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It has no insignia. Why is that so? Did other people wear peaked caps with no insignia?
In most other pics, his cap does have an insignia though.
>>1071148
Pandering to Ivan the common Ruskie?
why is globalism considered tinfoil hat on /his/?
Because this board is full of communist loving JIDF
>>1071064
No sufficient evidence.
Because it's the exact same thing as Illuminati/reptiles/Freemason conspiracies except with Jews/Rothchilds wrote in?
If the abrahamic faiths didn't spread as they did or straight up didn't exist, would the world be better or worse?
Would we be better off with old world polytheism?
what are the major changes in ethics and philosophy that were adopted when Christianity took a rise?
>>1071037
>Would we be better off with old world polytheism
Polytheism is a fascinating system. You either interpret foreign gods as your own or allow foreigners to have foreign gods. And although certain cults got persecuted for being dangerous, a set of new gods was seen as an opportunity. Plus diversity of faith worked very well with European society that never took to consolidated empire after Rome fell.
Basically we wouldn't see religion be a major conflict source, barring...
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>>1071061
Don't most old world religions state that their rulers are gods? wouldn't that cause tension?
>Would we be better off with old world polytheism?
Almost certainly yes. Decentralized religion has almost all of the advantages of centralized religion, with little to none of the disadvantages
If the "Holy" "Roman" "Empire" was between 800/962–1806, then what happened between then and the fall of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century?
Literally nothing
>>1070991
Bunch of Frankish royalties at war with eachother. The eventual overthrow of the Merovingian dynasty, then the rise of the Carolingian dynasty.
>>1070991
There was no Roman Emperor in the west. The position was null and void. When Charlemagne conquered Italy, the Pope gave him the title of Roman Emperor to win his favor and get the papal states.
ITT:
Questions you ask when someone says they're "into history" that you pray they can answer.
I ask three questions in descending order of difficulty/obscurity (I'm American btw)
"Are you familiar with history at all?"
"Yeah I think I know a fair bit."
Question 1: "Are you familiar with the Habsburg dynasty?"
"No not really. I'm really into WWII and the Civil War, you know."
Question 2: "Okay then, what was your favorite battle from WWII? Mine was Kursk."
"Yeah...
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>>1070981
You're questions are pleb tier shit, OP.
For instance, say someone says they're really into WW2. I would then ask them:
>Why were all major powers in the conflict pervasively unable to match their airframe production and their pilots/aircrew training? Every single one of them produced vastly more aircraft than they had trained personnel to fly, and even when you add in the extra vehicles to be sold to smaller allies who didn't have aviation industries of their...
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>When someone says they are interested in something I give them a pop quiz to find out if they know as much as I do
>>1071007
This desu. Acting like a patronizing idiot when the subject is something you know about is pretty stupid.
Any love for Jan Žižka?
>Wore an eyepatch, blind in one eye.
>Fights as a Czech mercenary at the battle of Grundwald against the Teutonics, in 1410 at age 50.
>Natural leader of the Czech Hussite (church reformist) movement against the Pope and "Holy" "Roman" "Empire"
>won
>undefeated
>Germanics BTFO
>excellent military...
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>>1070947
taborites were generaly based as fuck
what happened, why they loose in the end?
>>1070947
No one remember this guy coz most of his battles are insignificant and they changed nothing the whole European map.
"Poles are filth"
- Jan Zizka
Where do history end and where do "nowadays" begin?
If the sticky is anything to abide to, then it is 25 years.
>>1070837
Personally, I think it becomes "nowadays" at the 1900s. We should be able to talk about stuff past that point of course, but it's a fundamentally different atmosphere. Saying a nation did an atrocity 200 years ago is largely meaningless to the people today. but stuff like the Armenian Genocide is still politicized even now. And if you are willing to venture past some of the few debates left by the world war, you get the ongoing controversies like "Was a state for Jewish people in Arabia a good idea?"
>>1070837
>Where do history end
The present moment. History is as much a treatment of sources and a method or understanding as it is a time period, historical methods can be applied to any event no matter how recent.
This isn't a question of whether or not it was a good state, nor is it a thread for Voltaire memes. My question is, is the bizarre Confederate system the region had, with the complex borders, lack of unity, outside countries having borders that cross through its borders etc. unique in history. On sites like geocron, which show borders throughout history, HRE is the only state it feels the need to stick a blue border around and show internal borders.
If it's not unique, what's a good example of a state having a similarly complex internal governing situation?
>Is the Holy Roman Empire unique?
I can tell you what it isn't.
There's a reason why he said it wasn't an empire.
>mfw it wasn't holy
>mfw it wasn't Roman
>mfw it wasn't an Empire
How did checks and balances work in medieval monarchy?
>>1070713
The king needed the troops of the nobles for war, and the nobles needed the king to give them titles and shit.
The king needed the commoners and the Church for money, and those two needed the king for him to approve laws that they wanted.
>>1070713
The king only directly controlled a very small amount of land (and thus, manpower and money) directly. Everything else, he would ask/demand support from his vassals.
If he treated them too badly, his vassals would have all sorts of interesting excuses as to why they couldn't make this year's campaign, but they wished him all the best.
If he ran things REALLY badly, this year's campaign would be against a large number of his vassals who are taking up arms against him.
>>1070713
communications were notoriously bad
Is there a historically asshole-ier state than this one?
>>1070591
Lived in the bootheel for a short while. Everyone smoked and everyone was poor and few people were taller than 5'9". Catholics are probably the best people in Missouri.
>>1070591
Easily one of the worst 5 states in the union
>>1070607
Oh, and the whole state is disease ridden. You WILL get some kind of fucked up sickness there at least once a year. Don't get me started on the Evangelicals.
Did Carthage really sacrifice babies, or is that just Roman propaganda?
They probably did on rare occasions. Their cousins back in the Levant had the same practices.
The Romans can't really claim any moral high ground though.
>We only kill babies and rape their mothers and then sell them into slavery, we don't SACRIFICE them
Possibly, and very likely near the end of the Punic wars. After all, the Romans did it too in times of extreme crisis.
>>1070545
>The Romans can't really claim any moral high ground though.
This, antiquity was pretty fucked up overall
October 30th, 1929
A distraught and corrupted New York stock broker plummets to his death as law enforcement watches helplessly from the curb.
The man willingly leapt to his demise as specially tasked law enforcement attempted to infiltrated his office on suspicions of fraudulent investments.
Officer Duncan Fraser (seen in the rear of the photo) was on traffic watch when the incident unfolded, and is quoted as saying "Poor bastard. Tomorrow night have been a brighter day", which after widespread media attention is credited with the first time the...
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What's fraudulent investment banking compared to state-sanctioned investment banking? :^)
It's a shame a cop couldn't get there in time to help him.
It's for the best though, as being involved in high level fraud like that is dangerous and if he talked to the cops his whole family would have been killed.
Any idea on how many stories he fell?
It was a meme. There were no brokers jumping out windows, only a small increase in suicides in the following depression.
Can you convince a nihilist that life is worth living?
No.
/thread
No, because a nihilist who thinks life is worth living, by definition, has become an absurdist.
>>1070406
No more easily than you can convince him that suicide is worth bothering about.
How did this degenerate TWAT manage to become King of England? He literally spawned the worst dynasty in the history of England.
Thomas More didn't become king of England bro
>>1070366
Something about some welsh rebel courtier marrying the King's mum in secret, and somehow being catapulted to power.
England should've gone to Plantagenet heirs not these welsh usurpers.
>>1070366
Don't you talk shit about the Tudors. The Stuarts are clearly the worst dynasty.
>Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs.
Was he in the right?
>>1070202
looks like whitey colonialist wants to patronize some darkies and orientalize them with his biased euro pov
obviously yes
He was pretty based. A violent bully, perhaps, but what kind of Imperial military leader shouldn't be?
>Come here instantly. Come here at once and make your submission, or I will in a week tear you from the midst of your village and hang you
Hard to argue with that.
