>>71120
they got rekt by europeans

Mayan>>>>>>shit>>>>>Aztecs

>>71120
Aztec drinking age was 40-50, with violations punishable by death.

Well, an important thing to note about Paul's writing was that they were letters to churches and were written to clear up disputes about practice. Paul was writing about things in debate, and certain things that were common knowledge or weren't relevant to the topic weren't worth writing about. That explains a lot of the "silence."

And, like Ehrman says, early Christianity really doesn't seem too focused on the life of Jesus. Mark, which is probably the earliest Gospel, is the shortest and doesn't really say much about the life of Jesus.

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Reviews of Carrier's use of Bayes Theorem (lol):
>To convincingly make [the] case Bayes theorem can advance history one needs lots and lots of worked-out examples. Unfortunately the book contains nearly none of these, and I would say the only time it tries to venture into the historical method -- the case of the criteria of embarrassment -- it does so in a fashion that is both distinctly non-Bayesian and without a way to encode something is actually embarrassing to the author.

>I will admit after six readings...
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>>71361
kek Carrier is such a hack. Atheists latch onto him because his books sound convincing, but they are the lowest, most deceptive form of pseudo scholarship. This is why atheists should not be welcome on this board.
>muh bad mouthing religion
>muh fast and loose facts
>muh religion is the cause of all problems
>muh Christ Mythicism

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Haha, I sure do love the countrysquare comics :)

>>71076
Its all about power m8.

>>71076
>Is there resentment still present?
absolutely. however most iranians harbor resentment towards the british for this event. in fact, the Iranians are huge proponents of the "eternal anglo" meme. the brits are behind every negative event in the Iranian psyche.

>>71004
>Be Scottish
>Get walled in by Romans
>Fight England a ton
>Try to build colony
>Everyone dies
>Run back to England for help

That's fucking it

100% of Scottish history is just individual achievements. Lots of great literates, scientists, inventors etc but as a collective they fucking suck dick.

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HAE MYND O CULLODEN MUIR

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>Nanban trade, or, the Southern barbarian trade
>it’s the Age of Discovery, Ferdinand Magellan sailed due west to find the East Indies and discovered a western passage in 1522, the first circumnavigation of Earth
>The Portuguese now know a route to the exotic region of Japan
>When Portuguese carracks reach the southern shores of Kyushu, locals are stunned
>Daimyo send officials to meet these foreigners, and the Portuguese...
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>In 1853, a senior ranking Navy officer, Matthew C. Perry was assigned a mission to explore and survey the far east
>The main objective of the mission is to open Japan up to trade and diplomatic relations
>Commodore “Father of the Steam Navy” Perry takes 4 ships into hostile, but militarily inferior Japanese waters
>Seclusion left Japan technologically behind, they described the steam ships like dragons belching smoke into the sky
>After...
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Do you think that Tokugawa Shogunate's isolationism had any benefits or did it just leave Japan weak to outside influence two centuries later?

>>70880
Cataphract isn't a predecessor of knights, sometimes they were contemporaries and besides that a knight is a title a cataphract is just the function.

>>70880
Knights ARE cataphracts.

>>70950
Not really. A cataphract despite the similarities with a knight, were professional soldiers who were employed as low level nobles in the Persian armies for example.

A knight was not that.

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>best royal dynasty

>implying you can pick a favourite incest-ridden benefit-claiming liberty-destroying freak show

Habsburgs

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>>70852

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>>70735
reminder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl_r7rIcds8

I don't really understand how they managed to install a commie state in Germany without more outcry from the citizens.

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>not posting the best song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ic6ljhy9JE

>>70726
What about Neptune?

>>70741
Poseidon is a very well known name.

>>70726
I personally think Hercules is catchier. Same way that Zeus is more memorable than Jupiter, or Hades and Pluto (because, let's face it, what comes first to mind of the everyman, the celestial dwarf/planet, the god, or the cartoon dog?).

>>70724
He's a Turk

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His legacy is no longer respected. His whole ideology was imposed through top-down authoritarianism.

>>70724
not a marxist

>>70718
https://www.youtube.com/v/watch?v=iiTE3tfe7qM

>gyppo """"""""culture""""'""
Don't do it to yourself

>>70718
Their culture, like everything else they have, has been stolen from someone.

Fucking gypsies, man

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An obvious one

Nzinga Mbande. Google and tell me she's not someone you wouldn't like to meet.

>>70662

I wonder how hairy her vag is.

>>70471
because it's a barren wasteland filled with nothing of no value anyone wants, so nobody has bothered to capture and take any of the frozen wilderness and keep it

>>70471
Nobody wanted their land.

>>70471

Miles and miles of empty forest. Not very impressive desu

Same as you anon. Got my dissertation coming up and I'm a little freaked out about that

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>>70528
What'll you be writing about, m8?

>>70464

I don't have a degree in Humanities, but I have a job, so it balances out.

>Also they were the only ones to win clear big victories against the Turks, that counts for something
Almost all of Hungarian territory except for today's Slovakia was conquered by Ottomans

Hungarian gov't fucked up with its policy of Magyarizition

Pre-WWI Hungary was agrarian backward shithole with the political system from the Middle Ages

>>70407
>feels like they missed the chance of having a stable state like all other monarchies in western Europe finally got

I guess you could say that. Hungary was the frontline against the turks for about 150 years with being at war with them for most of the time. During this time of almost constant fighting Hungary was largely depopulated and impoverished, so they didn't have the chance to develop their industry and society like Western Europe did.

>>70407
Okay, I'm gonna dump everything you want to know, just wait a few minutes.