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What were the first settlers that came to America after the native? was there anyone that beat Columbus? And who were
They?
Norseman settled in North America in what they called Vinland around the year 1000 CE. They eventually abandoned it. Beyond that Polenysians made contact with the Americas.
>>557746
There were the Na-Dene and Inuit migrations into America from Siberia.
Polynesian contact along the South American coast.
The Norse briefly tried to settle in the north but the harsh weather, hostile natives, and general lack of draw/interest made them abandon it.
There's some evidence the Basques might have reached around Newfoundland chasing new fishing and whaling grounds, but there's nothing definitive.
Anything outside of this is complete speculation without any real evidence...
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>>558046
This, the only other theory that seems slightly plausible to me (with no evidence though) is the Irish Monks.
Why is it that even in college level courses, Japan pre-prince Shotoku is brushed over? The Yamato court still had internal enemies, there were powerful noble families besides the Imperial family, and the arms and armor were totally different from samurai stuff. It seems really interesting. Is it because of a lack of solid information on this period?
>>557685
I dunno, I remember in my college Japstory 101 class he jumped straight into Tokugawa.
>>557685
Lack of solid information mostly, yeah. There's a substantial amount, but not enough in English, and sadly, not enough interest to warrant Western academics from pulling away from their Heian and Edo period circlejerk to write anything about it. We're damn lucky we have what we do about the Sengoku era in English. Good luck finding anything about the Jomon, Yayoi, or Kofun.
>>557745
The best Ive read is Ellis Amdur's essay on early Japanese weapons, titled "Ancient Weapons" But its more about known weapons and speculations on their use, not about specific campaigns or the political situation before Shotoku's reforms
When the body dies, does the mind die with it?
Mind, definitely. Conciousness, probably.
>>557595
Kill yourself and find out.
Yes.
But you arent equal when you are dead.
This is the Habr Process. It's an industrial process which cheaply makes Amonia. It was developed by Fritz Habr, a german jewish scientist specifically for the German munitions industry. Before this the nitrates used in gunpowder was either made out of manure and urine (which was expensive) or was harvested from bird and bat guano deposits (most notably deposits in South America). The german imperial government was concerned about this as if war happened the British and French could cut off the German Empire from saltpeter imports and soon they'd have to surrender...
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Haber also developed chemical weapons. His scientist wife said she couldn't stand them helping kill so many people and asked him to stop. He told her to shut up and get back in the kitchen. She shot herself that night. Within the next day or so Haber was off to help develop more chemical weapons and shit. When the war ended and Germany was defeated he promised to repay all of Germany's war debt himself by extracting gold from ocean water. When Hitler came to power he was forced to leave Germany just because he had Jews in his family despite not being a Jew himself....
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>>557551
Serious loyalty
I remember one great article in particular dismantling common misconceptions about medieval times.
Any good academic sources, preferably articles, against the idea of dark ages would be much appreciated
>>557401
Basically, Western Europe was not the entire world. Western Europe just calls it the Dark ages because they want to pretend the entire world was retarded for the period, not just Western Europe, because Western Europe likes to pretend it was the greatest for all of history.
>>557401
Have you ever just sat down and read fucking Bede?
http://www.cracked.com/article_20186_6-ridiculous-myths-about-middle-ages-everyone-believes.html
http://www.cracked.com/article_20615_5-ridiculous-myths-you-probably-believe-about-dark-ages.html
Who were the better fighters?
>>557263
probably the celts since they actually had a warrior culture
Gaels of Ireland the Vikings were equals during land battles. Water wise a different story.
Norse-Gaels who put on emphasis on their Celtic side.
t. Norse Gael
What is the oldest surviving branch of christianity?
>>557233
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Apostolic_Church
The catholic church
Ave Peter
>>557233
the one who dont beilif in the trinity and was bumped by mahomed illness , Islam ?
Is coffee the foundation of post-Enlightenment Western civilization?
Could the West have risen the same way it did without the pleasant, invigorating, ameliorating effects of coffee? Or is it all a cruel myth perpetuated by Folgers and Nescafe?
Secondary question: By what percentage do you believe coffee increases the human capacity for excellence? I say 5%.
>>557209
I watched that gay BBC documentary, too, OP
>>557253
Well link it then because I've no idea what you shitposters are talking about.
239 years ago tomorrow, gathered representatives of the "New Hampshire Grants" declared the Republic of New Connecticut, then promptly renamed it Vermont because adding "new" to something that isn't very old is kind of dumb. The Republic had no official national anthem, but a poem titled: "The Song of the Vermonters" was put to music and became the defacto anthem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_of_the_Vermonters,_1779
Over the course of the republic's 14 year existence, Vermont dropped out of the revolutionary war, becoming...
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If Vermont were a nation today this would be its President btw
>>557158
>If Vermont were a nation today this would be its President btw
RIP Vermont
Do culturally ubiquitous drugs like caffeine, tobacco or alcohol have a net negative or positive effect on a society? How have the introductions of these drugs changed society for the worse or better?
Are there any drugs our society should adopt for general use? I don't just mean marijuana. I'm speaking more of hallucinogens used in a shamanistic sense. Do you think our society could benefit from our intellectuals using these substances, in the same way med students pop adderall like candy and cocaine helped drive the 80's stock boom?
>>556997
MDMA, LSD, Mushrooms and Ketamine are being looked into for medical purposes, specifically treatment of depression and PTSD.
>>556997
I'd say tobacco and caffeine are a net good on the count that they have more or less no downsides, stimulate the economy by the demand for them, and generally just help people get through the day.
Alcohol on the other hand is clearly bad. Even if just for the more philosophical reasons suggested by Nietzsche.
>>556997
Alcohol and tobacco are extremely destructive
No drugs should be adopted outside of medical use since the vast majority of people can't handle them
What factors were responsible for the rise in violent crime rates in America starting during the 1960s, and their subsequent decline starting in the 1990s? Was it lead?
Manufacturing industry collapsing, leading to emergence of the rust belt, communist countries actively trying to start race war in the US and of course lead. Actually, it was mostly lead.
New opportunities to get rich illegally, and law enforcement trying to catch up with it.
That's assuming you're talking about the big player types you always hear about. Crime is crime, it's always there.
>>556849
>and their subsequent decline starting in the 1990s?
Most likely Roe vs. Wade. Women who got abortion were usually from the disadvantaged groups. Their kids, had they been born, had much higher chances to run into trouble with laws. Those that actually were born had fewer siblings and thus better case, which increase their chances for normal lives.
S T R A U S S - H O W E G E N E R A T I O N A L T H E O R Y
How accurate do you consider their model? How close did they come to the mark?
>I was supposed to be a hero
>>556633
We could be heeeroeeeees
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss%E2%80%93Howe_generational_theory
Bump.
Someone on [spoiler]/r9k/[/spoiler] just posted this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZp7eVJNJuw
It makes me wonder of what the general view of public education throughout the phase of German idealism was
Weirdly enough, there are documents that record the actual THOUGHTS of the German Idealists. Crazy, I know, but if you're interested in learning about the attitudes of the GIs I'd start with those. I think--but don't quote me on this--that these documents are available in these, like, storehouses. I think they're called, I dunno, lieberries or something. I wonder if there are any near where you live?
Anyway, good luck on your search!
>>556497
of course, you could write an answer like this for every thread - what's the point, really
>>556497
>Ask about the relationship between German idealism and the German education system
>"Why don't you just read Ficthe or Hegel?"
What a God-awful post you've made.
ITT we post our historical waifus.
I'll start with Empress Elisabeth
>>556307
If she wasn't a literal skeleton I'd bring the revolution to that pussy.
Not even /pol/, but Eva was qt as hell
<3
>Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that ideas are realities: the former, that they are generalizations. For the latter, language is nothing but a system of arbitrary symbols: for the former, it is the map of the universe. The Platonist knows that the universe is somehow a cosmos, an order; that order, for the Aristotelian, can be an error or a fiction of our partial knowledge. Across the latitudes and the epochs, the two immortal antagonists change their name and language: one is Parmenides, Plato, Anselm,...
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>>556301
Aristotelian
the greatest of all the world's tragedies is that Plato's nonsense was not burned in the library of Alexandria with countless other scrolls of gnostic wiffle
Cartesian.
>>556301
If I have to pick one then Aristotelian.
I'm not a fan of either but fuck Plato's madness.
