undeniably better off because of it.
He fulfilled his role as president perfectly, to a degree no other president has matched.
>>331139
>Entire campaign was to annex Texas
>After elected President, the lame duck annexes Texas months before Polk is in office
Kek
To this day I have no idea why Mexico is allowed to exist. I just don't.
>>331151
Well technically, Mexico didn't recognize the annexation of Texas at that point. That's how Polk started the war in the first place.
What the fuck even IS Postmodernism?
The movement immediately following the Modernist period.
>>331090
Upvoted.
a way to employ thousands of failed philosophers
Is war the pinnacle of the human race?
Philosophy is actually
To be the peak of the human race 'war' would have to be a member, no?
>>331045
No, glorious assrape is the pinnacle of the human race.
>Want to watch a documentary about the Moors
>Every video is African-American people claiming that the Moors were black as coal and invented everything in the world
>WE WUZ CHEFS AND SHIT
Why is it allowed? Why can people just go on the internet and make up lies?
You tell me.
WE
>watching documentaries
Pleb
>This board is dedicated to the discussion of history and the other humanities such as philosophy, religion, law, classical artwork,
>classical artwork
There are no threads on /his/ about art. So let's start one. Anyone out here studying the fine history of art? Or art in general?
I study history of Social Science & Economics. But art always interested me, but i know only a little about it. Anyway, today i wandered into a nice little antique shop and i bought this oil on canvas painting for 20...
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this is the full painting if someone is interested
Hah, found the original. The name means Rudolf Guba and he was a mildly accomplished painter in the early 20th century. He made copies of his own work (I don't know why) and the copies are worth 100 Euros while the original is worth 1000. But i don't want to sell it, because there are like 10 copies out there. Who copies his own art? Anyway, no one answered, so i just ask again: Anyone into art?
>pic related, one of the copies.
See how mine is more blue/greenish and this one is full of red tones. Interesting thing i found....
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Yes, hello. I've got an Art History degree, got any questions?
My favourite period is 17th century dutch by the way.
WE
Can we get a thread going on this deontological mofo?
>>330808
His epistemological and aesthetic theories are much more interesting than his ethics desu.
I like all Kant philosophy but it's just for erudit interesting. It's impossible follow deontologist moral, dificcult believe in "conscious" "subjekt" after Nietzsche and the aesthetics doesn't explain the art in a world that killed the genius.
> Template
>>330808
>introductory text/video on Kant
>DUDE CATEGORICAL IMPERATIVE LAMO
Every fucking tiem.
Genghis was a good boy, he didn'd do nothing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq-Wk3YqeH4
I thank god every day that Genghis wasn't white, otherwise we'd never hear the end of it.
>>330819
You mean like how we never stop hearing about Alexander?
>>330865
Right.
>Alexander was eevil!
>He killed so many people :(
