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I remember hearing the amazing stories from my anthropology profs about how Milton Friedman flew over Chile in a jet bought for him by Ronald Reagan, parachuted into the capital, and raged hard throughout the city, indiscriminately snapping the necks of every Chilean woman and child to cross his path of mayhem. Friedman's evil rampage prevented the nascent communist grassroots movement, which was almost as popular with the Chilean people as it was with American humanities professors, from reaching fruition. This was a tragedy of epic proportions because the command and...
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>>590977
09. 11.
never forget
P good senpai.
What are folks' thoughts on a negative income tax?
>>590977
dubs for truth
this is a sad one
>>590956
could I get some castro in america pics? I had a source once but I lost the link.
Map from 1854 about the highest mountains and longest rivers
What if...
POO
Up the RA senpai
>>590867
>being a dumb /pol/ poster that can't tell the difference between the Indian flag and the Irish flag.
In every depiction of society from the middle ages and Renaissance the first thing you notice is colorful clothes, banners, ornaments, architecture and all that. Then sometimes around the 19th century it all seems to be painted in different shades of grey and black; clothes are dark, buildings are minimalist and functional, etc. How did this happen? Is the industrial revolution responsible for it? Capitalism? Nationalism? Simple change in taste? Why is modernity so dark and monochromatic bros?
>Germany becomes relevant
>no fun allowed
Nietzsche has a good bit about it in Antichrist
>>590825
I would say it is earlier than the 19th Century and probably has to do with the Reformation and the austere aesthestics of Calvinists and Lutherans and such like.
more and more emphasis on realism
That painting is so colourful because it isn't a real thing that happened.
*freezeframe*
"WHOA!"
"You ever have one of those moments, where you think how did I get here?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZYgIrqELFw
Why does /his/ have the worst memes?
>>590672
I dont even got them most of time.
>>590681
Teen movies do this sometimes. Most memes seen to originate from /pol/ or /int/. The "searching for the honest man" and "building the world's greatest empire" were alright but nothing dabk yet.
Could we talk about history of Japan a bit?
Could someone explain the samurai thing to me in detail. So basically, the warrior caste became bureaucrats, and during that time the whole bushido and honor became a thing because they swung only for practice and needed to justify their existence?
Another question about a later time:
In the late 18th century, so there all these super-patriots who had different views on how to conquer everything. Is this sort of factionalism where the really dysfunctional relationship between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Ground...
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What was Nobunaga doing between Okehamaza (1560) and conquering Inabayama Castle (1567)? Did he just fight the Saito all the time?
>>590638
>Is this sort of factionalism where the really dysfunctional relationship between the Imperial Japanese Navy and the Ground forces comes from?
No, that developed later, in the late 19th/early 20th Century. If we're talking about the massive difference in capability between the IJN and IJA during WWII, that arose mostly out of logistical politicking. The IJN wanted all the best resources in order to counter the quantitative advantage the US Navy held, because the IJN's strategic...
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>get saved from mongols via ocean luck
>Lose against Korea in the same way the mongols lost against Japan in a rash, poorly-planned naval invasion.
>Get butthurt and go all isolationist
>revel in shit for hundreds of years until America blasts its way into their harbour with ironclads and forces trade.
>creates america:asia edition
>Proceed to follow the same historical path that the United...
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We hear all about things introduced to Europe from the ME, but what are some parts of modern Arab culture that were introduced by the Ptolemies, or Alexander's army, or the Byzantines?
>>590599
Arches and domes were a byzantine thing before it was incorporated into Islamic architecture
Bathouses
Hellenic Philosophy
>Which Native American tribe or band produced the best or most fierce warriors and why was it the Comanche?
>Why is life so shitty on modern reservations?
>Which Tribe/Bands have the most interesting history/mythology/culture?
Also Native American/First Nations history general?
Apache probably
>most fierce
/his/ everybody
>Why is life so shitty on modern reservations?
Poverty, lack of education, environmental degredation, drugs, corruption.
>Which Tribe/Bands have the most interesting history/mythology/culture?
Shoshone have water babies and gremlins, which are sketchy as fuck when out in the desert at night.
You have to love whatever your local tribe thought of because so often it is so specific to the area you live in. Makes it more interesting.
Iroquois Confederacy, not just because they chose the right side in the Revolutionary war
What are the origins of the idea of evolution?
inb4 fundie bullshit
>>590519
it stems from the observation that men having the most offspring have the biggest penis.
>>590519
>inb4 fundie bullshit
Oh look, somebody calling religion out.
When are we starting to call out atheists?
For starters they were talking some shit about sum bosom of sum Higgs proving there was no God.
And no matter how hard you read on physics the fucking boson is only good to explain that there is a field present in the particles that have matter.
It doesn't prove or disprove shit -apart from this field-.
So yeah, how come we are letting atheists...
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>>590519
Islands, and tiny birds.
The birds on the big nut island had big beaks, and the small nut island had small beaks.
Or, the similarities in bones of all animals and humans.
Do you read primary sources?
If not, why are you browsing both Reddit and 4chan?
Who are the best Roman historians? Loved Herodotus, digging Thucydides, plan on checking out Adrian and Tacitus and now Polybius. Am I missing anyone
>>590506
Check out Plutarch, Caesar, Suetonius, Livy, Josephus, Xenophon, Sallust, Xenophon
>>590912
Thank you.
Why is every fucking European flag always "LOL 3 COLORED BARS" when Europe has such a rich history and tradition of heraldry to draw from? Its strange.
France should have the fleur de lis. Instead? LOL 3 BARS
Ireland should have the Dublin harp on their flag. Instead? LOL 3 BARS
Look at Lithunia's bad-ass heraldry NOPE 3 BARS FOR YOU!!
Why do Europeans do this????
I asked /pol/ and got "da j00s" so I thought y'all could explain
Thanks
>>590448
Then, you already got your reply.
The US has the tackiest flag, not even trying to troll. CSA is god-tier, Angola a close second.
>>590448
Because you need to be able to recognize your country's standard from a distance regardless of atmospheric conditions like fog, rain, or smoke.
Plus, adding all sorts of small detail to a flag instead of bold symbolism is shit design.
https://www.ted.com/talks/roman_mars_why_city_flags_may_be_the_worst_designed_thing_you_ve_never_noticed?language=en
Which Anglo-Saxon kingdom in the heptarchy was thes best? Which was your favorite? Why?
Also, what are some good historical reading materials concerning the Anglo-Saxons and the Heptarchy?
>>590416
>the best
I think the power as centuries goes on is Northumbria > Mercia > Wessex. Penda(Mercia?) is a pretty cool guy, kills a bunch of Bede's favourite christian kings and doesn't afraid of everything.
Wessex rises to the top because Alfred's dad manages to kill all the aethelings(individuals considered king-worthy and therefore a threat to the king) which means his kingdom is a lot more stable when the vikings come rolling in.
>>590416
>good historical reading materials
Anything by James Campbell is a good start. One argument you should be aware of when reading about Anglo-Saxons is that a lot of the big historians(Campbell included) argue that the Anglo-Saxons ruled a pretty complex state for their time, but IMO they put too much emphasis on the good qualities of the anglo-saxon state because it's their field of study. Paul R. Hyams challenges this point of view pretty well in his book 'Rancour and reconciliation'.
>>590441
>Rancor and Reconciliation
Do you have a torrent for that? Can't seem to find any way to read it.
Is Nixon on of the most underrated among US presidents?
We've yet enough time to evaluate him properly.
The most underrated presidents are the ones like JQ Adams, Polk, Grant, Arthur, McKinley, the ones most know nothing about
>>590947
>Polk
He's one of the most underrated; Nixon's legacy is unfortunately overshadowed by Watergate
/his/
What if the South had won the American civil war?
>>590268
Maybe we'd get less shitty threads
>>590268
Confederacy achieves independence
Keeps its slaves and probably ends up like Brazil
Nation of rednecks and South African tier demographics
Any good books/movies on 20th century Ethiopia? Pic related, it's Balcha Safo.
>Random peasant soldier
>Castrated and left for dead on a battlefield
>The emperor just happens to find him and take a liking to him
>Given an education (his name literally means "tamed")
>Turns out he's a military genius
>Helps drive the Italians out of Italy
>He's...
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>>590191
Had no idea the Ethiopians invaded Italy, thanks OP.
>>590201
I've been up for 24 hours fuck
>>590191
>Implying it takes a military genius to drive Italy out of anywhere
