name a single more powerful man
Me
>>17163
Jesus Christ our lord and savior.
Anyone here read The Decline of the West? Chilling stuff. Oswald Spengler predicted the fall of communism in Russia and its rise as a world power, the rise of egalitarianism and cosmopolitanism in the West, falling birthrates and massive immigration as a result, and even WW2 - specifically how Hitler would lose it, before it even began. He died in 1936.
I think it's bad that his works are not well-known.
http://avery.morrow.name/blog/2014/10/oswald-spenglers-decline-of-the-west-the-100th-anniversary-update/
Everyone on /lit/ knows him, I haven't gotten around to reading him yet but i like his quote i read on wiki about western man being a proud but tragic figure as it'll never reach the heights it aims to reach.
>>17210
Every time I try to talk about him on /lit/ I either get no replies or get told to go back to /pol/.
Spengler was mainly a traditionalist, and while he supported Hitler he disagreed with his racial policies. Note that in the quote in this pic he doesn't literally mean race, "race" to Spengler meant "culture"
>>17378
He was absolutely right on this.
Look at Sweden, they have not seen war since 1814 and became pacifist and weak in spirit and fighting prowess. Now they preach basically giving away their whole country to foreign refugees, surrendering without a fight, their own worst enemy being themselves.
The West has to break out of this stagnant decline of pacifism, international law, globalism, political correctness, supranational entities like the EU and NATO if it is to survive, especially Europe.
Who really started ww2?
I blame Britain desu, senpai
Hitler plans for Danzig were pretty top tier
>>17108
The poles for actively discriminating against their German populace.
The french after the Treaty of Versailles
>What really started ww2?
WW1
Apparently it's not history.
>>17002
Ok, what do you want to discuss?
>>17002
>muh objectively wrong bait thread is not history
Ftfy
>>17015
I wanted to discuss the three-fifths compromise and copy rights, but I was warned and my thread nuked for trying to do so.
What is the single most influential culture in history?
>>16949
prolly Greeks, followed by English
Roman
>>16949
some proto-culture that's lost to time
Post about historical facts and events that are generally not talked about because not many know about them.
People drank water, shocking.
It's a common "fun fact" that people mostly drank booze.
The epithet "the Great" comes from the Persians, in the literal sense of them being "big," because of their station.
So, when people call him Alexander the Great, they're saying he was a big guy, 4 u
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lissa_%281866%29
Italy and Austria fought the first major sea battle with ironclads in 1866.
who killed these men
>>16823
Communists.
>>16823
fuck off
Partially trying to push the boundaries of what this board will allow (to an extent I am still interested in the content of this thread)
If you dont consider this thread to be board related please say so instead of reporting
What would you /his/torians consider as a "good" and at least mostly historically accurate video games
given due to the free nature of games most games focus on the end result being accurate more than the means.
However some games are undeniably focused on portraying some historical events correctly or at least portraying the culture and mentality of the time periods correctly.
Pic related (though the later games got a bit weird)
>>16567
I prefer ages of empire 2, as it had just enough freedom to play and create unique armies and combinations but not too graphical in such that it made my old comp lag.
I still play this game a lot though
>inb4 assassin's creed
>>16661
AOE 3 was surprisingly accurate as far as advancements and I really enjoyed their method of implementing imperial support
So which legion was best legion, /his/?
>>16544
30th Legion, Ulpia Victrix
Trajan's motherfucking legion
THIRTEENTH
>>16544
Knowing absolutely nothing, I'm going with LEC-I and LEC-III.
What is the official band of /his/?
>>16495
Sabaton, clearly.
Hevisaurus
I'm trying to create a tier list for Roman Emperors. Can /his/ help me out?
God tier:
Augustus
Based Nero
Titus 'Kike Killer' Caesar
Hadrian 'Build the Wall' Augustus
Marcus Aurelius
Constantine
>>16722
Trajan, Diocletian and Justinian belong in the top tier.
>>16722
>constantine
He brought the fall of the Roman empire for the triumph of Christianity. He is shit tier.
Why does Nietzsche strawman the Gnostic perspective of the material as the Christian perspective of the material?
>>16474
Because most fedoras lump all of Christianity into one cluster fuck.
which never works because they usually then just pick the easiest christians to refute (the anti science baptists) and say all christians are like this.
He was arguing with the secret occult forces, not the profane plebs. Would you rather debate Rosirucians or Baptists?
Why don't people regard the Bible as a reliable historical source?
Regardless of whether or not you believe contents, it's still a documentation of what people thought of at the time.
>>16380
Literally because of the religion.
If you suddenly made a new religion and started worshiping Karl Marx's writings people would immediately disregard it.
The Bible is most likely as historically accurate as can be expected for a work of the time
However, you can't really cite it as a source because it contains material other than history itself, true chronicles of history shouldn't contain a significant amount of religious rhetoric and/or claims
Because it's an anthology that collects ancient myths and less ancient genealogies and slightly more recent letters spanning around a 2000 year period written by over 40 people in 3 languages. You have to evaluate each book independently as a historical document.
What is your favorite Italian city state?
Venice
Piedmont/Savoy.
I like how they became known as the land of backstabbing diplomats as they were seen by both the HRE and France as their puppet and just had to choose the side that would not kill them.
My family is from Trieste though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT8dNkD-Byc
Were the Nazis ideologically left-wing or right-wing?
>>16319
Far-right
>inb4 some /pol/tard claims they were left-wing because they were socialist
Mein Kampf:
Today our left-wing politicians in particular are constantly insisting that their craven-hearted and obsequious foreign policy necessarily results from the disarmament of Germany, whereas the truth is that this is the policy of traitors [...] But the politicians of the Right deserve exactly the same reproach. It was through their miserable cowardice that those ruffians of Jews who came into power in 1918 were able to rob the nation of its arms.
Adolf Hitler said Nazism was syncretic ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncretic_politics )
>>16339
so accurately criticizing nazism is /pol/ now?
