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>>1405007
Just getting this out of the way. No need to thank me.
After the days of light came, we walked the earth and prospered and were given free will, but as we prospered we became complacent and evil and drowned in our own sins.
It is only then that the creator spoke to us and released us from his bondage and given us freedom.
He told us to be good but our greed could not be overcome and we were banished across the earth to pay for the sins of the world.
>>1405171
What the fuck are you talking about
What events were so catastrophic people thought the world was about to end?
>The Huns threw themselves on the Alans, the Alans on the Goths, the Goths on the Taifali and Sarmati. Expelled from their homeland, the Goths
have expelled us from Illyricum, and it is not yet ended. We are at the end of the world.
The Black Death always amazes me. Over half of Europe's population dying in a few years is just crazy.
They were entirely justified in believing the world was ending. If the plague had been just a little worse, it really would have (for Europe at least).
Huns
Black death
WWI
Obama
When Rome got sacked in 410 by that two-faced traitor Alaric. The news traveled the known world and everything started to change. All through Europe, the Mediterranean, and Aftrica art and architecture started regressing and expressed a need for order and stability. No more whimsical flourishes or herioc icons, it was stark and geometric and stank of fear and insecurity. Through art we now view this as the beginning of the Dark Ages.
meanwhile the Eastern Empire was swimming in gold, spices, bitches, and pubescent houseboys for all
Prove that Augustus wasn't the best leader history has seen
>Protip: you can't
>proving a negative
we're sposta be having legitimate discussions on this board, or at least strive to
>>1404914
touché
point still stands tho
>>1404905
This guy was better.
>be West African hundreds of thousands of years before west Africans even existed
>120,000 years old Skhul and Qafzeh hominids of Israel
have a modern West African-looking skull[16] with archaic features, specifically mandibular prognathism (jutting lower jaw) and Supraorbital ridges (brow ridges).
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Skhul_and_Qafzeh_hominids&oldid=487907008#cite_note-16
post anachronistic anomalies here
>>1404878 (OP)
>be Mongoloid 750k years before it was even cool to be Chinese
750,000 years ago Peking Man with Mongoloid features
"On the Relevance of the Regional Continuity Features of the Face in East Asia" also found that a form of facial flatness is unique to China (i.e. only appears there at high frequency, very rarely elsewhere)
Shovel-shaped incisors are commonly cited as evidence for regional continuity in China.
"It is the pattern of shoveling...
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do this count?
http://discovermagazine.com/2009/the-brain-2/28-what-happened-to-hominids-who-were-smarter-than-us
>>1404878
>Our results thus revealed that shape variability of early AMH was highest among all tested groups, i.e., within a sample of the genus Homo embracing the last 1.8 million years. The shortest connections between early AMH are either with other specimens of this group or recent modern humans, for instance, Omo 2 [recently dated to ~195 ka (1)] and LH 18, two of the earliest east African candidates for the emergence of modern human morphology (18), and the Levantine Qafzeh 6 connect with recent...
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Serously what was his fucking problem ?
>>1404819
he did not wan't his country to be Venezuela?
>>1404819
He did not want his country to be Venezuela?
>>1404819
he did not wan't his country to be Venezuela?
recently started playing as Aq qoyunlu in EUIV and have had my autism triggered. What is known about them other than their name translates to "White Sheep"?
also, any interesting minor EUIV states that often get overlooked?
>>1404507
And kara koyunlu means black sheep welcome to turkish names.
Isn't that location where those spoopy White Huns settled down in? Perhaps it has something to do with that.
>>1404507
>Aq qoyunlu
>White Sheep
It doesn't looks like sheep for me.
Why were Spanish tercios so superior in 16th and 17th century?
Even when Spain lost battle, it was usually because non-Spanish formations cracked.
Others adopted same tactics, but nothing approached the quality of Spanish formations.
Probably a convergence of good stats timming ( and their mangas and privados hace them some advantage)
tercios superiority slowly fell down along with the range of the musket increased
their superiority in close combat and h2h combat became irrevelant
exactly the same happened to the chinese and japanese armies in the 19th
Spanish tercios were what you call an elite army. High discipline, top equipment, loyalty and shit.
Also the Tercios were usually named as "los viejos tercios" "the old tercios" because of the advanced age of the soldiers. An old veteran who fought tons of battles and survived has more value 10 newbies.
>>1405017
Also this. Tercios fell together with the pike. These soldiers were famous in Europe for being absolute savages in close combat and never giving up. The improvement of fire weapons...
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>"I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me – and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our northern border, and I will make Britannia pay for that wall. Mark my words."
Hadrian
It's a shame that Hadrian only ever seems to get recognition for a wall be really didn't give that much of a shit about when he did so many other things and was generally one of the more interesting emperors of Rome.
>I will unite all Roman peoples under one vexillum
What did he mean by this?
Simple question: Are humans naturally good or bad?
>>1403997
humans are naturally good humans. which is bad
>>1403997
Humans are naturally very clever simians.
We're all born with Original Sin
you're bound by faith to worship Allah.
>The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth,(5) who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God.
>But the plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator. In the first place amongst these there are the Muslims, who, professing to hold the faith of Abraham, along with us adore the one and merciful God, who on the last day will judge mankind.
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_decl_19651028_nostra-aetate_en.html
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19641121_lumen-gentium_en.html
Wew unto ye.
Wew indeed.
Bump for Allah.
>>1403912
"Allah" is Arabic for "God". Arab-speaking Christians refer to God as Allah. It's just a just a different word, same concept.
Is it true that on his death bed, Charles Darwin renounced his theory of evolution?
Yes and Jesus said that God doesn't exist minute before he died on cross. True Story, fellow anon.
>>1402460
You can just say no, dickhead. Why is everyone on here such a pretentious faggot? For fuck's sake, God forbid we answer a question and help someone like normal human beings. Kill yourself.
>>1402460
I like Answers in Genesis' article on trees and the flood.
They basically mumble that some species of trees can survive being submerged and then change the subject hoping nobody will notice how retarded it is to apply that to all plants.
Is he the most overrated founding father?
He wasnt a visionary philosopher, he wasnt a shrewd politican. All he had was his military career, but he was a shitty general, plus he was an ambitious aristocrat and just wanted to further his own career above all else.
And he was a shitty president who had no fucking idea what he was doing and managed to spark a second rebellion AND a war with Americas new buddy the French. Although both of those were very small scale
>>1401965
He was a good leader and that is all we really needed.
Brah, all he wanted to do was be a farmer.
People kept dragging him off his plantation to do shit.
>>1401965
He refuse to take up power he didn't wanted for the sake of his country. How many leaders of the past can claim that?
>how do you want your civilization senpai?
JUST
It was pretty good while it lasted.
It took centuries before it all turned to shit spectacularly.
Why did the elite of non-European countries fear modernization so much? Was technology really that much of a threat to their authority? It's not like guns and tactics are intertwined with Western philosophy.
>>1403626
The Conservatives feared the foreign aspect of modernization, not the technology itself.
Also its a Mao Period meme to say that teh Qingz did not try to modernize. They did but the politics of Tianxia turned against them after a famine, mismanagement of weak emperors, losses to foreigners, and a huge rebellion. So a lot of people were trying to remove Qing as opposed to trying to maintain it.
Let's throw in Chinese nationalism to the mix for fun.
Why people in the World War I doesn't just walk around and attack from the side of the tranches? Surely even a poor attack would be better that a standard stalemate of straight attack or defense.
>>1400907
The officer corps which was led by the nobility believed flank attacks to be dishonorable.
>>1400907
Because
>Order comes straight from the general
>go over the top at dawn, follow the man infront of you
>Any refusal of going over will result in court martial resulting in facing a firing squad.
Fucked if you do, fucked if you don't
There wasn't a side to the trenches.
What was oral sex like before modern hygiene?
> Iucundus cunum lingit Rusticae.
> Corus cunnum lingit.
>Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog
>>1400753
Girls don't typically wash the inside of their pussies, as that's bad for multiple reasons (douches included), and a mild scrubbing on the outside with water/a rag is enough to make a pussy edible.
Theophilus is a dog because of wear he's doing it.
>>1400942
> Girls don't typically wash the inside of their pussies
It is actually a very bad practice, like washing the inside of your eyes.
Douching begets douching- fucks up normal vaginal flora actually promoting stank pussy itself.
