Why did imperial and nazi germany have such an obsession with Rome when they were the fucking barbarians during the rule of Rome?
Didn't they realize that the Italians were the Romans? Does Italy having a city literally named Rome not give it away?
Because "muh holy roman empire". Pay attention.
Everyone is obsessed with Rome.
>>360638
they knew and they allied with them.
Why did Hadrian give up Mesopotamia and Armenia?
>>360574
"muh natural borders"
It was actually a valid argument. That border was too hard to defend from Rome.
>>360599
Maybe a new capital, further to the East, would have helped with that
>>360620
I swear roman sculpting really deteriorated later on in the empire
Did King Solomon exist? Was there really a united Kingdom of Israel?
>>360436
No.
It's a lie made up by modern Zionists and historical revisionists to justify stealing more Palestinian land for Israel.
>>360449
>Palestinian land
There was no country called Palestine at any point in recorded history.
No. There's no archaeological evidence for either. The idea of a United Monarchy was probably invented during the Babylonian captivity when religious leaders were trying to unite their people under the idea of a single, codified "right" way of doing things.
Even in the Old Testament, it seems like more of a metaphor. The UM is incredibly short-lived and falls apart because Solomon married foreign women and had kids that fucked everything up.
Is the rape of Nanking a meme or did it actually happen?
I know they killed a few people but did the anime ancestors actually commit mass rape, in Nanking?
>>360423
Nanking is especially horrible. And I wouldn't ever dare you to venture on the Wikipedia page dedicated to the event: the detail provided there may deeply shock you. That being said, we shouldn't trespass into that thought of "the rape of Nanking is representative of how Nips acted all throughout the war". They made their acts especially horrible to instill fear in the natives, nothing more, nothing less.
>Reminder that Japan isn't great
Weebs want to deny it, but that doesn't make it less true, just cause they invented anime doesn't mean they're blameless
>>360423
>They made their acts especially horrible to instill fear in the natives, nothing more, nothing less
No, it was just a breakdown in discipline, something the Japanese were notorious for. Here's an example that rarely gets talked about:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manila_massacre
It's worse than Nanking in some ways.
So /his/ seems to agree that the Vikings were absolutely shit overrated warriors who got rekt every time they faced someone stronger than monks or peasant women and children.
But how incredibly shit does that make the English? The English are the only ones who not only lost to Vikings, but got entirely conquered and ruled by them.
Vikings were slave raiders, and they succeeded in organizing a vast global slave network using people from Ireland and Briton they captured.
Everything else they kind of sucked at.
>>360431
>never conquered
>most successful crusade
>originators of the Norman dynasty
>first to travel to the New World
>top notch traders and best shipping technology of its time
>>360444
>most successful crusade
wut
>originators of the Norman dynasty
That just shows that anyone turns into master race in France.
You're a big otoko
>>360571
あなたのために
>Ieyasu's retainer wearing high quality imported European cuirass
>Ieyasu himself wearing a fucking fursuit
What is your opinion on church ? What do you not like about it ? And what would you change ?
I think it's a nice way to build a community of people with common interests that, hopefully, supports and solidifies good beliefs.
Don't really care, as long as the government doesn't endorse it
>>360174
the most potent element of human existent
faith and culture and moral values in general need to be persevered, they are at the heart of everything you think and do
You are a time traveling terrorist. Your task is to cause as many human deaths as possible by terminating one historical individual. Who is your target?
Adam.
Norman Borlaug
By pure numbers, I think the clear winner would have to be Norman Borlaug.
Is it possible to define good and evil without religion?
>>359794
No
>>359794
Yeah, but it helps
Yes.
How can islam spread to southeast asia?
why they're not as violent as the ones in ME?
>>359709
Merchants and missionaries their influence in the courts and ports of the Indian Ocean trade lanes.
>>359709
It's not Muslims that are the problem. It's arabs. The desert genetically fried their brains.
They are also far removed from the Shia/Sunni pissing contest, Israel, and the oil fields controlled by the House of Saud.
Nuking the Middle East until it could not be inhabited for a few decades, would actually be a good thing for islam.
Let's talk myths/misconceptions about the French Revolution of 1789.
I'll start with some.
>The initial revolution of 1789 was meant to overthrow the king
Nope, the idea was to install a constitutional monarchy where the previous Third Estate could have an equal voice.
>Louis XVI's reign was plagued with famine
There were no famines in France during the reign of Louis XVI, just two bread shortages, once towards the beginning and one shortly before 1789, which was coupled with a really bad winter.
>let them eat cake
Sounds like French commies tbqh. No wonder America fought them.
Just your daily reminder that the Roman empire ended in 1923
>implying
What has Korea ever done for history other than K-Pop, the worst disastrous Communist dictatorship ever and the Vengeance trilogy?
>>359470
worst Communist dictatorship*
>>359470
>not using an Oxford Comma
Degenerates.
That scene in Oldboy where he fights all those dudes with a hammer in the hallway
Was the War in the Vendee genocide /his/?
Was the true goal of the French Revolution to destroy the Catholic Church in France?
It started as a reformation of the centuries old privileges of the few, and became a revolution when the radicals took charge.
Other than during the Cuban Missile Crisis, what times in history was there a serious threat of nuclear war?
One time in like the 80's I think NATO was doing a preemptive strike exercise and didn't tell Moscow. Long story short, humanity all most died for no fucking reason.
>>359474
>Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov (Russian: Cтaниcлáв Eвгpáфoвич Пeтpóв; born 1939 in Odessa, Ukraine[1]) is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. On September 26, 1983, just three weeks after the Soviet military had shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Petrov was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early-warning system when the system reported that a missile, followed by another one and then up to five more, were being launched from the United States. Petrov judged the report to be a false alarm,[2] and his decision is credited with having prevented an erroneous retaliatory nuclear attack on the United States and its NATO allies that could have resulted in large-scale nuclear war. Investigation later confirmed that the satellite warning system had indeed malfunctioned.[3]
The Norwegian rocket incident, also known as the Black Brant scare, occurred on January 25, 1995, when a team of Norwegian and American scientists launched a Black Brant XII four-stage sounding rocket from the Andoya Rocket Range off the northwestern coast of Norway. The rocket, which carried scientific equipment to study the aurora borealis over Svalbard, flew on a high northbound trajectory, which included an air corridor that stretches from Minuteman III nuclear missile silos in North Dakota, all the way to the Russian capital city of Moscow.[1]
>During its flight, the rocket eventually reached an altitude of 1,453 kilometers (903 mi), resembling a U.S. Navy submarine-launched Trident missile. As a result, fearing a high altitude nuclear attack that could blind Russian radar, Russian nuclear forces were put on high alert, and the nuclear weapons command suitcase was brought to Russian president Boris Yeltsin,[1][2] who then had to decide whether or not to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike against the United States.[1][2][3]
