I'm always facinated to hear about tactics, equipment and units used later or earlier then you'd generally expect.
Pic is French Cuirassiers in 1914, the French quickly learned that WWI was a new kind of war
Polish cavalry used in WW2, equipped with spears
>>1384982
>spears
>>1384966
Germans had cuirassiers as well you dumb memester.
>"On December 31st, 1899, the continents of the world miraculously rearrange themselves into the original Pangaea supercontinent."
How would the 20th century have changed?
Extinction
>>1384704
Everything becomes a desert and everyone dies
Let's check climatic map.
It will never work senpai
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlGWzAaR03Q
I am sure it would work next time.
Let's start the new revolution to check this out!
Who cares. They aren't communists because it "works", they are communists because it serves the political intererests of the intelligentsia.
>>1384599
>I base my political and economic ideas off of TV shows
eric dood. simbly eric.
Which other civilization ( besides the Vikings and Columbus ) do you think has made the Atlantic or Pacific cross before?
HOL UP
*builds ship*
SO YOU BE SAYIN
*is master navigator*
AIGHT
*reads the stars*
SO WHAT YOU BE SAYIN IS
*reaches the new world centuries before Columbus*
SO HOL UP
*creates trans-atlantic empire*
WHAT YOU BE SAYIN IS
*teaches Mesoamericans how to build pyramids*
WE WUZ EXPLORERS N SHIET?
>>1384346
This meme was never funny
>tfw behind the Roman hoax but our plantings didn't even attract that much media attention, nevermind on here
I get nightmares about the reveal.
Rate this meme
change muslim to Ishmaelite, Agarene, Sarkalander, Saracen, etc. and it's breddy ok fella
>crusaders
>successful
>>1384081
DEUS VULT thread?
History is fun. Archaeology is fun. Can't quite get my finger on what the practical value of either of those are, though. How is studying any of these useful in life? What can you achieve through studying either of these as anything more than just a hobby?
I want to go out in the field and lab, go for a degree in archaeology. Being able to piece together history interests me greatly. However, the above mindset keeps haunting me and it's demotivating as fuck. Wherever I look on- or offline, the McDegree meme pops up.
Is there any reason to not turn law...
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>>1384064
And how is that of any use?
it is fun and a sizeable number of people find it to be interesting
why do you need something to have inherent 'value'? Law sounds dry as fuck and possible route to an hero if you don't have any true passion for it
>>1384064
If you find them as ends unto themselves that they have value and if you find that their value is greater than the opportunity cost in the material or sentimental benefits in some other field, yeah sure go into history or archaeology. Just understand that doing it for material reasons is misguided.
this is probably the most active christian debater of our time
i often hear people accusing him of sophistry and of the usage of "tricks"
even as an atheist i have the impression that this guy honestly tries to argue for gods existence from the standpoint of philosophy even if i think hes wrong
could someome come up with an example of him being intentionally dishonest or using other dishonest tricks to sound persuasive ?
you can also bring up general dishonest tricks that other apologists might use to convince people
>>1384034
No, because he doesn't need to. The position that there is no God is inherently indefensible.
>>1384034
Example of cognitive dissonance:
>1) Objective morality exists (some things are just *wrong*). This proves God's existence.
>2) God can kill children in the OT because morality can change on God's whim.
His ideology is Divine Command theory to explain Biblical atrocity, but he still argues that morality has an objective purpose whenever he tries to argue for God's existence in stand alone.
>>1384034
He says you can't bring up the OT when arguing for the existence of God, but he does use the possibility of Jesus's resurrection to argue for God's existence. If you bring up how blatantly incorrect the OT is, the NT fails by default, so it doesn't matter how believable the resurrection story is on its own, if you can prove the set-up was a fable.
>Go to philosophy class.
>"Today we are going to discuss Schitzgenbauer's theory of reality"
>"Schitzgenbauer believed reality was not real and that there was no way to know that it was not real"
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>continental philosophy
Not even once
>>1383938
>supposing philosophies can be "right"
>>1383938
>I can't intuitively grasp what they're talking about so it must be sophistry, like me on twitter
How did immigration work in pre-modern times? Was it common? Was it regulated?
Usually involved massive migrations of entire populations due to environmental factors, rather than the choices of individuals deciding to move to another place for the sake of a better life.
See "wandering of the peoples", otherwise known as Europe's migratory period.
Where, and when? There are differences between time periods and regions, as in everything. How often people took shit before today would be equally intelligent question
Yes, it was heavily regulated. There was no welfare system other than the church and so you had to work for a living while paying a shit ton of taxes to the government. I can imagine immigrants and dindu gypsies that didn't pay taxes were probably beheaded
What if generals like Manstein and Rommel were given more credit simply because of their strong opposition with Hitler?
What if the invasion of France was not actually created by Manstein?
What if Hitler's closest generals such as Keitel and Jodl actually contributed a lot more than we were told?
What if OKW had internal issues because of the more popular generals? Maybe because of their Prussian military tradition, they were just too stubborn get over Hitler's low military rank and could never respect good ideas, causing them to undermine him...
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>>1383812
Your premise is wrong.
Rommel was Hitler's boy toy.
>>1383898
He was a favorite when he was assigned and then pushing in Africa, but Rommel fell out of favor after his retreat and he was reassigned to the backseat as the war went on. In no way was he Hitler's boy toy.
>>1383975
>backseat
Is that how people say field marshal nowadays?
Can someone tell me about or recommend some good reading on these? I've always been very fascinated by them.
Besides pic related.
ergot
>>1383815
>le ergot meme
get out you nigger
>>1383782
https://archive.org/stream/historyofwitchcr015641mbp/historyofwitchcr015641mbp_djvu.txt
https://www.amazon.com/Scottish-Witch-Hunt-Context-Julian-Goodare/dp/0719060249
Fuckload of trial transcriptions here:
http://www.witchtrials.co.uk/
My Cunning Craft archive has some historical and academic material alongside Cultus Sabbati publications:
https://mega.nz/#F!hUAiHTSK!7zcl8cs3IhCd5QqEOCmrPg
Same with the Euro file, though there's some overlap and what's in here is mixed in...
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Which historical figure has the best epithet?
Napoleon, the horse-thief of Berlin
Julius Caesar, Queen of Bithynia
Saint James the Moor-slayer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_James_Matamoros
Hey /his/,
Lets get a historical music thread going! No limits, just give your favourite music from history, the location, time period and language (it doesn't have to be in English).
Have fun guys, I look forward to what you contribute!
>>1383390
Music is such an interesting medium of art because of it's tendency to be personified through the subcultures that are typically borne or associated with their respective genres. Also interesting is how people tend to analogue certain periods of time with music (through and American perspective: 20's and 30's were swing music, 50's and 60's were elvis-esque, the 70's was funk, to the general public anything "historical" was classical music, etc.).
Obviously there were probably...
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3X9LvC9WkkQ
>>1383476
>the 70's was funk
No, the 70's was disco.
>"In 149 BC, Rome declared war against Carthage. The Carthaginians made a series of attempts to appease Rome, and received a promise that if three hundred children of well-born Carthaginians were sent as hostages to Rome the Carthaginians would keep the rights to their land and self-government. Even after this was done the allied Punic city of Utica defected to Rome, and a Roman army of 80,000 men gathered there.[1] The consuls then demanded that Carthage hand over all weapons and armour. After those had been handed over, Rome additionally demanded...
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>>1383184
Well they probably figured they were going to have to submit to Rome so they gave up the weapons
>>1383208
Rome was becoming a juggernaut at the time but given their history, it just doesn't logically make sense.
Would Hannibal have submitted to these demands?
>>1383184
>Given how negotiation went after the first Punic War, how could the Carthaginians possibly think that giving up their weapons was a good idea?
That decision was probably made by wealthy people that could afford to hire personal security detachments to carry weapons to defend them, and their property.
When you're rich, who gives a shit about defending yourself when you can just pay somebody to do it? Who gives a fuck about "your" city, or even "your"...
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/his/ tell me about this place in 1000AD.
HARMODE: you can't talk about norsemen
>>1383130
Stupid thread.
>Big Plains in eastern europe
>northern europe tundra and forest, with a large mountain chain running through the scandi peninsula.
>Pagans?
Everything north of Stockholm was Finnish.
>>1383151
sapmi*