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How accurate are these maps of american cultural groups?
Largely the cultural boarders seem accurate to me as a Europeen. Although "the midlands" just seems to be completely inaccurate and lazy.
Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin have developed their own unique culture, yet all these maps lump them in with the East Coast for some fucking reason.Seriously, it's like two different worlds.
>>572396
Yankeedom needs to be split into New England and Northern Cities/New England, Upstate, and Midwest.
That Spanish caribbean thing in florida is horseshit
New Netherland has to have a little less of Jersey
I live in the Northwest so I might be wrong but I find it extremely hard to believe that "El Norte" extends that far north.
Did North America as it currently is nationally the most boring permutation of all the possibilities that could have been? I mean, there could have been a free Quebec, a free Texas, a free California
ITT :
>timelines
>charts
>infographics
post em if you got em
>j-jesus didn't exist!
>there's no proof!
>>572397
this is the most stupid shit ive seen this month
How where the Romans able to kick the shit out of the successor states so effectively?
>>572268
Successor states had bigger fish to fry (each other).
Also Alexander's Classic Macedonian Army wasnt used no more. It was mostly mercenaries and levies.
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234%3Abook%3D18%3Achapter%3D31
>Why is it then that the Romans conquer? And what is it that brings disaster on those who employ the phalanx? Why, just because war is full of uncertainties both as to time and place; whereas there is but one time and one kind of ground in which a phalanx can fully work. If, then, there were anything to compel the enemy to accommodate himself to the time and place of the phalanx, when about to fight a general engagement, it would be but natural...
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>>572268
one part of is was that all the successor states did not want to rely on their non-greek populace for their armies, preferring to draw them from Greek colonists. This kept their armies much smaller then you would expect.
Another part is that the whole Macedonian style of warfare was incredibly effective and pretty much unmatcched at the time - as long as you have the institutionla knowledge and training to properly support it - i.e. know how to effectively coordinate the various parts of it in a battle to...
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Ok this is going to be a very weird question: why are blowjobs associated with the French?
I'm asking this because I'm watching two period dramas: the Tudors and Boardwalk Empire.
In The Tudors, King Henry asks the older Boleyn girl "what French Graces have she learned" during her stay in France and she proceeded to blow him.
In Boardwalk Empire, one of the main leads, Jimmy Darmody asks his wife if he could do him "the French Way" in which she replies "you want my mouth down there?"
Was the blowjob associated...
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>>572234
This is going to sound bullshit BUT.
It's probably ahistorical. Multiple cultures demonstrate the knowhow of blowjobs. So its not just the French.
I think its a holdover from the 19th Century in which France *was* the place to be in Europe for sexual shit due to the Liberal lifestyle that took hold there during the 18th Century after the Revolution.
I read a book once on Urban France and Women for one of my classes and on sexuality, there was a bit there that shows a lot of Single French Women-workers...
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I knew the answer but I forgot. Completely srs.
>>572234
A curious question indeed.
The problem is, tracing this myth back only gets you in the 16th to 17th century, when france was a big player in continental Europe.
So the dialogue in Tudors is ahistorical.
>Was the blowjob associated with France IRL?
Not really, more like english slander.
>Why are blowjobs associated with the French?
Probably because like anything sexual, you use stuff like 'xy nationality likes to do z'...
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I've never seen the seljuk empire discussed here lads, can we discuss why the ottomans fought it which led to its downfall and the rise of the ottoman empire? seeing as both the seljuks and the ottomans were muslims and had more or less the same demographics
>>572161
>ottomans fought it
But they didn't; the Empire had fractured into several smaller dynastical successor states which were all competing for power and prestige. The Ottomans filled a vacume which came about from the collapse of the Seljuks.
The Ottomans only "fought" the Seljuks insofar they fought the Sultanate of Rum, which was a successor just like the Ottomans were.
>>572161
The other anon is right, the Seljuks had more or less vanished by the time the Ottomans rose to power. But to address your question about fellow Turkic Muslims fighting one another, one could say it's the Seljuks themselves that popularized the idea.
Before the Seljuk conquests, Muslim internecine violence was only justified against heterodox movements and rebels. In the 11th century the Seljuk court compiled a series of dynastic histories and political thought, drawing from 9th and 10th century Ghulam Turkic...
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i see, thanks lads
Why didn't Japan go communist or at least heavily socialist?
Nips can't read
>>571941
Traditional sentiment and rigid control structures kept anything close to socialist or communist organization from springing up.
Look at Mishima for example.
Communism is socialism.
Socialism isn't communism.
Use terms correctly.
Why was Kaiserliche Marine so useless?
>>571877
It wasn't useless. Keiser Willy's horrible diplomacy pitched it against the world's strongest navy. It was first the rivalry and later the fight that KM could never win.
>>571887
It was used once during 4 years of war, excluding one-ship raids and submarine warfare. It looks useless for me
"dreadnoughts have no wheels!" - Willy II
The plan was to clobber France, turn east and rout the Russians, and be home in time for tea long before the naval blockade could make any difference.
Why did the Medieval ages not have as much of a legacy for slavery as the Roman/Greek period and Colonial period did? Why was there a sudden gap in time between two societies that practiced slavery on a mass scale? How common was slavery in Medieval Europe, and why wasn't it adopted on a mass scale considering the economies of almost every single European country relied on manors and agrarian systems. What the fuck is the difference between serfdom and slavery?
>>571830
Feudalism is the great equalizer.
1. slavery was practiced
2. it was gradually abolished in different places throughout the medieval ages and then in the Renaissance
3. The difference between colonial slavery and previous slavery is that it was specifically done in the colonies. You wouldn't find slaves in Britain in the same sense that you'd find them in its colonies; what happens in the colonies, stays in the colonies.
>>571830
The collapse of long distance heavy bulk trade for one. Slavery is an expensive business. You have to procure some slaves to begin with, which has substantial cost whether you're raiding for them yourselves or buying them from someone else. To make up for that expense, you need to sell them at an even higher price, and for that you need a market. Only, you have to ship these slaves to said market, and unless you have plenty of bulk shipping driving down costs you'll be limited to markets within a small radius...
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Tell me about the Franks, /his/
How did they manage to be from a small irrelevant germanic tribe to conquering most of what is today France?
Also why isn't Nederlands called Frankia since that is their ancestral tribe name and language?
>>571739
I can't answer the last question (I think it has something to do with Frisians) but I can answer the first one as best I can.
Romans left a power vacuum in their European holdings that was replaced with irrelevant, short lived states that were almost unanimously conquered by Germanic Barbarians, the Franks being the conquerors of France just as the Saxons/Jutes/Angles conquered England, Visigoths conquered Spain, etc etc. The Franks are probably the most successful example of this.
>How...
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>>571739
>Also why isn't Nederlands called Frankia since that is their ancestral tribe name and language?
Frisians
>>571739
>Also why isn't Nederlands called Frankia since that is their ancestral tribe name and language?
Because the Netherlands isn't the ancestral land of the Franks. Tht Netherlands were originally Frisian lands, slowly conquered, settled and assimilated by Frankish speaking peoples.
Theists believe god exists because something could not have come from nothing.
Atheists believe that the universe was a singularity prior to the big bang.
So do theists believe a singularity is god, or do they think a singularity is nothing?
Atheists believe a black hole is a singularity, but not the same kind of singularity that was the precursor to the big bang.
Do theists believe black holes are gods, or do they believe black holes are nothing?
If a theist says a black hole, a singularity, is a thing, how can a theist say the big bang...
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>>571672
>So do theists believe a singularity is god
Yes
There is nothing to believe, this universe started from a singularity, and the rapid expansion of space and time from that point is what we call the Big Bang.
This has been proven without a shadow of a doubt.
>>571672
>Atheists believe
Just stop. This shit needs to stop. The amount of religious shit-posting is just staggering.
Atheists don't believe in God. That's it.
> So how do they think the universe was created
Some probably don't care and will claim they don't know but that some scientist some day will find out. But it's not something you can say "atheists believe" any more than "Christians believe you shouldn't...
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All historically relevant pictures and photographs should be posted in this thread.
Subjects such as war, famous people of the past, important events, old sciences and tech, and everything in between are welcome.
If it's neat and historical, we want it here!
I'm posting out of several folders contain images of various subjects, I'll post a few from each and post more specifically should it be requested.
Background info on the photos can be found in the file-names. Enjoy.
>>571638
I'll do some of my Vietnam War folder now.
>>571656
Here's one we've all seen, still a good one.
>>571658
No background on this picture unfortunately.
>>571628
I've never seen it outside of stormfag propaganda videos.
>>571633
Why are you watching stormfag propaganda videos?
Is there something you're not telling us?
>>571628
What am I looking at
Gnosticism is the best religion.
Prove me wrong.
>>571621
Gnosticism relies on the historical existence of Jesus Christ. There is no legitimate evidence supporting this belief. Gnosticism, therefore, is unsupported.
>>571626
Gnosticism predates Christ.
>>571632
OP has a pic of Valentinus...why wouldnt I assume he's speaking Gnostic Christianity?
If, however, he's speaking of pre-Christian Gnosticism...then I would say it has the same problem as any other religion of it type, especially Buddhism:
>rejecting the physical world for admiration of the spiritual
But this assumes there is a spiritual world.
And what is the spiritual world anyway?
Where is it? When is it? Can you point to it?
If not..it isn't...
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If tanks were never invented, how much longer would have WW1 gone on?
>>571451
A negligible length of time. A difference of days, at most.
>>571451
no single weapon turns the tide of war.
>>571514
Not with that attitude
Post biggest millitary disasters in history.
the Chinese are miserable at war
so much for that Sun Tzu meme
>>571407
>Hi, I'm Ferdinand I, and welcome to Jackass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Balkan_War
>listening to court eunuchs
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