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Anglos will unironically defend the jury system.
>>867526
The defence successfully proved some evidence was planted. In accordance with the conception of reasonable doubt the jury made the right decision.
Trial by a jury of your peers is in the magna Carta
>>867537
Wrong thread? What do police have to do with the jury system? That post was retarded and unnecessary.
Who /civil law/ here?
Common law scum >>>/out/
Tell me about the Sumerians. I'm obsessed with the early history of Mesopotamia
They lived in Sumer
And uh, built houses of mud
>>866679
But could you imagine? Their civilization existed 5,000 years ago! What was their society like? what was an average daily life for a commoner? All their dreams and aspirations.
I wonder if they ever thought that one day humans would master flight, or build cars, or rockets. I wonder if they had knowledge that we today have lost.
>>866656
well, they invented writing
were good at maths, made some remarkable buildings and had rich cultural influence over the middle east
some come to say they lived in the first golden age of humanity
then climate changed and nomads arrived, the rest is literally history - pun intended
I've said it many times before, the Irish have little to do with Celts, you all thought I was mad, but now I have proof!
>http://mentalfloss.com/article/77485/human-remains-found-under-pub-may-help-rewrite-irish-history?sf23152745=1
>"But the four subjects of the recent research tell a very different story. The paper’s authors say the DNA bears a “striking” resemblance to that of modern Irish—but their bones predate the supposed arrival of the Celts by more than 1000 years."
>>899231
It's almost like we're only pretending to be Milesians.
>>899231
That's the most irish headline I ever saw.
Celts are a meme desu.
>people who try to justify bad actions by claiming they were in a bad situation/mood/whatever
Is there anything more revealing of man's inner weakness than this? I'm not talking about shit like "I killed a guy but only because my life was threatened" either.
I agree.
>>899207
It's not weakness. It has nothing to do with "strength", but with ethics, and morals. They're not being "weak"; they're being how they are.
>>899212
"How they are" is weak and unmanly.
There was time and place in history where people thought this was actually a real possibility.
What. The. Fuck.
>>899103
Why India before Bangladesh?
Why would anybody give a fuck about what happens to Bangladesh after India goes?
>>899103
Americans were scared about Cuba and China, so obviously they invaded Vietnam, because they didn't realize it was on the opposite side of the alphabet.
>>899103
But Laos, Cambodia and Burma all became communist with Thailand having a communist insurgency for 2 decades?
Enough of the West, it's the time for the East to Shine.
Do you know Yi-sun Sin, a great Admiral of Korea? Well he can crush any navy at that time with his Turtle Boats! Even the great Japanese Shogunate feared his name!
>>898995
Yes, I did know.
I can safely say that i don't know shit about far eastern history. I know more about south american tribes than i know about what went on in China and Japan pre-1940s.
>>899028
You need to change that up bruh
What does /his/ know about the Greek War of Independence?
I know that Lord Byron was involved in supporting it and that the Greeks loved him for it, which warms my heart
>Alfred Tennyson would later recall the shocked reaction in Britain when word was received of Byron's death.[27] The Greeks mourned Lord Byron deeply, and he became a hero.[54][55] The national poet of Greece, Dionysios Solomos, wrote a poem about the unexpected loss, named To the Death of Lord Byron.[56] Βύρων ("Vyron"), the Greek form of "Byron", continues in popularity as a masculine name in Greece, and...
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>>898885
Greekfag here
Bascially we never would have succeeded if turks took the whole thing seriously, and after suffering some fairly humiliating defeats by outnumbered greeks, they got their shit together and started reseiging occupied rovultionary cities.But it was too late, philohellenic movements spread out in the US,UK and France, and since it happened during the period of romanticisme, all poets got a big bonner and wrote oh so many poems about the greeks fighting for liberty.It was by no means a wholy crusade to them,...
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>>898885
Greeks revolt start winning.
Almost immediately start backstabbing and fighting each other.
Egypt invades and pretty much quells everything.
Great Powers decide Greece should be independent and force the Ottomans to accept it despite the rebellion being over by that time.
This thread is dedicated to the discussion of historical mercenaries and mercenary bands
>>898709
Xenophon was the best of them all
>>898727
there's no way you're walking through that, dressed like that, without losing your feet to frostbite.
first for condottiere
A historic language with many great historic phrases of great meaning. Let's post our favorites.
This is okay for /his/ right?
>>897968
>Barba tenus sapientes
>>897979
Futue te ipsum
>>897992
>Futuo-Fuck
>Futue-Future
How did armies get from point a to point b in the ancient world? There weren't any roads. Or maps. Like how did Romans even make it to gual. So yeah there are a bunch of guals somewhere over there keep walking through empty forests you'll find them eventually.
I don't understand. Pic unrelated.
>>897565
They had maps and roads. They walked, rode or sailed.
>>897565
>There weren't any roads. Or maps.
That pic gets me rock hard.
Did Hitler base his entire Aryan theory on the fact that Iranians and Indians share a common root tongue?
>>897499
>Did Hitler base his entire Aryan theory...
WHAT THEORY?
>... on the fact that Iranians and Indians share a common root tongue?
IRANIANS, AND INDIANS, DO NOT ONLY SHARE A COMMON LINGUISTIC ROOT, BUT A COMMON SOCIOCULTURAL ORIGIN, AND A COMMON RACIAL STOCK ALSO; THE IRANIAN PEOPLE, AND THE INDIAN PEOPLE, DESCEND FROM THE ORIGINAL ARYANS.
Is it interesting?
>>897525
Not the Indians, they were already there when the Aryans invaded and took over Hindustan. Indians are separate from Iranians/Aryans.
How does a bastard, orphan, son of a whore
And a Scotsman, dropped in the middle of a forgotten spot
In the Caribbean by Providence, impoverished, in squalor
Grow up to be a hero and a scholar?
He doesn't.
Fuck Hamilton.
>>896964
He was a piece of shit, exactly as you'd expect, and Bill Burrs great great grandpa was right to shoot him.
Seriously. Fuck that guy.
>>896964
opportunity
tenacity
luck
intelligence
networking
and always learning more, the man read like you would not believe. He also kept a very gentlemanly aura about how he conducted himself both in and out of public. Alexander Hamilton also did no like violence and suffered the same fate his son did. I still believe he purposely missed his shot.
Did the Axis powers really refer to themselves as the Axis?
>>896758
no
As I have understood it the world "Axis" comes from the Hungarian minister of forgein affairs, who wanted to create an Alliance between Germany, Italy and Hungary.
This would kinda form an axis through Europe.
Not sure if it was used by anyone else though. Probably was since it got so wide spread.
Yes. It was based around an idea that after they joined together, the world would revolve around the Rome-Berlin Axis.
Could it be argued that the fall of the Roman Empire was an apocalyptic event, and that the the early Middles Ages could be considered post-apocalyptic?
Not at all. An apocalyptic event should be fast, unavoidable, devastating. To most people living in the Roman world there was no perceptible difference.
If you're talking about the fall of the West, rural folk exchanged a Romanized tax collector of X origin for a literate Germanic servant...that was probably Romanized...tax collector of X origin. In time these tax collectors were Germans or the subject people themselves.
Bandits plagued the roads for a long while, but then again bandits had plagued the roads during the dozens of Roman civil wars and upheavals,...
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>>896740
People adapted to the black plague.
>>896740
No
For the average joe there wasn't some big /HAPPENING/ and then Rome fell down like the Twin Towers
Life went on
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