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What is Napoleon's biggest contribution to contemporary society?
>>837973
napoleonic code, preventing countless robots from killing themselves as they fantasize over his achievements
Metric system.
Making USA a superpower (Louisiana purchase).
Power manlet acceptance.
Why have so many successful leaders commit such idiotic mistakes?
Octavian August
>lets send legions to forests, they will surely win
Hannibal
>who cares about one small city?
Ceasar
>who would even dare to assassinate me?
Richard III
>why should we wait for my vassals?
Napoleon
>lets invade Russia
Hitler
>lets invade Russia again
because the human finickiness on their faults
if they were not great they would not have had the chance to make such idiotic mistakes
and so forth
>>837927
>why are humans fallible?
>>837927
Napoleon
>Let's fight the british while we're being unprepared
The provisional government's weakness led to the October 1917 Revolution rather than the strength of the Bolsheviks
to what extent do you agree?
>>837374
What the FUCK is up with all the indolent students begging for help with their homework all of a sudden?
>h-here's Emma Watson, you still like her, r-right 4chan?
>now that I've infiltrated successfully, do my homework
well sage'd
>>837374
That's not a functional sentence. Please try again.
How can one man be so based?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKU69CIDZRg
>>837332
>>837334
WTF I better go to sleep
https://youtu.be/FuCw8UT5y6c
>>837332
I'm not going to start believing in god just to serve the greater good.
>>837332
So western civilization has chosen to be islam
I knew it, /pol/ was right
Give the Confederates these .45 Ranch Hand guns as their primary weapons with the same amount of ammunition they would have had during the war but it's .45 cal. Do these dinky guns change the outcome of the war. No modifying the guns in any way or creating better versions of it.
>>837247
No weapons system operates in a vacuum.
>>837249
The hell are you talking about?
>>837247
I don't think caliber matters. You are aware of the caliber on a musket right? That shit would blow you wide open
Ive got an essay on literally anything from 1700 onward due in 3 weeks and i don't know where to start. Can someone just tell me what to write about so i stop switching topics.
the Boer War
>>837221
Second
The dissolution of the Swedish-Norwegian union.
Why are Christians the only swine eaters of the abrahamic religions? What makes them exempt?
>>837122
Europeans.
>>837122
Cus not eating a perfectly delicious animal is retarded.
For Christianity to make sense you have to disregard 90% of the Old Testament
If bronze manufacture is more complex than iron manufacture, how come the "bronze age" happened before the "iron age"?
>>837028
Because iron is more difficult to smelt due to its higher melting point and large degree of impurities. Also, shit rusts.
>If bronze manufacture is more complex than iron manufacture
because it's not. true, you need more ingredients, but all you have to with them is to put them on fireplace and wait.
>>837038
>all you have to with them is to put them on fireplace and wait
Don't forget extensive trading networks to get the tin from far away places like Britain.
Is smoking /his/?
>>837019
Yes. The wrong side of /his/.
>>837019
>people who smoke more than 2 cigarettes a day
Do u even aesthetics
No
Whores and posers
![Canute[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/3c7E4uJ.png "Canute[1].png")
How the hell did the Danes lose all of this? What went wrong?
>>836964
>implying Danelaw isn't a meme
>>836964
Canute died and norsemen did what they do best, fight each other
>>836964
Monarchism has little to do with the national aspect. The nation and tribe had no prevalence here other than all of that was owned by a Dane.
Pretend the first in forever you got a job, as a Genetic engineer. You were given a task to create a developed human infant.
Do you think it would be immoral to give him the ability to feel emotional and physical pain?
>>836877
>A semantic question involving ethics
Pretend the first in forever you got a homework assignment, in philosophy 101. You were given a task to creating an essay on genetics.
Do you think it would be immoral to give your essay question to a Chinese porn board?
>>836877
So either a state of complete apathy to the senses and emotions or what we have now?
Or is this on the morality on genetic engineering?
>>836883
>Do you think it would be immoral to give your essay question to a Chinese porn board?
No
Let's talk interesting/notable victims of the French Revolution.
>Martyrs of Compiègne
16 nuns, lay sisters and externs who were executed for not agreeing to swear the Oath of the Clergy to the Constitution or follow the laws enacted by the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, hiwch involved suppressing convents and monastaries. They were imprisoned, condemend for treason, and executed. According to witnesses, the women began sanging as they were executed, continuing until the last woman--the prioress--died. What they sang has been debated (some witnesses claim they remember one song, and others a different one).
They all deserved it.
>>836605
here's your (You) edgelord
Context is everything, the church was awful to French peasants and was granted numerous privileges by the state so it's not like they're innocent.
Now that the dust has settled, were the germans better communists than the russians?
They were better """"""""communists""""""""
Yes.
However, it's like asking whether horse shit smells nicer than a dog shit. At the end of the day, it's still shit.
> were the germans better communists than the russians?
Do dog shit smell better than pig shit ?
Admiral Yi
Was he a meme admiral
>>836063
The Last Hwan
>>836072
hol up
How bad was that recent korean movie about him tho
Is the contemporary Western legal system the most just that has ever existed?
What is justice?
No, its overrated af too.
>misdemeanors are publically visable
Enjoy never earning over 100 grand/year. Be careful, this board is full of humanities majors so that doesnt change anything for them.
>>836023
>loads of people, mostly black, mass incarcerated at embarrassing levels
>the system is so thorough about incarcerating that it devastates communities and builds gang affiliations that drastically increase crime, all the while failing to deter crime
>resulting crime, plus retardedly litigious culture, results in a system clogged to shit
No. idk about other countries but if you think US criminal justice functions, you're delusional.
