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Is there any doubt ernest was a repressed tranny?
>tranny son, it seems to be atleast partially hereditary
>extreme fixation on proving manhood
>many people that met him thought him less manly than the hype suggested, someone even called him androgynous
>killed himself
>tranny shit
>hereditary
"No." The question is whether it's thanks to prenatal hormone exposure or a learned behavior, but it's absolutely not hereditary.
>fixation on proving manhood
Are you the same kind of retard who thinks people with big cars have all small cocks?
I read it as tyranny.
>>1169379
>The question is whether it's thanks to prenatal hormone exposure or a learned behavior, but it's absolutely not hereditary.
Well that'd make it hereditary on the mothers side, at least, since their womb would be causing the issue.
Also overcompensation is very common among trannies.
Tell me of the Hansa.
>>1169310
One of the most important European trade organisations of the middle ages which pretty much monopolised the North European trade through a network of mostly autonomous harbour cities. Declined in the Early Modern period when global trade became more important and imperial ambitions awakened in Europe.
>>1169310
A bunch of pseudo-krauts who were bigger Jews than Venice, built up trade and basically owned the Baltic sea
Neither rich nor powerful nor german
>>1169179
Thats not a pic of Marx.
>>1169185
of course, why would it be ?
>>1169185
Because Marx was wrong about a few things, one of which was the wrong-ness of Hegel.
how do i into zen buddhism?
>>1169006
Sit down and think about nothing.
>>1169082
i've been doing that my whole life
>>1169103
Nope. You've been thinking about random shit constantly.
To think about nothing you have to think about nothing.
And by that you must sit still... Stare off into space and not think about what you are looking at. What you are feeling or anything else.
Its kind of hard to do.
>tfw not a jew
How can I become one of the chosen?
>>1168983
I think you can become a Reformed Jew, but they're not really Jews either. Come to think of it, with no temple, and no high priest, and no priests, and no animal sacrifices, there really aren't any Jews alive today. Just ethnic Jews, and even that's a little questionable as they switched from patrilinal to matrilineal ancestry in Babylonian captivity.
>>1168983
Sell your soul to Satan.
>>1168983
just marry a jew. they allow converts but usually only through marriage
Did medieval people really believed in dragons or they doesn't like we doesn't believe in true love?
>>1168975
All stories of serpents, winged serpents, dragons, etc., should be considered to be about dinosaurs.
Probably they believed in monsters in the end of the world.
>Playing EU4
>Achievement pop up
>"Neither Holy, Nor German"
>mfw
Was Voltaire the biggest liar to ever exist /his/?
Not a single word of what he said about the Holy Roman Empire was true,
>>1168535
>Europa
>Universalis
>4
>>1168561
I highly doubt anyone here knows where he said the HRE thing.
Heyo /his/
I'm currently a rising sophomore at Harvard, and am considering concentrating in either History and Lit, Classics or Economics. I want to go down the finance/ consulting track at first. I enjoy studying history much more than economics, but i'm afraid that /his/ is a degree that won't work in the field I want to go into. Any advice? Have any of you gone into finance/consulting with a his degree? I would probably end up with a higher GPA with a his degree as I am much more interested in the material.
I would say major in finance if you want to do finance. Minor in history.
>>1168408
The goo-goo-gaa-gaa factor of a Harvard degree will count for a lot, but won't make up for demonstrated chops in accounting and economics.
>>1168408
columbia undergrad here, i know multiple humanities majors (even art history) who went into investment banking
prestige of school + alumni network + your networking abilities > major, you'll be fine
if you major in history, i would suggest focusing on the history of capitalism (you're at harvard, beckert + others are there), classical political economy, etc. i'd at least take econ up to intermediate level surveys if you haven't already done so
also, be sure to participate in extracurriculars...
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What was the farthest the Roman soldiers got to? I mean as campaigns and battles, not as actually conquering provinces (which is pic related).
China 'apparently'. Murmurings of a Legion that got lost and wandered till they settled somewhere in modern China. Probably nonsense.
Roman traders frequently travelled the silk road to China, which they called Serica (land of Silk), they also traded with Ethiopia often through the nile river.
the military only got hard stopped in a handful of places, Persia, Western Germany/Rhine River Valley, and Scotland. everything else was the Roman Army expanding until they reached a natural barrier such as the Danube, the Sahara desert, etc.
>>1168432
The timing for the Chinese encountering Roman soldier fits with the loss of Valerian's entire army of 70,000 Roman soldiers being captured by Shapur the Great. It also marked the point where the Persians renewed trade relations with their Sino counterparts that the Parthians started centuries before.
>>1168448
I thought the main reason for war with the Persians and Parthians was because they dominated the Silk Road trade routes to Eastern Asia and India,...
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Does coca cola contain ideology? Do things we think are just "normal" products contain ideology?
>>1168340
Yes. Brands heavily promote an image in their advertisements. Their "image" is their ideology.
>>1168451
So should I drink ideology?
If you redefine the word ideology beyond its intended scope, yes.
Here Herodotus tells us the national foundation myth of the Scythians and how they were divided between different groups. According to him this is the scythian version (as opposed to the greek one he tells after). How accurate was his information?
>5. According to the account which the Scythians themselves give, they are the youngest of all nations. Their tradition is as follows. A certain Targitaus was the first man who ever lived in their country, which before his time was a desert without inhabitants. He was a child- I do not believe the tale,...
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>>1168272
>6. From Leipoxais sprang the Scythians of the race called Auchatae; from Arpoxais, the middle brother, those known as the Catiari and Traspians; from Colaxais, the youngest, the Royal Scythians, or Paralatae. All together they are named Scoloti, after one of their kings: the Greeks, however, call them Scythians.
>7. Such is the account which the Scythians give of their origin. They add that from the time of Targitaus, their first king, to the invasion...
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>>1168280
It's Herodotus, called father of lies by many, but in this case he claims to have been informed by the scythians themselves (which is not unlikely since we know that greeks and scythians had contact). Also the story he's telling is very similar to the Persian myth of the division of the world between three brothers, and the scythians were also iranic.
>>1168290
>called father of lies by many
Such an unfair title. He repeatedly states that his information is not personally verified, that he heard it from a guy and it might not be true.
Help me understand something /his/, there are those who oppose torture, but also support bombing. I argue that if you support bombing people, you have to support torture. In torture you're not
Killing the person, you have reasonable evidence that they have done something wrong or are about too, and you at least gave them a choice in the matter ( compared to bombing, in which it's possible to bomb someone without them being involved.)
>>1168059
>you have reasonable evidence that they have done something wrong or are about too
Torture as defined by the Oxford dictionary
>The action or practice of inflicting severe pain on someone as a punishment or to force them to do or say something, or for the pleasure of the person inflicting the pain.
>>1168065
Are you saying they're not related, because they clearly are. You bomb things as a preventive measure, just as you torture for the same reasons.
>>1168076
I'm saying this is invalid and not a requirement for either. Your argument is utterly invalid.
>you have reasonable evidence that they have done something wrong or are about too
>First
>Mexican
>Empire
>Socialist
>Soviet
>Republics
>>1167755
Well it was definitely soviet
>>1167762
>The soviets weren't dismantled
>The soviets held any power
What wars should there be animes about?
I'd like to see the Iran Iraq war
>>1167508
Pierre de Bayard would make good main character desu
>At the Battle of Garigliano he single-handedly defended the bridge of the Garigliano against 200 Spaniards, an exploit that brought him such renown that Pope Julius II tried unsuccessfully to entice him into his service.[1]
looks all samurai like, japs would love it
>>1167508
The first Indochina war.
i wish all weebs would kill themselves
Any particular reason the Byzantines thought Ma Africa connected to Asia in the south?
Bigger version here
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/12/12-maps-that-changed-the-world/282666/
>>1167332
Ptolemy & Strabo.
All medievalshits operated on Roman Maps for the longest time.
>>1167332
Terra Australis got propagated by Ptolemy's maps, which emphasized an Indian Ocean enclosed by land. The idea was that the Southern Hemisphere must have a large region of land to "balance out" the land in the Northern Hemisphere.
And since the Byzantines were not explorers in their own right, most Medieval maps were still reliant on Ptolemy's cartography.
