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What has San Marino done? It's the oldest "country" in the world and yet it doesn't seem to have done anything ever. Genuinely curious.
Micro nations needs to die. It's not fucking 1100 anymore.
>>662782
It's revolt against the Hwan Empire was the first step to the Finno-Korean Hyper War
They keep the old roman consular government system don't they? that's cool, Andorra is the one that hasn't done anything, at least Luxemburg is important
Who was the best military leader of 1795-1815, excluding Napoleon of course
>>662343
Suvorov
>>662361
Is this a meme choice? He's only remembers for not losing to Napoleon at Waterloo
Who was the most powerful world power at precisely 1700?
I know it's one of the big 7, but neither Ottomans nor France could solo their arch rivals, HRE and England respectively.
So who?
>>662179
Probably Spain or England but in a few years it would be France
>>662179
>1400's
Ottomans
>1500's
France
>1600's
Spain
>1700's
France again
>1800's
Britain
>1900's
America
>2000's
China/India (?)
>2100's
Nigeria, Indonesia, Brazil (?)
>>662215
I kinda agree. England was enjoying a winning streak in the late 1600's and early 1700's. However, England won because they chose the right alliances, and France fought wars either alone or with a single ally or two.
I'd consider France, without alliances, to be the greatest power; I don't think any nation would win 1 vs 1 at this moment and that will be true for many, many years ahead.
England is rising at a really fast rate, but it is far from superpower status (England is the...
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Can somebody explain this guy to me?
Why is he a meme on here?
Why was he such a failure?
Why is he included in the list of top ten saddest anime deaths?
>>662004
>Why is he a meme on here?
One person routinely spams this board with posts about him, then posts replies to his own posts to make it seem like Mosley is some sort of hot topic. In addition, this spammer creates numerous pictures of Mosley in an attempt to reinforce the already forced meme.
It's a shame that /pol/-tier memes are being forced on every board.
>>662004
>Can somebody explain this guy to me?
He bought his way into parliament and was unable to handle his own mediocrity.
>Why is he a meme on here?
He's a british fascist.
>Why was he such a failure?
Because the white armies organised to defeat the general strike represented the real spirit of British fascism.
>Why is he included in the list of top ten saddest anime deaths?
Because...
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>>662004
>Can somebody explain this guy to me?
A member of British parliament who never quite could fit in, yet still had the respect of his peers. During his career he originally was elected as a Conservative, before a brief flirtation with Liberalism, eventually sitting with the Labour party becoming an early advocate of Keynesian economics. When his party was elected to government in 1929 he was given a titular ministerial position, but with responsibility for unemployment. He eventually fell into conflict with his seniors in the cabinet who rejected his policies of mass public works to decrease unemployment and bring profit over time repeatedly, resigning his position in 1930. He finally left the party on 1931 when his policies were rejected narrowly by the national party convention, taking 6 other members of parliament with him to a form a new party, the 'New Party'. After an opportunity to visit Mussolini in 1931 he believed that the only future was fascism, and set about creating his own model of British fscism, renaming his movement the British Union of Fascists, the moment his career died. Mosley's own policies slowly became neglected in his own movement, with members of the old British fascistii becoming the dominant force by 1934 along with future splitters, and the party which had slowly began to grow and had some press support, lost all credibility with the increasing opposition to fascism abrosd, and antisemitism being brought to the table, but he never left and remained as leader until the end when he was imprisoned in 1940. By the end of WWII he was nothing more than an old establishment voice that the new far right used to announce their policies, after two failed attempts to run for parliament again in the 1960s he left Britain for the final time to live out his years suffering from Parksinsons, dying aged 84 in 1980.
A man who wanted what he saw as the best for his country, who destroyed his career and reputation in the process.
Was there ever a society or nation in history in which pedophilia was socially acceptable?
>>660949
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_pederasty
not sure but maybe denmark or netherland.
Tell me about the pre-Indo-European people of Europe.
Wasn't Otzi stabbed to death?
>>660839
Check the Basques and the proposed 'Vasconic' languages. My question is whether the Picts are a non-IE group?
they predated the Celts and were eventually Celticized. Perhaps Basques are distant relatives.
We don't know a hell of a lot for certain--there are a lot of interesting data points but a lot that we can't reach firm conclusions about.
We know that agriculture was not an indigenous development; it spread to Europe through a major wave of migration from Anatolia. Oetzi was a representative member of this farmer population; Sardinians are the closest population today, though not as representative as is sometimes suggested.
We don't really know the origins of the Vasconic or Tyrsenian language families. Vasconic could be indigenous or could be from the...
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What civilization or nation has experienced the most stereotypically apocalyptic societal collapse in history? Please describe accounts/descriptions from primary sources or historians if possible.
For example, here is a British officer and historian Stanley Casson describing the post-WWI collapse of law and order that he witnessed in Istanbul:
>…the Allied troops…found a city that was dead. The Turkish government had just ceased to function. The electrical supply had failed and was intermittent. Tramways did not work and abandoned trams littered...
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>I shudder when I think of the catastrophes of our time. For twenty years and more the blood of Romans has been shed daily between Constantinople and the Julian Alps. Scythia, Thrace, Macedonia, Dardania, Dacia, Thessaly, Achaia, Epirus, Dalmatia, the Pannonias— each and all of these have been sacked and pillaged and plundered by Goths and Sarmatians, Quades and Alans, Huns and Vandals and Marchmen. How many of God's matrons and virgins, virtuous and noble ladies, have been made the sport of these brutes!
>The...
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>>662666
Nice JUST eyes 2bh Satan.
>>660836
That sounds like a libertarian paradise come true.
But seriously, I think that, if you go for a more long-term kind of apocalyptic end of civilization, I think the late bronze age crisis is the worst: civilizations in the balkans, anatolia and the levant ceased to exist in a period of a hundred years. Among this you have volcanoes, destruction o crops and bands of pirates, mercenaries and raiders roaming the Mediterranean looking for something to loot. The only civilization that barely survived were the egyptians,but...
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What happened to the Phoenicians?
>>660661
They mixed with Iberians and together molded the modern Spaniard.
conquered by Persia, conquered by Macedon, and later finished off by Rome.
Though that isn't to say it was a weak society, Carthage is arguably Rome's most powerful challenge in their rise to power, with Carthage trading blow for blow and lasting 100 years against them.
But yeah in the end they lost to simple conquest, as most nations did.
>>660699
Also they weren't as Militaristic and didn't take the Punic War as seriously as the Romans did, The Fact that The Cathagians reached Italy Made the Romans fanatics while many in Carthage went out to hinder the efforts for their own political Gains
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqzq01i2O3U
Is he right, /his/?
>PragerU
>start of the renaissance in the 15th century
>15th century
>
>>660378
The guy talks about high middle ages, where West discovered (from arabs and greeks) a lot of the lost works.
He could try to make an argument with Caralus Magnus, but I think just using High-Late Middle ages to refute dark age meme is a bad sport.
Saying this as a PhD fag who doesn't believe in the dark ages meme.
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Whats the most important city in history ?
>>659646
Culturally speaking:
>Europe
Rome
Athens
Constantinople/Istanbul
>Middle East
Jerusalem.
Mecca
>Southern Asia
????
>East Asia
Chang'an
Kyoto
>Southeast Asia
Angkor Thom
Whatever founded the Sri Vijaya.
>>659646
Atlantis
>>659654
>Europe
Paris
Paris
Paris
E-Egyptian was a white civilization.
>>658025
WE
>>658025
WUZ
KANGZ
I have a question for the atheists of /his/. Oftentimes when I talk to my atheist friends about why they don't believe in a a god they'll say that there is no proof for one's existience. However, by this logic atheism is just as invalid as theism because there's no proof that a diety doesn't exist either. Can any atheists give me a non-meme response here?
>>657465
>there's no proof that a diety (deity*) doesn't exist either
So I could accuse you of murder, and the court would have no choice but to indict you because there's no evidence saying you didn't do it.
I'm an atheist because the idea of god is obviously just a product of human psychology, and it's foolish to consider the existence of every impossible thing that anyone on earth has ever imagined.
God's already been established here: >>637821
Atheists have offered no equivalent evidence that there is no God.
If you wind history back to 1921 and run it again in every way that it could play out, in what percentage of the resulting timelines would the USSR collapse in the late 80's / early 90's as it did in ours? What percentage has it collapse earlier?
What fraction of timelines have it survive to the present day?
And in what fraction does it survive and have a successful economy in the present day? Reminder that posting zero for any of the answers is mathematically ridiculous, given that there would be practically infinite timelines.
>>656568
Calling it now: the world gets fucked by nukes in at least half of the timelines.
>>656568
I just can pull the numbers out of my ass so see them more as tendencies. It is important to evaluate the factors that lead to decline and or success:
1) Collapse as in OTL: I dunno, maybe 35%. In my oppinion the soviets were pretty stable and avoided beeing captured by the nazis or nuclear war. So i guess early 90s/ late 80s are already pretty successfull outcomings for the soviets.
Earlier collapse: 45%
Collapse before ww2 due to internal power struggle after lenins death or western intervention or whatnot.
No help, wrong strategical decisions etc. leading to defeat by the nazis.
Thermonuclear/conventional war leading to collapse of the udssr.
The arms race is more extrem then OTL so slightly earlier collapse due to economic situation, same goes for another war before/parallel to afghanistan.
Dragging on till today without satellite states 10%:
Hardliner remove Gorbatshev or prevent his rise to power. The economy is still fucked up but due to oppression the soviets hold on to the core terriotry of the udssr. Backwater nation not a superpower but a great power due to huge but outdated military and nuclear weapons.
Surviving till today with satellites 5%:
Same as above but with massive opression in some or all satellites. Low chance due to the sorry state the soviets were in in 89.
Economically successfull and surviving till today maybe 5%.
Low chance due to nature of the soviet system and the cold war that will happen in most timelines if the soviets win ww2 and are able to secure a sphere of influence. To enable a economically successfull there ae 2-3 things that could happen in some timelines:
1. A not so convinving victory in ww2. The soviets are only able to regain their own territory in ww2 evtl. without the baltic states and east poland. Without its own bloc the soviets don´t start the cold war and slowly transition to a more capitalist society after stalins death.
2. The NEP pulls through, the soviets become more and more capitalist 1/2
> for vast vast majority of evolutionary history sapians are in small bands with strict egalitarian resources distribution and communal raising of children
> monogamous partnerships a result of agriculture and for most of recorded history purely contractual and primarily about property/ trade agreements.
> agriculture has only existed for 12,000 years a fucking blip of a nothing on an evolutionary scale
> memers on the interwebs using cuck as their most...
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>>655571
>tfw no gf
>for vast vast majority of evolutionary history sapians are in small bands with strict egalitarian resources distribution and communal raising of children
This is often stated as a fact, but i've never seen any convincing proof or logical reasoning why it would have been so.
>>655601
Most if not all immediate return foragers that have been studied fall into this category.
Also bonobos and general stuff extrapolated from our penis and testy size as well as facts about female sexuality relative to other primates.
Is there anything wrong with secular humanism?
https://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php/3260
>humanism
>>655551
That doesn't really illustrate a problem.
>>655547
I only ever see these people define themselves by what they are NOT, as if the logical conclusion is that they are everything else.
Saying, "I'm not stupid," does not make you smart.
