Find a flaw.
>pax mongolica
>dragged Sinic and Islamic civilizations 300 years back so the west got the chance to lead in modernization
10/10
Bitches, gold, nice horses(substitute for nice car) and fighting. Literally the dream life.
Can we get a /his/tory pic dump going? Gonna dump some of my own, please feel free to contribute.
>>79024
Nuclear detonations are so beautiful.
Regan's assassination attempt
Overrated Generals
>>78734
>Caesar
>overrated
Granted, his failure to conquer Southeast Britain was embarrassing but his conquest of Gaul was impressive.
>>78843
Wasn't to embarrassing, Caesar lead the first successful invasion of Britain, and they installed a friendly king, I'm guessing if his hands weren't tied with Gaul he would have made more of an effort
You are teleported to Berlin back in 1939 what do you do?
Leave.
> tfw hebrew
>>78649
this
Were the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki justified?
In a military tactical sense yes
In a moral sense no but that's total war for you
yes
winners_write_history/10
>>78485
Compared to the alternative, yes.
can we have a fun facts thread?
I have one
>facts are meme history
this is just like leddit or /pol/
The oldest wheeled vehicle was discovered in Slovenia dated from around 3300bc
fun fact: on December 13, 1937, about 30 Japanese soldiers murdered all but two of 11 Chinese in the house at No. 5 Xinlukou. A woman and her two teenaged daughters were raped, and Japanese soldiers rammed a bottle and a cane into her vagina. An eight-year-old girl was stabbed, but she and her younger sister survived. They were found alive two weeks after the killings by an elderly woman.
Despite the fact that I've studied most of western civilization, I've never got around to learning about Napoleon. I know he's a short French man who is really a short Italian man.
I love Revolutionary France and the Napoleonic wars - very fascinating. It is worth noting that Napoleon was not actually short - he was 5'6 which was average height for a man at the time. Also he was Corsican, which basically is Italian but they had their own language (a derivative form of Italian) and all. He also hated France until his mid 20's, at which time he was a Brigadier-General for the French army.
>>78069
Watch Sharpe senpai.
Waterloo (The 70's Russian-Italian film) is also breddy gud.
That's how I got myself interested in the Napoleonic wars.
Revolutionary France is insanity, well worth reading up on. Good reads: Glory and Terror, Antoine De Baecque
Zizek presents Robespierre: Virtue and Terror
Napoleon is a great study, but can't remeber any good reads on him off the top of my head.
As for things I know nothing about: World War I/II
Muh public school.
Ask me any question you have about the Roman Empire. I'll do my best to answer for the next hour and a half.
FAQs
> Why did Rome Fall?
In short, constant civil war from the 3rd century to the fall of the Western Empire, though the Byzantines were plagued by the same problem. Read Adrian Goldsworthy's How Rome Fell, which is probably the best book about the Late Empire.
Who was the best emperor
>>78041
Some possible candidates:
> Augustus
Established the principate, probably saved the Roman world order. Laid the foundation of autocratic rule in the West.
>Hadrian
Basically set the Empire to embrace reasonable geographic limits instead of constant expansion.
> Gallienus
This guy was a big deal in the third century crisis; he basically had to deal with an Empire that was splitting in three and had very little to work with yet did ok. Very underrated. Embraced crucial cavalry reforms that made the army more competitive in the East against the rising Sassanid threat.
> Aurelian
The restorer of the world, managed to reunite the Roman world against incredible odds; destroyed the Palmyrene Empire of Zenobia, bringing the east back into the fold.
Continued...
What is the most significant technology in all of history?
I vote either paper or written language.
>>77953
fire /thread
the writing utensil
The internet. We can't even witnessed what the internet end game will be.
It's time to give back to your favorite podcasters! Share with /his/ the best history-related podcasts out there and help expand their audience!
Let's start with the heavyweights
1. Dan Carlin's Hardcore History (Part free)
>Grand in scope and length, expect series lasting more than 12 hours. (IMPORTANT: Only the later episodes are free, the earlier ones can be bought on his website/iTunes)
good starter picks: Wrath of the Khans (Rise of the Mongol Empire), Death Throes of the Republic (Rise of the Gracchi to the assasination of Julius Caesar), Blueprint for Armageddon (WWI)
>Average episode time (on the later ones) is probably around ~3 hours
http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-series/
2. Mike Duncan - The History of Rome (Completely free)
>The only (and most comprehensive) retelling of the history of Rome, from its mythical origins to the Western Empire's fall in 476. 179 episodes long. (IMPORTANT: Please bear the first few episodes, Mike was still finding his own pace and his microphone sucked. Quality will improve later on.)
>Average episode time is around 30 mins, barring the earlier episodes which average around 15 mins.
http://thehistoryofrome.typepad.com/
3. Robin Pierson - The History of Byzantium (Free, ongoing)
>Free except for 1 non-free episode (the justinian plague iirc?), The History of Byzantium continues the Roman story where the History of Rome left off.
>Average episode time is around 30 mins.
http://thehistoryofbyzantium.com/
4. Mike Duncan - Revolutions (Free, ongoing but on hiatus)
>Mike Duncan of History of Rome fame returns to tackle revolutions around the world. Currently the series has 3 complete parts: The English, American, and French revolutions. Mike's currently on hiatus and will return in December for the Haitian Revolution
>Average episode time is around 30 mins.
http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/
Don't forget to give podcasts you like iTunes reviews! (maybe contribute to their patreon too if they have one)
In Our Time is also a heavyweight.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/ioth
My personal picks
5. Futility Closet
>Hosted by husband and wife team Greg and Sharon Ross, the podcast explores historical curiosities and oddities from Greg's research and eponymous blog.
>Average episode time is around 30 mins
>http://www.futilitycloset.com/category/podcast/
6. Nate Di Meo - The Memory Palace
>Ethereal, beautiful, and sentimental, The Memory Palace extols various stories from American history. Nate's narration is elegant, and the stories sometimes bittersweet.
http://thememorypalace.us/
starter episodes:
>Episode 12 (These Words, Forever)
>Episode 30 (Nee Weinberg)
>Episode 44 (Distance)
>>77926
I listened to Dan Carlin's Wrath of the Khans a few weeks ago and it got me interested in Chinese history. Any suggestions?
Why did Zoroastrianism decline, and why was it replaced so easily with Islam?
>>77864
>Why did Zoroastrianism decline
Mainly legal laws which favoured Islam. Causing all but the most devout to convert to gain advantages.
>and why was it replaced so easily with Islam
It wasn't. Zoroastrianism was the majority religion of Persia until the first millenium.
Islam was just more memetic.
Literally.
Only aggressively viral ideas spread and dominate human minds.
I mean come on, /his/, they had the lowest taxes than any other British colony. And the American Revolution was primarily based on the fact that the North American colonists didn't have representation in Parliament for their taxation.
I was even told Britain was going to give them representation in due time if it wasn't for them rebelling.
Tbh senpai, imho, I think USA shouldn't have seceded from her mother country Britain. What do you all think?
I'd go as far as saying that it happened, therefore it was.
Of course, I'm just saying but... yeah.
Yes
It permitted them to become a superpower instead of ending up like Canada because of Britain's loser influence
>>77618
That's one broad ass question.
No seriously, I mean the ethics of taxation, representation, colonialism... I don't think I could answer the question in less than 2 hours anon.
Who's your favorite assassin, /his/?
Destroyer of meme empires.
the hashashins desu
me desu
What does /his/ think of the Qing dynasty?
I think the Qing dynasty is really interesting. I've been taking a grad seminar with a Chinese history expert and we've spent a good amount of time on them, mostly on the McCartney mission, comparative global history, and Qing governance in SW China.
Just finished reading The Great Divergence a week ago and I'm curious about /his/'s reaction to the sort of exacting cliometric history Pomeranz uses to build his argument that the Qing dynasty was not inherently less disposed towards industrializing, but failed to do so because of its coal deposits and lack of colonial peripheries (in really reduced terms). Do ya'll think Qing China could have equalled Great Britain if they had been more interested in acquiring overseas markets and that they were actually a very dynamic people, or do you guys think that the letter form the Qianlong emperor where he rejects western technology wholesale is a reflection of cultural stagnancy in the Qing empire at the time?
Europe's favorite punching ball
How do you pronounce Qing /his/?
"Chin" or "Queen"?
"Chin" here
>i must unite the germanic peoples under one flag
what did he mean by this? why didnt he force austria to join?
>>77434
>Austria didn't want to give up Hungary and Slavic lands.
>Prussia didn't want Slavs and Hungarians in greater Germany if it were to exist.
>One of the two major kings would have had to stand down, a huge humiliation.
Grossdeutchland lösung would have been awesome though.
>>77434
>the germanic peoples
The German peoples
Stop using German and Germanic as synonyms
Germans are ONE Germanic people AMONG MANY OTHERS
Germanic is to German what Slavic is to Polish
Bismarck wanted to unite the Germans people (Bavarians, Hanoverians, Prussians, Austriians...) not the Germanic peoples (Swedes, Danes, Norvegians, Germans, Dutch, Brits...)
>>77434
If he annexed Austria it would have compomised the power of the Protestant Prussians within Germany. Also unlike a certain Kaiser that came later Bismarck understood Germany needed as many strong allies as possible. Austria-Hungary was a perfect ally.
