Post pictures of Nazis having fun.
Or any army. I'm mainly interested in seeing "the enemy" in a human light, though.
>>81708
Nothing like fear to make you feel alive
>>82066
What's he throwing? A brick?
>>81708
You know, they were welcomed as liberators in a lot of villages they passed through.
Just how brutal and violent was the Spanish conquest of Latin America, and how many of the stories are British / French propaganda?
For example, did the Spanish really crucify old and weak natives en masse after enslaving able bodied men and raping young women?
>enslaving able bodied men and raping young women?
most likely true
>crucify old and weak natives en masse
why would they bother. Maybe they executed the highest nobles and clergy in an exemplary way
It was pretty fucked up and there are reports of systematic rape of nobles and priestess.
Overall they were less brutal then when the United States pushed west.
>>81583
>implying "MUUH AZTECS. FUCK THE SPANIARDS" isn't all about the Black Legend spread amongst the Anglo scholars
>implying
The societal system in Spain's colonies was far more advanced than that and established the way for admixture between Spaniards and natives, something that was frowned upon by other colonial powers. Also, their treatment of indegenous populations were miles ahead from other colonial powers (namely UK and Portugal) in the Americas.
Which country was the foremost industrial power by 1861? 1914?
>>81486
>1861?
UK
>1914?
USA followed by Germany and the UK
USA
>>81486
>1914
USA USA USA USA USA
ITT: your favorite book(s) about history
>not sure if pic is related
>>81478
>long story short people from CT and RI were fucking nuts back then
not even kidding
>>81725
What is this about?
Post your favorite Nietzsche quotes:
>The formula of our happiness: a Yea, a Nay, a straight line, a goal...
>Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing. That was the most arrogant and mendacious minute of "world history," but nevertheless, it was only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths, the star cooled and congealed, and the clever beasts had to die. One might invent such a fable, and yet he still would not have adequately illustrated how miserable, how shadowy and transient, how aimless and arbitrary the human intellect looks within nature. There were eternities during which it did not exist. And when it is all over with the human intellect, nothing will have happened.
>>81487
Love that essay
>What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and; anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions- they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force, coins which have lost their embossing and are now considered as metal and no longer as coins.
>>81547
He was pretty much a post-modernist before modernism even happened.
Why do ancient civilizations and religions have so much in common? Even on different continents that had no connection to each other? And how did they have knowledge of celestial bodies that are not visible from Earth without a telescope? Were religion, astronomy, architechture, and alchemy taught to the ancients by the anunnaki?
The thing that really puzzles me is how Mesoamerican cultures had both pyramids and dragons.
What about the Nazca lines aka runways? And the airplane statues? So many questions with no answer that makes sense... unless the anunnaki are factored in, then all of the answers become clear. How else would the pyramids have been built? And why else would people all across the world have revered the pyramid shape and worshipped very similar gods, having very similar beliefs of the afterlife and all believing in dragons?
>>81387
You mean that they had/believed in these things just like people in Egypt and Asia?
What's the best /his/ vidya?
>>81325
Rome: Total War.
Age of Empires 2.
I prefer Rome 2: Total War
Talk about Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, and Korean history here my brothers.
WE WUZ QINGZ N SHIET
>>81608
Why did I laugh
Tang Dynasty best dynasty
Opinion on this magnificent bastard?
>>81131
A great military general who definitely deserves top 10. Too bad he was at a disadvatage at Zama.
>>81131
Arguably the single best general in human history. Lost
the war because of political infighting and the incompetence of Carthaginian nobility.
>posting a fake depiction of Hannibal
cia history?
bump tbqh
>>81086
Did the CIA really create and distribute crack to black neighborhoods in the US to fund off-the-books operations?
I say yes.
>>81086
bamp
>oldest written languages that we know of date back to around 3000 B.C.
>humans have been around for around 100,000 years
what the fuck were they doing?
>>81052
shagging, mainly, desu senpai
spending all their calories in some less efficent form of survival, fucking and fucking goats?
>>81052
Civs only started emerging in Mesopotamia c. 1500 BC
Now that we can discuss religion here without having to recommend literature for it all the time, let's discuss Buddhism, shall we?
What are your opinions of each of the three traditions? Do you practice? Thoughts on the Dalai Lama? General discussion on the history of Buddhism?
All topics welcome here. Buddhism general, I guess.
Will post related images.
>already on page 3
Damn, board moves faster than I thought it would.
>>80903
There is so much to unlearn that it's too bad they burned all the libraries.
Anyone else follow this dude?
Seems smart as fuck. I say that with a minor in philosophy with a focus on logic. This dude speaks logically.
/his/ thoughts?
Video for uninitiated.
WLC debate Harris.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqaHXKLRKzg
He only looks smart in comparison to retards like Harris. Listen to him debate academic philosophers like Shelley and he gets destroyed
>>81009
Yeah harris is a retard. Did you know he has only writeen like 3 academic papers?
Also, I havn't seen that one. HIs academic work seems pretty good.
Literally /pol/ would be better for discussing this.
Are there any good documentaries on the soviet union? also general cold war thread
pistolgrip on an ak always looks pretty retarded desu
I always wondered how was the common house hold in the USSR?
What did it have? radios?
What kind of furniture did it have?
>>80547
Legitimately thought that was George Costanza
ITT we discuss: pre-colonial Africa whether it be domestication, Nation-State formation, culture, society and arts
Has Somalia ever not been a shithole?
>>80565
Somalia as a modern nation is a recent manifestation of European border making and nationalists attempting to unite all Somali language speaking people.
The real question is were there ever successful nations in what is now called Somalia and the answer of course is yes: Ajuran Sultanate was a naval trading power in the Indian Ocean.
>>80565
They have some old cities. I think of Somalia's history to be somewhat similar to the history of Arabia
I know they traded with the Indians and Romans
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