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Why don't we just give Jesus, God etc new names and just leave the Americans to ruin the old stuff?
>>572231
America doesnt have a monopoly on christianity.
Should we use Yahweh and Yeshua for the symmetry, El and Emmanuel, what are we talking here?
>>572231
Good idea in theory, not sure if it's practically applicable.
Any of you know anything about the hanseatic league? I'm curious about their poltical and economical power and how far did it stretch?
>>572042
Novgorod, Bruges. Obviously the influence in itself stretched farther than that, especially in the case of Novgorod where they where the end destination for most of the North West Asian raw materials. No idea if they had any colony or posts on the white sea but I wouldn't be surprised if they did.
I wish to know more as well, it seems they faded over the years in favor of nation states especially Hanover, Prussia and the Netherlands.
cyka blyat
>>572042
They seem like a mix of corporation and a state
What does /his/ think of Alan Watts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkhR9c17ibE
>>571734
I like him. He sounds a little dated when he starts going off talking about the hippy generation or the beatniks... but other than that, he is fun to listen to.
I also like Jiddu Krishnamurti.
What's he all about?
>>572135
Zen Buddhism
Is the Nostratic Theory plausible?
The idea that the majority of languages are all connected doesn't seem so crazy, it could be possible that the coming of a language is a rare occurrence.
As far as I know it seems writing only occured separately in China and Egypt, Egyptian hieroglyphics being the precursor to the most alphabets used today, although I'm probably wrong.
Why isn't more research being done on the Nostratic theory?
>>571531
Writing is an extremely sophisticated concept, it's no surprise it has only emerged a handful of times.
Speech much less so. Lots of animals have some means of speech that they almost instinctively know how to communicate with. Even man has this despite having a much more sophisticated means of speech, since if you start yelling at someone in any language they'll know what's up.
>>571531
writing originates from mesopotamia and it was the cuneiform alphabet, the first known form of writing. if all alphabets originate from it or several alphabets were developed later separately from cufic its possile but writting occured first in mesopotamia.
>>571531
It's rightly considered a fringe theory because it's outside the boundaries of historical linguistics. You can't reconstruct anything as far back as Nostratic would be with the comparative method.
Writing also developed independently in Mesoamerica.
What are some good books about the history of public housing in the US?
>>571250
People's History by Zinn
>>571379
nice meme
>>571379
No.
What can /his/ tell me about the Cristero War?
How accurate is this movie?
>be norteño mexicano
>have family that fought, died, and protected the bishop of Guadalajara during the war
>be a student of history
>dont know jack shit about this
How fucked up am I, /his/?
why isnt this common knowledge?
>>571404
Nobody cares about Latin American history, because there's no chance of a happy ending.
Ok so this may belong to /tv/ if so, sorry
I'm looking for historicaly accurate movies about the discovery of the Americas
It can be about pretty much everything, from the very first travel of Colombus to the western Frontier of the USA, trappers in Canada, the conquistadores...
By historical and accurate I mean either movies depicting actual events or fiction with good reconstitution of the times and places etc
Thanks
Malick's The New World is surprisingly good for accuracy. The Pocahontas/John Smith stuff is all fiction, but most of the rest of the movie is very accurate, especially its depiction of the normal lives of the Jamestown settlers and nearby Native Americans.
>>570970
Black Robe, yo.
>>570970
Apocalypto od pretty solid if you forget the whole Mel Gibson thing.
The main inaccuracy is that it merged some aspects of Aztecs into Mayas and set the plot in the latest Classic period (Actually during the Maya collapse) , which was long before the Spanish arrived.
Did Catholics (particularly those in Hungary and Spain) really consider frequent bathing to be a sinful/Islamic activity?
The Visigoths thought the Roman bathes were degenerate and effeminate, the Spaniards inherited this thought, and the Muslims enjoying the bathes amplified their disdain for it.
Id like to mention that bathing has diminishing returns on sanitation. It agitates the skin and kills your antibodies along with all the germs it kills. Id like to mention that our body also uses several types of germa as mercenaries, mny of which the body contracts slower than it does bacteria.
Id like to mention how important beds are, because they act as a breeding ground for our mercenaries.
Is this a shitty troll thread?
So what caused the decline of Detroit after ww2 and its instability in the 60s? Was it due to the auto industry facing heavy competition from Japan and Germany and later being outsourced to the third world or something else?
1 word: Niggers
>in the 20s and 30s, black people begin leaving the South en masse in search of opportunities in manufacturing centers
>as it turns out, the North is just as racist as the south
>racial tensions lead to a series of riots
>white flight reaches critical mass as the remaining, mostly black and working class, population begins to dominate local politics and vote in incompetent democrats
>automation and globalization reduce the...
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>>569995
>African American Folks
Gimme some books to read to get into history
Pic unrelated
Start with the Greeks.
One must know philosophy to a degree, as history is best understood in the context of the thought of the time.
>>570002
Based, I'll pick those up
The Origins of the Second World War - A.J.P Taylor
Greeks are for fags let's be honest, the real fun is 1707-1991
The enlightenment, the birth of modern philosophy, Colonial wars, the first large scale wars in Europe, the birth of the USA, the collapse of the Spanish Empire, the rise of Napoleon, the age of nationalism, the industrial revolution the shift in the European balance of power, the unification of Italy, the American Civil War, the birth of Germany, the rise of the Japanese Empire, the scramble for Africa, the alliance system WWI, the russian...
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What is more important, the pursuit of knowledge or knowledge itself?
Knowledge itself. You wouldnt need to pursue it if you had it.
Reform your questions along the lines of
>funding better education or research
Wisdom.
>>569666
>you wouldn't need to pursue it if you had it.
But there is joy in learning, and learning gives purpose. If you had all knowledge you would lose joy and purpose. Learning is one of the things we think of as making us human
I know what I said, you just didn't think on it deeply, or maybe you just don't think that is a valid perspective, which is a totally legitimate way of seeing it
Stalin was a good person, his sole saving characteristic is that he wasnt into extravagence. His brutality, such as forcing people to confess to false crimes, was drawn from the american and french revolution.
In the american revolution, counter revolutionaries were sometimes dipped in molten tar and put through feathers as to mold the feathers into their flesh.
Stalin saw lots of ambitious enemies and wanted to avoid being yugoslavia 0.1, so he massacred many people in the name of unification.
Sadly all his plans were for naught, however people assume,...
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I agree op
I disagree.
>Stalin was a ... person
are we living in the most institutionalized era of modern history? Sure feels like it, but we don't have compulsory military.
>>569461
Depends on the country kiddo.
>>569491
oh sorry, i was thinking of the USA. I don't know if it matters to differentiate between western countries. Is there a difference between developed and undeveloped countries?
>>569501
Red in the map shows Concription.
Why is Caesar considered one of the Three Worthy Pagans, along with Lysander and Alexander? What exactly did he do that made him a moral exemplar for Christians to follow? For that matter, what did Lysander and Alexander do besides be good genrrals?
>>569454
They had to be blessed by god, because their doings aren't within the realm of mortals, the reasoning is not important, the lord works in mysterious ways.
Romans confirmed for manlets
>>569532
everyone was a manlet compared to germans back then.
"Frequently we imagine that we are behaving in a particular way because such behaviour accords with some abstract, lofty code of moral principles, when in reality all we are doing is obeying a deeply ingrained and long ‘forgotten’ set of purely imitative impressions.”
― Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape: A Zoologist's Study Of The Human Animal
"It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species of primate, a biological phenomenon dominated by biological rules,...
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A lot of it is pure speculation.
Same goes for anything philosophically related to Darwinism.
The observer attributes to himself qualities of mind that he denies in those he observes, including this 'evolutionary humility'.
>>569417
How can it be pure speculation if it is based on mountains of observations?
>http://homepage.smc.edu/zehr_david/desmond_morris.htm
The book in the OP examines human behavior extremely efficiently. It goes into great detail to show how well and alive the primitive urges are.
>>569455
How does this refute his observations of humans performing many primitive behaviors without being aware of them?
