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The story of Patrice Lumumba saddens me greatly. Here we have possibly the last chance of stability in the Congo before he was destroyed by a number of Congolese and foreign conspiracies.
Whilst I don't know what would have happened under Lumumba's rule, I have enough confidence to say it would have been better than Mobutu's and then Kabila's I & II.
Anyway, Congo thread if anyone's interested.
>>1217399
Before anyone brings up the idea that he deserved it because he thought it was a good idea to request help from the Soviet Union, let it be known he asked for help from the US first, and they denied them. And then portrayed him as a communist when he, GASP, went to the other world power for support for his government that was having rebellion within the first year of existence.
>>1217416
I agree, it seemed a move out of pure pragmatism rather than ideological alignment. It's almost as if the US was just waiting for him to do it.
>>1217427
It is important to note that he was a living president for less than a year. Even though that short span of rule was caused by meddling foreign powers, it still really wasn't long enough to judge character. There is quite a larger amount of African leaders who said they would do good things, than the ones that actually did.
I need your help with a uni assignment, /his/.
I need to introduce a new multimodal (something using text, audio, animation, etc) resource into a unit of study.
I'm doing ancient greece 500-399BC. One of the introductory resources is redundant and boring as fuck (a time line). I was thinking Hegemony Gold would make a more interesting replacement as the learning outcome is giving context to events and figures of the era.
Would hegemony gold achieve this? It covers most of the period, includes various city states and the persian empire, features notable commands and demonstrates greek military tactics. It also explains various points about units, factions and events.
Here's a pupper as payment for input
>>1217361
You don't describe the level your unit of study is targeted at. I assume pre-tertiary.
Oh I should point out that hegemony gold is a rts game specifically dealing with ancient greece.
Sorry about that.
>>1217366
Years 7-10 in ausfailia so middle school in murrika terms
Thoughts on archaeology?
>>1215124
A respectable profession that has contributed immeasurably to our understanding of ourselves and world history.
However, there is currently a significant issue with snobby and territorial archaeologists having knee-jerk dismissals of anything even slightly far-out that challenges their views or questions certain aspects of it. Anything suggested that even remotely goes against the mainstream view is attacked and ridiculed which is ridiculous because tons of major and influential discoveries in archaeology were only made in the past 50 years and there are undoubtedly way more major ones to be made in the future.
I'm not saying that mainstream archaeology needs to prostrate themselves and proclaim Graham Hancock as their lord and savior and I understand that its important for experts to speak up when people assert blatant untruths as facts but people need to be more open to respectfully discussing hypotheticals.
This whole shindig with Göbekli Tepe is an example though. Before it was discovered anyone who suggested that there might possibly have been any cultures that significantly predated the Sumerians/Egyptians that built structures/buildings/complexes was ridiculed and made to look like an idiot. People acted like the fact that there were no pot-shards or other stuff found from the culture ruled out the possibility of it existing while remaining up until recently completely unaware of Göbekli Tepe which was built in the 9000-7000 BC range.
Then suddenly they find out about Göbekli Tepe and decide that it was built by primitive nomadic hunter-gatherers despite excavating less then 5% of the site. There have been anatomically modern humans for about 200,000 years and yet people act like the thought of a culture more advanced then hunter-gather sometime before 10,000 is ludicrous.
I'm not asserting there was some Atlantis-like advanced civilization in antiquity but people need to be more open-minded.
A job that gets good after you leave the trainee zone of digging dirt from 6am to 1pm and instead just watch everybody breaking their backs while you watch any interesting finding.
>>1215303
Oh right I forgot, THERE ARE NO JOB OPPORTUNITIES ON ARCHEOLOGY
Find a flaw.
>>1213482
Jew
>>1213482
Well, who is he?
>>1216603
Gen Brigadier Sarah Connor
>I moved cautiously, feeling my way with ungloved hands toward the starboard bulkhead in the compartment, which was my starting point. What I would find I had no inkling. Eventually, it would severely draw on every ounce of courage I possessed. As I looked up, I saw a light that glowed dimly, flickered, and disappeared. It must have been phosphorescence in the water, I thought as the blackness enveloped me once again. I shrugged as I thought: I would settle for just enough light to be able to see the end of my nose.
>Suddenly,...
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>>1213011
>I felt my way through the darkness toward the door to the machine shop, accompanied only by the sound of the air hissing into my helmet from the air hose trailing behind me.
>At the shop doorway I hesitated and drew my lifeline toward me. Then I got the eerie feeling again that I wasn’t alone. Something was near. I felt the body floating above me. Soon the overhead was filled with floating forms.
>Obviously, my movement...
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Why was he down there?
>hey guys I read a book plz recognize me senpai
What are some hardcore crazies in history and humanities, be it philosophy or historians.
Historians are preferable, just because I'm not really familiar with any, and it'd be interesting to see some real warped perspectives on the past.
Louis Pierre Althusser was a French Marxist philosopher, who strangled his wife to death.There were no witnesses, and the exact circumstances are debated, with some claiming it was deliberate, others accidental. In his posthumously published autobiography, he describes the murder in detail.
Empedocles threw himself into the volcano to prove to his disciples that he was immortal; he believed he would come back as a god after being consumed by the fire.
>>1212479
did it work?
/his/, can you recommend me good books about the crusades?
The works of William of Tyre
Islam and the Crusades
It's a Penguin Classic written by an Arab back during one if the crusades
The Fire of Islam
>Christ is the Western equivalent of the Buddha.
Discuss
>>1204479
That's wrong but okay.
I thought Epictetus was the Western Equivalent of Buddha.
>>1204479
Only in the sense of religions coming to be founded in response to them but what they actually preached or taught could hardly be more different.
Were there ANY actual female warriors?
Let's take a look at the most common feminist power fantasies
Joan of d'arc - armored cheerleader
celtic women - every time they led armies they got BTFO
shield maidens - it's true that they were mentioned in the sagas BUT women were fucking forbidden from owning weapons and going on raids in norse society they are on the same tier as amazons and speking of which
amazons - didn't exist
Boudica - another celt bitch who did fuck all
>>1195875
I've been told teh Amazons were based on Scythian warrior women. Is it truth or was it a meme?
>>1195875
>Joan of d'arc - armored cheerleader
You know how I can tell your British?
>>1195875
Scythians.
>>1208791
>>1208791
she looks more like my mom though, I'm not a brunette.
Don't you think it's time for humanity to start gathering all the countries together ? Take off the masks, abolish the monetary system which only developp selfishness, competitivity, greed and so on ?
I know the system is strong but we build it, can we not change it ? We need to focus on fairness and actual planet resources in order to move forward, and not backward.
A thread died for this
>DUDE LIKE WHAT IF WE ALL JUST GOT TOGETHER AND LIKE STOPPED ALL WARS DUDE
It's barely even started and I already want summer to end.
Was he the only German philosopher of the 19th Century who didn't try to use Christianity as a crutch by invoking an approaching "new age" when they're philosophy would be realized?
*their
And John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham and several others.
Ironically the age of nihilism came to power
Without humans, there is no concept of morality. If there are no humans, nothing can be properly evaluated to be moral or immoral. Thus, morality is in totality tied to humanity, be it by being a construction made by humans or some other way.
Do you agree with these sentiments? Why or why not?
>>1219134
Congrats, you've managed to touch upon what a spook is.
If you're having such thoughts there's a man named Stirner who you might like to read.
What about aliens?
Without dat boi, there is no concept of morality. If there are no bois, nothing can be properly evaluated to be moral or immoral. Thus, morality is in totality tied to dat boi, be it by being a construction made by dat boi or some other way.
Do you agree with these sentiments? Why or why not?
>Please graduate highschool before posting
How did the Greeks and Romans not get sunburnt living in a coastal area? Did they dress like this all day?
>>1218535
They did. Look at some classical case art sometime. The men are always darker than the women who are supposed to stay inside more.
Mediterraneans don't get sunburn, they just get tanned
Because they were black
Why didn't the Brits try colonize China?
>>1218480
A huge country with most of the country united under one rule, unlike India, which was a bunch of city states and small empires. The British might have come out on top but it would take all their might. They did beat China in wars and got Hong Kong.
They were, slowly, along with the rest of Europe.
Qing and Civil War era China, basically had no control over their major coastal cities and even Beijing.
>>1218480
???
They did?
They literally had several colonies in China. It's not like they could immediately take control over the entire country, and they were competing with several other powers as well.
