>after loss of Syria and Egypt only a middle-sized average country with no real power, not any "empire"
>didn't influence anyone besides shitty slavs so no cultural importance at all
>terrible military, losing every single important war
>ugly and uninteresting art and architecture
>"Roman Empire" with no Rome - that's some fucking joke
>no contribution to science...
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>Its another "I know nothing about Byzantine history" thread
>>1056542
what is there to know? that they were in constant decline?
>but they recovered too
they always recovered only partially, and they fucking ended up being devoured by another state
>>1056522
Standing as europes shield against islamic invasions for close to 800 years was probably one of the main indirect influences on the rise of western europe. Show some respect you heathen cuck.
Why were Britons so useless?
>be shitty uncivilized pagans
>Rome comes and starts developing civilization
>Builds stone fortification
>Introduces Roman innovations
>Rome forced to withdraw
>be shitty barely civilized Christians
>regress to levels of material production even worse than Pre-Roman Britain
>Build fortifications...
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>>1051892
>cheeky cunt detected
They look badass though
>>1051912
>shirtless homos with Guy Fieri hair wearing pajama pants
>badass
Old thread >>>>>1049959
hit image bump limit but some really cool pics so czech it out
Proceeding to dump more Prokudin-Gorsky (which OP is not btw)
Which continent is the most stylish?
>>1054499
That's retarded. Winners are always PNG.
Even though people won't ever admit it because of weeb fear, the Japanese knew how to go to war with style.
asia
ITT: Post the dumbest historical figure you can think of.
Pic related
The last thing those people needed was to be given money
Also, weirdly, for such an important figure you don't hear much about him
Benito Juarez.
Miguel Hidalgo.
Venustiano Carranza.
Leona Vicario.
Josefa Ortíz.
José María Morelos Y Pavón.
Why do conservatives love him?
Why do liberals hate him?
What were his domestic and foreign policies?
Literally know nothing other than
>tear down this wall
Seriously, I was raised in a conservative household with parents who love Reagan, but I always here libs bashing him. What's the truth, /his/?
Just debt my shit up
>>1058152
He did some light treason.
Sided with drug lords.
Literally only RINOS like that piece of shit
I personally hate him for letting all the mental patients roam the streets
What are some persistent and demonstrably false myths about East Asian history?
Japanese guns all sucked ass.
Buddhism made everything more peaceful.
>>1056708
which ones were good?
Did Mark's Gospel affirm Jesus's divinity?
>>1055530
Yes although not as explicitly as John. Mark shows Jesus doing things that only God can do such as forgiving sins (Mk 2:5), commanding the natural world (Mk 4:39) and rising from the dead (Mk 16:6-8). Mark also includes Jesus affirming that he is indeed the messiah who will be seated at the right hand of the Father (Mk 14:60-62).
All of these actions can only be understood and believed if Jesus is indeed God incarnate.
>>1055530
The last 12 verses are not original, it's added waaaaay later.
>>1055530
Mark's Gospel doesn't even make sense. It doesn't "affirm" anything, except that a Greco-Roman guy wrote about Jesus some decades after all the events supposedly happened.
I mean for God's sake, his second verse is a misquote of older scripture, and it pretty much sets the tone for how accurate he is about Judean laws, customs, geography, important personages, etc. are.
It's like asking if Romance of the Three Kingdoms affirms Guan Yu's divinity.
>Wrong about almost everything he said
>People still jerk off to him
This is why philosophy is retarded
t. John Green
>>1037646
>Wrong about almost everything he said
Such as?
>>1037653
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/AristotlePhysics.htm
everything
Why was this allowed to happen? Did public/mass transit deserve to die because the free market fixed it or did the auto corporations murder an otherwise healthy system?
Also, corporate conspiracies general, I guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_conspiracy
The real issue is that Americans think using tax-dollars to fund public transit is deadly socialism, and with a few exceptions, most major U.S. cities lacked the necessary legal power to fund and operate rail service until the oil crises of the 1970s made people reevaluate it.
Many electric railways died off without ever having been purchased by GM or National City Lines. That's not to say the auto industry and their lobbyists are innocent, but the issue is more complicated than what "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" would have you believe.
>>1037064
>Why was this allowed to happen?
Because rich people did it with money.
>>1038375
sure the monopoly interests of GM, Ford etc and their marketing propaganda of GM and Ford would say that cars were popular... popular in media and advertisements, yes.
the majority of the population could not afford cars.
>In the early 1900s, General Motors' long-time president, Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., began implementing a plan to expand auto sales and maximize profits by eliminating streetcars.
>In 1922, Sloan established a special unit within GM...
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The Holocaust was not the systematic extermination of 6,000,000 Jews.
The Holocaust was the systematic extermination of 11,000,000 people, of which 6m were Jews.
Don't you mean 5.1-5.6 million?
It depends on who you count as a victim.
For example, if a German officer gets killed, and the Wehrmacht kills 100 civilians as a collective punishment, that's certainly an unlawful killing, but it wasn't racially motivated, and it wasn't in any kind of coordinated system.
>>1057842
I mean the extermination in the concentration camps.
Why are Ashkenazi Jews so much richer and better educated (by common standards) than Sephardi Jews?
>>1052357
Why are Europeans so much richer and better educated (by common standards) than North Africans and Middle Easterners?
it's a conspiracy!!
>>1052357
(majorly) Slavo-Germanic genes
PURE ARYANS
Semito-Moors can't compete with that
Why was France the most quintessentially medieval kingdom of the middle ages? Chivalry, castles, feudalism, crusading fervor, tournaments, were all the most abundant in France during this time
>>1051610
What about Anglo-Normandy?
>>1051686
Ruled by Frenchmen
>>1051686
huh? They were basically french
>there are AMERICANS who don't like FDR
Explain this to me please.
I mean, unless you were autistic Naziboo, why the fuck would you hate him?
He made America superpower, he won WW2, he defeated major economic crisis. The life in 50's, often idolized here, was practically made by Roosevelt.
>>1050086
FRANKLIN DINDU NUFFIN HE WAS A GOOD HE WAS A GOOD BOY
Fucking please, sure he did some good things but he also royally fucked up at times as well. The only reason he is revered is because he led us through the depression (and did a marginal job at that) and into one of the largest wars we have ever seen.
Besides he was a shadow compared to his brother.
>>1050113
>brother
>>1050113
They were distant cousins