Omo 1 is (as of right now anyway) the earliest member of our species. Without him, we might not have existed (maybe Neanderthals would have conquered the rest of the Homos through sex like we did).
Prehistoric human thread by the way.
>>283562
Homo is the name of our genus. When I refer to Homos, I'm referring to humans, from Homo habilis to Homo sapiens.
Please tell me you're trolling.
>>283649
Of course he's trolling you autist.
>>283669
Do you really think some people wouldn't be that stupid Anon?
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http://selectsmart.com/philosophy/
Same as you OP, except I got the Epicureans on number 2.
>>283424
Ayn Rand is way too high on my list, but otherwise believeable
Why were all of his successors such incredibly inept fucks?
>>283325
Kruschev was actually a decent ruler: he pushed forward soviet science (especially computers and space development), invested in infrastructure, agriculture and consumer goods and was less of a dictatorial prick. Sure some of his programs did not work, but the same could be said of Stalin.
>>283325
Stalin did more harm to the Soviet Union than any of his successors (Gorbachev notwithstanding).
Cause if I were to root for anybody, I would root for Japan.
>>283168
Root for somebody that doesn't attack a state locked in a civil war.
>>283168
>Imperial Japan
Literally the memmest part of the memmest war.
>>283178
Even their own philosophers largely stopped rooting for Japan once it became clear the regime was terminally retarded.
how did these even happens
Everyone in the Balkans/Anatolia is, was, and will be retarded
Shit goes back to the Torjan war
How did this thread even happen?
>>283076
i was lurking /int/ and saw one of those meme pictures on /balk/ and here i am
Is this the most embarrassing 19th to 20th century European nation?
Why is it so popular to make fun of the French as being bad at war when these clowns exist?
19th-20th century Italy thread.
>>283048
Not half as embarrassing as your thread.
>Italians putting pressure on Ethiopia during reign of Yohannes IV
>Ethiopians capture some Italian travellers and demand that Italy pull out of the town they had occupied
>Italy sends a brigade of 500 men to fortify
>it's ambushed and slaughtered
>Rome quietly sends the Ethiopia 1000 rifles asking for them to let the travellers go and forget about the whole thing
And I thought Adwa was embarrassing.
>>283051
Sorry Giovanni.
Suppose you get to choose which language becomes the lingua franca of the world.
Which language do you pick and what are the merits of that language that other languages do not have?
>>283030
Classical Latin
Emojis xDDDD
>>283030
English.
Because it already is. God save the Queen!
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What did he mean by this?
>>282862
It means he dindu nuffin and you should accept him as the true upholder of the Han dynasty.
>>282869
Well that much is obvious, but I was hoping for help on that specific quote.
>>282879
It means he would rather be a cunning sly asshole than be fucked over by other people.
Am I the only one who really can't read anglo-saxons historians ? Not because what they say is difficult, but the way they write, always trying to make jokes, weird comparaisons, and they also seem to rely heavily on anecdotes.
I really can't take them seriously, it's like there is nothing scientific about what they're writing.
>>282842
>this faggot
>historian
History isn't a science. It's literature.
>>282889
Obviously, the pic isn't related.
Is there even any solid evidence that the theory of Eternal Recurrence could be true?
>>282773
It's not a theory and it's not supposed to be true.
It's just supposed to inspire you to enjoy life as much as possible.
It's supposed to be a thought experiment.
That said there are cosmological models that do say that the universe will "recur eternally". If determinism is true than there is the possibility the universe could occur the exact same way every time.
>>282774
>enjoy
accept
the behavior towards the eternal return as if it were assured to happen would lead to the destruction of aversion and avidity, so it would lead to unshakable equanimity.
So did these things actually exist or was it just the chinese over compensating and making things up? For whatever reason most depictions compare it to Colombus
>>282762
No, the Chinese did not have ships the size of fucking cities.
At best they were twice the size of contemporary European ships.
>>282762
WE WUZ PRIVATEERS N SHIT
Is there any upper level on how large a wooden ship can be built in practise?
Will I ever be relevant?
Hasnt every time someone follows her ideals lead to the company pretty much ruining itself?
She is relevant, just not respected.
>>282605
Only relevant in North America
In many sources writing about medieval times, the recurring meme is how decentralized Europe was at the time. It didn't have a boss: neither empire nor central nation-state that ran the shot. It's spoken of as basically an extremely complex system of loyalties without anything like a central power.
How accurate would you say this idea is? Was it really the case, or is it primarily because the middle ages were stuck between two rather centralized periods (Rome and the modern nation state system)?
>>282547
Poland and Hungary were the bosses but they were written out of the history books by the J that shall not be named.
>>282550
Why would they write out Poland when Poland has historically treated Jews far better than anywhere else?
>>282550
Why would the Jesuits have a beef with central Europe? It's entirely christian and predominantly catholic.
Who is the greatest Holy Roman Emperor ? and why it is Charles V.
>>282517
WE
>>282518
WERE
>>282521
HEROES
I have read that the Roman Empire had produced so much lead and other metals that they created measurable pollution. Was it ever a possibility of Rome starting the Industrial Revolution 1500 years earlier or did the Revolution require for serfdom to have happened first?
it was just from mining
>>282509
i think the industrial revolution needed neighboring superpowers with relatively small core territories to have happened. western europe was ideal for this and that is why it happened there first
imagine how interesting our world would be
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