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The Zunist religion you can find in CK2, was it/is it even a thing? Does anyone know?
>>1429786
There's an article on two in wikipedia
>>1429786
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zunbils
Sun cults weren't that uncommon. Romans worshiped the Invincible Sun for a long period.
>>1429786
If I remember correctly it was real, but all the stuff ingame with it is fanfiction.
Hey /his/torians,
Who essay here?
Got a 5,000 worder. Got about 3k words of unrefined shit. The idea for my essay is good, but it just won't fucking go down on paper right.
I try not to reference as I go, which makes things hard later on. And I always write at the last minute. Got 2 days to go.
I tend to get very good marks though. Always afraid the next essay will be the one that brings me down.
>I try not to reference as I go
... Why?
Anyway I have to write essays pretty often (undergrad in history) but I've tried to break my procrastination habit the last year or two, so I tend to pluck away at stuff at 30 minutes a day and then cram all the rest in for as long as it takes on the second-last day. Then proofread and submit on the due-date.
>>1429735
I find it breaks my flow - I usually start with a pretty good idea of what I am going to write, and go back through my notes and books to find out where I got my points from.
Time consuming, but I've always worked this way.
I'm doing a Masters - at a good university. I always feel like a slacker who has fluked his way into this position.
I haven't got any more organised since my undergrad. I wish I could work in the way you describe, but I just don't seem to be able to.
>>1429818
>but I just don't seem to be able to.
>justdoit.jpg
The reason I do it in 30 minute bursts is because I'm also an unmotivated asshole, but 30 minutes is short enough that I can generally force myself to sit down and do it. Once you have a habit it's not that gruelling. To me this feels way less stressful than burning through my entire day trying to hit a deadline near the due-date, and all the other anxieties that accompany procrastination....
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>I must defeat the Germanic peoples of Austria in battle yet deliberately avoid uniting them under one flag
>>1429428
I don't think European powers would have accepted a united Greater Germany
Bismarck did it for Prussia not for Germany
>>1429428
>hey let's add a bunch of Catholic foreigners to the Reichstag
How did the English celts get so buttfucked?
You mean romanized celtic actual farmer peasants left defenseless after the roman troops withdrew?
>>1429410
So how come they didn't conquer Wales?
Also the Anglo-Saxons ended up buttfucked for awhile by the Danes.
>>1429419
They already had all the good parts, zero reason to waste time and men getting the rocky wasteland that is Wales too
Can you guys give me some patriotic/nationalist texts that were written long before nationalism became the big thing in the 19th century? Kinda like this text about Germany in the Nuremberg Chronicle.
>As we look upon the noble, highly renowned, and illustrious cities, the magnificent houses of God, the mighty and powerful princes and prelates of the German nation, we note that all things considered, no country excels Germany;
>How long and how broad this country; how devout, how truthful, how righteous, how...
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>>1429230
That sounds like a Laudes a praise genre on Latin origin which remained in use during the Middle Ages.
>>1429254
But those usually praised kings and other rulers, not nations, right?
This is from al-Biruni's description of India around 1030 AD. It's not really 'nationalism' (you won't really find a lot of that) in the strict sense, just the usual cultural chauvinism. Still interesting though;
>We can only say, folly is an illness for which there is no medicine, and the Hindus believe that there is no country but theirs, no nation like theirs, no kings like theirs, no religion like theirs, no science like theirs. They are haughty, foolishly vain, self-conceited, and stolid. They are by nature niggardly...
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Why was it so shit?
>>1429225
A meme more tired than spooks
>>1429225
It's just a meme caused by a smug French philosopher that has been regurgitated by people on 4chan. The Holy Roman Empire was a mar geopolitical force in Medieval and early modern Europe despite not being as formal of an empire such as Rome. in my opinion the Holy Roman Empire was an epitome of efficiency considering it was a actual thousand year Reich.
Did he do it?
>>1429220
Most likely slander. He was a popular war hero and a very rich nobleman so he probably had many rivals who wanted to fuck him up. Apparently the Duke of Brittany who pushed for his prosecution later acquired a large portion of his wealth.
He was pretty based when Vincent Cassel played him in the movie
Well, he confessed.
Why was there a bigger emphasis on cavalry in eastern european and middle eastern armies when western europe is far greener than those other two areas.
You would think it would be easier to raise horses in western europe.
>>1429165
The Middle East and E. Europe were home to expansive environments suitable for cavalry maneuvers. Also they're neighbors with Steppenigs. So cavalry armies are priority.
Meanwhile in Western Europe.
>Dense forests.
>Mountains
>Hilly terrain.
>Most land ought to be used for agriculture.
Hence European Cavalry became one trick CHAAAARGE ponies.
To be fair, European heavy cavalry did perfect the art of the charge.
>>1429165
Greener, but a fuckton of either forests or mountains/hills.
Also castles. Fuckton of castles.
>>1429165
The Poles and Russians had gigantic steppes and a small population so feeding a horse was no problem. Western Europe was densely populated so keeping a horse was quite expensive, the peasants demanded more money too.
That said there were times when Medieval Europeans mounted entire 18.000 strong armies and during the latter phase of the 30 years war some Western European armies had around 50% cavalry.
To what painting is Montaigne referring? Ten minutes of Google and I can't find shit.
![iphigenia[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/zgLwg2b.jpg "iphigenia[1].jpg")
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, a 1st Century AD Roman copy of a 4th Century BC painting by Timanthes, discovered at Pompeii, and now in the Museum at Naples
More info: http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Arts/TimanthesIphigenia.htm
Largest version I could find (too big for the board): https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Iphigeneia_sacrificed_MAN_Napoli_Inv9112.jpg
Hope that helps.
>>1429019
> not knowing who Iphigeneia was
> history board
>>1429952
>Iphigeneia
>history
Why were so many scriptures rejected and excluded during the formation of the New Testament?
>>1428972
BECAUSE IT DID NOT FIT THE JUDAIZED MUNDANE FORMALISM OF THE CHURCH.
>>1428972
There were wildly different interpretations of not just the historical events described in the gospels, but the very nature of God, Jesus, Christ, reality, and salvation.
They could have just bound everything together, but it would have been an absolute mess.
>>1428972
>scriptures rejected and excluded during the formation of the New Testament?
There are invention, and exageration of the new testament not rejected text.
Hey /HIS/ can you tell me something about the slavic people? Im slavic but i dont know almost anything about my own people and i was wondering i you could help
Polandball comics are a great intro to the history and interrelations of the slavic peoples of Europe.
bump but we are pretty shitty tho
>>1428940
You forgot our EPIC SQUAT SKILZZ
Why do these five countries historically have the highest Human Development now?
See how none of them participated in World War I and World War II?
>>1428908
Is th8s some meme I'm not aware of?
>>1428908
The fuck are you smoking?
Why is Satan called Lightbringer?
Because he brings Light.
>>1428852
Who brings the funk?
Confusion in the old testament with Satan and a king of Babylon, called the 'morning star' or 'light bringer'.
'light bringer' in Latin is 'Lucifer', from 'lucem fert', 'he bears light'.
> Expressionism, 1905
> Futurism, 1909
> Constructivism, 1913
> World War I, 1914
Was degeneration of art followed by the great war that destroyed the old Europe World forever mere coincidence?
I wouldn't call it degeneration, but yes, much of early 20th century art was the product of everyone getting back from the war and deciding that they didn't give a hot shit about the established way of things, considering the established way of things led to Europe getting levelled.
And a bunch of them were likely working through their PTSD as well.
>>1428886
Shit, I totally misread the OP.
>did new art which was caused by the invention of the camera cause WWI?
No, you fucking idiot
How did people picture hell before Dante?
Afaik early christian concept of hell wasn't a place but existence without God or something like that
>>1428817
Probably the Romano-Greek concept of a very cold and dark place where unglorious (not holy enough) souls would roam for all eternity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_paintings
