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ITT we try to clarify the rules of this board.
Mods and hiro please post if you are reading this.
Are alternate history threads allowed? (ie. not fanfiction shit, but what would happen if major event occurred differently etc)
Is there a cutoff for discussion? 1999? Can we talk about 9/11? Can we talk about the Arab Spring?
Are psychology and sociology threads allowed or just philosophy?
Any special features this board should have? Suggestions?
I think the cutoff should be the fall of the Soviet Union, so 1990.
>>3253
Democritos was simply the most irrevelant philosopher ( after Ghazali of course ) ever
>>3253
>Alternate history
I sure hope so.
>Cutoff for discussion
Why should that be the case? The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are history just as well.
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Why was it so shitty?
Or I suppose to be fairer on it. Why was it really mediocre?
They lost the Austro-Prussian war and gave into the ethnic group that would have given them the most trouble. If they didn't it would have fallen apart.
>>3154
It was a cultural melting pot and they didnt have a good military that could unify in the clutch. Otherwise it was actually a good place to live.
>>3154
My empire-fu :_;
>Pic related, what could have been
Imperial China thread
What was the best Dynasty?
>>3106
>Privatization of State Industries
>Abolition of forced labor
>2% Agricultural Tax
>1.5% Commercial Tax
>Rebuilt the Great Wall to be actually somewhat effective until some fuck let the Manchu in
Ming China is Trump's China.
Ming
>>3106
hang and song
it was so good even japan copied it
oh yeah, and korea and vietnam too, they just thought we were so great that they took our culture
Was the collapse of the Lithuanian Empire the worst thing to happen to mankind?
Who were the Hittites? Why did their empire collapse only a century after their victory at Kadesh? Why was there no sucessor state?
Who were the Sea Peoples? Why could no land stand before their arms? How did Egypt manage to repel them?
Lost Cities of the Ancients 3 The Dark Lords of Hattusha (BBC)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7U-b2rdtwQ
Secrets of the Aegean Apocalypse (History Channel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQykroaMGx8
Timeline
1274 BC Battle of Kadesh
1200? BC Iron Smelting Begins
1178 BC Hittite Empire Collapses
1178...
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>>3014
I always believed that the Sea Peoples were more than one group of people. They're too widespread and powerful to be a single nomadic group.
>>3164
Thanks
>>3379
That makes sense. For the people being raided the Vikings all seemed to be one group of people. The Norse saw themselves as many different clans.
I suppose considering the level of trade going on in the Bronze Age Mediterranean it's very much possible for cultures from different stocks to look increasingly similar.
I thought I'd start a book request thread. That way we can build an informed base of people on this board who can talk serious. So request, or even ask general questions, about and of the following topics and I will try to provide you books:
>the specific time period
>the geographical area
>a famous historical figure
>particular state/nation/country/empire
>history of a people
>history...
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>>2925
Any good books on the Carthaginian Empire? Preferably what they traded seeing as how they were super maritime focused, but Punic Wars is still always cool.
>>3188
Not well versed in Carthaginian history, but I did read the following:
Richard Miles- Carthage Must be Destroyed
link:
http://bookzz.org/book/1193560/f1ed24
Its focuses a lot on how Carthage developed a trade network spanning from Spain to the Middle East and it discusses the Punic Wars too. Very nice read
>>3317
Neat, I'll take a look into it. Thanks, anon.
Anyone else obsessed with Anne Frank?
>read over 10 related books - not including the edited and unedited versions of her diary which I have read respectfully 10 and 15 times
>seen each film/television adaptation of her story
>visited the house in Amsterdam twice
>visited the grave/memorial for her and her sister at Bergen-Belsen
Let's talk about this beautiful girl whose life we can all learn from!
DON'T FILM MEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>2812
We can learn that she lost.
Jeff pls
Share your favourite YT channels that discuss various historical topics. I'll start off by mentioning Matt Easton, he's a historical weapon expert mainly focused on 18th/19th century weapons, but he also knows a lot about most European weapons used throughout history.
https://www.youtube.com/user/scholagladiatoria
Another one is the fairly new Knyght Errant, he mainly focuses on various armours used around the 14th/15th century. He doesn't have many videos up yet but so far he's been very in depth with his descriptions.
https://www.youtube.com/user/neosonic66/featured
Not sure if self bumps still work
>>2597
>based Matt
Good start!
https://www.youtube.com/user/neosonic66
Ian Laspina or Knyght Errant.
Focuses mostly on 14th century stuff.
>>2802
Beat me too it
Does the Waffen SS get an unnecessarily bad rap for what they've done? Every now and then I see armchair historians like myself who say "muh wehrmacht was perfect and teh waffen ss did erry thing wrong." I mean most were just idealistic young men from all over Europe and even other places who wanted to fight communism. Yes some were too fanatical, but so was the Red Army and the Imperial Japanese Army.
No, but too much of the blame for the entire war gets shifted onto them. The Waffen SS was DEFINITELY committing war crimes, but so was every other Army in the war at the time. The SS got the short end of the stick because they were on the losing side.
>>2568
Well, they were involved in a disproportionate number of atrocities against civilians... That being said, most of the "Waffen SS" were just standard Army units.
>>2568
The Waffen-SS was the only part of the German army you could join as a foreigner, and those were mostly fanatics. For instance, the last defenders of the Reichstag were Frenchmen.
Ignoring that, they were considered the elite, sort of like your USMC. It's just that they weren't in any way, but common people didn't know that and pushed their sons into joining them instead of the standard Heer. My grandpa for instance was considered a "disgrace to the nation" for not enlisting with the SS,...
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Post some good books on the history of Mathematics, Engineering, Science, & Technology
>>2553
Reminder that Einstein was a plagiarist who stole his work from mathematicians
I read Schrödinger's "Science and Humanism: Physics in Our Time" and it was pretty interesting. A classical introduction to quantum physics but it also contains a very good "timeline" of where the foundations of quantum physics came from.
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>>2441
So how exactly did the British Empire fall?
>>2703
Hippies.
>>2703
Got your ass kicked by the Japs which made everyone realize how shit you were. Plus bankruptcy.
BOOOOOOOOOM
HAHAHA
>>2377
lel
>>2377
lel
test
Guys I saw this outside my door this morning, what should I do?
follow the wolf
>>2367
Start spreading those asscheeks
Praise Tengri, it's time to genocide muslims
Where's the csa thread lads
first for fuck niggers
>>2272
Blessed are the peacekeepers, champions of the just.
Blessed are the righteous, the lights in the shadow.
In their blood, the Lord's will is written.
Post nations that no one remembers existed.
Pic related
>>2264
literally who
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