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Who is the most significant individual of the 19th century?
Significant in what way?
Any?
If so, I'd say Napoleon Bonaparte.
>>1317359
Hegel or Napoleon
But if you think about it, the starting and ending of centuries is completely arbitrary and that means that a person who was important in 1803 is far more influential than someone important in 1899.
>>1317359
probably napoleon. honestly, I'd put lincoln forward, just because he held the states together. that sort of set the stage for US becoming a superpower. or maybe TR. I'd be interested in figures from other countries that did similar things.
So you know the video game Medieval Total War? Well wether you don't or not, there's this unit in it called the Urban Militia for the Moorish faction, which are basically elite militia units that have better training and equipment than other faction militias. I tried looking up where this came from, but nothing in Almohad military history seems to match this description (although I ironically I've found something that does match it for the Reconquista Christian armies).
Anyone here who might know? And don't say this is for /v/-- they don't know...
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>>1317186
I thought medieval 2 had background info on all units? maybe read the description in game and google what they put down.
>>1317186
Vanilla Medieval Total War is less historically accurate than the Patriot, you know this right?
Download a mod if you're looking for something a bit more accurate. They also tend to include historic information in the unit descriptions.
>>1317186
A lot of medieval 2 total war stuff were based on stereotypes more so than actual history,the whole voice lines of the muslim factions were a prime example of this.
>Catholics can't do XYZ because the bible doesn't say that
Well it's okay Catholics not only follow the bible, but also follow the magisterium and 2000 years of tradition.
> but the bible doesn't say that.
Are you arguing against Catholics or critics of Catholicism?
Sorry
>>1316980
Jesus founded a Church, he didnt write a book. The Church made the bible and decided in councils which books belong to it..
>taking Christianity seriously
kek
Can any of you tell how old this is? Found it in my attic a few years ago.
Will post more pics soon.
Anyone?
What if the US allied with the Central Powers during WW1? What kind of impact would it have on the outcome of the war? Would this be good or bad? Would WW2 be prevented?
>>1316826
The u.k would have to be neutral our allied with the central powers for that to have happened
>>1316826
US would be unlikely to ally with some random mainland European power as the did stay out of European political affairs, however if we just assumed that the UK didn't intervene, that the "scrap of paper" really was just a scrap of paper, then via the Schlieffen-Plan first France and then Russia would have been easily beaten by Germany and AH.
The Central Powers would have created "Mitteleuropa" a EU-esque conglomeration of newly created states in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus (United Baltic...
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>>1316883
I'm under the assumption that Germany could've tore threw the french forts as easily as they did the Belgian forts t bh
South Africa had shit to give them.
>>1316716
South Africa didn't actively try to piss off Britain.
What can /his/ tell me about the Seleucids?
The Indian emperor concluded a peace treaty which involved giving the king several hundred Indian war elephants which were used to great effect throughout the west.
>>1316709
>>1316709
They dominated huge swathes of the middle east and Western Asia, having an empire stretching from the highlands of Anatolia to the fertile Indo-Gangetic plains. Toward the end of their Dynasty (150 BCE - 63 BCE) they were driven back by the expanding Parthian Empire, before finally being absorbed by the Roman Republic.
Historically how were the interactions between Hindus/Buddhists/other eastern religions and Islam?
Islam was constantly trying to get into India, and usually losing.
The Moguls conquered India, but all it amounted to is a small minority of Muslims in India that get shit on by everyone else.
Most of the countries that went hard Buddhist were physically separated from the Arab world by India and the Himalayas, but Arab traders brought Islam to southeast Asia.
Traditionally, Islam in Southeast Asia has been a milder, more tolerant variant, but Saudi funded madrassas have started to change that over the last generation.
>>1316597
>was constantly trying to get into India, and usually losing.
What is the Mughal empire? What is the modern Indian Muslim minority?
>>1316608
India was conquered, but it didn't convert.
Hindu game too strong.
Was she only relevant because of Caesar?
No, she was relevant because her brother killed Pompey.
first Ptolemy to learn fluent Egyptian
>>1316532
This 2bqh. She was a pretty interesting character on her own. But sure, she wouldn't be a household name if not for her role in the lives of Romans.
Can we get a stoicism thread going on
I'm okay with this
So, when it is said that God is merciful, what they actually mean is that God is evil and unfairly rewards sinners over the pious? Is that what the parable of the Prodigal Son is really about?
>>1316506
So says the book.
>but anon, jews and muslims have been fighting for hundreds of years!
>>1316330
Thousands even.
>>1316330
Outside of Muhammad genociding that Jewish tribe in Mecca they were hardly ever in direct conflict.
>>1316365
>hardly ever in direct conflict
HUE
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This might be a bit of a strange question, but does anyone know about the history of house prices? Not necessarily in terms of absolute prices, but how long a man was expected to work before he could say he owned the house his family lived in? When did mortgages become common, and what was the system for home ownership before that?
I'm from the UK and, from a political perspective, I think house prices today are completely outrageous. Even if I get a good job, I'll be ~35 before I can afford a mortgage on even a small house, and I may never pay it off. Many...
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>>1316061
Dad worked in a factory, bought his house in '60 for $20,000, peak of the market in 2007 it was worth $1,800,000.
Back 500 years in your country a man could mark off land, build a house with his hands, marry a woman, and raise his children there.
Progress.
>>1316086
I want to go back 500 years.
>>1316061
I mean as far as my admittedly poor knowledge is, several generations would live together on farms in the past. I assume homes were more of an inherited thing. I don't know for sure though. Problem with modern times is that there aren't enough new houses being built, so the prices keep rising.
>>1316095
No you don't.
The fall of the Ottoman Empire was a mistake
>>1316039
Fake map, shit thread, kill yourself.
>>1316039
no the real mistake was not intervening in the greco turkish war
>>1316039
If they took Vienna, they would have a new logistical point.
It would be another Istanbul or Cairo for them to further expand into Europe.
Also the Battle of Lapanto made the Ottomans lose their best commanders.
ITT: Animals that took part in hand to hand combat in warfare. I'll start
>Ramses II's Lion fought at the Battle of Kadesh
>tfw you will never fight your pet lion at the Battle of Kadesh.
>>1315989
>Pterjet.
>Get the Lion...
Shouldn't Pyrrhos have had some Molossian hounds with him in Italy since they were some big ass mofos?
>>1315989
According to Pr. Shi Bo, in "Trente-six Stratagèmes Chinois" (in French, ISBN 2-911858-06-9), monkeys were used in the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, in a battle between rebels of the Yanzhou (Yasuo) province and the Chinese Imperial Army, led by Zhao Yu. The monkeys were used as live incendiary devices. The animals were clothed with straw, dipped in oil and set on fire. They were set loose into the enemy's camp, thereby setting the tents on fire, and driving the whole camp into chaos.
>Adore not any strange god. The Lord his name is Jealous, he is a jealous God.
Why is God jealous?
Why does he want us to adore him?
>>1315964
religion is a coping mechanism once you face your failure of your life, just like other contrived fantasizes, your faith in the scientific method included.
Religions are meant to leave material-bodily hedonism, travels, concerts, foods, sex and so on, for a spiritual hedonism, through prayers for theists and mediation for atheists.
Plenty of material hedonist love to think of themselves as less hedonistic than they are, since it improves their hedonism in thinking that they are not animals...most...
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>>1315969
Answer the question or fuck off fedora I don't care about your autistic ramblings
Because other gods might be the devil in disguise like Apollo or might just be an inappropriate embodiment of one of His attributes like Athena, which distorts the true perfection of this attribute (Athena as divine wisdom).
