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You are the head general of a well-off kingdom in Central Asia in the late 1100s. Somehow, you learn that Genghis Khan will attack in 10 years. How would you defeat his forces, if you had to face them militarily?
>>1068708
Uhm, i'd help sponsor his shit, be an investor in the world domination thing. If not, i'd just copy all the stuff ghengis did.
>>1068708
that's enough time to prepare for a hajj, by way dublin and lisbon because "poor navigation".
i might leave a note for the guy who takes over, just to be polite, like.
Go full Uighur and rule as an obedient vassal while your people become Mongol officials and administrators in China.
Or just run away and hide on a Caspian island or something.
Can we truly rid ourselves of society's influence?
We can't.
with an ice pick and a neurology text book, I think I could after a few tries.
>>1068278
not utterly, but to high degrees you certainly can
self is a illusion
Completely irrelevant
>>1068154
irrelevancy is a spook
>>1068130
Proofs?
How did child birth effect life of Hunters and Gatherers and in general, life before civilization? I imagine that death for both the mother and child must have been very high due to lack of developed medicine of any kind.
>>1068074
Childbirth was the number one killer of humans before the modern era (if you not feminist and count babies as humans.)
Still childbirth was mostly safe and the death rates for women were still lower then that of men. So its risks weren't that much higher then the general mortality of any period.
>>1068074
>lack of developed medicine
>implying
>>1068088
Babies are human if they have Y chromosome.
Basil of Macedon
Solved the Bulgar problem
Stabilized Frontiers ,wrecked Muslims at sea
Justinian- Retook Rome, Civil Law code, obligatory
Basil II- conquered the Bulgars, made the Byzantines a feared force once again.
Alexios I and his immediate successor, John II- Reversed the losses they suffered to the turks, brought about the Komnenian restoration.
Leo III- Commanded the defense of Constantinople against the Arab siege of Constantinople in 717, ultimately breaking the Arab armies and saving the empire from arab conquest.
>>1067984
Justinian II had a pretty sweet nose.
>>1068049
Opinion on John VI Kantakouzenos
Thoughts on Romanticism and the Romanticists?
inb4 dude opium lmao
dude hashish lmao
Romanticists were early emos and/or goths and/or alternative-pop fans
Why was the battle of Lepanto such a devastating loss? Was it even a devastating loss?
I've heard it argued that the inability of the Ottoman Empire to replace it's sailors and naval officers as well as the difficult it had in rebuilding it's fleet (compared to the west) was related to the failure of the Ottoman's to embrace commercial society and properly reform their legal and social institutions.
>>1067847
>Why was the battle of Lepanto such a devastating loss?
Because the Turks lost a shitload of ships. Its bad enough for them being the major landpower, having the strongest fleet as well was kinda overkill.
>Was it even a devastating loss?
Yes and no.
>I've heard it argued that the inability of the Ottoman Empire to replace it's sailors and naval officers
Thats right. Oar slaves are pretty hard...
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>But the defeat at Lepanto, despite being much celebrated in Europe, was only a temporary setback: it could not reverse the Ottoman conquest of Cyprus, and within a year, the Ottomans built an equally large fleet, which in 1574 conquered Tunisia from Spain. This completed the Ottoman conquest of North Africa, following the operations of the Ottoman fleet under Turgut Reis which had earlier conquered Libya (1551); and of the fleet under Salih Reis which had conquered the coasts of Morocco beyond the Strait of Gibraltar in 1553."
They...
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>>1067890
*in three months they have built more than 150 ships from their middle eastern port
fuck
Hey /his/, who is the modern day philosopher that will be remembered as the eminent thinker of our time thousands of years from now?
Pic related is my choice.
You know this is a true.
>>1067669
Not even baiting
>>1067697
L M F A O
What is the purpose of all Life in reality? What does it mean, why does it exist, what did God want to say when he invented and continues to invent it?
>>1067629
Make something up and roll with it
>>1067635
I'm the "truth or death" kind of guy.
The life is a punchline to the joke of Creation.
>Goodbye, this has been the History of Rome
Who else cried?
>>1067391
please elaborate
>>1067391
source?
>>1067405
>>1067409
>they didn't listen to Mike Duncan's masterpiece
Smartest guy of the whole Antiquity ?
For you fags that have never read a book, this guy is Julius Caesar
Why are you so obsessed with this guy?
>>1067347
I thought that was a drink
What religion has undergone the most reform?
I know at least personally people have different religious beliefs than what is in scripture but what about on a global scale? Are there any cases of a religion going through a reform in the last couple of decades? Century?
The rise of Caodai is interesting, christianity is contantly mutating and mormons are currently slowly shifting into a religion of their own.
>>1067242
Catholics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council#Key_Content_and_Issues
Mormonism
http://20truths.info/mormon/doctrine.html
Islam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salafi_movement
Bonus
Jehovahs witnesses
Dont have a source on it but they have changed the nature of their evangilism away from door knocking.
>>1067242
Oh and to answer this
>What religion has undergone the most reform?
Hinduism and all those syncretic eastern belief systems which dont have that ingrained dogma you get in Abrahamic faiths
Why don't Russians give the Romanovs credit for tripling the size of their empire?
Maybe because the slavs are geographically detached from the siberian people and therefore never thought of them much besides the "yea and weve got snowchinks too somewhere in the east" manner.
>>1067216
because it all belongs to mother russia. from the atlantic to the pacific, from sea to shining sea, the light of manifest destiny and christianity will never perish.
>americans and russians both believe in manifest destiny, god and guns as the reason they were able to conquer a continent.
>the russians lost their southewest, i.e. central asia, because their version of the USA collapsed.
>americans would be just as...
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>>1067216
>implying
>His country doesn't have a Sigurd
>>1066997
>you will never be born with the ability to talk
>you will never have a magical cock and dog as companions
>you will never kill the entire tribe of the murderers of your father
>you will never be so funky that all the fish in the river die whenever you bathe
>you will never heal people with your magical spit
Why even live?
>Not having a Steel Driving Man
>>1066997
>His country doesn't have a Fionn Mac Cumhail
haha gays 2bh
/His/, how could the Disputation of Barcelona possibly have happened? It sounds like a fucking disney movie, not real life.
>>1066679
Actually there's a lot of shit like that happening back then.
When the Catholic church discovered the existence of the tripe written in the Talmud, books were confiscated and shit like that were ordered by the Pope, I forgot which one.
But it was one of the most successful conversion efforts to the Jews.
>>1066729
Are you sure you're not confusing it with something else?
The Disputation of Barcelona was a debate over whether or not Jesus was the Messiah, and the Jews won that one, despite the fact that the debate was refereed by a devout Christian monarch.
Subsequent debates would often give the Jewish participants a script to read from, and yeah, they appealed to the Pope to overturn the result, but just the idea that it could happen in the first place is so bizarre that it's almost inconceivable.
>christians trying to win a rational debate
so cute
