What factors allowed Japan to dominate East Asia and rival the west? Why couldn't China do it?
>>1278492
China dominated East Asia before Japan. In contrast Japan had a century of East Asian dominance before they blew it for being too imperialistic.
Both were isolated. China was even more strict on their isolation but Japan was open to being westernized. Japan sent their people across the world, particularly in Europe to learn the ways of western world and came back to westernize it.
China was kind of a victim of its own success
They were arrogant and refused western knowledge
ITT: God-Tier Architecture
>>1263459
Pleiades.jpeg
The Crystal Cathedral is pretty impressive
Was 2nd Amendment a mistake ?
>>1285220
for it's time or ours?
It was fairly necessary to defend the country from say, Indians
and you don't send a man to settle territory without the very best killing equipment.
Now is it a mistake in our time? Debatable. It has it's perks though.
If you think it was you're either pretty ignorant of history or literally evil
>>1285220
No one cares
SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED
Why do Catholics have a cult of Mary? Why do Protestants have a cult centered around, Jesus, the lowest member of the trinity?
>>1283121
>Why do Protestants have a cult centered around, Jesus
Because we're Christians.
>>1283121
>Feel like drawing cool altars
>realize how I'm terrible at drawing all the icons
Is that supposed to be Jesus' comically sized willy or just a poorly drawn abdomen?
which party do you find yourself sympathizing with in these historical conflicts?
>Anglos v Celts
>England v France
>USA v Mexico
>Germans v Slavs
>Romans v Barbarians
>Greeks v Persians
>Athens v Sparta
>China v Vietnam
>China v Japan
>Northern United States...
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>>1283761
>Anglos
>France
>USA
>Slavs
>Romans
>Greeks
>Sparta
>Vietnam
>Japan
>North US
>USA
>Capitalism
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>>1283761
>Celts
>France
>Mexico
>Slavs
>Romans
>Greeks
>Athens
>Vietnam
>China (I'm generally a huge weeb but nobody in their right mind can root for what the japs did to China during WW2)
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>Celts
>France
>USA
>Slavs
>Romans
>Greeks
>Athens
>China
>China
>South US
>USA
>Capitalism
>Fascism
>Balkans
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Okay /his/. Here's a scenario for you.
>you are given the following items
>a magic time machine
>a giant shipping crate filled with 10,000 AK-47 rifles and 5 million bullets that will spawn with you wherever the machine sends you
>a magic book that comes with the crate
>the time machine will send you, the crate and the book to a time and place in history of your choosing
>the magic...
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>>1281413
Can you go to the future or only past?
>>1281445
Sorry, forgot to clarify that. Only the past.
Give them to the Aztecs. Ensure Spain gets BTFO by crazy leopard-wearing niggers with AKs.
Let's talk about axes and why they were garbage.
Do we really need to hammer in the fact that axes are, in fact, bad for warfare so often?
>>1281360
Yeah, they're so bad that knights during the late Middle Ages used oversized axes called "pole axes" to fight armored opponents.
>>1281375
Yes and we also need to mention the fact that warhammers were in fact the better weapons.
Is this coin authentic? My friend (who is African American) showed me this a while back. I feel like something isn't right, considering it comes from a "real black history" type website.
http://www.blackpast.org/perspectives/greece-and-egypt-how-single-coin-reflects-ancient-and-enduring-relationship
He doesn't understand his history and the Hellenistic age.
>>1278986
Coins are probably the most counterfeited items. I'm not saying this one is, but its worth mentioning.
Reverse image searching it turns up nothing but Black Nationalist websites
I have a feeling it's fake
Compare pic related, from Aksum, which was actually full of black people
Hey, what do you know, it doesn't look anything like that.
Why are Americans so hesitant to discuss their history of labor violence? Slavery and Civil Rights are talked about all the time but violence against workers attempting to unionize (and the violent responses of workers themselves) is never discussed. Why is that?
Some notable examples:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Railroad_Strike_of_1877
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Labor_Wars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Coalfield_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Blair_Mountain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_Day_massacre_of_1937
>>1270786
Because Americans associate the concept of workers rights with communism
>>1270786
>Why is that?
Because they want their proles to be stupid and docile and to believe in their bourgeois class mythology.
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Were they the good guys or bad guys?
The perfidious Albion is never the good guy to anyone but himself
Compared to the Spanish, Portugese and French imperialists of the age they were the loveliest people imaginable.
The British Empire is on par with Rome. What you should ask yourself is whether American Neo-Imperialism is a force for general good, or bad?
The British gave us
-Common law
-Free Trade
-Habeas Corpus
-Trial by jury
-Industrial revolution
-Magna Carta
-Incorruptible administration
-Infrastructure that still survives today centuries after the fact (See: India)
-Once of the first and only counties in the world to end slavery
There is a reason that all members of the commonwealth generally regard British colonialism as a positive....
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How hard is conversion to Judaism?
Will becoming a Jew bringer closer to God than Protestantism can?
>>1285834
Anyone can become a Reform Jew, other sects are difficult or impossible to convert to.
>Will becoming a Jew bringer closer to God than Protestantism can?
If you worship the Jewish war god Yahweh then sure, if you worship God then it doesn't matter who you are or really what you believe.
>>1285834
If your god is Satan, then yes, it will bring you a lot closer to him.
>>1285834
It will be hard. Conversion usually takes 1-2 years, and you'll basically be taking courses in Hebrew as a language and mainstream religious thought.
And it will bring you much closer to God than any slice of Christianity
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>>1285270
>>1285270
>>1285270
Why cant people just start little farms and live comfy with their families?
Why are the state and the market necesary?
Maybe because I want your little piece of farm over there?
>>1283696
IrIt isn't
>>1283719
So are autists the ones to blame for all this mess we call civilization?
Which do you prefer? And why?
>>1279288
/HISTORY/
>>1279295
Thanks for the bump.
>>1279304
Glad someone enjoys this board being filled with unrelated trash
Which is better?
>Catholic
Pros:
Apostolic sucession, ancient tradition, liturgy, music and art, miracles, philosophy: Thomas Aquinas
Cons:
Has to accept refugees, Pope Francis, Vatican II, papal infalibility, indulgences, crusades, witch-hunting, Galileo debacle, can't fap
>Orthodox:
Pros:
Same as Catholic, minus philosophy, emphasis on church fathers, doesn't change doctrine, mysticism, ethnic and national rather than universalistic
Cons:
I don't know it...
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>>1280676
>Catholics
>Apostolic succession
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Anyway you seem to be wondering which has the most swag. In which case Catholic.
>>1280680
What's wrong with apostolic succession?
>>1280686
Nothing, I'm saying Catholicism doesn't have it. I'm not convinced anyone does. On the count that Peter massively disagreed with Paul's theology that the Catholic church is basically built on there's no chance he's "the first pope".
Religious leaders claiming lineage to St. Peter is on the same level as maniacs who say the British royal family is descended from King David.