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Explain the Falklands to me, /his/.
What kicked it off? How did the Brits feel about it?
>>1214325
The Falklands are sovereign British territory.
Spics tried to snatch.
Spics BTFO
>>1214325
What kicked it off was Argentina just decided to occupy the Falklands for the banter.
Brits think it is a super-human achievement to defend a couple of irrelevant islands from a third world shithole, so they never shut up about it. Possibly to compensate for getting absolutely annihilated by Argentina in every football match that matters.
Argentina wanted our land and access to oil
So they tried to take it, but history has shown what happens when you cross the Celestial Anglo
Most views on youtube:
>Gangam style
>Wiz Khalifa
>Taylor Swift
What went wrong?
>>1214065
le wrong generation xd
Capitalism
>implying the culture of the masses has ever not been shit
what can you tell me about futurism, /his/sies ?
>>1213867
It's in the future.
>>1213876
I'd like a source for that please.
Let's talk about how important this battle was to the establishment and longevity of Europe as we know it today
>>1213745
It wasn't, not in a grand Christains vs Muslims sort of way.
Tours was a raiding party that was already heading back south when it was defeated. And the Umayyads mostly spread by colonizing, not raiding, and they had stopped that particular mode of advance well to the south, and didn't really have the population base to continue northwards.
Plus, you know, it was about a fifth of the size of the major battle between Christians and Muslims going on over in Byzantium.
Tours's principal...
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>>1213745
Tours wasn't about anything as grand as establishing Europe nor something as mundane as a raiding party. It was a battle to settle which invader would claim hegemony over Aquitaine: the northern Franks or the southern Moors.
The actual result of the battle wouldn't change had the Moors won. Rather than decades of devastating suppression and raids into Southern France by the Carolingians, there might have been decades of the same from Arab-Berbers while the native lords and bishops of the region relied...
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>>1213745
Don't really understand what's going on in that portrait. Where are the muslims? Why are the European looking dudes in the middle looking to strike each other?
If Jesus made the Law obsolete, why did all the early Christians still follow it?
What is the Council of Jerusalem
He didn't
>>1213638
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What went right?
>>1213610
British colonial management and high IQ colonial subjects
Isn't Hong Kong due to join the PRC in 2019? What will happen? Will they stay autonomous or will China impose its laws on it?
>>1213610
Being a port city with massive British investment that also happens to be the one free market city in China, leads to explosive growth.
Now that a lot of other Chinese cities are more like HK, HK is in recession.
>>1214502
Not like that.
Definitely no. Might be more indirect censorship though.
HK has been part of the PRC since 1997.
WE WUZ KINGS
Wus they really kings /his/
>>1213597
t. Alberto Barbossa
Femanon here. Can someone please explain this meme? Either I don't get it or it's not funny.
How does /his/ recover from this? You've just been exposed in a mainstream TV show
reading about single figures is pleb-tier history
>>1213557
>single figures
I don't think that's at all implied in the statement.
>>1213587
No, that's exactly what's implied here. Old school history is basically recounting mythology and chronicling the lives of individual princes.
What if he counterattacked and invaded Hispania?
>>1213309
Then Mexicans would speak French, I guess?
>>1213309
Very likely a repeat of Tours the other way around. He didn't have the excess population to displace the natives and recolonize with his own people, the organizational infrastructure to perform large scale conversions, so he's really reduced to raiding. At some point resistance would mount high enough to roll him back.
>>1213309
He didn't have the manpower. Even at the end of his reign he was still trying to reclaim Francia's southern coast. His wars against the Umayyad helped solidify his rule and set up the Carolingian dynasty however. Ultimately he left his grandson in a much better position to invade Hispania. He was the greatest European ruler and general at the time, without him Francia would have fallen under Umayyad rule.
Worst popes
Tell about them, especially interested of funny/fucked up stories about them
Also
Worst kings/emperors
Same as above
>:(
>>1213128
>Worst Popes
Look up the 42 Anti-Popes of Rome.
>>1213128
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banquet_of_Chestnuts
What went wrong? He should have been the greatest, but...
>>1212139
he let the Romans take Hispania behind his back
>>1212139
That march to the Alps. Dumbest decision ever.
>>1212139
What do you mean? rome was the only bastion of goodness, decency and a truly beautiful culture at the time. did you actually want him to snuff out the one light in a world of darkness?
Can we have an Existential Crisis/Existentialism General? It seems every time I look at the catalog there's some anon or two whining about how life has no meaning.
We could but what's the point...
Existentialism is a philosophy not of nihilism, but a recognition that life is absurd.
It only has meaning that the individual decides on for themselves.
You are free to make error.
Life consists of choices that have consequences.
There is an essential emptiness at the center of being which means you are free to fill that emptiness.
But do not think that what YOU fill that emptiness with is applicable to all humans.
It is yours and yours alone.
>>1212198
I would disagree that such a thing would make life 'absurd'. Why should morality and values be inherit when almost everything else [politics, language, etc] is constructed?
Has anyone else in all of history ever wielded so much raw authority and terror as him?
>>1212071
Augustus Caesar easily
Qin Shihuang as well
FDR maybe
>>1212128
>american president
>raw authority and terror compared to emperors and dictators
lol
>>1212146
power granted by the popular will
during the war and prior he has immense popularity and therefore power
a popular president will always be more powerful than a brutal autocrat.
>Have great ideas, want to revolutionize the political world
>Realize two hundred years later that I fucked up
>Everything I fought for destroyed the world
>mfw I read the first letters of every line
>>1211845
AAAAAAAAAAH!!!
Every FUCKING day with these STUPID fucking MEMES! I've had it up to HRE with stupid fucking memes! You guys make me want to KILL MYSELF! Is that what you fucking want? For me to fucking KILL MYSELF and write on my suicide note "Cause of suicide: Couldn't handle all of the stupid fucking memes, killed myself"? Because that's what it might as well fucking say!
You guys are literally, L I T E R A L L Y incapable of having even the SIMPLEST of fucking discussion without "MEME...
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>>1211863
>>1211880
Why would they call themselves an empire then dumbass?
Hi his
I made a thread a few weeks ago to find about famous bodyguards for medieval european royalty, but now I am interested in any bodyguards
So do you know about any based bodyguards (or similar professions) of any time periods for any specific person? Thank you for any contributions
>pic related, old thread
Bump because I like your thread OP
>>1211741
haha thanks buddy
>>1211675
The Ottoman Bostancı, gardeners.
They served as groundkeepers, palatial guards and their leader, the Bostancı-başı, as Chief Executor. The executor of especially the Grand Viziers, but also any unwanted growths in the court.
They also did the regular gardening.
