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>tfw the age of conquerers is over
>>1261916
Good.
>>1261916
It's literally only been a couple years since the last war of conquest.
>>1261916
I'll consider Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to be a conquerer.
The oldest religion in the world, with great freedom of dogma, and still in constant evolution and reinterpretation.
It's an ethnoreligion to the Hindus not unlike Judaism is for the Jews.
It is divided in orthodox schools (astika) and heterodox schools (nastika), the former accept the authority of the Vedas, the other reject them.
Astika schools are six: Nyaya, Vaisheshika, Samkhya, Yoga, Mimamsa, and Vedanta.
Nastika include Buddhism, Jainism, Charvaka and Ajivika.
These schools are schools of philosophy in addition of being religious...
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The Persians called the people who lived on the Indus Valley "Hindus" because they weren't able to pronounce "Shindu" correctly.
Thus, it was a word to describe people who lived in the Indus, regardless of what they believed in. You can be an atheist, and still be considered to be Hindu.
Ancient Vedic Texts are what Hindus today rely on for their religion. This includes Upanishad, Rig Veda, Bhagavad Gita and more.
The symbol in OP's pic is "Om". It is said that this word gave birth to the universe.
Has there ever been a monarchy or dictatorship that allowed and did not restrict freedom of speech?
Have authoritarian leaders ever benefited from freedom of speech?
Frederick the Great
>>1261756
Excuse my lack of knowledge on the matter,did Frederick benefit from freedom of speech?
>>1261763
I doubt it. Freedom of speech doesn't really benefit the ruler of a nation anymore than total freedom of speech by a child benefits the parent.
In Hearts of Iron 4, as Fascist America I took Greenland, then Iceland, then staged an assault with 15 divisions onto the British mainland (all of this happened over the course of 1942-1943)
Assuming that america had turned fascist and joined the axis, could this have been feasibly possible or would have it just been completely impossible because of logistics (also the British Navy, I have a Navy of ~300 but the retarded AI fed me the British Navy bits by bits)
>>1261519
>In Hearts of Iron 4
Stopped reading there
>as Fascist America
Came back and then stopped reading again here
>staged an assault with 15 divisions onto the British mainland
Killed self
>>1261524
>Killed self
Good
>>1261524
I'm glad because you have such shit taste
What's your favorite dynasty of all time /his/?
Achaemenid
The house of Hohenstaufen is a favorite of mine just because of Frederick II.
>>1261379
Komnenos
>Antisemitism is the socialism of fools.
What did he mean by that?
Because antisemites only see people as groups, just like every racist. Collectivism is inseparable from racism.
>"It isn't the capitalist who has power, but the Jews!"
This is the ideology of a fool, because it denies reality.
Antisemites then try and justify this by (wrongly) believing that capitalists are on their side. Most capitalists are white, and most antisemites are white, so clearly their interests coincide, the antisemite thinks. Then they wonder why their lives haven't improved once the Jews have been subjugated or murdered or expatriated.
Oh, damn! It wasn't the Jews! It was Mexicans/Gypsies/blacks!
And...
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>>1261339
>What did he mean by that?
Vladimir Putin makes you head of a committee to decide how the Russian Federation shall remember the Soviet Union.
Like, should they apologize? To whom? How to deal with people who are still "Soviets at heart"? What to write in school boks. Should there be more monuments for the victims of Stalin? What should the official line for teachers, politicians in the media and diplomacy be. Things like that.
What do you tell him?
Apologize for nothing, do what is best for Russia, don't turn back to communism, glorify the future while viewing the past as glorious [but less so than the future], ignore and suppress the fact that modern Russia is anathema to Soviet doctrine and ways of life, stop kidnapping British spies and feeding them to sharks.
>>1261161
This pretty much.
Putin himself said "Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain."
There are certain aspects that could be used to "glorify" ("Sputnik crisis") but only to defend Russia against forces that want to break it up even further, NATO at its borders, Ukraine, etc.
Russia has geopolitical interests just like every other state and completely condemning the Soviet Union might play in the hands of the US when...
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>>1261161
Everything this man said, except for the shark idea. Keep feeding British people to sharks. Sounds like fun.
let's share some odd/unusual history objects (art, toys, etc)
>Thomas Edison talking doll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bgXH7U2Ja0
A mourning teddy bear that some company made about a month or so after the Titanic sank
Anatomy doll, I forget the century.
So during the French Revolution, there was a period (I think the fall of 1793) where groups suddenly decided to desecrate the royal tombs at Saint Denis. This involved opening and then destroying all of the tombs, as well as scattering the bodies of the dead royalty into mass graves. There was an artist who drew some of the more significant corpses as they were laid out.
This is the corpse of Louis XV in 1793. He died in 1774.
What does it take to become a philosopher?
>>1261015
Appeal to a certain type of people, particularly stupid people, and you'll be worshipped as a god to them like Karl Marx. You could also just write about improbable but plausible ideas which will draw people to you.
>>1261015
Rich parents
You essentially have to be able to analyze broad social trends/ideas among different groups of people, be able to talk about the source or reason for these trends or ideas, predict how these trends or ideas might bring different groups into conflict, then pick a side and suggest your solution to these problems in a really idealistic way that will appeal to the group whose side you picked.
Ask yourself:
>"where are we now and what problems do we face?"
>"where should humanity be headed/what does...
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How much of Islam is based on Zoroastrianism?
>>1260921
Hard to say. Information on pre 10th century or so (AD that is, not B.C.) Zoroastrianism is very sparse.
>>1260921
the shiite sect is a mixture of islam zoroastrianism, and lately sikh.
>>1260929
How did a religion that was so prominent in such a long-lasting empire manage to go so unrecorded?
Did arabs/mongols really burn EVERYTHING?
How did Japan create a coherent, well-behaved populace/country without a uniting transcendental religion with strict moral rules?
What is Zen Buddhism
>>1260911
Is Buddhism really the kind of religion that can unite people like Christianity?
>>1260911
Shintoism too I think?
Post anything ITT relating to the British Empire
>tfw I get nostalgic over something I never experienced
ITT: we talk about the greatest empire in history.
>>1260852
They were tremendous faggots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%B6%C3%A7ek
>The köçek (plural köçekler in Turkish) was typically a very handsome young male rakkas, or dancer, who usually cross-dressed in feminine attire, and was employed as an entertainer.
>The culture of the köçek, which flourished from the 17th to the 19th century, had its origin in the customs in Ottoman palaces, and in particular in the harems. Its genres enriched...
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The Janissaries are pretty interesting. I mean the Ottomans aren't unique in having elite warrior social castes, but I kind of think the idea of semi-autonomous elite soldiers needs to be copied more in fiction.
>>1260859
>tfw no cute feminine ottoman bf
Was it autism?
>>1260836
Imagine having to address this goblin as "your majesty."
>>1260836
"m-muh majesty"
*bows down*
>"/his/torians" actually defend this literally retarded waste of space as a king
The Ecuadorian Peruvian War was the longest conflict in modern history.
Discuss.
In numbers maybe, here in Perú everything was chill until the '90s
>>1260648
Wouldnt like the Byzantines fighting the turks be the longest enduring conflict, spanning from 1000-1400?
>>1260653
No penis
