How many autistic presidents have we had? I know Jefferson was one. Possibly Lincoln.
I think there were a lot of autistic leaders before the arrival of television. Before, appearances didn't matter as much. But with TV, if you acted like an autist, everyone would see you and you'd have no chance of winning.
Woodrow Wilson might have been an autist. Same with Richard Nixon.
Teddy Roosevelt might have been autistic. Like one poster said, those behaviors were more acceptable before TV and the lot came about. It's a shame that psychiatry and their labeling have destroyed the human condition.
Discuss your favorite episodes of Hardcore History here!
Blueprint for Armageddon
It's a shame he charges for so many other episodes
>>291074
The way he described dying in a artillery hole filled with mud and liquified, putrescent human remains... God damn
Why is he always making that "hardcore" face?
History is subjective
and?
objective knowledge doesn't exist
>>291029
Is it not fact?
What did the destruction of the second temple mean for the way Judaism would later evolve?
When I try googling all I find is Christians talking about how it proved that Jesus was right and that Jews are shit (and other things that must've served as a basis for a lot of Catholic antisemitism), but how did it affect the Jews themselves?
Did it reinforce the idea of God/YHVH as a punishing and wrathful god? Did it spread the Jewish diaspora in a way that made Judaism a more abstract and cultural thing rather than being firmly connected to a specific city and temple? How did they react?
>>290958
>What did the destruction of the second temple mean for the way Judaism would later evolve?
The single biggest and most immediate impact was that it broke the power struggle between the Pharisee and Sadducee "parties".
The Sadducees were more literal in their scriptural interpretations, had a number of differing beliefs on things like the afterlife and the proper role of Judaism in the world, and centered around Jerusalem and the Temple priesthood.
They kind of got wiped out, which left the Pharisees winning by default.
> but how did it affect the Jews themselves?
Less than you might think. After all, this had already happened once before, and Judaism bounced back from that. I would honestly argue that the diaspora following the Bar Kokhba revolt had a greater impact on Jewish life nad practice than the Temple sack.
>Did it reinforce the idea of God/YHVH as a punishing and wrathful god
To an extent, but I'm not sure how much. Judaism has had the notion of a cycle of righteousness, blessing, sin, punishment, and repentance for a very, very long time. This was just a punishment phase.
>Did it spread the Jewish diaspora in a way that made Judaism a more abstract and cultural thing rather than being firmly connected to a specific city and temple?
Not really. I mean most Jews didn't even live in Palestine in those times, you had a huge Jewish community in what's now Iraq and western Iran.
>How did they react?
A lot of whining and complaining and it provided the impetus to start writing down oral traditions that would later turn into the Mishnah and the Briasa.
.t Orthodox Jew.
From what I understand the whole city of Jerusalem was pretty much razed to the ground. Temple of Jupiter, similar to that of Baalbek Temple in Lebanon, was built on the site.
Jerome's commentary on Isaiah mentions an equestrian statue of the Emperor Hadrian being placed directly over the site of the Holy of the Holies on the Temple Mount.
Probably doesn't come as surprise that when old Jewish sources mention Hadrian it is always with the epitaph "may his bones be crushed"
>>291084
That's Bar Kokhba again. The temple sack of 70 was Vespasian (officially in command) and Titus (actually in command at the siege by the end).
As an interesting side note, Titus had a Jeiwsh girlfriend before the war, which was considered scandalous for both parties.
Hadrian was almost 50 years later.
Why did the development of mathematics pretty much stagnate after the Greeks until the Renaissance?
Literally because of christianity.
Christian dark ages
>>290951
Math tends to develop when applications requiring more advanced math crop up.
Greek and Roman math had already licked a lot of the problems of the day, mostly involving astronomy and building construction, and there wasn't much of a call for anything more sophisticated until the Renaissance, when the development of telescopes allowed for better astronomical observations, which in turn led to a need for better astronomical models to explain the observations, which in turn meant a need for more advanced mathematical techniques.
Why can't we have a historiographical Marxism discussion without memetic shitters flooding the thread?
I've only an introduction to historiography and major schools of thought so far though my first year units, so it would be good to have a discussion on the pros and cons of Marxist thought as it relates to the study of history (an in-line definition for the memesters that will be too #triggered by the mention of Marx to look up historiography) without retards spamming
>gb2/lit/
and
>i want /leftypol/ to go
Because Carl Marx himself was a fucking meme.
>>290920
This is why OP. /his/ is mostly garbage.
>>290913
Marx was a dumbcunt. His work is made up of incoherent gibberish with points repeated over and over and over again to compensate for his lack of content and insight. Marx was the original memester.
How great were the African kingdoms/empires like Mali?
How well did they compare in terms of technology, trade etc. with contemporary European/Mongol/whatever civilization?
>>290818
Jesus christ, the same troll threads over and over and over.
>>290820
I'm genuinely curious.
>>290818
"no"
It makes perfect sense if you think about:
>Incredibly strong tradition of political centralization including several coup d'etats
>Dominant military meddling in civic life
>Very weak and fragmented parliamentary system with strong extremist parties
>Economic crisis (in the 1930s)
>An external enemy to unite the country against (especially from 1933 onward)
>Three neighbors becoming fascistic and arming to the teeth
>Genuine and quite realistic fear of Bolshevik takeover
>Fascism becoming trendy as hell among French intellectuals; fuck, the country basically invented the movement
>Organized fascistic and populist-authoritarian parties ready to go at it
>Genuine and quite realistic fear of Bolshevik takeover
Except for the part about half of the political class being left wing, the socialist party being the strongest in the country and the communist party being right behind it.
>>290813
This was basically the situation in Germany. The SPD and KPD had clear plurality, had they joined forces. Prussia was also ruled by the left.
>An external enemy to unite the country against (especially from 1933 onward)
which was also fascist
Why did the French revolution fail?
Because they started to involve litteral peasents who had no idea what it was about and the revandication went from
>abolish class privileges and give the people the representation they deserve
to
>burn all churches, kill all nobles
>>290771
Name three revolutions that haven't.
>>290771
did it? it changed the world unreversably
does God exist?
Whose God?
What do you mean by 'exist'?
>2015
>believing in a sky fairy
Is denying that Jesus existed, the atheist equivalent to creationism?
To think, all this Jesus stuff started with some bitch lying about getting knocked up.
>>290641
Not really. You can at least make plausible arguments grounded in historical knowledge that Jesus didn't exist: which will be stronger or weaker depending on how much of the Jesus figure portrayed in the Gospels has to have actually happened for it to count.
Creationism, on the other hand, is just dismissed as flat-out insane even by most religious people, let alone nonbelievers.
What do you folks think about the people who got humiliated after their region was liberated by the Allies from German rule? AFAIK both sexes were involved, but probably more of them were women that slept with german troops.
I think the punishments were pretty absurd, true you may be a traitor and aid the enemy, but still.
>>290607
All those pics of the nude parading women are kind of hot.
>>290607
How many people who did that were quite happy to be under German occupation and only decided to join the resistance on 7th June 1944?
>>290634
Going about your business while ignoring your occupiers is much different than sleeping with the enemy.
What are some universal values that humans value?
It must be applicable to 99.9% of human population. Even better if its applicable to all animals as well (but not a necessity). I'll start.
>Reduction of suffering/Increase in happiness
>>290522
Eating food is good.
There is nothing on earth that every human can agree on.
Sex is good but reproduction is the ultimate vice.
So if Germany had develop the nuclear bomb first during World War Two would they have won?
What if the world was made of pudding?
>>290316
What if the world wasn't made of pudding?
>>290288
Unless they made the bomb in 1943 or earlier, no
What would be the best historical period to live in in America?
I would've liked to live in the Wild West.
>Looking for something to do
>Decide to go to your local saloon
>Grab your holster and Smith & Wesson just in case anyone tries to fuck with you
>Put on your long coat
>Ride your horse to the local saloon
>Have a couple shots, start feeling a nice buzz
>Decide that some hairy pussy sounds nice
>Luckily there are prostitutes there
>Count your money and go downstairs with her
Damn, this period of time sounds bad ass.
pre-columbus
>>290276
Wow, cars sure were advanced in the wild west.
>>290276
I'm sure life was hell in the wild west compared to present day but I'm with you on that one.
Tho I'd want to devote my life being a farmer, living off the land and driving away those pesky redskin bastards.
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