Why were Greeks so obsessed with coasts?
>>1382301
walking is hard, boats are easy
>>1382301
Did the Greeks just flee from their ports and cities in the Western Med when they fought against the Phoenician/Tyrrenian coalition in the battle of Alalia?
Who do you consider the most brilliant person ever?
>>1381616
Myself.
First post best post.
>>1381616
Probably Isaac Newton and Richard Feynman, but if I had to pick one, it would be Newton.
Wittgenstein is up there though.
That guy who wrote the one book a couple centuries ago
Leaked Civ VI roster (some of these will be DLC, based on recent Civ videos, there may be multiple leaders per civ far later on as DLC)
American - Teddy Roosevelt
Arabian - Saladin
Aztec - Montezuma
Brazilian - Pedro II
Celtic - Grace O'Malley
Chinese - Qin Shi Huang
Danish - Ragnar Lothbrok
Egyptian - Cleopatra
English - Victoria
French - Napoleon
German - Frederick the Great
Gran Colombian - Simon Bolivar
Greek - Alexander
Incan - Huayna Capar
Indian - Gandhi
Japanese - Hojo Tokimure
Malinese - Mansa Musa
Mongol...
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Egypt UA: Bonus Production towards Wonders and Districts to cities on a river. Districts and Wonders may be built on flood plains tiles.
Cleopatra UA: Outgoing trade routes generate additional Gold for Egypt. Incoming trade routes generate additional Gold for Egypt and additional Food for the trade route owner.
Egypt UU: Maryannu Chariot Archer (Replaces the Heavy Chariot). Increased movement on flat land tiles.
Egypt UI: Sphinx. Generates Faith and Culture, yields increased if placed adjacent to a Wonder.
>>1378454
America UA: Legacy bonuses from government types are earned twice as fast.
Roosevelt UA: Receives an extra Unique Unit in the Rough Rider (bonus to Combat Strength on hills, lower maintenance, generates Culture on kills). All units receive a bonus to Combat Strength when fighting on their home continent. National Park Improvements generate additional Tourism.
UU: P51-Mustang (Replaces the ???) Increased range, bonus against other aircraft units.
UB: Film Studio (Replaces the ???) Boosts Tourism output.
>>1378457
England UA: Museums contain additional Artifact slots, and Archeologists are earned/built faster.
Victoria UA: Unspecified, one of the below.
UU: Sea Dog (Replaces the ???) Can 'bully' weaker units, has a chance to capture Naval units it defeats.
UU: Redcoat (Replaces the ???) Can embark and disembark without spending a movement point, increased Combat Strength when fighting on other continents.
UD: Royal Navy Shipyard (Replaces the Harbour) All Naval units trained in the city have +1 movement....
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An angel, an eagle, a winged lion and a winged bull represent the four evangelists of christianity. Can the christians and historians of the board explain why? What symbolism connects this creatures with each saint?
For starters I though the lion belonged to Jesus and an angel sounds like a pretty generic symbol in christianity. But I suppose it's normal that different figures may share a symbol for different reasons.
By the way, although I'm educated in late roman and medieval history (so I know most than a lot of people, probably) I'm not christian...
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Cherubim, a class of angels in the Old Testament are described as heaving the heads of an eagle, lion, bull, and a human.
>>1387986
Are they described like that in the Old Testament?
>>1388001
Yes
So was early Christianity apocalyptic? The evidence from the New Testament seems pretty strong, especially Mark 13:24-27, which says
"the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. And then they will see the Son of Man coming in clouds with great power and glory. And then he will send out the angels and gather his elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven."
And Mark 13:30 goes on to say "Truly, I say to you,...
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Jews started with the apocalyptic shit when they became a roman province, many of the apostles surely were into it
>>1383285
>What are some scholarly opinions on it?
I like chocolate milk.
>>1383285
Its a pretty popular interpretation
How much poverty and death can be attributed to this man? Would Latin America be first world had he not existed? What would Eastern Europe look like today?
>>1383183
>Marxist economics
I'm personally fine with the fact that commies annihilated our nobles as a class, they absolute were garbage.
t. Eastern European
What was the first meme?
>>1381337
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8XQeA8WJGU
t. Oldfag.
This is of course assuming we are tlaking about actual 'meme's' and not the idea of what it is to be a meme. Meme's existed for huge amount of time before the term was coined.
religion
language?
> "I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
> "Gandhi ought to be lain bound hand and foot at the gates of Delhi, and then trampled on by an enormous elephant with the new Viceroy seated on its back."
are these legit?
> He jeered at the Palestinians as "barbaric hoards who ate little but camel dung," while he was appalled that the Israelis "take it for granted that the local population will be cleared out to suit their convenience".
> "I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
Is he the biggest philosopher of our time?
Honest to god it's probably Zizek.
>>1379950
Go to bed Stefan
(The answer is Zizek)
remember to Sage, marketing and self-promotion is not welcome on 4chan
>>1379950
If by "philosopher" you mean "shithead", then yes.
I know this is dumb question. What is Capital. I mean at its most basic level
>>1386828
It is something you own. Money, yes, but also tools, buildings, machinery. There's fixed capital (A workbench, for exemple) and mobile capital (Wood that you'll chop up to build chairs, for exemple). Workers are not considered capital.
>>1386833
Would a slave be capital.
Don't bother because everyone disagrees on the definition.
What went wrong? How can we take what we learned from their mistakes and prevent a similar situation occurring in South Africa?
Nepothism and race based ecominic politics. Basically thinga just niggers would do.
Anyway, to stop Europe from becoming like that we whites must confiscate the industries from the Jews and lend it out to our friends and relatives as well as give their high ranking jobs to them, should solve everything.
>>1386473
Maybe when a country comes to an internal solution for transition to majority rule, let them do it, rather than forcing literal terrorists into power because of your incredibly frail Foreign Office busybody's ego.
Mugabe was actually a really good President until someone embezzled the fund his party had set up for veterans of the Bush War
The "veterans" then chimped out and demanded gibsmedats, so Mugabe hung white farmers out to try, got rid of the willing buyer, willing seller clause that was part of the land redistribution program, and basically fucked everything up
His response to the problem ruined the country possibly beyond the hope of recovery, but I don't know what I would have done in his situation. If the veterans didn't get their gibsmedats...
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Does the potential exist for the United States of America to break up like the:
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I doubt it.
>>1385383
Listen you fuckwad, the Holy Roman Empire was a sprawling confederation of autonomous communities which nevertheless operated organically under a common helm, you shit. Just because you cannot appreciate a lack of central national identity when bearing in mind a millennia old cohesion to the crown doesn't make you a fucking genius. The Empire was. And it worked. Because people cooperated.
So fuck off.
Not for three,
>United
Might just be enough though, considering the current dive into tribalism
ει συ δυνασαι τουτο αναγιγνωσkειν, αριστος ει.
ει μη, βαρβαρος αισχρος.
Ti;
>>1385382
χαιρε ω φιλε
allahu akbar
How do Russians identify and why? I have been reading some Dostoyevsky and you really get the idea that they see themselves seperatley from those in Europe and Russians living a Euro style were seen as 'bad'.
What are Russians? What do they think of themselves as? Simply Russians? Seperate from everyone else?
>>1385309
>What are Russians?
All modern Russians are a plague on the world
A Russian genocide would, at this point, be a net positive
>>1385309
Slavs who got conquered by vikings
Depending of what Russians. Some would insist that Russia is its own unique thing, a civilization even. Other would prefet to identify themselve as Europeans because of Russian ties with Europe, its political role, common history and shared influence on each other.
Was he right?
Is that the DEA guy from Breaking Bad?
Is that Aleister Crowley?
>>1385109
Very much so