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Does Islam not forbid monarchies?
>>1234490
What is a fucking caliph you slave
>>1234490
It supports monarchies, it doesn't necessarily support mandatory hereditary heirs. It doesn't support absolute monarchies.
This is all using Muhammad as the prime example.
Why didn't the ROC (or more specifically the Kuomintang) attack Communist China during the Great Leap Forward/Great Chinese Famine?
>>1234342
They're too BTFO.
Also siege mentality.
>>1234342
Because they were heavily outnumbered. China could just human wave attack them a couple times and wipe them out.
>>1234342
Oh and there were 10,000 ROC soldiers that holed up in Burma and kept guerillaing PRC cunts up until their final defeat during a concentrated PRC offensive in 1960-61.
They were survivors of the Chinese Civil War unable to join Chian Kai-Shek's withdrawal to Taiwan.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_at_the_China%E2%80%93Burma_border
Question regarding the Iliad and Odyssey. Did the "ancients", lets say the greeks after the time of Alexander the Great and the romans afterwards, did they read (I know they were originally recited) the same versions of those two works or were there still multiple "versions" of them? Do we know when did they start having "standard" versions? Also, do we have a concrete date of the first mention of either poems?
Bonus question.
Do we know if the other Epic Cycle works were still known during late antiquity? When do we start losing...
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You would think thered be knowledgeable people here. Guess not.
>>1234273
bump
shit thread OP kill yourself
How stupid was the Four Pests Campaign?
>>1234245
The communist party elite knew it was pointless. It was a way to distract the plebs during a political purge.
>>1234245
Was it really that the sparrows allowed a locust boom? As a student of ecology it seems a bit unlikely. Sparrows only eat insects during breeding season. Other birds eat much more insects.
>>1234317
*Killing of.
>Human being
>Favors their family over strangers because they're genetically closer
>Doesn't favor their countrymen even though they're genetically closer
What did they mean by this?
People can only care genuinely about 150 people
Everyone else is just a blobbly hypothetical mass
>genetics
Take your late-capitalist horseshit out of here porky.
>>1234114
but i have 200 facebook friends
Hearts of Iron 4 hype thread
I can't wait to remake to Roman Empire
I can't wait for alternate history mods with Byzantium still surviving.
>>1234111
>CK2 play as byzantium
>import to EU4
>import to Vicky 2
>import to HOI4
>import to Stellaris
Byzantine can into space
JUST
On D-Day, before the landings:
If a single allied soldier arrived in a raft over the channel and appeared on the beach stark naked and started masturbating his penis in full view of all the beach defenders...
How would this have affected the outcome of the battle?
>>1233924
Not in any noticeable manner.
He probably would have been shot and killed, and a few German defenders would be puzzled for the few hours/days before they were likely killed.
>>1233952
Why would they have killed him? He wasn't posing a physical threat.
>>1233924
That soldiers name?
Stefan Molyneux.
Has /his/ made any reading list infographics yet?
![a-labyrinthofkingdoms_jkt[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bfvOOI4.jpg "a-labyrinthofkingdoms_jkt[1].jpg")
>>1233846
add this to the afircan list
Well if we don't have one we should make one. Anyone got any ideas? A general history reading list perhaps?
bump for interest
When, if ever, is it appropriate to insult your opponent in a scholarly debate, in addition to destroying his arguments?
always
faggot
>implying I don't instantly ressort to ad hominem when I start to stutter in my arguments
>>1233709
What about concern trolls or opponents who are sealioning? I think you should call em out for their behaviour, if that means insulting them go ahead.
What if the Mongol conquest failed would it give the Chinese the possiblity to colonize Australia?
>>1233583
They Chinese could always have colonize Australia. They just did't feel like it.
>>1233583
>Chinese
>colonize
>>1233593
What do you think they are doing with Tibet? The Chinese just have a different method of colonization desu.
Describe your life as historical period.
Let me start!
> my life is like The Great War
> endless struggle for minuscule gains
>>1233467
Came here to post this.
>>1233472
Any instance of a country or civilization being poor, stupid, and desperately wanting to be somethinh else? I might be modern Philippines
>>1233477
Meant to respond to op, not first poster-chan
Given that the Out of Africa theory is correct, and the first Native Americans arrived to America via the Bering Strait, how were Mesoamericans more developed than the North Americans? The Mesoamericans had floating gardens, and terrace farms and advanced astronomical techniques while their supposed predecessors were still living in trival bands. It doesn't make much sense. Theoretically, the North Americans who've been their for much longer would have more time to develop, not to mention the abundance of the Mesoamerican jungles would probably stagnate development of civilizations.
>>1233449
Why would how long people have been living there be in any way related to how technologically advanced they are?
HOLD
>>1233458
Well more time means more chances to develop. It seems that the Mesoamericans developed incredibly quickly upon migrating down there, what with the Zapotec and Olmec ancestors setting a precednt for civilization.
So tell me, what's the absolute worst alt-history you've ever seen?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Domination
>>1233405
Don't make me do it anon, I swear I will make thousands of alternative history threads about the aboriginals.
ITT Historical figures who were most certainly autistic
>It's an "every introverted historical person was """"autistic"""" episode"
Isaac newton was not a leader, but he was such a pedantic dick that there's no fucking way he wouldn't have some kinda diagnosis today
The words "autistic" and "spook" should be auto-censored on these boards.
What did Franz Ferdinand do to deserve it?
What other significant actions did The Black Hand take?
>>1233341
imperialist oppressor, tyrant, autocrat
Tyrannicide is the greatest Heroic deed a man can achieve in his life
No one did like him, I guess.
>>1233341
Barely anyone liked him but he shouldn't have died, dude was gonna liberate Serbia anyways
