I am really interested in old expeditions, preferably in the victorian era. Everything was so unknown back then, there were mysteries everywhere.
Sadly I don't really know much about famous explorers or expeditions, but I'd love to learn about it.
What are some of the best travel journals from the georgian/victorian/edwardian era (or any era, if it's interesting)? I wanna read about unknown lands, strange new cultures, archeological findings, jungle expeditions, seafaring, maybe hunting for animals/cryptids and so on...
Tell me everything interesting you know, that would be great!
Bump
Bump again, cmon, I've waited so long for a board like this :(
>>76059
It isn't going to be that fast of a board, be patient. People like to busy themselves shitposting in atheist/religious threads or /pol/ bait.
ITT: Historical figures you could take on in a fight
I'd dropkick the shit out of this club footed inbred to be honest family
Napoleon. Manlets will never learn
>>75611
cancer
>>75611
If that's what Tut looked like, the niggers can have him desu.
Is he the most overrated philosopher ever?
Marx is.
>>75411
>Marx
>a philosopher
Pick one
>>75392
He's overrated amongst his fanboys, but vastly underrated amongst his critics.
Who can really do the general accounting right with such a polarizing man?
Who lived in Europe before the indo-europeans?
I have heard they found a skeleton of a man of Finno-Ugric heritage in Spain dated around 20,000 years ago, but I cannot find the link.
>>75374
Read this
http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/reich/Reich_Lab/Welcome_files/nature14317.pdf
http://genetics.med.harvard.edu/reich/Reich_Lab/Welcome_files/Patterson_Price_Reich.pgen.0020190.pdf
For a very short summary there were WHG(western hunter gatherers) and EEF( early european farmers). The WHG were native to europe and the indo europeans are actually half related to them. The EEF came to europe around 10000bc from anotolia although they are not exactly like modern middle easterners as they are missing two key genetic components that reached the area later.
Ask any specific question i'm well versed in this stuff.
Finno Ugric people developed right alongside indo europeans in russia. I have no idea what you mean by this 20000 year old finno ugric man as the language is less than a fourth that old.
That map is wrong as genetics put an end to the "Aryans were steppe cowboys" meme. With the PCA of ancient genomes we clearly see steppe peoples are extinct and completely irrelevant to modern European genetic variation, while a clear pattern of invasion shows up in the Balkans that encompasses all modern European variation certainly originating from Middle Eastern mountains, which made sense from the beginning because that region had the latest advancement in bronze age military technology, the oldest subclades of R1b as well as the highest STR variance, and the Anatolian subbranch had the most archaic features of all known Indoeuropean languages.
>>75374
Kurgan Hypothesis is highly disputable.
Which time period had the best fashion? Why is today's fashion so ugly and retarded in comparison to most of Western history?
>>75342
1000 bc
Fulani
>>75342
>Why is today's fashion so ugly and retarded in comparison to most of Western history?
Because Pragmatism is a plague
>google world war 2
Fucking Greece as one of the 5 main combatants?
Wtf google
Should easily be Japan or Italy
Good
That'll teach people to assume Google is a reasonable source of information to be taken at tace value
Lol chinkland, but they did do more than Greece.
inb4 pay debts
>google it
>it's real
What's the biggest mistake the US ever made in its history? Besides going into Iraq I mean.
Probably Vietnam, maybe The War on Drugs, maybe our War on The Middle Class
rebelling against the crown
The Cold War. We could've teamed up with the USSR and swept oligarchy and monarchy from the world once and for all.
Instead we funded every two-bit despot and fanatic who fought them and we got daesh and al-Qaeda out of the deal.
Ancient Empires you wouldn't mind living under
well, it all comes down to who you are
pretty much anywhere in the whole world at any time it was good to be in the upper class, so that's not saying much
aside from that it's pretty much a matter of what is less shitty compared to the alternatives of the era
>>75173
>pretty much anywhere in the whole world at any time it was good to be in the upper class
Pol Pot's cambodia
>>75173
>pretty much anywhere in the whole world at any time it was good to be in the upper class
The French Revolution
Congratulations on this really great new board!
>mfw
>>75102
I love that painting
but victory for what? losing against Prussia and Austria?
>>75102
This board was a long time coming but moot was a faggot about it
ITT: Authoritarians that actually did right by their country
Portugal's Antonio Salazar is one that comes to mind. A reluctant leader, stabilized his country, led it to economic recovery, kept it out of WW2 and even helped funnel refugees to the Americas. In short did literally nothing wrong.
Lincoln
>>75010
He did suspend habeas corpus were copperheads purged during the war?
Why are the humanities dying in America today compared to how revered they were in the early 1900s?
>>74870
At some point, college became equated with "job factory" and if your education didn't revolve around getting you a job, it was mocked and its department got its funding cut.
We then carried that logic on to the high school level as well (Except for sports of course, even if they don't lead to a job they are the most important thing.)
>>74870
job market for people studying humanities isn't growing as much/at all? compared to pleb IT-engineering market
>>75035
This. It's very sad, but college for the masses really ruined it. Well-paying blue collar jobs were something great that's not happening again.
Post the most brutal and violent rulers throughout history.
Starting with Vlad the Impaler.
he's a national hero in romania, he was a good lawful man, a great warrior and general betrayed by the hungarian asshole faggot mathias corvinus and his boyars
First by far
Did you enjoy Kingdom of Heaven?
How historically accurate it was?
>those shitty CGI horses in the background
What is Jerusalem worth?
I kind of enjoyed it, but no it wasn't very historically accurate, especially in how it made all the characters modern day atheist cynics, which doesn't fit that time at all.
Who was the most based US President?
LBJ
>>74684
>Who was the most based US President?
Way to end your thread as soon as it begins.
FDR
Is it really that totalitarian? sumptuary laws? I don't want to use le current year maymay but yes. It just like Escape from LA.
Sharia forbids:
Smoking Weed
Smoking Tobacco
Drinking Alcohol
Using drugs which are not medically prescribed
Prostitution
Gambling
Abortion
Homosexuality, Sodomy and other sexual deviance
Going outside of private space in improper dress
Pretending to be another gender
Music, Fashion, Art and Architecture which is unseemly
Adultery
Usury
Use of foul language outside of personal space and in the media
No fault divorce
Pagan festivals such as Halloween
Drawing
It is quite simply incompatible to integrate by fully respecting all these observances to something else. That's not a bug it's a feature.
>>74627
Because absolute sacred values?
>>74627
Alcohol was allowed until people started showing up to prayers, drunk
As for the rest, it is necessary for Islam to hold a complete sway over your life. That's why Islam is going to hold strong forever
>>74627
Actually, for the majority of Islam it was far more tolerant of these things than many other religions, creeds, etc. Also, moderation is more key than outright banning so-and-so but the modern wahhabi arabs go around polluting and trying to enforce a strict code because of their own strict interpretation.
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