What the fuck does society actually want of me?
>>1356155
Who cares?
>>1356155
To be a slave.
>>1356156
I feel like it might be an important question.
I know very little about history from this era, so I've never understood the obsession with Alexander the Great I've seen some historians have
Why was Alexander the Great so great? What would've happened if he had lived?
He was young and bold and successful in war, and died dramatically before he got old enough to ruin his reputation.
he's a meme op
>alexander the """Great"""
ITT: cool historic sites, buildings, etc
Ill kick it off with the Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek, Lebanon
Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina, Italy
Mausoleum of Halikarnassos
Mustafa Pasha Roman tombs, Alexandria, Egypt
Why were the Mongols so evil?
Does it proof that Asians are fundamentally evil? Just look at the Japanese atrocities in China, North Korea's crime or how in China people can die on the street without anyone giving a damn.
>>1355729
I know but you can find all the same in Europe and anywhere at various points in history.
Take the Romans, they have a good reputation, but they weren't above entering a town, murdering all the men, raping all the women, and selling them and the children into slavery. Or just killing them sometimes.
The Oriental doesn't put the same high price on life as does a Westerner. Life is plentiful and abundant over there. Thus, life is cheap in the Orient.
>>1355741
Plenty of asians still dont value life very much today
I've seen videos of kids being run over in the road, no one stops, no one helps, and the vehicles just carry on
Is polyphony a sin after all? Christian rock and other christian music is generally quite shit in comparison to other divinely inspired art. Is god absent from music with harmonies?
Pic not related
>>1355667
What the fuck?
Nah, but those hips are tempting me very much towards sin.
Why did non-European people never develop plate armour? Even the Ottomans who were in good position to make use of western innovations still used armour that was predominantly composed of mail (to the best of my knowledge, anyway), and in China you see plenty of brigandines but nothing approaching the articulated plate harness. Is it because of the greater emphasis placed on cavalry tactics in the East? Or some other reason?
>>1355571
Producing large plates to make armor from is hard af.
Mail is actually pretty good when used with padding and in low labor cost societies it can be significantly cheaper.
vid related requires quite a big investment. Having to do that by hand doesn't sound like fun, i'd imagine they would rather draw wire and make mail.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAv3hkOQZjg
Because by the time plate came around, rifles were already starting to become a thing, completely invalidating the need for armor.
Can radical violent islam be blamed on the age of the religion?
For the other 2 of the big 3, palestinian genocide is clearly detailed in the book of joshua, Judea itself has quite a violent, and radical history leading to things like mass suicides and wide scale revolts
And you have Christianity, which of course has its radical, violent past (crusades, the catholic church's absolute control of medieval europe bringing forth executions and burnings in the name of Jesus, the inquisiton, witch hunts etc)
And yet they all calmed down eventually, in comparison to their past radicalism
>>1355517
Blame it on the Saudis and America. Is it any surprise that a radical ideology is birthed in an area and time of war, strife and great change?
>>1355517
>Can radical violent islam be blamed on the age of the religion?
It has far more to do with the geopolitics of the areas and the events from post-WWII, through the cold war, and into the present day.
Will the radical feminist movement fall by the wayside as the hippies did before them?
When life gets worse and harder.
Radical feminism, as in complaining about problems that don't exist, is a by product of a good safe life with nothing to bitch about. Humans strive to constantly complain in order to improve their surroundings so when their surroundings are good they will find problems where there are none.
Consider how much everyone complains about everything in general despite even the poorest westerners having a warm house, regular high calorie food, and high tech entertainment with at least some disposable income.
no. it will go on and on until there is no more privileged white heterosexual men oppressing them.
>>1355439
fuckin this
we need a good world war to set things straight again
So. It's 100 years since thousands of men went over the top in the worst day in British Military History, 60000 casualties. What went wrong?
>>1355383
yuropeen onion huehuehue
>>1355383
Lack of planning and overconfidence on the pet of the British. They lost the element of surprise by launching a massive week long bombardment, so the Germans knew something big was coming in that sector. The British artillery used mostly shrapnel shells, which are useless against fortifications and barbed wire, but somehow they failed to realize that. As such they didn't bother giving out any wire cutters iirc, and the Tommies went out into no mans land with all their gear they would usually leave behind because they assumed that no German could have survived their massive fusillade and they would be able to just occupy the enemy positions with little to no fighting. Obviously it didn't play out that way. When the artillery stopped and the British infantry charged, the Germans scrambled from their bunkers and manned their MG's. A few hours later 20K British had been killed with another 40K wounded. Hard to find a better example of the futility of war.
>>1355383
>What went wrong?
Generals not realizing the days of honorable royal battles and wars being played like an aristocratic chess game are gone, and we are now in an age of total war, grinding two nations until one bleeds to death, and in the end everyone involved loses.
All the British had to do was sit in one place for another couple of years, there were already riots in Germany before the Somme, the Russians were beating the Austrians raw, the attack on Verdun was easing up, the Ottomans were losing in Arabia and Mesopotamia, the Bulgarians were looking to make a separate peace deal so they don't have to fight their slavic Russian brothers, more and more colonial troops were being recruited and freed up from Africa to join the conflict in Europe, and so on, and so on.
The situation allowed to sit and wait out a victory, but nope, us military elite gotta get our honor, chargeeeeee!!!!!!
It was a similar flaw in command and outdated views mixed with machismo and hubris that caused the disaster at Gallipoli. I find these two british projects very similar.
Why didn't Napoleon adopt rifles?
Rifles were slow to load and difficult to produce. No army equipped all troops with rifles in that age.
But some units used them, like voltigeurs and chausseurs.
>>1355361
Because they were shit
An irrelevant unit from an irrelevant country played soldiers with them on an irrelevant theater, and that's about it
40 shillins...
Aside from Benedict Anderson's imagined communities, what is the best way to approach state formation?
From the side
>>1355345
Robert Carneiro - A Theory on the Origin of the State
Barbara Price - Secondary State Formation: An Explanatory Model
Post your favorite or interesting Greek mythology characters or stories.
I'll start:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissus_(mythology)
>In Greek mythology, Narcissus (/nɑːrˈsJsəs/; Greek: Νάρkισσος, Narkissos) was a hunter from Thespiae in Boeotia who was known for his beauty. He was the son of the river god Cephissus and nymph Liriope.[1] He was proud, in that he disdained those who loved him. Nemesis noticed this behavior and attracted Narcissus to a pool, where he saw his own reflection in the water and fell in love with it, not realizing it was merely an image. Unable to leave the beauty of his reflection, Narcissus lost his will to live. He stared at his reflection until he died. Narcissus is the origin of the term narcissism, a fixation with oneself and one's physical appearance
>>1355288
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanomachy
Epic in my opinion.
>>1355299
> A bunch of naked oddly shaped old people going at it
> Epic
>>1355337
>a giant orgy of gods fighting and killing each other
Yes. I do find it epic.
What does /his/ think of Diogenes?
I think he was a pretty smug fella.
>>1355233
I think his claim to live according to our nature ( masturbating and shitting in public) was hypocritical because living in cities is not our nature. If he had gone out in the woods to live as a wildman, I would respect that.
As it was he was just a smelly hipster douchebag who deserved to get his ass kicked.
le epin wisecracking hobo man
>>1355779
>civilisation is not human nature
Let's have a thread about the true successor to the Roman Empire.
Best Padishah? Best harem? Worst succession?
God that empire was so shit. But at least it led to a culinary exchnage that resulted in God-tier food.
i have no idea the ottomans were that deep into persia
Let's have a Greek Mythology thread.
I give lectures occasionally on it but my next one the coordinator made a handout for everyone without consulting and got a lot of things wrong or poorly made and there's some information I want to brush up on to prepare for the confusion everyone is likely to ask me about.
Basically how to explain the difference between Oceanus and Neptune/Poseidon.
The difference between Apollo and Helios/Sol as well as Selene/Luna and Artemis/Diana.
I'm going to be explaining this to Japanese people that have never heard of any of the Greek myths including Zeus. Usually it goes well and I keep the lecture simple and just the Olympians some heroes and stories but this coordinator I guess went to wikipedia and copy pasted every name that came up which I am worried will confuse everyone when they see all these names and lesser known gods when they don't even know Zeus and Hera.
>>1355146
So what's difference between Mars and Ares
>>1355146
>Gives lectures on Greek mythology.
>Can't even explain how two different deities are distinguished from each other.
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Here's a recommendation for those infamiliar with it
