Who were the Proto-Indo-Europeans? Do they have any connection to modern Anglo-Saxons?
Obviously, senpai.
Is this a thinly veiled ''we wuz Greeks n shit'' thread?
>>42447
How can anyone deny that WASPs are the best representatives of ancient Greeks despite all the evidence?
It's very obvious what 4chan thinks of third wave feminism, but what about first and second? Justified? Mistaken?
>>42270
Should've been nipped in the bud desu senpai.
>>42270
Even Queen Vicky was against it
Seems to me it was successful only because it allowed industrialists to effectively double the size of the working force, enabling wages to be driven down.
Rather than having anything at all to do with civil rights.
>There are actually "I played EU4 for 30 mins" Romanboo redditors who ACTUALLY think the byzantine empire is the same thing as the Roman Empire.
Frogposters....
>move capital
>this somehow makes you a different state
>>42271
By the 14tg Century the byzantine Empire spoke a different language, had different culture, different political structure and military technology and organization to the pre-split Roman Empire. It was a completely different, considerably smaller empire
Can someone give me the lowdown on how Australia operated as a prison colony?
>>42026
Between 1788 and 1815 NSW operated as a Tory spoils system with land being generously given to a squatocratic elite who wished to implement some kind of pre-1688 parish system of CoE feudalism. This was broken by a combination of aboriginal resistance, Home rule administration, navy meritocracy, and convict labour resistance. Significant here is import substitution production causing a small urban elite allied with the meritocracy and administration to turn on the squatocracy.
This then reconfigured into an agricultural capitalism based on land theft, export production, and urban import substitution production under British bureaucratic control.
The actual convict labour system worked on this basis:
The formal employer was the state, which retained the right to discipline, muster and church convicts. The state fed and clothed convicts and then sent them out to employers.
The immediate employer could get work, and in some cases illegally chastise (as in physically beat) convicts, but was generally prosecuted for such illegal beatings.
Convicts themselves resisted employment through informal go-slows, Irish "escape" revolts, and the Irish underground network of communication.
This led immediate employers to offer wages in addition to food and clothes, in money form, to get decent work out of convicts.
Part way through their sentences many convicts were given tickets of leave to act as free men and work for wages. This is because they performed better work.
The entire system was like it was due to labour shortage. There were some really appalling efforts to import female labour for domestic servants, marriage and "factory" meaning a concentrated handicraft production. These broke down because of female convict resistance and orphan importation was substituted to bring in females.
Questions?
>>42200
>Questions?
How do you get such sweet sweet dubs?
>>42200
So what, there were very few women in Aussieland at first? and they waited for imported orphans girls to grow up?
Why is the story of Julius Caeser so much more well known than that of Augustus? What did Caeser have that Octavian didn't to have his legend perpetuated so?
>>41733
His story has a pretty spiffy ending.
>>41733
Talent as a writer. His Commentarii made him immortal.
Augustus had the benefit of riding on Julius' laurels (though was certainly plenty accomplished himself) while Caesar was born to a pretty humble clan of patricians. His rise was a lot more meteoric, and invokes very colorful imagery. The beloved general, the cunning barbarians, the hubris of rule, and finally, the betrayal by friends for freedom. Augustus ruled very peacefully after Antony was finished and 'hurried slowly', creating something great albeit quietly. I'd say he was more than Julius was, but Julius was the one who taught him.
Lets have a linguistics general!
>Grammar pet peeves
>Pronunciation errors that piss you off
>Dialects and accents that annoy you
>Favorite dictionaries
>Acadamie Anglais when?
I hate this new 'literally' to mean 'figuratively' thing that everyone says nowadays. Auto Antonyms should be removed from English.
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
I strongly dislike Americanisms; e.g., "irregardless", "I could care less", "it's" when they mean "its".
ITT: Flags that need to be returned to present day use IMMEDIATELY.
>>41616
/thread
Famous last words thread?
Gib context if it's important
Irish general Patrick Sarsfield bemoaned the pointlessness of his having fought wars for the benefit of France and England. As he lay dying, he said
>Oh, if only this were for Ireland.
>>41480
Sounds like a mental eijit to me
"Don't worry, we've got this"
>unknown
>>41480
Marshal Michel Ney, to his firing squad (he had refused the blindfold).
>"Soldiers, when I give the command to fire, fire straight at my heart. Wait for the order. It will be my last to you. I protest against my condemnation. I have fought a hundred battles for France, and not one against her ... Soldiers, fire!"
Post 'em, Anons. Doesn't matter what time period, just post those history-related feels no one could ever understand but us.
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>You will never walk through the streets of Constantinople at its height in the 11th century, the greatest city of the world and pride of Christendom
>You will never be an American student attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, living in Bohemian Montmartre and making a living by working as a clerk and selling poetry to magazines
>You will never be a White noble boarding the last ship from Sevastopol to Constantinople, watching from the sea as the Red flag is hoisted up, knowing the Russian Empire has come to an end.
>You will never die in the arms of your comrades, while fighting communism in 1956, Budapest
You will never get insanely rich by trading beads for fur and then trade an iron hatchet as dowry for two native american princesses.
>>41536
>not wanting a Native American husbando instead
What is your view on the historicity of Jesus?
clearly the most important.
No other Man has meant as much to humanity as Christ.
That's why this board is dedicated to religion,as it says in the sticky.
this board is basically /christ/
>>41304
Did he exist as a historical person, though? The only sources are biblical and certainly not trustworthy in proving his actual existence.
>>41714
I think there are records that a man called Jesus of Nazareth did exist.
What does /his/ think about the Cold War?
>>41102
DeGaulle politician best politician.
>>41146
i heard that many americans hate him
>>41175
I hate him and I'm not american
Now that the dust has settled, can we all agree that the Vietnam War was [spoiler]unjust[/spoiler]?
no you fucking commie
>>40978
yea
>>40978
>unjust
History is about "is"es not "oughts." Read Hume.
p.s.: The VWP utterly hegemonised justice in French Indochina and the DRVN and RVN with the exception of the revolution in the RVN until 1968 when the VWP destroyed the revolution's capacity for self-defence more out of incompetence (Giap was on the outer and came in too late to cancel the "general uprising" component) than malice.
Fucking yanks. Learn more about Vietnam itself.
You get to go back in time and have sex with one historical figure of your choosing. Who do you pick?
Me, I'd go for Theodora I.
>>40973
Cleopatra.
>>40973
I'd masturbate to Theodora, but I wouldn't touch with two condoms on my junk
>>She never succumbed to these transports; for she often went to a supper at which each one paid his share, with ten or more young men, in the full vigour of their age and practised in debauchery, and would pass the whole night with all of them. When they were all exhausted, she would go to their servants, thirty in number, it may be, and fornicate with each one of them; and yet not even so did she quench her lust. Once she went to the house of some great man, and while the guests were drinking pulled up her clothes on the edge of the couch and did not blush to exhibit her wantonness without reserve. Though she received the male in three orifices she nevertheless complained of Nature for not having made the passage of her breasts wider, that she might contrive a new form of coition in that part of her person also.
>>She frequently became pregnant, but as she employed all known remedies without delay, she promptly procured abortion. Often, even on the stage, she stripped before the eyes of all the people, and stood naked in their midst, wearing only a girdle about her private parts and groin; not because she had any modesty about showing that also to the people, but because no one was allowed to go on the stage without a girdle about those parts. In this attitude she would throw herself down on the floor, and lie on her back. Slaves, whose duty it was, would then pour grains of barley upon her girdle, which trained geese would then pick up with their beaks one by one and eat. She did not blush or rise up, but appeared to glory in this performance; for she was not only without shame, but especially fond of encouraging others to be shameless, and often would strip naked in the midst of the actors, and swing herself backwards and forwards, explaining to those who had already enjoyed her and those who had not, the peculiar excellences of that exercise.
>>40973
>Not Helena of Troy
>Going to church like a good Catholic like any other day
>Finally get there
>See this
Wat do?
I'd be pretty pissed off if someone nailed 95 Feces to a church door desu.
>Catholics
Pay indulgences
>>40965
lynch the heretic
Opinion on Africa?
>>40963
Bring back Rhodesia, Hallie Selassie, Europeans, and/or Carthage
Somalia BTFO
>>40963
Worried desu. theres going to be 3 billion people there by the end of the century and chimps, rinos, lions and other animals might face extinction
