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did hitler slow down globalism or speed it up?
Idk if he had that much of an impact. I'm not saying millions dead wasn't an impact, but what did WWII change? Before the war...
>The British empire was already beginning to fade
>The US and USSR were already beginning to rise
>Even though they looked impressive on maps, Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan couldn't compete with the might of the British Commonwealth Nations at full strength, let alone the US and USSR joining the war as well
The argument could be made...
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>>1045918
Accidentally speed it up. The tech invented to fight the war was important after the war. An example is Turing, Jet Planes, Nukes and V2, all the communication tech that was pushed. Globalism is the result of speedy transport and communication, and with WW2 there was a push of both to the maximum.
>>1045918
Damn look how negroid his nose looks in this gif
>Random and chaotic circumstances do not create complexity
Prove me wrong, /his/
>tfw when no /phil/
>>1045834
>Random and chaotic circumstances do not create complexity
they do when you add selective pressures to them
>>1045843
If the US's success as a world power is attributed to the vast amount of resources across a huge span of land and manpower, and distance from Europe so it wasn't bombed to shit in WWII, why did Canada not also rise to prominence?
>>1045833
Canada did not, and still don't have as high population.
Freaking Uganda has a bigger population then Canada
because it is fucking colder and more isolated ffs
get back to basics
Why was he so brutal?
>>1045825
His mom hated him
>>1045825
He had a tiny dick
he had a huge dick as big as his hate for niggers
![lee[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/zWEVcOl.jpg "lee[1].jpg")
Why did the confederates lose the war?
Picket dropped his spaghetti @ Ghettysburg tbqh
>>1045518
Because from day one, they planned to fight an asymmetric war, based in large part on the American experience during the Revolution. They would balance out the material advantages in things like population and wealth that the north had by greater commitment: They didn't need to win, just not lose.
However, they overlooked that while to Britain, America was a faraway overseas possession, and not even their most important (India), to Washington, the South was an integral part of the country, to be regained...
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They went on the offensive.
What is the endgame of philosophy?
grow the mind of the animal known as human
Truth, enlightenment, fulfillment, etc
What is a "well-motivated position" in philosophy? It's not worth its own thread but I keep seeing it and I don't know what it really means.
![Two_koreas_gdp_1950_1977[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/9uGcEku.jpg "Two_koreas_gdp_1950_1977[1].jpg")
What caused the North's economy to tank in the early 70s?
How come they were keeping pace with, and in some instances overtaking the South? What caused them to completely drop out of the race?
>>1045285
I'm not even going to act like I know for a fact, but I'm pretty sure both were poor as shit and that's why it's so heavily correlated initially
>>1045307
Oh yeah they were both poor as shit, but it just seems strange that they're fairly on the same footing until one year where the South steams ahead and the North flatlines.
Probably something to do with US investment being more economically productive than Soviet investment? I dunno.
Looks like it correlates with 1973, could be a cause related to the 1973 oil crisis?
What's the story behind things like the Basque? Etruscans?
>>1045277
They were already in when people start recording stuff.
Etruscans (and Iberians) did have somewhat complex civilizations that know writing, but their languages remain obscure, and will most likely remain that way.
Basques seems to have been more a primitive people, so while the language has survived/evolved, their forefather did not left any written record. They merged without much problem in the Roman Empire, they became independent again with the Fall of Empire, and their later history is linked with...
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>>1045277
The Nuragics left behind a lot of monuments and the first statues in Europe but we do know much about them:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zajFbLyklRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUxUbqEgFDU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTcCNXaMc-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1xdyOEWr_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K74juUnWuqw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erq2aLseuEQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFntXicHBUY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJg6ZxfM58w
>>1045277
It looks like basques were Iberians, no weird exotic shit. They were just the last Iberians, who, not conquered nor romanized, continued their Iberian ways forever, looking weird as shit to the rest.
why was it barbers that conducted surgeries and dentistry in like 18-19th century? is it just myth? was it actually part of their profession to have some medical knowledge? or is it just because they were the only ones in the village that had tools that weren't completely useless for that purpose and were known to have a steady hand? or were they actually professional surgeons but small town didn't need them that bad that they could've made their living with it so they needed to have some side business?
That was in the Middle Ages, and it wasn't all barbers, just some of them knew how to do simple surgery.
>>1044923
but why barbers? why not local butcher or priest or teacher?
>>1044933
Sharp knives and knowing how to use them with precision I assume.
My dad asked this question when I explained some circumstances surrounding Homo sapiens survival against all odds.
We know there is only one hominid species left in the world, Homo sapiens. We also know that there are only 6 other species of great apes left: 2 species of chimpanzees, 2 species of gorillas, and 2 species of orangutans. These 7 species are the last remaining in the family Hominidae.
All the other hominids besides Homo sapiens died out tens of thousands of years ago, and we believe the reason our ancestors survived is because we were more "adaptable", meaning we were not restricted to a single environment but could survive in many others. This is the reason we later spread out all over the world, and probably why we gained "sapience" and are able to contemplate these grim circumstances.
At one point, following the eruption of the Toba volcano 70,000 years ago, there were between 1,000 and 10,000 mating pairs of Homo sapiens left, though there may have been other hominid species alive at the time. My dad asked, if the hominids faced such grueling environments and all but a few died, why did the great apes fare any better? Why are there 6 extant non-human Hominidae species left, but only 1 hominid species?
Humans are a generalist species, while the remaining apes are specialists.
>>1044835
>why did the great apes fare any better?
Who says they did? They're all not far from extinction.
>>1044835
Because hominids apart from humans failed to survive the changes in their environment, coupled with the fact that they had trouble breeding in large enough numbers to replace their population (with already extreamly high infant mortality due to the narrowing of the birth canal).
>rekt by Franks
>rekt by Saxons
>rekt by Moors when they raided Spain and Portugal
>rekt by stone age Native Americans
>muh memengian guard
>also rekt
>just like whole Byzantine meme Empire
>Hedeby burned down by Slavs
>rekt by Irish
wew lad some fierce warriors they were
Fuck off, why can't we have one good board. Without shitty bait threads
>>1044766
>muh vikings are le ferocious fighters xD
>actually they were bitches
>LE BAIT LE BAIT :DD
Nice meme. But this wouldn't have happened if they couldn't fight.
I consider that ______
Greece must be conquered
Iberia must be pillaged
Carthage is just fine, we should sign this free trade agreement with them so that we can export our goods to new markets and compete with them more properly
Were the Ottomans the pound for pound most degenerate empire to ever exist?
Even the Mongols had some redeeming qualities.
>>1044527
damn that nigga hung
>>1044539
not for much longer
>>1044585
kek
How long could a victorious CSA have feasibly kept the institution of slavery?
Theyd be an international pariah relatively quickly with some European counires taking firm stances against slavery.
A decade? Into the 1900s?
How could the CSA have been victorious anyway? The only reason they lasted so long was because the north was holding back until the mid period and didnt have good leadership until near the end of the war.
1880s is my guess, which is when Brazil (of all countries) abolished it.
>>1044508
Stay on topic or fuck off.
japan
Well not like China is any better.
>6th deadliest conflict in history with 20 million dead
>started by a guy who thought he was Jesus' brother
East Asia should just be called Balkans Superior because just like the Balkans they will all claim a lot of made up bullshit about their past being true while all hating each other.
>>1044345
¡Dios mÃo!
