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Is it true that China could have industrialized before the West?
Yeah, but it didn't.
also your pic is dumb
Depends on your metaphysics son.
Could the past be anything but the way it was?
>>1374984
By "Africa" do they mean just the Mediterranean?
How did the Normans know what lions are?
The Bible?
There were painting of them in Rome to show how Christians were persecuted
>>1374889
How did the Greeks know what lions are?
Why is Africa such a mess?
>OP gets BTFO in old thread
>starts a new one hoping we forgot
STOP MAKING THIS FUCKING THREAD HOLY SHIT
WE HAVE HAD THIS EXACT SAME FUCKING THREAD
EVERY
DAY
THIS
WEEK
STOP
>>1374850
This is my first thread about Africa
I'm interested in why things are shit no matter what is done, whether we give the people aid or not, whether we work with them or not, whether we enslave them or not.
Why does the Wikipedia article on politics only talk about power, without mentioning right/authority? Isn't politics just as much about the right or authority to rule, as the power to rule? In fact, to me it would seem that politics is /especially/ about authority or right above power; it seems to me that the science which deals primarily with power is warfare.
The only right that the article talks about is the "divine right of kings", which it just glosses over as saying it is something that the French Revolution "put an end to", and the "right...
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But OP politics is literally just about power and nothing else, "right/authority" is just used as a convenient excuse after said power is secured.
Do you even Machiavelli?
>Doesn't this prove that modern politicians are essentially Machiavellians who believe that "might makes right", if the most popular page on politics essentially implies the same?
Or, rather, that modern political science rests upon that Machiavellian principle, that all right or authority proceeds from power.
>>1374552
That's precisely my question. Doesn't this show that modern political science rests upon Machiavellian premises?
Personally, no, I...
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>>1374560
>a man has the right to property (not to have his property stolen) and a woman a right to dignity (not to be raped)
>I believe in the natural law
Everyone look at this anon, look at him and laugh.
"ISIS, or DAESH if you prefer, is a direct result of the almost boundless opportunities we have in our world today. Never before have so many of us been so free to choose our own future. And never before have we had so many tools available to reach our goals. We live longer and healthier lives and travel more than ever before. We have become a globalized society. Never before have we had such a large pool from which to draw our knowledge to solve problems, create solutions and earn money by selling our inventions or services. Developments in medicine, technology and literacy...
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I wouldn't say it's a spawn of that exceptionally. It mimmicks many past rebellions. Go to a destabilized region and seize trade or black markets with mercenaries.
>>1374404
yeah, I see your point, but if 'we are all connected and talkin', why do we get extreme evils like this?
>>1374393
>So much opportunity and access to knowledge explains why people are going with a religion that's existed in that region for over a millennium.
It seems from reading the Bible that God and Jesus only care about Jews. To make the Bibles words applicable to gentiles, Christians have to replace terms like "Israel" with "the church" and "my people" with "Christians". There is incredible mental gymnastics which must be undertaken for the bible to have any relevance to non-Jews.
Paul is the only apostle to the gentiles in the new Testament. While Jesus himself calls a gentile woman a "dog" (but is also ready to help a high ranking Roman centurion when his male child...
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>>1374275
>Adopting a heresy of a foreign religion
>Wandering why you are not mentioned
Maybe you should start worshiping Zeus and wonder why he is only interested in Greeks.
>>1374275
Yep, Jesus was jewish messianic figure, but you have to admit gentiles took up his religion pretty quickly. By Paul's time only a few decades later there were established gentile communities of Christians. I don't know what the reasons are for this, I know the Jesus of the gospels seems to say that obeying the laws isn't important anymore, but it takes innovation from people like Paul for it to make any sense for gentiles.
I think it was just a nice-sounding cult which proselytised a lot more...
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John 10:16
I have other sheep that do not belong to this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd.
Matthew 28:18-20
And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything that I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age.’
Luke 10:29-37
But...
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What are good sources for military history and theory?
I'm ask both due to curiosity and from a practical need (I have a project that must be coherent with facts, as opposed to the usual "fuck history, this looks cool" approach).
Pic unrelated.
>>1374233
Asking*
Scheiße.
>>1374233
Read Jeremy Black
>>1374254
Probably better to start with The Face of Battle by John Keegan, but after Keegan, read Black
Post Historical Wojaks
What do you know about the baltic paganism?
>>1374047
Tree huggers that plant saplings when somebody dies or is born or on special occasions.
They really like their snakes
>>1374047
Most of it is nothing more than fanfic written in late 19th-early 20th centuries.
t. lithuanian
>"Ah gosh, this house was built by the tenth baron of Rumplestumple and has one of only two granite outhouses in the county!"
>in a tour of university
>"This painting was by the local 16th century artist John Smith."
The above examples were made up but do people really care about shit like that?
>>1373771
I dont get your point.
>>1373771
This might be the wrong board for you.
>>1373771
I do that with American architecture
As for old paintings you have to be a rube not to care about who made them.
What makes a king, ruler, or emperor successful?
>>1373748
The geography
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Knowing enough about every facet of rulership to effectively oversee people who are much more talented than you and can do a better job.
There are five broad categories a kings deeds and accomplishments can be placed under to define whether he was a success or failure. The first is stability, the lands under a successful king should be stable, peaceful and lacking strife. Wealth is another, a successful king should have a lot of wealth at his disposal. Bringing improvement and reform to the kingdom is another mark of a successful king. Power is a crucial trait to any king, a successful king has power, influence, and domination over his kingdom. And lasting, a successful king should ensure a clean succession of his kingdom.
The other night a friend and I got really high and came up with a new theory of evolution.
Humans used to be like animals, before they progressed and built language and society and learned to use their bodies in different ways with tools to aid them. If humans can, why can't animals?
What if we were once sharing the world with very advanced animals (This would explain how pyramids were built) and one day we went to war with them, wiped them out and wiped them from our history books.
Thoughts?
what? Its like you are 13 years old or what
anyways. what you describe is nothing new altough it is doubtful that any civilized animals have existed amongst humans, some animals do inhibit early signs of civilized society.
for example raccoons. have you seen them do stuff? they have their own social order and they take upon stealth missions into human houses to steal food.
or ravens for example. they understand shit. a lot of shit. they can trick people into giving them food. they can use tools to manipulate shit. they know that other ravens are thieving...
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>>1374150
Why haven't we trained chimps to use guns yet?
>>1374163
But we have
Could /his/ enlighten me on what the likely outcome of this situation would be and the actions of each machine? Or if it has gotten the philosophy behind each machines programed beliefs wrong.
>>1373453
The Nietzschean truck comes by and crashes through both cars.
>>1373460
With no survivors.
>>1373453
they hit their fucking breaks
Is Napoleon's return from Elba one of the greatest moments in history?
On par with the crossing of the Rubicon and man walking on the moon?
What is /his/ nominations for greatest moments in history?
No, he failed.
>>1373252
It was great sure, but nowhere near one of the greatest moments in human history.
Da Yu is supposed to have united the clans living along China’s Yellow River by persuading them to co-operate in a huge network of channels and canals to end its devastating floods in 2000BC
The link between rivers such as the Yellow, the Nile, the Tigris and the Indus, and the growth of early civilisations is very strong. To tame them, or irrigate, people have to be organised and submit to some kind of authority. So rulers and classes emerge.
I believe that it is well-established by now that the Aztecs - particularly their learned elite and priests - did not hold their gods to be literal entities, but complicated metaphors to express the interaction of forces in the world derived from the universal truth known as 'teotl', similar to the Brahman of Hinduism and almost pantheistic in its view.
If this is true, then why was there such a strong emphasis on human sacrifice? Flesh and blood sacrifices tend to be directed at deities that are much more literal and anthromorphized. Plus, if these gods were...
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according to early accounts sacrifices went extremely willingly. those 'saved' by the spanish were appalled by not being allowed the prvilege of sacrifice and sometimes committed suicide or begged to be killed
The hindu legends are largely allegories but people still try to burn widows in remembrance of Sati
>>1373143
This isn't particularly the point of the thread. My question is why sacrifices would exist on the scale they did if the elites themselves held their deities to be non-literal abstractions and metaphors.
>>1373146
I'm not particularly versed on the culture or history of India, but I thought Sati was uncommon, even in ancient times?
