Why do people blame the Christians for the crusades while the Muslims get off completely free for encroaching on christian land and provoking them to go to war.
>>20041
Muslims cannot do wrong. This is fact.
>you will never know the pure triumph of throwing back the Muslim hordes and holding the gates of Vienna
did you like the latest episode? Ended in a weird spot but doesn't seem like it will be a series
He explicitly said at the end he'd cover Cambyses and eventually up to Alexander.
But yeah, I enjoyed it.
His WW1 series is kind of amazing.
>>20024
oh alright then
it doesn't have a "number one" on it so I guess I assumed wrong
Why the fuck can't we discuss the holocaust here? I'm not even talking about outright holocaust denial, but any moderate discussion against it, may it be death counts or etc. It's /his/ related you fucking cunts.
>>19711
Because we have all seen the infographics a million times.
I don't think anyone disputes that it's related to history, it's just a loaded topic on 4chan and should be banned for the sake of quality discussion.
It attracts /pol/ like shit to a fly or dried soda on the floor to an ant
>there are people /his/ RIGHT NOW who legitimately think the south didn't have the right to secede
> there are a people who legitimately support a war of northern aggression, the murder of thousands of innocent civilians and destruction of property
>there are people who are accepting of the deaths of 620,000 soldiers
>there are people who think the niggers weren't better off as slaves
go to bed /pol/ sage and reported
>>19651
>mfw i get to drive by his house almost everyday
>>19722
>discussion about the american civil war is not history
You're fucking retarded.
Can you guys help me with my history homework
What the fuck kind of questions are those?
your homework gave me cancer
>>19634
Just engaging the modern student
:^)
So I've been wondering, do Americans know much about Canadian history? In Canada we're taught a bit of American history.
I dunno, just a little question i have.
French and Indian war. That's about it. What do you learn about America?
>>19601
As best as i can from memory
>Roanoke/Jamestown colonies
>Thirteen Colonies (new england)
>Constitution Signed
>war for independence 1776
>War of 1812 (1814 funnily enough, we invade maine)
>Civil war 1864/Manifest destiny/Alaska purchase
>At some point, spanish-american war happens
>WW1 1914-1918
>Great depression 1930s
>WW2 1939 (US enters 1940)
>Cold war begins 1950
>Korean war 1953-1955
>Cuban missile crisis 1961
>Vietnam War/Civil rights movement 1968-1972
>around 1972-2001 its kinda hazy for me
>9/11
>Then a buncha wars in the middle east.
Thats what i know to be honest
>>20157
When and where did you go to school? I didn't learn nearly any of that.
/hpt/ Historic photos thread
The special snowflake syndrome
Painting the eiffel tower
>>19164
>Kidnapped little boys
Indeed
>>19206
Say what you will about the Ottomans, but they were true boipucci connoisseurs.
>>19206
RAHHH TO MAKE THEM INTO GREAT WARRIORS YAAAHH JUST THINKING ABOUT WARRING GIVES ME A GREAT ANIMALISTIC HARD-ON!!!!
Would /his/ benefit from optional (yes, optional, not forced) flag geolocation with historical flags instead of modern flags?
>All countries that were part of the Soviet Union have a Soviet flag instead of their modern flag.
>Slovakia has a Czechoslovakia flag
>the US flag has 13 stars
>Australia's flag is the Aboriginal flag
Pic related is the template for flag gloss. To use it, shrink a flag to 16x11, put the gloss in a new layer and set it to Screen
This is what a Soviet flag would look like.
Every flag is "historical" and are mostly a modern invention for the revolutionary age.
In of these threads I piped up about wanting various symbols as options. (for /pol/) I don't care to advertise what country I'm posting from OR what country/flag I may like
But history isn't about dividing people up into our favourite period or region. It's about the facts and stories of the past. What symbol do we have for marxist historiography Annales school historiography? Nada.
So, no vote for me.
Flags that represent your area of expertise could be cool. Like a flag library that users could choose from with ancient civilizations as well.
What role did religion play in the Bolshevik Revolution?
Where they as secular as some claim or were they driven by faith?
>>18895
they were atheists and attacked church officials/killed priests who refused to submit.
>>18895
They were Jewish.
They believed in Judaism for themselves but atheism for the proletariat
>>18917
Christian Churches yes, but not Synagogues
Why haven't you embraced the absurdity and ultimate meaninglessness of life yet, /his/? We will all die, and the universe will eventually burn out. Everything notable that has happened throughout history will be forgotten about and it will all return to oblivion.
I swear after embracing nihilism I've become a much freer and happier person as a result.
>>18893
Fuck makes you think I haven't?
Nihilist reporting in
>>18893
Can we clarify burn out? The most accepted model of the universe is that it will continue to expand indefinitely. Matter on the Grand scheme will become more and more diluted. Eventually virtually all energy will be locked inside dead stars, and that the universe will drop to a temperature near 0K. Of course there are also theories that allow for the possibility of a contracted universe (big crunch) as well as options for black holes to release all their energy back into the universe. Of course, I'm not schooled enough on astronomy to go into more detail. Regardless, of course we'll die. Although in another sense, all we are to begin with is energy, which will exist indefinitely. So in a sense we are immortal. Just your specific, ultra-narrow consciousness is not.
Did the "The Rape of Nanking," really happen?
>>18844
only japs think that it didnt happen
>>18844
Yes, it did. It's a little tricky to calculate numbers on it because all the Japanese records on it were burned towards the very end of the war, but it certainly occurred and 40-300k citizens died, depending on who you believe.
>>18844
Go home Shinzo Abe.
And you can take Hiroshima with you.
Is it true that Malcolm X initially advocated for ideas such as black segregation and separatism? I understand he was also against racial mixing and was essentially a black nationalist.
If this is true, he would be a modern American liberal's nightmare for holding such ideas and a poor example of them to use as a leadership figure for blacks in the USA today. Did he renounce these ideas and shift his ideology?
sage and reported
>>18778
what's wrong?
>>18764
>Did he renounce these ideas and shift his ideology
His idealogy changed when he made his pilgrimage to Mecca and saw everyone regardless of skin color praying together, realizing that racial problems stem from differences between cultures and not something inherent. The Nation of Islam didn't like that because they always preached about the White Devil, so a bunch of members of the NoI shot him.
So in the end were the Normans beneficial for England or did they just genocide a bunch of English and destroy their language?
>>18697
The British Empire would not have existed where it not for the Norman conquest.
>brought true fuedalism to the still semi tribal Anglo Saxons
>truly entrenched interest in the Roman Empire in English nobility, leading to much of the inspiration for British Imperialists
>expanded the English language greatly
>seizure of the throne by William I and integration of Normandy into the K. of England led to the Hundred Years War, therefore causing the rivalry between France and England that survives to this day
Both
Before Normans the English were just Anglo-Saxons.
They were germanic, did not use horses, had a loose feudal system that had early forms of representation. That would later reappear as the Parliament
The Normans who were frenchified northmen introduced french, and thereby more Latin, forms of feudalism with your classic dukes and barons. Big castles, horses, chivalry, all that good stuff.
It also would fuel the blossoming french-english relationship as sharing a land border would.
But yeah William the Conqueror also killed a bunch of rebels and burned some houses
However he was the last to have the privilege of getting to conquer/invade England, kill a bunch of pesant men then rape the widows
He was what, the forth?
>>18697
The Normans are what made England relevant.
What is your favorite ancient civilization? And why?
I'd personally have to go with Ancient Egypt. Their culture, architecture, religion, art... I just find it all so fascinating.
Greeks
Ancient Rome on the account that the Punic Wars were just damn awesome.
>>18694
Old Sumeria personally. I guess mostly because of the mystique of being the crib of human civilization. It makes even what little we know right now feel more weighty.
