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Hi "friends". I have about 3 hours until a history project is due, and I need to know what immigrations occurred in Canada during the time period of 1850/1867.
The indians came to Canada and buttraped everyone
Nypa faggot
Immigration in canada? I'm glad I don't live there so I don't have to write about stupid shit like that
Does anyone think its possible to achieve transcendance through war? If anything, Ernst Jünger's experience is a glaring example. Evola also wrote of it.
The /lit/his/ WAR STARTER PACK
The Iliad - Homer
The Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
Storm of Steel - Ernst Junger
Goodbye to All That - Robert Graves
The Raid, War and Peace - Tolstoy
Alcibiades I - Plato
The Bhagavad Gita
>>568987
TRANSCENDENCE —OF THE WORLD— CAN BE ACHIEVED EITHER VIA WAR, OR VIA PEACE, THE LATTER NECESSARILY ENTAILING THE FORMER, BUT THE FORMER NOT NECESSARILY RESOLVING IN THE LATTER.
WAR WITHOUT THE PURPOSE OF TRANSCENDENCE IS MERE BRUTISH BELLIGERENCE, RATHER MARTIAL STRUGGLE, AND PEACE WITHOUT THE PURPOSE OF TRANSCENDENCE IS MERE CONTENTED PACIFISM, RATHER THAN INTROSPECTIVE SERENITY, AND AS SUCH, WAR, AND PEACE, BECOME DEVICES FOR FURTHER IMMERSION IN THE WORLD, RATHER THAN MEDIA FOR TRANSCENDING IT.
Ob fucking liga fucking tory
What does /his/ think of Cornel West? I caught him on Bill Maher the other night, he seems like a pretty interesting dude.
Garden variety race baiter and sophist.
A lack of responsibility is what has held us back. Taking agency away from ourselves and blaming every single fault and flaw on some all encompassing White boogeyman has done our people no good and continuing to do it will not fix anything. The man doesn't give a shit about African Americans, only his pocket book.
He seems like a nice guy, but he's not much of a philosopher.
>>568871
I like Thomas Sowell better
>Tu eres muy frijolero
What did he mean by this?
>>568790
"I am very cold, please fetch me a blanket."
>>568790
Tu->You
eres->are
muy->big
frijolero->faggot
"OP is a big faggot"
>>568790
>>Tu eres muy frijolero
Para ti
Before we start, I am new to this board, so if what I'm saying sounds stupid, please forgive me.
I am looking for a "complete" history book(if there is such one).
One that covers everything from the start of human kind until today.
I just feel that my history knowledge is trash and I want to learn more.
Do you have anything to suggest me?
Uh book like that would be thousands and thousands of pages long.
First you need to know from which perspective you want to view the world. Generally you can divide it into the European perspective, the Middle-eastern or the Chinese (and maybe Japanese) perspective.
The Bible.
>>568467
To cover the entire history of humanity you would need at least three books to cover hunting and gathering to the agricultural revolution to civilization, globalisation and industrialization.
I'd recommend reading Guns, Germs and Steel.
Who really settled America before Clovis?
I personally believe that the pre Clovis culture 50,000 BCE was probably part of the second wave out of Africa which first colonised Arabia, India, Southeast Asia and Australia. The group left Africa 60,000 years ago and rapidly reached Australia 40,000 years ago, so it's not much of a stretch to assume that one group travelled North along the Asian Pacific coast and across the Bering strait. We know that the group which colonised Australia had basic canoe technology because they colonised Australia. I would assume that the...
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>>568396
No amateur anthropologists?
>>568396
>We know that the group which colonised Australia had basic canoe technology because they colonised Australia.
Very basic then, because you could probably island-hop your way to Australia just by swimming back in those days.
>>568460
It's extremely unlikely that anyone ever swum to Sahul, the distances between islands may look small on a map but in reality they are tens of kilometres across. It's more than likely they crossed either by tying up a load of bamboo to make a raft or created a dugout canoe from a log.
What happened to the patrician families after the fall of Rome?
>>567869
the fall of rome is a meme.
>>567869
They have their economic bases damaged by the Vandalic conquest of Africa, bu at least a part of the Roman Aristocracy survived and focussed their wealth in Sicily and Italy herself.
Some went to Constantinople.
The ones who remained were fucked by the Gothic Wars.
Relevant noble families still existed around Rome, and Rome herself through the Middle Ages, some could have been related to the Old Roman Nobilitas.
>>567869
They became slaves
I cry every night
>>567761
Protip: Just because the CIA is involved in a plot to overthrow a foreign leader, doesn't mean said foreign leader was a great guy.
See also Salvador Allende and Patrice Lumumba
>>567777
Didn't Khomeini hate Mossadeq even more than the Shah?
To be fair Iran under Islamic rule is stronger than it could have ever hoped to be under nationalistic socialism.
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Is the situation for male "losers" worse today in terms of access to resources and relationships than it was ~100 years ago? Or is it better than ever? If so what changed?
Or have male losers historically been losers in any time period?
>>567452
I'd say dating sites made communication way easier and as such gave 'losers' better resources.
>>567452
There's always been losers. Hell, the leader of the Taiping Rebellion was a a guy who failed a test that would have allowed him into esteemed society.
>>567452
>Is the situation for male "losers" worse today in terms of access to resources and relationships than it was ~100 years ago? Or is it better than ever? If so what changed?
>Or have male losers historically been losers in any time period?
Given that this answer has nothing to do with the contents of history, and everything to do with your personal beliefs about what "better" and "worse" are, why don't you fuck off...
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Short version: the arabs were one of the advanced nations. Now they are not quite as advanced.
What happened?
A while ago i have listened to a podcast about the mongols in the Genghis the Khan era and one of the peoples the mongols fought and practically erased were the people of the islamic religion, i believe they were the arabs but i cant remember.
Then this question arose, what happaned to the arabs that led to this cultural descent?
Can any of you shed some light on this subject?
Sorry for bad english. Fucking third language
>>567356
The Ottomans and Mamluks supressed Arab out of fear of them growing too strong
the Ottomans themselfs failed to keep Up With the European Industrial Revolution mainly due to policies during their golden age (mid 1500's/1600's )
>>567372
I see. Now all that is left is the turkish and isis....
>>567372
And even before that, the Mongols straight up fucked their shit up ruthlessly. Baghdad, former capital of the Islamic world, has not even come close to recovering even 1/8th of its former glory.
Why is this guy the poster child of psychology?
>>567353
First attempt to scientifically systematize face to face counseling methods for patients with psychiatric disorders. Emphasis on unconscious mental processes being the cause of psychiatric problems. Eventually leads to cognitive behavioral therapy, which has helped countless patients around the world without resorting to medication or incarceration.
Because he started psycho analysis. Most of his shit was wrong but much in the way of early philosophers, he gets a lot of credit for trying.
>>567374
I heard his ideas had a longer and more useful lifespan in philosophy. Does anyone know if there's any veracity to this?
If meth production methods had been of been developed by the Ancient Greeks, where do you think civilisation would be today?
The same as if alcohol production methods had been of been developed by the Ancient Greeks.
Oh, wait.
>>567310
>smoking meth would be as normal and acceptable as drinking alcohol
>maybe some writers and engineers would have been more prolific with access to a powerful stimulant like methamphetamine
nothing else would change. Idiots with no self control will find a way to ruin their lives regardless of what drugs they have access to
Somewhere efficient and frantic
What was the classical religion of Ancient Rome like, in practice?
Did they literally think Zeus/Jupiter lived ontop of a mountain and threw lightening or was it allegorical? What were the practices? Were there sacred texts or was it more of an oral tradition?
They definitely believed in the gods, but they weren't really dogmatically faithful as a modern person would understand faith. They believed the gods required certain rituals and respect, but not much else besides that. It wasn't important to spread the word of Zeus or Athena or whatever, as much as it was important to make sure there weren't any dead birds in Athena's temple and that the statues were in good condition.
It was actually a collection of sects focused almost exclusively on making sure that the gods were never pissed off.
What I mean is that in many theistic religions, there's a focus on constant worship, whether the gods were happy or not. In the grecco-roman sects, worship happened seasonally unless you felt the gods were pissed at you and then you worshiped extra hard but, for the most part, you lived your daily life with a belief of the gods and just a general hope that they wouldn't shit on you.
Something like modern shinto
Should I read a bunch of more modern stuff before jumping into Gibbon's Decline and fall? Should I read it at all? Regardless, are there any other works regarding the fall of Rome that are required reading?
Bumpin.
>>565322
Most modern works are influenced by the decline and fall, so you don't need to. However, it is important to remember that Rome never really "fell", it just sort of faded away sometime in the early middle ages.
rome in its prime was fucking glorious, even the expansion i.e. wars on foreign territory's are fucking awesome. the Punic wars are my favorite
Did plutarch just not try hard enough?
Wot??
we wuz feelosopherz n shyt
>>567139
Plutarch was a historian nshit
