History, to me, is an escape from the current culture and time. People today are not like the noble ancients, they are people living false lives. When I read about history I realize that I am looking back on realistic people, people who lived in the moment, people who were mindful.
Imagine being so mindful and steeped in culture that the very act of looking at someone would be written down for all generations to read about.
The modern world is truly disgusting, full of trivial natured nonsense, and people who literally don't know the meaning of the words honour and shame.
I would gladly live a shorter life if it meant I could live in the times of my ancestors.
>>343169
>People today are not like the noble ancients, they are people living false lives.
This is an observation that every generation makes. The ancient greeks also thought the same way you do. Wake up sheeple!
>>343169
>noble ancients
Alright /his/, let's have at it.
>Your fields/Historical eras of expertise (OK, not expertise, but that you know more than the average Anon about)
>Basic introductory reading material that you'd recommend for a complete newb in said field/era
>More advanced and thorough reading material that you'd recommend for people once they've gotten past the basic introductory stuff
I wouldn't say i'm a huge expert on the Fall of Rome, i've only skimmed through maybe 4 books.
The newer books offer much better summeries than the older books, such as Gibbons, but I wouldn't recomend being a casual, for one particular reason: The accounts of all the older books is different. For instance, AsiImov claims Stilicho sold out to Alaric, or at least fed rumors that this happened, and was killed by his own men in a church. This account of Stilicho differs from others, which I don't have memory to elaborate on.
But yeah, older, opinionated sources, when read together, make you really question the motives and mindset of the people, and the newer sources tend to be "Well this guy died because he was retarded."
Ukrainian history
>Basic
Subtelny's History of Ukraine
http://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-A-History-Orest-Subtelny/dp/1442609915
Then Magocsi's Illustrated History
http://www.amazon.com/Ukraine-Illustrated-Paul-Robert-Magocsi/dp/1442627565/
Avoid Magosci's other works.
>Advanced
They're all in Ukrainian lel. Well just in case:
>Cмoлiй B.A. (peд.) Icтopiя Укpaїни: нoвe бaчeння. У 2 т. К.Укpaїнa
>Cмoлiй B.A. (peд.) Icтopiя yкpaїнcькoгo кoзaцтвa Hapиcи: У 2 т. Bид.дiм Києвo-Moгилянcькa aкaдeмiя
>Пoлiтичнa icтopiя Укpaїни. ХХ cт. У 6 т. К. Гeнeзa
>>343361
Orthoboo here, anything you could recommend about the Church in Kievan Rus?
So I've got a 12 page research paper for my History of England class due in 2 days on Friday. We didn't really get this far but I've decided to do my paper on the decline in power of the English Empire.
I wanted to ask you all: What do you think are the biggest factors to the decline in power of the British Empire?
Obviously I'm not going to be referencing to or really using anything from here but it'll give me a starting point of what I should and shouldn't research and how I'll lay out my paper. I don't wanna waste time researching stuff I'm not gonna use since I've only got two days left to write this thing.
>12 page
Are there still idiots that don't go by word count?
>>343098
Relative decline of the firepower available for deployment relative to the needs created by the empire.
The UK could never sustain an empire that big in the late 20th century, it could never bring overwhelming strength into one problem area. This was possible in the past, with more isolated rebellions being sustainable to smaller British units, making the empire both affordable and worthwhile. By at least the 1920's it was clear that the UK had lost the monopoly of firepower on the seas, and new innovations like airpower could not make up the gap in power lost.
>>343106
Well it's not so much as a hard 12 page minimum as a general idea of about how long it should end up being based on how much information students generally get in per page.
Is most all "alternative" subculture rooted in romanticism?
Lately it seems more post-modernist, despite this kind of culture never having embraced modernism in its own right.
Emo was romanticist, punk was modern at first but became pomo
you're generalizing
>>343057
>>343057
Post modernists are even more against romanticism than modernism.
The fault with modernism is that it failed to be truly "enlightened" it was never self-critical and always had an unshakable faith in progress.
Romanticism only regresses us further, post-modernist seek to fix the issues of modernism, not to end the project.
So /his/, what book are you currently reading?
I'm rolling through this at the moment like it's anuddah blitzkrieg. Capitivating and uncomplicated account of life for ordinary French citizens during WW2.
I'm about half way through this.
Very good look at Nazi policy and views through the last few months of the war. Nothing really new, but a very good account nevertheless.
>>342940
>>342940
Back to a classic.
Blach´s work are always enjoyable.
>neolithic agricultural revolution
>not the most important event in human history
>>342791
You mean neolithic beta uprising senpai
>>342791
>not the worst event in human history
>>342798
Jeryd Dyamunds, pls go
Was Charles I an idiot or a martyr?
>>342680
He was alright, not great, but not terrible either.
Had great in art.
King Charles took a Coronation Oath and should have remembered his duty was to his people instead of trying to kill as many of them as possible.
He was a bit of an autist t b h
So is it true that Japan would have been pretty much unstoppable had they not entered war with America?
why would you think that? no
Also I read somewhere that originally banzai charges were actually well coordinated sneak attacks where they sneak up on enemy behind lines and yell banzai only at the last minute as they stab their swords into the enemy?
There was Russia too...
They should have kept a defensive position in regards to Russia and just stop for a while their conquests.
You have a choice
US Marine during the Pacific campaign
German in Stalingrad
British soldier in WW1 Flanders
US soldier during the Tet offensive
What do you choose and why
>>342447
US soldier during the Tet offensive seems the least shitty.
>>342447
>US Marine during the Pacific campaign\
No pussy
>German in Stalingrad
Slav pussy
>British soldier in WW1 Flanders
No pussy
>US soldier during the Tet offensive
Vietcong pussy
So German in Stalingrad it is
>>342447
Probably being Westmorland.
I've never understood something.
WHAT PRACTICAL PURPOSE DO THESE TYPES OF HELMETS SERVE?
IT LEAVES A HUGE OPENING ON YOUR FOREHEAD. AND COSTS MORE MATERIALS AND MORE TIME TO PRODUCE THAN JUST A GOOD OL' BOWL SHAPED HELMET
>>342433
OK BUT IT HELPS YOU SEE SHIT WHILE PROTECTING YOUR FACE FROM OVERHEAD ATTACKS
>>342433
Fashionable as hell...
>>342433
The crest and the lip stop blows better then just a bowl of metal on your head.
A popular topic amongst popular culture is the idea of Germany winning WWII, and the fallout that would ensue from that. However, less often toyed with is the repercussions of Germany winning WWI.
So, what do you think /his/, do you think that the Germans could have actually won WWI? What would've had to change to make this possible, if it is at all? And what would be the repercussions of this?
Honestly, I would predict that Germany would now be the dominant world power, with imperialism never ending, due to WWII not disillusioning the world with the concept. Greatly expanded overseas German Empire, potentially Fascist France rising up around the time that Hitler did in our time, Austro-Hungary surviving, liberalizing, and becoming the Danubian Federation. Isolationist US, and a stable Middle East, due to Ottoman Empire not being carved up by the British and French.
>>342350
>do you think that the Germans could have actually won WWI
Nope. Not while fighting so many countries at the same time. They were bound to drop dead sooner or later out of sheer exhaustion.
Willy II fucked up the foreign policy so bad it's painful to watch.
>>342376
Breaking the alliance with Russia *shudder*. He even fired Bismarck, the greatest statesman of all time!
But what if the Schlieffen plan succeeded? Germany could've then pivoted towards Russia and focused their efforts there, with the Empire likely collapsing if the revolution continued as per normal. The rapid fall of France could've dissuaded Britain. Of if the U.K chose not to intervene for other reasons?
>>342350
They couldn't have one. Before the Armistice was signed the new government asked the military high command, (Hindenburg and Ludendorff) if they could win the war and they said they couldn't because they had exhausted pretty much all their man power.
"I heard that through the town he went,
And heathen widows' wild lament
Resounded in the empty halls;
For every townsman flies or falls."
General crusade thread. Was it a christian victory or not?
>>342166
>christian
>victory
>>342166
They had some impressive military feats, but it was ultimately a failure as they were driven out of the Levant.
> Was it a christian victory or not?
In the short term - it sorta was. In the long term they fucked up things and practically destroyed the only viable Christian state in the region, resulting in the eventual rise of Ottomans and their conquest of the rest of Asia Minor, Greece, Balkans, Hungary, Romania, all the way up to the sieges of Vienna. So yeah, christian victory my ass.
What are some interesting and disturbing means of execution throughout history? and which would be the worse way to go?
The brazen bull seems like a fun way to go out.
Edward II of England, who was a flaming homo, was killed in his jail cell by orders of his wife Isabelle of France by getting assraped with a hot iron.
>>342152
I for one don't think anything tops being flayed alive.
>>342152
Adultery was punished in ancient China by mounting the adulterer on a wooden horse.
On the seat of the wooden horse is a phallus, which would be inserted into the adulterer's vaginal or anal orifice. The phallus is connected to a cog which is moved by the wheels attached to the legs of the horse turning. So when the wooden horse is wheeled along the road, the phallus would be push by the cogs up and down the orifice of the adulterer.
This is done until the adulterer is either dead or passed out from the pain.
Daily reminder that religion was BTFO by Russel's Teapot, and Betrand Russel in general
> The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings.
>here are a great many ways in which, at the present moment, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon all sorts of people undeserved and unnecessary suffering. And of course, as we know, it is in its major part an opponent still of progress and improvement in all the ways that diminish suffering in the world, because it has chosen to label as morality a certain narrow set of rules of conduct which have nothing to do with human happiness; and when you say that this or that ought to be done because it would make for human happiness, they think that has nothing to do with the matter at all. "What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy."
>Love as a relation between men and women was ruined by the desire to make sure of the legitimacy of children.
>The psychology of adultery has been falsified by conventional morals, which assume, in monogamous countries, that attraction to one person cannot coexist with a serious affection for another. Everybody knows that this is untrue.
>The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress without which human society would stand still or retrogress.
>>342114
Christians don't like being keked and raising someone else's kids.
>>342114
Love as it is viewed today is a modern innovation desu
>>342114
>Bronze-Age tribes in the Middle East
>Oriental Despots
kek
>morals
>not helping people live better, more fulfilling lives
KEK
>Love as we think of it being a concern before relatively recently
KEKS
>Adultery is good
>Because not being honest about what you're looking for in a relationship beforehand is a reason to betray someone's deep trust in you
MANY KEKS
>Religion neither seeks to understand nor improve the world
>Because it's not like most encourage te seeking of knowledge and the helpig of others or anything
MAXIMUM KEKS
ITT retarded shit historical conspiracy theories you encounter on the internet
>all Jesus depictions are based on Cesare Borgia
>all ancient American and Asian civilizations are actually started from ancient advanced Aryans
>every historical civilization was actually black
Both sides of the same coin, both equally retarded.
>Jesus didn't exist
If you think theres a decent chance that Jesus didn't exist, then I hope you apply that same standard to Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Siddhartha Gautama, Socrates etc. We have more about Jesus than any of them.
>>341864
>more on Jesus than Alexander or Napoleon
Shiggy
