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What's the dumbest thing you've heard history related? Mine is when a teacher asked who was president in 1956 and someone legitimately answered Lincoln, not as a joke.
>>1052844
>The Gospels were written by Jesus.
I'm not trying to start an atheist vs Christian debate shitfling here, but I had a HS teacher in all seriousness tell the class that all 4 gospels were attributed to Jesus of Nazareth, and looked confused when someone asked why they had 4 different names then.
>>1052844
Chick in 9th grade with me didn't know who the Nazis were.
>>1052844
"America won the Civil War."
I don't understand why this is so hard for protestants to understand. Can someone please explain to me why?
Gee I wonder why Luther tried to remove James.
>>1065841
this
>>1065809
I am not religious so I am assuming some definitions here. "Faith with works," I am assuming means belief in God through faith with the addition of prayer, following the commandments, going to church, etc. That is, someone who believes works are necessary for salvation would believe that faith is not sufficient for salvation. "Faith without works," I am going to assume means belief in God through faith without the addition of prayer, following the commandments, going to church, etc. That is, someone...
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I find throughout history that there are often different groups of people mentioned as important forces in some part of history. But after mentioning them, the book transfers into a more state-wise and less ethnic based viewpoint. By the time ethnicity is acknowledged again, everything about the situation is different.
Early Middle Ages, all sorts of Germanic peoples everywhere, Franks, Goths, Saxons, etc. But the textbook starts focusing on Charlemagne or whatever, and the people largely go unmentioned, and soon enough we're discussing Germans, French people, Italians,...
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>>1070893
bumped for interest
>>1070915
Thanks mate, but I doubt my thread is gonna get much replies. As far as I know, the peasantry of the middle ages, who were often ruled by people of a completely different ethnicity, are poorly documented. I wonder if the reason is solely because of Romans documenting the early peoples well, but the documentation falls apart afterwards
>>1070893
Hyperboreans losing grip on their Atlantic connection with the divine.
Give me one good reason not to be an egalitarian that isn't edgy, retarded, or chalked up to semantics
Pic highly related
>>1070897
that's utilitarianism
not egalitarianism
get your ism's right
>>1070907
Ayy you're right. My bad
Still a funny pic though.
>The notion of progress in the historical sense assumes the existence of a stable and consistent viewpoint. However, since our viewpoint is constantly shifting in time, it's impossible to completely evaluate the new state of affairs objectively and to compare it with the past. The only possible way we could morally evaluate our era in comparison with the past is if we find an actual living being from the past, transfer them to the present and ask them what they think; since this is impossible, the notion of progress should be discarded.
How do you respond to this?
"Progress" is a lie, this is nothing new.
I like Dinosaur Comics
>>1068871
It's a pretty good argument. Progress is a very dubious notion.
Why were socialist ideas so strong with german navy? I was under impression army was mostly conservative.
The officers were in fact conservative, but lower-rank soldiers were not.
why were socialist ideas welcomed by the lower classes? i don't know it's a mystery
>>1066077
Socialism is a system where upper middle class intellectuals exploit the lower class into bloody revolution to put then in power, then massacre and oppress said lower class. Happened every time. Wish I could say there was an exception. I really do.
>The English civil war has just begun
>You are a minor nobleman
>Will you declare for Charles the 1st and back the royalist cause?
>Or will you take up arms against your King and back Cromwell and the other parliamentarians.
>Roundhead or Cavalier
What do /his/?
>>1065855
Roundhead of course
>>1065905
>Not backing your rightful king
Wew
>choice between absolute monarchy and religious theocracy
No thanks. I'm off to the New World.
How revolutionary was the American revolution?
>american revolution
>power structures are the same post war
>>1063886
dumb anime poster
You go from farmers being ruled by a King on the other side of the ocean to an elected monarch ruling from the other side of the country
That's it lads, I got it right.
>>1063787
Literally the cuck for which Zizek came up with the dusty balls of capitalism joke.
>>1064059
What joke?
>>1064211
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80X0pbCV_t4
What is this?
Go to bed Bertrand
A teapot.
>>1062769
Interesring query. Is it a teapot? Or merely an image of a teapot? Moreover, what decides whether something is a teapot? We do? Wouldn't that mean we humans have some mystical power to give something its essence? We say something is and it is.
I'm hungry.
God creates the world and a paradise and within in it, a tree from which he forbade he creations from partaking of its fruit. But they do so anyways, and are cast from paradise.
A descendant of this man passes by a tree, and expects there to be fruit for him to eat, but and finds it without fruit. He then curses the tree for not having any fruit for him to take, and wishes that no one else may eat fruit from this tree either.
God then kills the tree.
What does this parable say about man?
>>1061794
That they should stop shit posting.
>>1061794
That I'm too high for this shit.
>>1061794
God is our step-dad
>26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
What did he mean by this?
What did he mean by "our"?
What about Aquatic mammals such as Whales and Dolphins, they're don't fall into any category as they're not land based, and they live in the sea but they're not fish
>>1059500
GOD CONFIRMED FOR HEAD OF A PANTHEON.
MONOTHEISTS BTFO
What are some /his/ approved documentaries?
The World at War is the GOAT WWII doc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_at_War
>>1053500
The Great War
>>1053500
WWII in Colour
PBS Napoleon
>>1053500
I'd even recommend Phantom India for a very good depiction of post imperial India.
![mosaicc19b940cdd923d823edaa52287770a86b8b30af8[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/gLk9nb9.jpg "mosaicc19b940cdd923d823edaa52287770a86b8b30af8[1].jpg")
ITT: post your 3x3 of your favourite historical figures.
We try to guess where you're from.
https://bighugelabs.com/mosaic.php
>tfw you'll never be an autistic antiquity era nerd who writes books about savaages
>tfw you'll never be named roman emperor against your will
>>1049363
You must be Spain.
I hear a lot from my leftist friends that Hitler was actually good for Germany prior to the war, the things like instating unions and building highways. Is this just an overblown and perpetuated meme, or did Hitler actually do a lot of good for his country? My knowledge of WW2 is extremely sparse, my school decided to focus on our country's(Australia's) involvement rather than teaching us something more macro.
I can't help but feel it's people trying to be contrarian and say he was kind of a good guy.
He basically brought Germany out of the Great Depression. Still not really a "good guy".
Nazi Germany's economy was a dumpster fire, living on borrowed time.
Would've collapsed spectacularly were it not for the annexations and war.
>>1066710
Imagine a more extremist version of FDRs New Deal and youll get an idea of what Hitler did. Like FDR war was a necessary component and it probably wouldnt have done all that well had he been peaceful
