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I have heard that art and architecture in the Eastern Roman Empire somewhat stagnated, turning into
>Rectangle
>Arches
>Rectangle
>Arches
>Golden rectangle
>Maybe a dome
And that when the Ottomans came and conquered it, combined with their own, Persian, and Moorish designers, engineers and architects, really breathed in new life...
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namefagging for duration of the thread for practical purposes
>>667637
Now I don;t know much about the ins and outs of Islam, but I noticed a decrease in quality, focus on aesthetics, and workmanship in their designs since 1700.
Shooting out some speculations here, feel free to shoot down which is wrong
>1. Cohesion
As Islam was relatively new, it still has novel peoples, lands, and styles to conquer and incorporate as their own, from Persia, to North Africa, to Asia Minor to...
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>>667662
I can't exactly go to the KSA today and start painting colorful murals, build modernist buildings, and go half-naked.
>3. Practicality
Much like how classical sculpture was funded through long-term patronage of the rich elite, and popes and rulers could commission great buildings and works of art through a very controlled means of gaining revenue on one end, and a geyser of spending for pet projects on the other, that wouldn't fly today, as people would riot against their...
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>inb4 turkroaches giv bajk constantinopl
You can't have a proper discussion here about Balkans, Eastern Europe or Ottomans due to Slavic and Turkic shitposters.
were women just disgusting back then or what? were they all fat , hairy, and smelly?
>>667605
Most of them are like that even today
sort of, but it gets greatly exaggerated
there definitely at least existed beautiful women who bathed regularly
Neo-paganism is good if you want a beta male equivalent of a harem following and worshipping you. Emphasis in neo.
![Medieval-Torture-Instruments[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/zkkZgVd.jpg "Medieval-Torture-Instruments[1].jpg")
Why in the fuck did Europeans need so many torture devices? What was it with Europeans and their love of senseless violence?
>>667550
Why don't you go ask ISIS, seeing as how they've switched places with 15th century Europe for the time being.
>Medieval-Torture-Instruments
>includes the fucking iron maiden
I can see why people on /his/ like to shit on the Renaissance and Early Modern period so much, because it has such a better reputation than the Medieval period yet a lot of the shit that gets dumped in the 'myth-that-Medieval-Europe-was-horrible' pile deserves to be dumped in the Renaissance/Early Modern pile, even though I love both periods.
Possibly the most cruelest period of European history apart from the 20th century would have...
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>>667550
Waterboarding hadn't been developed.
Torture was primarily about either
a) Showing the implements (which got results)
or
b) Public demonstrations
In the case of b) why not be theatrical?
What is the nature of the unobserved world? In what way does it exist?
So what I mean is does it exist in some physical form? Or perhaps it just exists as a sort of function of language ('the engine under the hood' relates to discourse, right?)? Or does it exists as a sort of expectation of one thinks they will experience (such as the expectation of seeing a cup when you open the cupboard)? Or it just doesn't exist at all (what forest?!)?
The unobserved world is things like the forest when nobody is around. What exist in cupboards, beyond walls,...
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It always exists because God always watches over it.
No one has ever refuted Berkeley and no one ever will. Move along nothing to see here.
>What is the nature of the unobserved world?
We don't know
What is "human nature"?
>>666866
A thought-terminating cliche.
>>666866
A sign that you've done no reading before posting.
>>666866
To worship God.
What if China at it's peak continually expanded it's borders in a southern direction conquering all of SE Asia and established colonies in Australia?
I don't really see why they could not have achieved this given their population, superiority to everyone within the region and their maritime prowess.
cultural limitations
China only tried to conquer similar cultures
that is they have already accepted chinese culture in bureaucracy (koreans vietnamese etc)
beyond that they never tried and never thought they needed to as long as they paid proper tribute
That isn't really the Chinese mindset.
You're talking about a very insular, ordnung kind of people.
Besides, controlling China itself was such a difficult administrative and political task that Chinese governments routinely fail at it.
>>666818
>I don't really see why they could not have achieved this given their population, superiority to everyone within the region and their maritime prowess.
Because throughout most of Chinese history, you've seen what are basically colonization efforts in what we think of as china today. I mean, look at it, geographically, China is fucking huge. And the Han people really only originally were a group around the Yellow River. It took ages and ages to really sinoify (is that...
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So /his/, does anybody know any good books on the Inca civilization??? I really don't care about Spain's arrival. I'm more interested in their culture, religions, and their daily life.
>Also, general North/South American Native Empire/tribe information
Machu Picchu, Unveiling the Mystery of the Incas
The Incas and their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru
Obligatory thread music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2PW0XS7thU
>>666986
>not this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8oSeGFOs-M
An introduction to Individual Philosophy, by means of the spoken or written word, is an interpretation, a particular human being according to the particular experience of that being.
A speaker or writer makes a particular interpretation born of his particular experience, translating that experience into words as best he can.
The listener or reader makes a particular interpretation of the original interpretation according to his particular experience.
At the level of sensory perceived objects, those particular interpretations, for the purpose of communication...
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Consciousness cannot be defined nor described because it does not have the properties and limitations of a sensorily perceived object . It is not possible to describe what consciousness is. All confusion in philosophy and religion is due one adopting the interpretation of another, forgetting the interpretation of another, forgetting that every experience of the indefinable and indescribable cannot be conveyed by the spoken and written word.
The fact that the forms of religion and philosophy are only interpretations tends to be forgotten; the maintenance, propagation and...
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For, at the level of bread', there are other people; at the level of consciousness', there are no other people. There are many loaves of bread and many people; but how many consciousnesses are there ?
At a level other than that of the senorily perceived world one person cannot be said truthfully to comprehend the experience of another. Two person cannot be in the same place simultaneously.
Particular speaks to particular. a part to a part; the individual, that which cannot be divided, cannot speak to another because He is One and Alone, All-One.
Can...
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For it is not until a man begins to observe his own experience, free from indiscriminately acquired assumptions, that he can realize what is undeniable.
Words lead the mind into ignorance; they also have the power to demonstrate that ignorance. The mins led out of ingnorance dis-covers Truth.
In beggining was the Word. The Truth is before the beginning that which speaks the word in the first place.
Ultimately, a person can only discover what is undeniable through observation of his own experience, each person's experience telling him precisely what he needs...
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I've thought linguistics is really interesting for a long time. I know some basic concepts and I've taken foreign language classes before but I kind of want to dive deeper. I got a book on it once as a gift but it was super dry and way over my head. Does anyone have suggestions for how start learning about it?
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bump for interest
>>666042
"The Mother Tongue" by Bill Bryson isn't exactly a linguistics book, but it introduces a lot of the basic concepts without getting technical. It's by no means even a real linguistics book, but it is a very entertaining and not-dry read.
Be warned, though. "Pure" linguistics isn't super history-based. It has a lot to do with biology, psychology, and sociology, as well as an analytical view of language itself.
If you're looking for a textbook, "Language Files",...
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>>667295
>"The Mother Tongue" by Bill Bryson isn't exactly a linguistics book, but it introduces a lot of the basic concepts without getting technical. It's by no means even a real linguistics book, but it is a very entertaining and not-dry read.
thanks
>Be warned, though. "Pure" linguistics isn't super history-based. It has a lot to do with biology, psychology, and sociology, as well as an analytical view of language itself.
I...
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What's your opinion on the Swedish Empire?
Was it's decline all for the best?
I'm a swede myself, so I'm biased as fuck, but I would like to hear your opinion
>>665901
The Swedes had an empire?
I like Swedish girls, does that count?
>>665916
>>665925
Post armor
>>665218
Post armour is pike and shot.
Any onion suits?
>>665233
Cute
Also, what the hell is this thing? Was this actually used?
post God-tier Gods
>>664868
looks like an ass
>>664868
Do psychedelics have a real place in religion?
Or is it all just a crock of shit.
420noskope religion endorses it.
>>664815
That depends entirely on the religion.
Some religions, especially in the pre-European Western hemisphere, employed a variety of mind-altering substances in their rituals for their "spirit quests" and so forth.
So yes, they have had a real place in more than a few religions in the past.
The place where everyone fucks up with psychedelics is when you start looking to them as the end result instead of as tools to shake you out of your comfort zone and make you reexamine old ground. When you start analyzing them in and of themselves, they are as so many people believe, "a crock of shit". This is also why their biggest advocates are so annoying, and most of the time they're wrong.
Think of it this way: Neil Armstrong was famously quoted for saying, "It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my...
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How did the French manage to lose the Algerian war?
>>664521
way to brutal in their methods that the populace couldn't support it
>>664521
They're French
>>664521
Guerrilla warfare and growing international/domestic condemnation
Hey /his/torians.
Some of you are weird and misguided, but I just want to say thanks for being the best board around. You're not pretentious like /lit/ and you succinctly and effectively btfo /pol/ every time they appear.
It's nice to have a board with reasonable discussions.
>>663948
Glad to have you friend.
>>663948
Yeah I don't really contribute much, but I like reading everything.
>>663948
Yeah. Was getting real tired of /pol/'s shit, desu. Before it was /pol/, /k/ and /lit/, in that order. Now it's /his/ all the way. Thanks guys
