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What made the steppe produce so many peoples that became others scourges time to time?
And why didn't most of these folk manage to transform into a long lasting empires? Most of them seemed to have vanished in a few generations, or at least fade into irrevelance like Mongols today.
Hungarians are the only counter-example I can think of that actually managed to do more and become a feudal kingdom, what was different there?
>>345705
>Hungarians are the only counter-example I can think of that actually managed to do more and become a feudal kingdom
Bulgars as well
Hey, don't forget the Bulgars.
But I think a big part of it was that the steppes were so shit that they just wanted to get out
>>345705
>Hungarians are the only counter-example I can think
You're wrong then
>Ottomans
>Timuid-Mughal
>Jurchens
>Parthians
>Mamluk Egypt
Why is moral absolutism so commonly accepted, /his/?
What "proof" is there that morality is universal/absolute/would exist without society?
Thinking outside the box is hard for some people.
>>344915
Are you referring to moral absolutists or moral relativists?
I wouldn't say it's "so commonly accepted".
IMO the most common morality, at least in the west, is a sort of vague deontology based on empathy that accepts some degree of situational ethics. I guess you could contrive that as absolutist in a way, but it's a far cry from something like divine command theory. I also know many cynical people who are moral nihilists. Despite the conservative meme, I can only point to a sprinkle of actual moral relativists, they tend to be inconsistent with examples that are taboo enough in their own culture.
What went wrong?
Liberum veto.
>>344706
BS. It was a symptom no the cause. A symptom that the power shifted from the nobility into the hand of the few superrich magnate families. It was magnates' clients who used the veto.
The true cause of PLC's decline was the economic decline of the middle landed nobility who held the magnates in check and provided the bulk of the statesmen and political class.
>>344702
Well hello there little friend.
GOD unparalleled tier:
Napoleon Bonaparte
Genghis Khan
High Tier:
Alexander of Macedon
Atilla
Good tier:
Julius Caesar
Tamerlane
Hannibal
Cyrus
Bottom tier:
William the Conqueror
Charlemagne
Augustus Caesar
Suleiman
Meme tier:
Hitler, Mao etc.
>>344695
>Cyrus the Great isn't god tier
>Augustus is in the list at all
>Hannibal
What did he conquer?
Trash desu.
>>344707
>Hannibal
Greatest logistics and military commander
>>344695
>in b4 people meme and confuse military commanders and actual conquerors who took and held land
ITT: Post the craziest rulers in history.
>>344566
Adolf Hitler was crazy, he had an irrational hatred towards jews and killed 6 millions of them.
>>344566
Caligula was a good leader and in no way crazy.
>>344591
I believe that Nazi genocidal ideology was rather a incredibly cynical cruelty rather than plain insanity. What was insane was the fact that the massive amount of resources were wasted for that genocide during wartime while the German economy was overwhelmed by that of the Allies.
All things medieval spain ITT
Visigoths.
Kingdom of Asturias.
Al-Andalus.
Reconquista.
Ask and answer, share and discuss.
A ti, Señor glorioso, Padre que en el cielo estás:
Hiciste el cielo y la tierra, al tercero día el mar,
Luna y estrellas hiciste y el sol para calentar,
En Santa María madre fuiste Tu carne a tomar
Y en Belén te apareciste conforme a tu voluntad.
Pastores te glorifican, laudos te van a cantar,
Llegan tres reyes de Arabia que te vienen a adorar
Y que se llaman Melchor y Gaspar y Baltasar,
Oro, incienso y mirra ofrecen con toda su voluntad.
A Jonas salvaste Tu cuando se cayó en el mar,
A Daniel de los leones también te fuiste a salvar,
En...
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>tfw no Visigothic Spain, Frankish Gaul, Lombard Italy and Vandal North Africa
Can you guys educate me on the history of asian american?
>>343737
Get shit on for a few generations, work hard as fuck and build half of the Trans-Continental railroad, become a valued member of American society.
Except the Japanese for a couple years, but they're cool now.
>>343787
>Most Asian Americans
>Valued members of society
>Falling for the model minority meme
>>343803
How are they not?
They have the lowest crime rates in the whole fucking country you know.
Is the Cultural Revolution considered a catalyst for the destruction of Confucian values and politeness in modern Chinese society? All current evidence that I've seen just seems anecdotal, e.g. YouTube videos and articles.
Some links for further reading would be appreciated, thanks.
>>343091
It's not unique to mainland China at all despite popular misconception.
Go to Southeast Asia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America or Eastern Europe.
Basically any country on this planet except western Europe or Japan.
Hell, even America has places full of rude people.
>>343091
There's a whole bunch of theories out there that I can't really eloquently describe but the main theories I've heard are:
>Peasants too used to having to bend strict commie rules to get by so they become innately self-centered and rude because that was the only way to get what you wanted back home
>Chinese wealthy are almost all Noveau-riche assholes with no preceding standards for etiquette + Chinese culture being being on flaunting what you...
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>>343119
>Mainland Chinese manners are infamous worldwide. Even Chinese-majority nations like Singapore and Taiwan hate them for it.
It's called Yellow Peril racism and it's not new. It's been around since the 1800s senpai.
If you read up anything written by white supremacists about the Chinese exclusion act or China, you'd think they were talking about modern day events.
Which Persian empire was better to live in, the Parthian or Sassanid empire?
>>342884
>achaemenid 5life
>>342884
Sassanid
Parthians are basically Iranian Nomads going "Lol, what we do with this?"
>>342884
Sassanid was where Persian culture was thriving so that.
I fucked up
I got a degree in STEM and am making good cash at 60 hours a week
but this lifestyle is pointless
where does one start with in philosophy and history? with the greeks?
>where do I get into a subject I clearly don't have time for so I can come across as a facetious dilettante at dinner parties
don't bother trying to save yourself from your unfulfilling career. save yourself the trouble and just kill yourself.
>good cash
read: 15$ an hour (for the first ten years)
>>342869
ALIENATION FROM JOB
REVOLUTION
>>342889
>i am resentful towards people that make money
ok
The year is 395. You are Honorius, emperor of the Western Roman Empire. What do you do /his/?
>>342849
Become Emperor of Italy like a westernized champ
>>342849
Play with my cock.
>>342849
Trust in Stilicho.
Tell me about Basque!
What kind of happenings took place in there?
What do you know about their language and culture?
Were they significant during early middle ages?
What are they today?
>>339150
This is a very broad thread.
>What kind of happenings took place in there?
Discovery of Tungstem
>What do you know about their language and culture?
Language isolate.
>Were they significant during early middle ages?
They remained independant after the fall of Rome, so somewhat yes. They fought agaisnt Goths and Franks and managed to not be absorved by them.
>What are they today?
Western...
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>>339218
Yesterdays /brittany/ was good until it devolved into "fuck the french" so I decided to give another go.
Pic related, basque cider house. They drink a lot of that apple cider, very frequently. I tried it myself, after drinking it I felt the need for eating salty stuff. Basques eat and drink a lot like this, what is the background of these cider houses and culinary history of Basque?
>>339255
Basques has traditionally drink cider, (like other northern peoples in Iberia).
Vines dont grow very well in the Atlantic Spain, and beer is a stupid choice cause well, if you have good place to grow barley, you can grow vines and make more money though wine.
So to get alcohol, they looked for what they had, apples, and thus cider.
ITT: Post RARE Virgins
I'm pretty sure Tesla died a virgin.
>Orthodox
>>338578
>Japan turned Christ into a trap
two nukes weren't enough
Why has Marxism been so attractive to the academic class?
>>377530
It's a great tool for critique and gives you a lot of options to write about.
Plus it's really an extension of a certain side of Hegel, which, already, is pretty cool to think and write about.
Regardless of its accuracy.
>>377530
Being kek is a common theme in leftism, so they want an ideology where they get the same pay as an illiterate dung herder
People want free stuff
![Anatolia-picture[1].gif](https://i.imgur.com/QMsEE9g.gif "Anatolia-picture[1].gif")
What people lived in Anatolia before the Turks?
>>376341
Greeks, Hittites, Armenians
>>376341
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatolia#History
If desire to learn more go through all the volumes of CAH and have a blast.
>>376341
'Turk' is a very broad term. There are mostly native anatolians and Greeks (though both converted to Islam over hundreds of years), and there's a lot of Kurds and Arabs and turkics as well. Turkey is an overall interracial breeding ground
