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Do University's in general teach a bias view point of history? I'm interested in the Colonial and Imperial ages but wish to learn the truth, and I feel that anything from a Uni would be painted in a lefty POC favoured way.
>>327350
All history is biased. "Unbiased" history is impossible. The "truth" doesn't exist. Only the documentary record of the past, and what historians have written based on that, exists.
It varies. I've had lecturers who are pretty much proto-fascists, and some who are two inches away from being the next Lenin.
I'm doing a module on European colonisation in Africa right now and I don't know what to tell you. I mean - we all basically agree that the Europeans were pretty bad, but just saying that isn't enough, so it goes into quite a bit of detail and nuance. But if you want some professor that white people diddun do nuffin go read Niall Ferguson or some shit.
>ywn live in the 1920s Berlin
>>327203
>Work my way up to the higher postitions in the goverment.
>Tell Hitler about not invading russia and the future of american atom bombs.
>>327203
ywn experience the hedonism that was nightlife during the Weimar republic
>>327203
>return home from the war
>everyone is poor
>prostitutes and painting are my only salvation
I have two questions about Noam Chomsky
1. Is he right that wage slavery is no different than chattel slavery (plantations, etc.)
2. Is he right that socialist beliefs such as the belief that mill workers should own the mills were mainstream in America post civil war?
>>326777
but why would a Jew, who are stereotypically viewed as avaricious and power-loving, want socialism? that doesn't make sense.
>>326750
you're wrong.
1. he doesn't claim it's the same, but he says it's not much better.
2. notice that he uses actual evidence in support of this.
No and No
what does /his/ think of the history channel?
tripe. not a valuable source of legitimate info. good for mind numbing tabloid sensationalism about nazi occultism and aliens but little more.
>>327731
>nazi occultism and aliens
Not anymore. Now it's pawn shops and rednecks
What went wrong?
>>318486
The power of God is directly related to the amount of people who believe in him.
It's like the Gods of the warp in 40k.
>>318515
Or like the lady of the lake in Merlin.
Or fairies in neverland.
It's actually kind of true with religion. Look at how much power and influence the Catholic Church used to have. They were literally more powerful because so many people believed
is this like a fetish? arguing about god?
Who is your favourite personality of the Three Kingdoms era, /his/?
Dong Zhuo literally did nothing wrong.
caocaos uncle
may he rest in peace
What advantages/opportunities did the Caliphates have that allowed them to gain so much land in such a short amount of time after Muhammad's death?
>>315015
I guess unified purpose in face of unorganized or distracted (with other conflicts) opponents (or against organized focused opponents, but with less motivation).
>>315015
Only a few opponents offered any real resistance.
A lot of the land was occupied by desert nomads and tribals who were no real threat.
>>315015
Diplomacy and culture that allowed the Arabs to unite the nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and North Africa, something the ERE and Persians had never managed to do without crushing them or else crowning a puppet to handle it. When the Arabs invaded Syria and Iraq they didn't bother marching on the cities like the Romans and Persians would have always done, but instead made treaties with the countryside to join them first before surrounding urban centers and simply waiting for their surrender.
Was he right?
Look up hedonic adaptation/the hedonic treadmill
he's literally describing the first noble truth of buddhism
>>339939
100% desu
Why are our (England's) philosophers so shit?
Why were the steppe empires so short lived and easily forgotten?
>>339709
A steppe empire is like a gasoline spill and a lit match. It spread quick, and destroys just about everything it touches, but goes out really quickly.
>>339709
Because usually they are fucking rackets.
Steppe Nomads don't build a Khanate using borders and cities like standard kingdoms because there aint none in the Steppes. A Khanate is built upon how many people bend their knee to you and your ability to protect said people. A small diplomatic insult among civilizations is a major scandal among Steppe Nomad tribes, and an insult to their Khan and their Khan's authority, and results to war.
To put it simply: Steppe Nomad States are like Gangsta Protection...
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>>339742
>Also the Nomads are super-prone to resting on their laurels phenomena.
Way to completely invalidate everything you wrote before that.
Lusitania propaganda thread because, why not
one of my favorites. Wilson ignoring Uncle Sam bringing victims from the Lusitania ashore.
Okay, friends, how do we bring back jousting/tilting as an actual sport? I was thinking about this in the car the other day and I said to myself, "modern jousting would be awesome." When I got home, I searched for it on the computer and all I got was the shitty Renaissance fair, televised wrestling-tier scripted shit and that lame as hell and mostly boring Full Metal Jousting.
Tilting is easy as hell to understand, entertaining, competitive, and just as potentially dangerous as American handegg. How do we bring it back?
First, how would we make it safe and legitimate in the same time?
>>338583
It's safe enough already.
I don't understand what you mean by legitimate.
>>338587
Well you mentioned it's scripted so I assumed that's how they made it safe.
How is it already safe? You ride at horse-miles-per hour at your opponent with a joust.
Is there a way to put aside ethnic differences and unite to be, you know, an actual functional country instead of tiny little irrevelant shitholes on the balkans and the carphatians?
Is there a country which made this possible besides Belgium, and well maybe the US?
>Is there a way to put aside ethnic differences and unite to be, you know, an actual functional country instead of tiny little irrevelant shitholes
NOT ON MY WATCH
Britain to some extent
USSR
>>338340
Almost every single fucking country in Europe has different ethnic groups working together in some form or fashion.
Does India just have no pride? Their entire history is them just being the bitch of some stronger nation and getting utterly BTFO in battles. Why are they so easy to invade and conquer time and time again? Pic related.
>>338238
Why does everyone ignore that the kingdom of cochin won too, they were literally the rulers of the kingdom and zamorin was just a meme guy anyway who claimed the kingdom but wasn't actually in control of it.
Looks like exageration
>each soldier killed 19 enemies
Did they not have weapons or something?
>>338257
>13,000 to disease
>no designated shitting vessels
History topics you're tired of hearing about.
I'll start with one I'm sure would be common:
>WW2
>tfw dad is way into ww2 but i've read about it so much that i've burnt out of it and now read about other time periods.
I'm sorry dad ;_;
>>338216
>family knows i like history
>get a massive ww2 history book by Hastings or Beevor every year
>way more into classical history
>>338192
>Communists
Just stop, /his/, you've been babbling about them since the board was born
>why Communism no work?
>no Communist state was true Communism by my personal definition
>actual people who grew up behind the iron curtain saying how much they hated it
>capitalism r bad
>why Communism no work?
There,...
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What does /his/ think of Confucius?
Guy was to East Asia what Socrates/Plato/Aristotle was to the West but do you agree with his philosophies?
>>337926
>inb4 Class freeze. LE HIVEMIND, anti-learning posts.
>mountains = tall
>emperor = far away
>>337926
He seemed like an alright guy. When I read the analects his morals seemed a bit more flexible and less authoritarian than I was expecting, but I guess before that I'd mostly just heard daoists talking shit.
Mozi best zi tho
