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How the fuck did they survive so long, between two large powers? Also, Brittany general
Celts getting BTFO as usual.
better is question is why Celts are such colossal failures.
>>1148351
What do you mean? There not independent and their language is only a zombie artificially kept alive by some enthusiasts
>>1148414
Cuckoldry.
Did America do anything but supporting repressive and fascist dictatorships during the cold war?
They did want to support the Budapest revolt, but then France and UK fucked that up by invading Suez.
The CIA kept Italy from going red in the late 40s by funding the Christian Democrats.
Not to mention installing successful democracies in Germany and Japan, holding the line against the USSR for 50 years, giving delicious capitalism to Korea, funding Solidarity in Poland, and rebuilding all of Western Europe with the Marshall Plan.
We would even have done it for Eastern Europe if the Reds had let us.
>>1148187
They kind of landed on a planetary body and all that...
Is it true that many famous old texts are so badly translated that the english versions may as well be fanfiction? I can't remember where I read the below.
for example, the first line of the bible in the original language is something fucking weird like "gods created stuff."
And Plato's Apology when translated in to greek uses a word, not meaning apologising, but more like "blowing people the fuck out"
>>1147968
Sometimes they are. Other times they're "localised" quite a bit.
It depends largely on the period and who did the translation. The trend recently I believe is for candid translations but with more localisation.
For instance Greek comedy used to not be translated with the dick jokes, which if included at all were changed or written in Latin. They translate them now but change some other stuff.
Sometimes theirs literally a centuries old debate about what something means so they're...
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>>1147968
This is true of Zoroastrian ancient texts, even the earliest known versions in their "original language". The earliest known versions were first written down in the 13th century. /pol/ faggots like to use them to claim that the eternal Jew stole even their holy scriptures from the superior Aryan race, when there's archeological evidence to suggest that Jewish monotheism existed long before the captivity in Babylon, when this supposed "stealing" took place.
>>1148687
>when there's archeological evidence to suggest that Jewish monotheism existed long before the captivity in Babylon
citation please
is /his/ an appropriate place to discuss economic theory and methodology?
>>1147765
Yes. Marx already solved it all though.
>>1147827
Well, /biz/ is basically dead and the /sci/ hivemind doesn't respect anything that isn't a really hard science so any kind of discussion there is improbable to impossible. It is a social science, and I see a lot of anthropology and historical sociology go on in this board so I figured it could fit in
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Is there a "Britain history and culture in a nutshell" kind of site? I have 14 days to know just about everything about this shitty country. Same for Murrica.
Any help appreciated.
lemonparty.com
>>1147374
Used this for my senior thesis, it really lays it out for you well.
>>1147374
This.
Romans had anal sex, so how did they prepare their assholes for it?
It's not like they had enemas back then, was everyone walking around with shit covered penises?
>>1147309
olive oil bro
>>1147309
quality moroccan olive oil
If you can't deal with the old fashioned shitdick, you can't deal with being a Roman.
So /his/ could the Roman survive if it still a republic instead a Empire?
No, just look at all the shit what happened in the last century of the Republic, no wonder Augustus was hailed as a God after he died.
>>1147298
>a God
god with a lower case 'g'
augustus was hailed as a god, not God.
God = Creator, God of the Bible
god = title
>>1147304
>>God = Creator, God of the Bible
>>god = title
Hmm no, this is autistic. Go away.
Tell me about the Tatars
I know they were Mongolian raiders who swept across Eastern Europe somewhere around the 1400's, but what was their lifestyle like? What equipment did they use, and what dynamics were there between them and other Mongolian and Asian groups at the time?
What did they do when they weren't busy fucking over Russia, Ukraine, and Poland?
>>1147225
>People who use Mongol as a shorthand for Central Asian peoples.
Fucking disgusting.
Also the Tatar were Turkic.
Tartar is more a term for anybody turko-mongolic from the Eurasian steppes to separate them from the euros (like celt ob scyth for the Romans and greek) than one concret group of people.
>>1147261
Actual Tatar =/= Historical usage of Tartar.
What was the primary cause/event of the depopulation of Constantinople?
>>1146970
the 1204 sack by the godless franks
Ur mom farting
>>1146981
Did they kill literally hundreds of thousands of people or did most people just leave Constantinople after the sacking? I find the latter a lot easier to believe.
I asked this in a lot of places and never received a satisfactory answer:
How do I recreate a dead civilization in a visual medium?
Let's say I want to make a comic in some ancient historical/prehistorical setting, how do I reconstruct the civilization? I can hardly even find a book that describes anything material (common garb, building construction) from very scrutinized areas and periods like medieval France or England. Customs and mentality are almost as rare, at least in common folk.
Short of double majoring in archeology and history, learning...
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>>1146643
PS I realize there isn't a lot of sources for describing the mindset of an Egyptian peasant and the like... but for fuck's sake, at least some kind of speculation? Do Historians not care about that sort of stuff?
>Their language form the basis for every European language since the bronze age
*Cough cough cough COUGH COUGH COUGH*
>>1146723
You in turn forget Finno-Ugric.
I knew nobody would help.
How is it that Hume, one of the greatest philosophers in history, is so understudied these days?
You'd think that
>THOROUGHLY JUSTIFY YOUR FUCKING PREMISE, DON'T JUST ASSUME
would be pretty important these days, but no one seems to give a shit these days.
Have ethical naturalists fucked the West by making the assertion of unjustified axioms completely a-okay?
>>1146516
Shouldn't have combined two posts together, now I've written 'these days' three times. whoops :^)
>>1146516
Why is Anscombe's criticism's of Hume so understudied?
>>1146516
>hume
>understudied
hume is easily the most influential early modern figure in anglo-american philosophy departments
>Have ethical naturalists fucked the West by making the assertion of unjustified axioms completely a-okay?
no idea what this means
>look at all that nothing we conquered!
Butthurt Hunboo please
Creating a thread to make yourself feel better because you can't actually argue the topic is pathetic
It was only nothing after the Romans killed everybody that lived there.
>look at all that nothing we conquered
So the stock market crashed, there were runs on banks, and people lost jobs. If the new deal was infrastructure spending then why was it criticised? What was the alternative?
Also was his reaction the opposite of the USA's reaction in 2008. FDR spent money on infrastructure while in 2008 they just bailed out banks while taking no government ownership?
It was criticized because 'muh free market feels'
>>1146357
Because it prolonged the Great Depression and even caused a secondary depression in 1935 (IIR).Historians who specialize in economic history of the US agree that both his and Hoover's New Deal (I hope you knew that Roosevelt based his New Deal on Hoover's) did more harm than good.
The best book to start with would be the Pulitzer-winning Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War.
There's also FDR's Folly which was written later and cites Freedom from Fear and other later works.
because
>taking government ownership
is ignorant as fuck
So I've been inspired by the coverage of neolithic sardinian civilisation/material culture that we've had on /his/ over the past few days in a couple of threads, and I want to try writing a story or world building that incorporates people with a similar material culture.
It would be mainly low fantasy, and it would probably also involve people with a much more developed material culture, since I've wanted to write and world build a medieval fantasy for the longest time now, since I was a teenager.
What I want to ask you guys is whether or not is plausible to have a world where some cultures are in the stone age and some cultures are at about the level of the advanced civilisations of the iron age, and medieval times. Possibly more so in some aspects.
What would a plausible world like this look like? The relationship towards the most advanced people and the least advanced that still allows the least advanced to persist in the stone age? Tell me your thoughts.
Obviously there have been times in history where there are advanced civilisations and more primitive people, less developed people in relatively close proximity, like romans and barbarians. What do you know about other notable examples from history?
most of europe had copper/bronze, unlikely for the period
>>1146280
bump
>>1146280
>What I want to ask you guys is whether or not is plausible to have a world where some cultures are in the stone age and some cultures are at about the level of the advanced civilizations of the iron age, and medieval times.
Not really, thats too big a leap.
The difference between romans and barbarians was large, in the real of architecture, big monuments, map making, ship building, navigation, and just plain luxuries like floor heating or other engineering feats.
But something...
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Why did Iran remain persian-speaking while places like Egypt, Syria, and Mesopotamia became completely arab and no longer have any ties to their pre-existing cultures?
Persian was almost wiped out until the Shahmaneh made it cool again
>>1146112
Persian exceptionalism
>>1146112
Correct me if I am wrong but weren't semetic languages closer to Arab than say Farsi?
