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>tfw my country (Portugal) doesn't have great medieval romances because there weren't any real knights around here
>tfw the only "knights" in medieval Portugal were religious fanatics (templars) and lawless bastard sons from france in search of feuds
What do you mean with romances?
>>1308947
You would have the best one if only had you accepted your rightful place as Greater Galicia, the spanish region.
Too late now :^ )
>>1308947
>the only "knights" in medieval Portugal were religious fanatics (templars) and lawless bastard sons from france in search of feuds
What else did you expect ? That's the alpha and omega of chivalry.
How did Mansa Musa fuck up the economy with his gold spending?
can someone explain how it worked out?
>>1308889
>How did Mansa Musa fuck up the economy with his gold spending?
Surge in gold in circulation caused the price of gold to collapse; became worthless.
>can someone explain how it worked out?
Badly. It took more than a decade for the price of gold to normalize. He tried to buy back as much gold as he could, but the damage was done and there was nothing anyone could do but wait.
He made it rain in Cairo
And had an awkward moment with the sultan since neither wanted to bow to any but Allah
>>1308889
>Gold is valuable because it's rare
>Oingo Bongo king has a lot of gold
>Gives a lot to the poor like a good muslim
>Suddenly gold is less rare
>Suddenly gold is less valuable
Should General Tso be considered as destructive as Hitler or Genghis Khan?
>>1308851
no, but very tasty
>>1308851
Literally who?
>>1308862
have you never ate at a chinese restaurant?
Are there any good podcasts/series/books that cover certain eras from start to finish?
I want to get into history. Where do I start?
>>1308801
It depends on what you want.
If you want a light bite-sized somewhat bias version, start with Crash Course on YouTube
If you actually want to get into the meat and potatoes, you need to read books like Guns, Germs, and Steel, etc.
>>1308801
>>1308801
>you will never own your own harem of Victorian lolis
Why even live
This is the Yamato class battleship.
When the war was close to ending, the Yamato's crew realized the Americans would defeat their beloved Empire, so they started sailing the Yamato towards Okinawa.
The idea was that, once in shallow waters, the ship would become an unsinkable fortress, and the crew members would live off on the resources of nearby islets for the rest of their lives.
The Yamato was destroyed on its way.
It was the biggest battleship ever commisioned.
F
The Yamato is a big ship.
>>1308668
[citation needed] on the 'unsinkable fortress' plan.
Catholic posters
>Sudacas
>Atheist roleplaying frogs (with algerian fathers)
>1/4th Sicilians
>1/4th micks
>Constantly mentioning US and protestantism for no reason because they are sudacas
Protestants
>WASPS
>Northern germans
>Scandinavians
>6ft dutchmen
It should...
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>>1308633
okay
Anyone who thinks Protestants aren't the most vile form of Christianity obviously doesn't live in America
t. Atheist
History will remember Protestantism as a stepping stone on the way to atheism.
You can deny it all you want, but the same places that were the heartland of the reformation are now the most secular places in the west.
How do inhabited cities get burried. It never made sense to me that a lot of ancient cities have many layers built on top of each other.
>>1308465
I'd guess it has something to do with rivers building sediment layers or something.
They're like ogres.
>>1308465
There was not much of a regular trash service, other than dogs and pigs rooting through the trash.
So the streets built up with non organic trash.
When a building was destroyed, they did not clear the debris away, it just became the new foundation.
Do we as a people (Living in America) enjoy our social status on the pyramid of hierarchy?
Are we, like a man tossed into deep water but cannot swim, unable to adapt to a system that does not involve social heirarchy?
Without social hierarchy, would things like Hollywood still exist, or would it be replaced with a more indie-based filming enterprise?
If it is not for leverage on the pyramid of social heirarchy, what exactly is war good for?
What would life be like without a social hierarchy?
Would we as a people be unwilling to adapt to a...
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Interesting and important questions that I'd like to discuss. Too bad that I don't live in America.
You need to explain why you think like you do, OP.
>Hollywood relies on social hierarchy
Isn't a train of thought most people understand. I don't atleast, and I obsess about social hierarchy more than the average person.
>>1308400
Your opinion matters all the same to me. Although I do live in America, I understand that collectively we are a global population.
>>1308420
I mean that Hollywood movies tend to rely on the same core-group of movie stars when in fact there are over 7 billion people in the world. It just seems like the ratio of movie stars in hollywood to people in the world is skewed. Like, would Hollywood thrive all the same if the title "movie star" wasnt so heavily...
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Was he really that great?
Of course
>>1308211
Meh.
The real question is, was he Greek or Macedonian?
What are the historical roots of (South) Korean culture its perfectionism? No other nation on Earth does this much to reach absolute perfection.
>>1308192
It's a mixture of European and Japanese cultures
>>1308192
>improved physical traits means absolute perfection
>implying they're not just striving to look more like America / the West and to uniformize everything
They're pretty much a human metaphor for ants, why do you bother caring about them?
America uses Roman imagery and names a lot of their stuff after Roman deities.
Their mottos are in Latin
Projects and other stuff is named after them.
Project mercury
Apollo missions
Titan missiles
Saturn rockets
Atlas missiles
They have a giant Roman goddess statue.
the statue of liberty who is based on Libertas.
On their medal of honor is Minerva
In their supreme courthouse is a giant statue of justice. Roman goddess Justitia
And the fasces is one of their symbols.
my question is why did America heavily...
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Because Romans are cool
>>1308127
Cause Rome is THE Republic and a fair bunch of European imaginery already cames from them.
Europeans love taking influence from the Romans
The US didn't want to be so thoroughly separate from Europe that there was no relation. They were still Christian white folks. US history books always seem to make the cultural shifts they endured seem larger than they were. While there was some faggot running around making his American encyclopedia with made-up words, most Americans were fine being British in everything but name.
WHAT IS THIS FUCKING THING?! Found it in my grandmas house with a bunch of other military stuff, and I can't figure out what it is for the life of me. Please help /his/.
Inb4 this should be in /wsr/ or /k/ because it alreasy is, just covering all my bases.
suojeluskunta? are you finnish?
your grandma was a nazi
>>1308010
no it isn't
I just don't fucking know anymore. Having a personal God would be great, and Catholicism really helped pull me out of a degenerate lifestyle, but I don't know if I can believe it. So many of the traditions of the Catholic Church have absolutely no basis in Scripture, and the Church nowadays is becoming more and more liberal, and even Globalist. I cannot believe in Protestantism, it is just too bland and basically implies that the majority of Christians got it wrong for 1500 years. I am not a slav or greek so Orthodoxy is out of the question. I don't know what...
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>>1307876
>>1307888
Senpai I am not ready for that. I don't want to have a nervous break down.
>>1307901
God is dead.
Why did they rape FUCKING everything. I mean were the Germans really that bad that they had to get revenge by gangraping anything that moved age 0-100. German kill squads were pretty bad but jesus.
While the soviets had it coming, so did the germans. When a monster and the devil fight all you can do is cheer for both of them to die.
>>1307825
I think you're forgetting that the innocent victims were just people, people who got caught in the game the "World Leaders" of the time were playing.
The common man has very little say in what happens on the world stage, he just has to pay the price in blood, tears, and hopelessness.
What is the superior philosophy in regards to the use of violence?
Sherman was right
Tit-for-tat
Also:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUjLE_N1Cuc
