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Before pic related, what was considered the ultimate historical evil?
>>433422
The Mongols.
>>433422
Firstly, history doesn't consider evils.
Secondly fuckwits thinking about the past normally considered Napoleon to be the ultimate historical evil, promoted by English protestants and reactionary Catholics.
In early modern Britain it was Papal regimes, especially Spain. Then it was Napoleon. Then during the Great War it was probably the evil Huns.
In France I would assume it was Germany, especially after 1870.
And then of course Bolshevism was seen as an immediate threat to western civilization, especially after 1918 but also during the Second Internationale by many people.
Real life Disney villains thread. I'll start.
Cardinal Richelieu
>Made himself so essential to Louis XIII (he was a figurehead, holding near-supreme power controlled by his mother.) that when the Queen Mother tried to have Richelieu fired since he overstepped his position, the king had her exiled.
>Bought a shit ton of ships from the Dutch and besieged and blockaded the Huguenot port city of La Rochelle, with a population of about 25 thousand soldiers and civilians. He decided to bomb the shit out of the...
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Philip II, easily.
His face, the events in the British Isles and the Netherlands, his demeanor, he comes off as a stereotypical 'evil' guy, even though he wasn't particularly immoral otherwise.
>>432451
Better image
Charles XII was a bit villainous, even though he fought the Great Northern War in defense. He drank nothing, felt no pain, fucked no women, and generally did nothing but conquer the shit out of the Baltic area.
All of our (Abrahamic) religious texts come via the direct communication, or divine inspiration, from God to a very narrow selection of prophets. Why doesn't God communicate more broadly?
If we're to believe these scriptures, we must follow very specific requirements or suffer God's punishment.
These requirements are often contradictory. The only reason we have for believing them is faith, but we're warned against following 'false prophets.' The implication is that we should trust one second-hand message but not trust other second-hand...
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The fact that people made him up and nowadays people ask for proof whereas back then they did not.
That is literally it.
>>431815
>What could explain God's silence?
God is not silent; he's just saying things that most people are in no mood to hear.
God is a /pol/ poster.
>still no hard evidenced miracles
>TFW you will never be a medieval European monarch
ITT: 21st century plebeian feels
>>431689
>you will never fight for the fatherland in WW 1
>you will never watch as your comrades get mowed down by allied machine gun fire
>you will never watch your friend get his brains blown off in a trench in Belgium, and have to clean bits of his brain off your coat
>you will never get both of your legs blown off by a landmine and be bound to a wheelchair for as long as you live
life is suffering
>>431689
>You will never be the only surviving monk of a monastery during the black death
>Tfw you will never be a minor noble and spend your days carousing around you land
>Tfw you will never get an arranged marraige w/ qt3.14 foreign noblewoman and have her raise your children
>Tfw you will never compete in a tourney or answer your lords call to war
New art history thread
Guess I shoulda opened with an edgy opinion about modernism
POST ART YOU FAGGOTS
Did any ancienct cilivizations except Hellenistic and Roman ones build realistic sculptures? What are examples? If they didn't, why?
>If they didn't, why?
Because style
>>431323
Africans (Yoruba), Chinese too I guess
>>431323
Only the Romans built realistic sculptures, Greek sculptures were always idealized images that cleared any imperfection of the person depicted. Greek artisans were actually freaked out that the Romans wanted an exact rendering.
Dumping what I have.
"thread for maps, cartography, GIS, human geography, historical geography, cultural geography, regional geography, critical geography, pomo geography, if it involves space and place and maps it's all fair game" t. other guy
May this thread never die
