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>Monarchy has been the standard method of ruling nations for 99% of recorded human history
>The overwhelming consensus nowadays is that monarchies are horrible in every conceivable way
Why and how
>>1159354
1. You're oversimplifying things. 'Monarchy' in the past had various different forms, from absolute monarchs to monarchs to supported by vassals to elected monarchs, and more.
2. Modern people mostly assume all monarchies were absolute monarchies.
3. Modern people are plebs who want to believe their ideology is perfect, amazing, and great because they get off on it. Same reason people in the Enlightenment made up those myths about the Middle Ages thinking the world was flat. Its so they...
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Monarchies are simply the most stable form of a strong man. They are stable because there is clear succession.
They all tend to maintain power by methods we would deem unacceptable today.
>>1159388
>2. Modern people mostly assume all monarchies were absolute monarchies.
>M-Monarchies are good, so long as they are as far from monarchies as possible.
>It's 1945
>you are the head of every countries foreign policy until 2016
>how do you make sure this place is not fucked in 2016
Every country, you say?
PURGE KEBAB
>>1157102
Remake the Ottoman empire and just leave Persia the fuck alone
>>1157102
remove turkroach
Why almost all of greatest generals of all time are Westerners ?
Are African, Asian, American generals that incopetent ?
>>1155229
*incompetent
What about Subutai, Khalid ibn al-Walid, Admirial yi, etc etc.
Subutai and Yi are easily in contention for top spot of land/sea generals respectively
>>1155229
I don't think that's fair to say. I'd say it's rather that we have a Eurocentric view of history. Also when you say "American" do you mean Native American? Because we have competent generals in the US, probs not many in the rest of the Americas though. Do you consider the Carthaginians to be African? Surely Ancient China and Mongolia had competent generals.
Also it's more likely that nations that had better technology, manpower, military traditions lead to military success,...
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There is no justification for the burden of proof.
Prove me wrong.
>>1143918
What?
>>1143918
I like this, it's creative.
>>1143918
I simply hate this "~le burden of proof" meme.
To negate something is also an affirmation about it. All knowledge needs sufficient reason.
If you deny the teapot on space, you also must give reasons to support this assertion. If you can't do this, you simply can't deny something, so you shut the fuck up.
So /his/
What sparked your interest in history?
Pic related
Who is /00-10/ here?
EE III was the worst sequel ever.
>>1139655
Same for me
>Ismail Pasha killed 2.5 million people
wew
The stats should include the size of the population they controled and the lenght of time they ruled.
>>1158901
>78 million
Is this literally every person who died in that period?
>My wife's Son of God
KEK'D
eric simply eric
>>1156488
Joseph in this painting looks aplha af
The average Athenian citizen would be more swole than the average world championship weightlifter today
Is this true, or false to an extent?
Also were the Athenians the only ones to be hyperobsessed with masculinity and working out or were other Greek city states and Persians too? What about Romans? Which ancient civilisations were and weren't /fit/?
If you've seen what weightlifters look like you'd know that's complete bullshit. You have seen their statues and paintings, Grecian beauty ideals still dominate. Not to mention average Athenian citizen wouldn't have been able to maintain the diet to build champion weightlifter bulk. I mean fuck eating meat was mostly reserved to religious festivities.
>>1156401
>Also were the Athenians the only ones to be hyperobsessed with masculinity and working out or were other Greek city states
Heavens to Murgatroyd! Don't forget Sparta!
>>1156401
The average athenian would be more swole than the average man. WC weightlifters are pretty much at the apex of nutrition and exercise while the athenians had no access to the nutrition that olympic athletes consume. They werent obsessed with masculinity, but aesthetics in general which happened to include masculinity. Sparta was more obsessed with pure masculinity while Athenians were focused on a more eclectic idea.
If those who never hear of Christianity and never have a chance to be saved go to heaven when they die, and God wants us to join him in the kingdom of heaven, wouldn't it make the most sense to keep the religion a secret?
>>1156364
it is a valid condition only in a world in which the commandments of God are being spread. If we didn't have a covenant with God, he would simply destroy us forever
>>1156373
Why would he destroy us? Is that in the scripture?
Also who is "we?" I know a lot of people who have no covenant with God, or at least are not aware of it. How many people need to have a covenant with God for us all to not be destroyed? Is it proportional to population? Is it just one person?
>>1156408
>Why would he destroy us?
original sin, Adam and Eve. The punishment for sin is death. We are only alive because God executed our plan for our sins to be paid for and to save us from death.
> I know a lot of people who have no covenant with God,
The covenant God made is with all the nations.
> How many people need to have a covenant with God for us all to not be destroyed?
We all have this covenant. Of course...
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Not sure if right forum, but... Can someone explain to me, why was Virgin Mary a virgin? I mean, he was married to Joseph, right? He didn't boink her at all?
>>1155375
"In both cases, the church doctrine of the Perpetual Virginity means that Joseph and Mary never had sexual relations."
Wtf why?
>>1155379
Haha yeah right
>>1155375
Here we go.
Of course this is the right forum, but spelling counts.
>he was married to Joseph, right?
NO! Joseph was not a homosexual.
What are the differences between the Eastern Catholics and the western Catholics?
What is the history that wedged the two apart (if there is any)?
What theological differences are there?
Is Eastern Catholicism just orthodox Christianity under the Pope?
>>1152841
Eastern isn't in Latin, meaning it isn't western.
>>1152851
And what of the theological differences? Whilst the Orthodox have the concept of theosis do the eastern Catholics have the same views?m
>>1152877
It's just the same Catholic Church with some difference.
>lost 80% of his army, Prussia needed 3 generations to recover
>barely expanded his borders
>never took his opponents' capital
>saved once by bribery and once by Russian mercy
Germans baffle me so.
How can a race of writers, scientiests, artists, composers and thinkers be so desperate to be soldiers that they destroy everything good about their culture?
>>1149430
Geography. One does not occupy a central position without hardening or dying.
>>1149409
Frederick fought against three European great powers at the same time operating from his pretty much indefensible and poor backwater state and he didn't just survive the whole thing but came out of it larger than before - a feat few others could have repeated. What allowed him to do this was his father's great army, which was among the most capable in Europe at the time (though most of the time outnumbered around 2 : 1) and his military genius, which he most certainly possessed - with both Napoleon or Clausewitz...
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How did men deal with tfw no gf in the past?
Prostitutes
Rape, slavery, prostitutes.
>>1143545
Join an army then sacking towns and raping the entire female and trap population.
Did China experience more Habbenings than any other country in the world throughout history? Who else can come close?
-Uprising of the Five Barbarians
-An Lushan Rebellion: 13,000,000–36,000,000
-Qing Conquest of Ming: 25,000,000
-Second Sino-Japanese War: 25,000,000
-Taiping Rebellion: 20,000,000–100,000,000
-Three Kingdoms War: 36,000,000–40,000,000
-Dungan Revolt: 8,000,000–20,770,000
-Great Leap Forward: 45 million
-4 of the top 5 biggest natural disasters by death toll in history
-Wanggongchang Explosion
>>1141999
The scale of deaths during their habbenings is unimaginable.
>>1141999
>An Lushan Rebellion
It still amazes me how chinks managed to kill each other with a death toll bigger than WW1's
...In the 8th century.
Rice is a helluva staple crop.
Lets get a Roman drawings thread going. I'm going to be dumping some, feel free to join in.
