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I wonder how history would have went differently if humans had different shapes or physiology.
Also how would modern society would look life if so.
>>561897
As long as got dextrous tool using appendages we will still have technology but the stuff would be different. If we were quadruped but had tentacle things on our head that allowed us to manipulate objects we would probably not need horses since we would be fast travelers being quadruped although our fighting would be much different.
I imagine it would affect the way we interact with animals.
If we were much bigger or much smaller, we'd have a hell of a time riding horses.
More broadly, it might effect what areas of the world humans occupy. The design of a bipedal, warm blooded animal with opposable thumbs is a very versatile one.
If humans were quadrupedal it would take a huge toll on human endurance, which would effect how well humans could migrate, and what kind of prey they could kill.
tell me anything about the Hittites
Didn't they have iron way before everyone else?
>>561892
Fucked up those Egyptians and Babylonians.
>>561892
Allied wit. Trojans in Trojan war
Why does Uruguay exist?
It looks like an Argentine province
It's a buffer state created to solve the problem of the fucking river
>>561875
It actually used to be one.
Something with 33 uruguayans liberating.
Also David Guetta, presenting on Punta del Este shouted out "Good evening, Buenos Aires" and keks were had.
>Islas Malvinas
Are there any consistent patterns we can take away from history?
Everybody says "learn from history", but what is there we can really say?
If history has taught us anything, it's that you can kill anyone.
>humans abuse power
>things are guaranteed to change over time
>pretty much everything the Anglo countries and Northwestern Europe in general do is the objectively correct way to do things
>large masses of intelligent people are capable of getting things spectacularly wrong
>as a state grows older, the amount of rent-seeking among the upper echelons of power increases, leading to a cyclical rise and fall
I can...
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The Greeks were the best
Reenactor here, I'm looking for evidence of weapons similar to the cleaver thing being used on the guy in the foreground in the 1150-1250 period in europe. My groups rules state that I need either two more written references, one more picture, or one surviving artefact as proof. Can anyone help?
Also, general reenactor thread
>>561729
also, evidence has to be from a different source than the morgan bible, cant use the same artist twice
>>561729
The problem is that your weapon might not actually exist. Lots of artists never actually saw the things they created, and if they did it was only a glimpse. My best guess though if I had to is that its some kind of messer.
>>561743
That is a distinct possibility.
Someone in my group thinks it might be a cut-down glaive or similar, but there is no evidence of them getting that big in-period that I have seen
What are the major differences between Spanish and Italian fascism?
It seems like the Spaniards are just more religious and that's it.
On a very basic level, I could go into more detail, Spanish Fascism built heavily on pre-existing Spanish structures of the Church, Conservatism and existing Spanish culture. Italian Fascism attempted to forge a new set of values and morals a la Futurism whilst still using Italian history as cause for military expansion.
>>561677
Are they even really fascist if they don't want a revolution? I thought Franco being from the establishment is one of the reasons we don't categorize Nationalist Spain as fascist
I suppose "fascist" is less of a mouthful than "totalitarian nationalist authoritarians"
>>561666
Spanish "Fascism" was essentially a run-of-the-mill military dictatorship.
Italian Fascism actually reformed the government and had pretensions of a coherent ideology that could be applied elsewhere. Whether that would have been possible is a pure hypothetical, but they thought it would be that way.
Can you name a crew more unlucky that the crew of the USS Indianapolis? Didn't think so.
HMS Hood.
>>561658
The William D. Porter ("Willy D"), a WW2 US Fletcher-class destroyer
>First mission: top-secret escort of a battleship to N Africa, hell yeah
>While leaving dock, drag anchor across the deck of neighboring ship, ripping out their railing and destroying their lifeboats
>whoops
>Proceed on mission
>huge BOOM, whole fleet scrambles thinking a submarine...
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>>562105
But wait, there's more
>Willy D reassigned to Alaska because they can't possibly fuck anything up there, right?
>Sailor gets drunk
>Fires off one of the ship's main guns, which drops a 5-inch shell into the front yard of the base commandant, who is having a party for officers' families in his back yard at the time
>nobody was hurt, but commandant's flower garden is...
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Is he right?
>>561643
No, we're intelligent because we have the ability to contemplate these ideas.
technically yes since "rights" are not intrinsic
However, his definition of intelligence is arbitrary and seems to exist more to make an edgy "point" than to bring clarity to his arguments.
>Longevity probably wont be discovered in our lifetime.
>Our species will probably kill itself before the sun explodes.
>Our galaxy will burn itself out eventual.
>Our universe is plagued by an eventual mortality.
>Alt Universes,The Big Crunch, and anything else even remotely suggesting universal survival are now science fiction crackpot theories made and supported by optimists.
>Its all pointless...
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