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why did helmets develop a worse design between the cone-shaped top and the flat top? why not just give the coned helmet the face protection of a great helm?
>>1260592
It isn't fashionable. Knights gotta impress the ladies as well as put down peasant revolts.
>>1260592
>why not just give the coned helmet the face protection of a great helm
But that's how they started out.
>>1260650
then why change it to be a flat top?
who was the worst president?
I got to go with Buchanan, just because of his inability to avert the civil war, which is probably the biggest fuck up in the history of America. It really can't get any worse than that.
William Henry Harrison, obviously.
>>1260583
seconded
How did European make this a better place ?
>>1260428
They didn't.
Europe created civilization for people who offered their helping hand in extracting natural resources from poor African soil.
Is he the original proponent of a multicultural society?
>>1260358
Sargon beat him to it by quite a while.
>>1260358
>proponent of a multicultural society
Not in the modern sense.
Cyrus the great was
What the fuck was he thinking?
>>1260239
Like Cyprus and those before him who ventured into Russia: he was overconfident.
>>1260288
Sorry, not Cyprus, Cyrus. Cyrus the Great, I believe.
Why didn't he head straight up north to capture the developed and important cities of Memel, Riga, Tallin and Petersburg effectively cutting Russia from any sea access and enforcing the Continental Blocade instead of just going in deep for Moscow?
>Muh Mongols
>>1260063
> muh dumb anglo I would have never have heard about if not for 4chan
>>1260070
>born in Indiana
>Anglo
Take a break from 4chan. Memes are rotting your brain.
>>1260082
oh he's one of them hindoo nazi types
Does Marquis de Sade hold any merit as a philosopher?
He's listed as such on Wikipedia.
>>1259855
No. It's the same idea being repeated over and over. More interesting to think about than to actually read.
And he's not that interesting to think about.
Women are happiest on leashes
>>1259855
what is his philosophy even about
Who are some philosophers whose ethical philosophy is chaotic, relies on intuition, and discards emphasis on hedonic calculus or reason.
Women
>>1259308
I agree, women are in all ways superior to men.
>>1259304
Nietzsche
what's the deal with christian angels? the version of bible I read had pretty much no mention of any of them. and yet they are clearly a part of it... somehow.
>>1258711
Christians believe in lots of ridiculous things that aren't in the bible, like the Trinity.
From what I remember they're extremely bizarre looking. 4 faces , dozens of wings, often on fire ,and they're not even alive by our understanding. Though I believe most of that comes from the book of Enoch.
>>1258711
Depends which christian bible, man.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch
help me /his/ ,,
i never paid attention in my government or european history or economics classes but now i'm taking an interest and want to learn more about these topics,, but i no longer have my textbooks from any of these courses!!
how do i into these topics, what resources and reading material should i be using?
flump
Start with whatever aspect of history interests you the most. Within the particular is found the universal. From there you will likely find it easier to branch out to other time periods and regions.
>>1258641
Take a course at your local college or something
Muslims claim that all the prophets of Judaism and Christianity prayed like this. Any evidence of this? Samaritan Jews pray similarly.
>>1258525
Samaritan Jews praying at Mount Gerizim.
Some East Orthodox praying.
Who had the highest powerlevel in history?
has*
me
>>1258320
Jesus Christ.
>yfw you cause your whole ummah to go Super Arab
If the Spartans were so focuses on war and the military why didn't they conquer more lands and cities?
>>1257958
Because due to the nature of the Spartan state, they carried around an enemy with them, namely the Helots. (Who themselves mostly descended from locals they conquered)
Sparta was internally stable only so long as the army was there to quash any potential helot revolts, which meant that they couldn't go on long campaigns and leave them unattended.
Plus, as the Peloponesean war showed, even the non-professional Greek militaries weren't pushovers, and taking fortified positions is hard, and that quality advantage is mostly demonstrated in things like being able to march and charge in step, which doesn't mean much in 1 to 1 clashes atop a narrow wall when you try to bring up ladders (much more complicated siege equipment didn't yet exist in their part of the world) against defenders.
>>1257958
They had to be always at home watching over the neighbours they had enslaved and terrorized. It's what allowed them to be focused on war to begin with.
>>1257958
Cause they focused into war not conquest.
Weird weapons thread.
>>1257767
>Indian_weapons.jpg
spiked in da groin by a fucking sheild... son, helluva way to go out. how do u explain this to st peter "man u can't come in here ur dick n balls is bleeding all over the clouds, how'd it happen" "a shield.. i got spike by a fuckin shield"
>>1257767
These are fishing arrows from the Philippines,
It's pretty nifty actually,
>Be onna boat.
>Shoot fish
>Arrowhead goes through fish.
>Fish swims away.
>but arrowhead detaches and shaft floats up top.
>See where fish is going/shaft tires fish out and you can just pull the sucker out of the water.
You wake up in 1935. What do?
masturbate
I wait until asian moot takes over 4chan and tell him not to make /his/ otherwise more shitty threads like this will be made.
Join the architectural world during its modernist phase.
