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W-why is the law like this?
>>1114590
United states law is a clusterfuck, why d you think the US is screwed up so bad?
Not even highly educated people understand laws and how taxes work in the US. Around only 12% of the population can even do their taxes by themselves without a computer program
the common law system dates back to the 1100's and is built on the idea of precedent, so rulings and laws that were made almost 1000 years ago still have legal relevance today
honestly it's a miracle it works as well as it does at this point
>>1114605
Do you have to do your taxes yourself in the US? Here in Sweden if you're an employee you just get a letter home with how much you'll be getting.
How complex was the Old World knowledge on cardinal points (North, south, east and west) and wind direction? Is the claim of the Chinese inventing the compass true, and how did people navigate during the day (stars at night obviously excluded)?
>>1114555
And I'm not talking about the history of navigation, I'm asking more in the sense of recognising the fact that some things (the Sun coming out on one side and setting on the other, or cold winds blowing opposite from the direction of warm winds) needed to be defined and recognised
>>1114568
this is not a meme get out
>>1115051
What? I really want to know. Isnt this /his/?
Is naming ships just a Western Tradition? If so when did it start and how did it start?
>>1114452
It started as a mediterranean tradition. Arguably from the Phoenicians dedicating their boats to their gods and calling it by the name of their gods. Romans, Greeks took it up, and then Medieval Europe/Islam took it up as well. Outside the Med, I think only vikings did name their ships.
>>1114459
Contd.
In E. Asia - based on the Chinese example- they definitely did not have names. If anything, a ship's name is the name of the commander in charge of the vessel. Traditionally the only East Asian ship with a name is the unusually large Japanese Atakebune warship "Nihonmaru." But even this isn't a name: it just means "Ship of the State." (i.e. Flagship).
However, Asians do have traditions and supersitions on their ships. Nips tie votive Shinto amulets to the god, Susanoo...
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>>1114459
This kind of surprises me. I always thought that people have a natural tendency to give important objects names.
So what's /his/ opinion of Salah Al Deen Al Ayoobi?
>>1114414
Here's how this thread is gonna go:
>Who?
>Fag who talks shit about the religion of peace
>Fag who sends that fag straight back to the politics board
>Shitflinging contest until the thread 404s
History
Who?
>>1114682
Based Muslim leader that fought off the Crusaders. He was known for his honour. Truly a religion of peace.
What went wrong?
>>1114296
History isn't profitable because the average goyi--... Joe doesn't give a fuck.
Need more viewers so it expanded to cater to a larger audience
>>1114296
history
>he hasn't killed himself to escape the simulation yet
>>1114225
soon, hopefully
>P L E B S
>>1114225
Alright then
You first :^)
Why was the Rashidun Caliphate so successful in its milliatary campaigns?
>>1114209
Khalid
Inb4
>Muh exhausted empires
Because Allah was on their side! !!Allah Akbar! !!Allah Akbar! !!Allah Akbar! !!Allah Akbar! !!Allah Akbar! !!Allah Akbar! !!
But seriously. Superior tactics and weak enemy.
>>1114209
Because well organized army against exhausted adversaries.
Does anyone have the picture of the US couple of which one is a young girl (I think from the late 19th or early 20th century), with the accompanying text that the husband gave her a doll for her wedding, which get's sometimes shared in history threads on /b/ ?
>>1114031
No, this isn't it...
>>1114031
Still looking
1937 02 14
>>1114031
>>1114058
>>1114072
Found it myself on the net.
Thanks for the other attempts though!
>From the time of Alexander the great until the 19th century the fastest form of transportation over land never changed
I never really thought of railroads as interesting until I heard this fact.
There has been some changes in cart technology though.
>>1114056
Yeah, but that didn't make anything go faster. The top speed over land was always the top speed of a horse.
That's why we had boats
Would capturing Moscow actually win the Eastern Front for the Germans? Despite it being the capital, wasn't all the industry already relocated to Asia, and wouldn't they just evacuate Kremlin, continuing to fight on further? Or would this be a definitive blow, allowing Wehrmacht to break the organised defence altogether?
>>1113961
Did Napoleon win after Capturing Moscow?
Germany didn't come within a prayer of taking Moscow so this question is pointless. Would taking the US have allowed Germany to win WW2? Probably. What is the point of such stupid questions, though?
Ancient Greeks and Egyptians knew full and well that the Earth was round. It was also an accepted doctrine of the Catholic Church. And yet there went this guy, claiming that he can reach India by sailing west.
Was he bullshitting the queen for monetary support? Was he actually believing this? Or is it all just a misinformed meme history?
I'm confused, you're asking why, if most people thought the world was round, Columbus would accept simple geometric principles such as going west to circumnavigate to the east?
>>1113970
I... Just woke up okay? I had this nagging question that I could not explain, and I guess I now know why.
>>1113928
He underestimated the size of the earth which is why people opposed him. Even Isabella was sure he wouldn't return.
>The Holy Roman Empire...which...you know...was neither holy...roman...nor an empire....teehee.
>Ayn Rand wasn't a philosopher, she was just a shitty author!
>tfw have friends who took actual philosophy classes, but seem to not know the terminology, or actual ideas.
>only person who is around, or above my level of knowledge is an unschooled Mormon who has an uncanny grasp on German Idealism for some reason.
fucked up world t b h
>"Why are you talking to me?"
;_;
I just had an idea for a fun thread. We make up dumb, ridiculous conspiracy theories and then try to prove them wrong.
This is a good opportunity to practice fact-checking and evaluating other people's claims for when we encounter legitimate misinformation. And if we actually dig up corroborating evidence, that would be hilarious.
No existing conspiracies allowed like moon landing or JFK assassination or holohoax or anything there is any discussion on already. Make up something nobody's heard of before.
For example, I'll claim that Trinidad...
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>>1113536
BUT John Dillinger DID shoot JFK
When Stalin was first filmed eating a hotdog, he ate it sideways (middle first, then each end). This filtered through the Soviet propaganda channels until everyone in the Soviet Union also ate their hotdogs sideways. From 1945-1965, at least 200 Soviets are known to have been arrested for eating their hotdogs from end to end. Khrushchev's government relaxed this policy by 1966.
>>1113631
makes sense. eating the hotdog in the normal fashion sounds too gay for Stalin
How do young earthfags explain light years distance? I've never seen the mental gymnastics routine so I'm pretty curious.
Light travels 186k m/s in a vacuum, slower when acted upon, or about 9 trillion km/Julian yr IIRC. This in turn means that to travel such a distance, it needs the time to do so.
Given the fact that the light source actually exists/existed (we can physically see it), this implies that the time for light to travel millions or billions of years for certain (>99.999% of everything visible to telescopes) objects actually passed,...
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God can do anything, and He can certainly make light travel faster than the speed of light.
QED.
I've never seen a light year and you can't convince me they even exist.
He created the light already in transit at the appropriate distance obviously.
What went right?
Asian england
>>1113295
Perry forcing them to interact with the west.
