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How did taxes and tribute get collected in the past? How often were they collected, by who, and how? Were there treasure fleets and caravans that shipped tons of gold between vassal and liege?
>>307666
The government/central body or whatever would set a general tax rate for a region. Then compeeting tax collectors (think of them almost as private enterprises) would bid on how MUCH tax they could get out of that region. The state went with the collector that thought it could collect the most tax.
After that, the tax collector would try to squeeze even more taxes out of the assigned region and keep all the surplus for himself as profit.
>>307666
When and where in the past?
>>307666
Medieval taxation system is a mess because medieval society had a bunch of separate institutions that would takes taxes: the local liege, the kingdom, the church, the corporations, and so on. And of course it's different by country.
Still, the main idea is that only local taxes were permanent, while the king levied (is that the word? not english, sorry) a tax only occasionally, to pay for a war or a new castle or something like that. In fact, it was a way for the crown to repay a debt: the creditor would...
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How do you think he felt in his jail cell, knowing that he caused WW1 and death of millions all over Europe?
>>307565
I doubt he really cared about the consequences of his actions. His history is filled with a miss-guided sense of pride and he had a massive inferiority complex. He was rejected from joining the military because the major found him too small and weak.
Proud that he's unleashed the forces that will liberate his nation and his fellow Slavs from the Habsburg yoke
>>307565
Princip was received as a hero by his fellow Slavic nationalists.
He'd be proud as fuck.
>human intuition is reliable
>I feel this is right
>I have never studied statistical inference or anything but I feel this candidate knows his shit
topkek plebs
This is why Plato hated democracy btw
>>307559
Please expand, this could be an intredasting thread.
>>307567
Basically this stuff here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
Is it fair to say that Protestant beliefs (salvation through hardwork) created the modern world?
how come traditionally Catholic countries/empires (Spain, Poortugal, etc) in history have comparatively shit colonies compared to Protestant ones?
>>307486
>Is it fair to say that Protestant beliefs (Space for secular affairs) created the modern world?
ftfy.
>Salvation through hard work
>Protestant
Muh faith alone and all that bullshit.
>>307486
Were Dutch colonies better than the French or Spanish ones? Seems to me it's just a British thing.
>>307486
Because 95% of all the "Protestant" colonies you are referring to happen to be originally British and got all the pleasant habitable lanlater ds (America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)
The Netherlands only had Indonesia
What is your opinion on current and past affairs in Ulster? (post 1900)
>>307450
since when did dave lee travers gun down taigs?
>>307450
Freedom or death desu, fuck every royal pest and their parasite children
I think the Larne gun-running was a dangerous precedent. It introduced the gun to Irish politics and it was used to circumvent democracy because a bunch of Orangemen were paranoid of having devolution.
I know quite a bit of English who are indifferent to Northern Ireland and think Orangemen cause too much trouble than they're worth.
Northern Ireland is a mess. Maybe after this generation dies off in 50 years, the younger ones will try to put the past behind them and look to the future.
Will I see a unified Ireland? Not in my lifetime. It's gonna...
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So /his/ are you a descendant of any historical figure?, do you know any good websites to research genealogy?
>>307407
Only one
Most probably.
I am a descendant of a Nigerean prince.
Comrades!!
Please help me. I am looking for the animated .gif where Stalin pulls down the hand of a saluting officer in order to shake it. I have the Putin version.
I would also like this gif.
Bumping you comrade
>>307428
What is he even doing?
Opinions on Sankara? Is he one of the few examples of a relatively succesful dictatorship in Africa, or does it only show that politics is all about balancing between interests groups?
And where can i read more about this guy?
>>306748
I don't know much about him, I know he was loved and that he's kinda trending with anti-euro, 'sovranists' european confusionists.
look like a cool dude though
>>306808
I wouldn't say that his whole government could be used as an example of anti-western governments done right, as he was killed in a coup and frequently tortured political opponents, but it 's still damn interesting to take into consideration that he was able to create a food surplus and basically revitalized the economy of Burkina Faso while declining foreign aid. But as is probably inherent to dictatorships; he lost control.
>>306748
He's known as Africa's Che.
Obviously I'm not fond of how he suppressed voting and trade unions, but I guess he's worthy of respect in how he tried to bring Burkina Faso out of feudalism and poverty while taking a stance against the French colonialists - who were probably behind his death.
/his/, help me.
I've been trying to read up on Muslim beliefs and sects but they confuse hell out of me. All that Imam succession stuff and which ones are recognized by whom and what the actual differences in their belief systems are.
Can you give a me a simple breakdown of the most important ones?
Watch the caspian report's videos about it
>>306743
Sunni= believe that the faith should not worship a single bloodline descendant of Mohammed. major regions are Iraq and historically all Muslim areas west of Iraq. do not pray directly to mecca, although do face mecca when praying.
Shiite= worship bloodline of Mohammed. area of Iran to pakistan (although Afghanistan is a distinct mess). pray directly to mecca. Surprisingly legitimately more tolerant of other religions provided Jizya is paid. This is the sect that actually allows lying for the sake of advancing...
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>>306782
>/his/ is not /pol/, and Global Rule #3 is in effect. Do not try to treat this board as /pol/ with dates. Blatant racism and trolling will not be tolerated, and a high level of discourse is expected. History can be examined from many different conflicting viewpoints; please treat other posters with respect and address the content of their post instead of attacking their character.
Greetings!
Pic related was gifted as a wedding present in 1976 approximately.
Do any of you guys know what it is, or where I can find more info on this?
As you can see the thing opens in half for housing a bottle. I don't know what kind of bottle there was in there if any.
What could it be? Some kind of promotional product? For what brand?
Maybe it contained a bottle of ancient Norse mead that gave Vikings strength and courage in battle?
>>306687
/his/ is not a pawn shop, fuck off with your tourist crap.
Is there any truth to the claim that Druze are ancient followers of Pythagoras and neo-Platonists?
>>306479
no. They originate from Ismaili heretics that were devoted to the Mad Caliph Al-Hakim. Now they like to pretend that they are a legitimate faith separate from Islam but in reality function like a closed ethnic community.
>>306479
Maybe, but they're going extinct quickly, just like all other religious minorities in the middle east.
>>306686
>source cited
As far as I know they are doing okay for themselves as many are in Lebanon and a fair number are keked in Israel
Let's talk about Andrew "Old Memery" Jackson, /his/.
Did he put the USA on the road to civil war? Did he create democracy or ruin it? What do you think of him?
>>306436
He killed the second "national" bank. He's a hero for that reason alone.
>>306441
True, one of his more reasonable acts.
>>306441
This.
Jackson honestly believed it was his God-given duty to protect the interests of the common American; for this reason he was and continues to be considered insane by the Beltway.
If you don't accept Spinoza's arguments as sound, why would you defend his method or insist on the consistency of his system and the soundness of his arguments? I often see people saying things like 'Spinoza was the greatest genius of the early modern era, BTFO religion, revealed the true nature of Deus sive Natura...what's that? His definitions are flawed, his method is confusing, and his logic isn't sound by modern standards? Ah, you're right, but all the same, Spinoza's system is correct.'
How do people take this stance? I just...
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>>306353
soundness and consistency are memes that the rationalist has formalized in order to realize his puerile fantasy of a framework wherein he can use soundness and consistency, since he cannot find it in natural language in his desperate attempt to reach some objectivity in order to avoid any choice at all which scares him to death.
read spinoza and stop worrying about consistency and soundness, as if those concepts are found in natural languages. soundness is nothing but ''I like it'' and unsound...
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>>306415
>dude just turn your brain off lmao
>>306415
>the rationalist
Are you the same idiot who doesn't understand the definitions of rationalism and empiricism in every thread?
>read spinoza and stop worrying about consistency and soundness
It's hard to do that and care what he thinks when he literally this ks his system is logically correct and bases all of his claims off of geometric proofs while claiming his conclusions are co sostwnt with his definitions and axioms.
I don't even...
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when will this meme of socialism end?
moreover how can anyone actually believe in it
>I lack critical thinking skills and genuinely can't understand that people disagree with me
>>306312
Yeah right because capitalism works so well.
Also, what a poor excuse for a thread.
>>306318
>Says someone who probably bitches about /pol/
Capable rulers in incapable empires.
I'll start.
>>306212
>late 18th century america
>an empire
u wot
>>306209
He certainly halted the decline of the Byzzies for a time but ultimately he made it way too dependent on "capable" Komnenos rulers. Once an incapable one came along it was all ogre.
