Why Europeans had such hate boners for projectile weaponry? Greeks were butthurt about peltasts as if throwing javelins was the same as standing far in the back and shooting arrows and there is nothing wrong with that either it's not like the archers fucking assasinate them in their sleep.
Why Europeans thought ranged weapons were dishonorable but asians were cool with it? Also if they were so concerned about muh honorable melee combat why they used polearms which existed solely to keep the enemy far away? Pre gunpowder era people were seriously daft hypocrites.
OP is actually crazy retarded.
>>1349041
Nice rebutal dumb cunt.
#notalleuropeans
Just the knights, and then only when they were fighting with other knights. Arrows and crossbows were the weapons of poor, peaceful peasants with weak bodies and spirit and no knowledge of actual chivalrous combat, who fought for their lives and not for honor. But if it was peasants you were fighting, then it was perfectly fine to use their dishonoravle weapons against them.
was the fourth crusade a mistake?
>>1349003
The third crusade was an even bigger mistake to be honest
>people on this board actually think you are obligated to pay more money than you got because some pretender said so
Considering that it weakened the byz empire while itself failing to even hold out against one of its rump states, yeah it probably was.
>>1349003
Yes
What are some good YT channels on history?
>>1348850
The great war
>>1348850
I enjoyed John Green in all honesty.
Jazby provides a lot of interesting tidbits of info.
favorites coats of arms, mine of philipe II of spain
>>1348804
He's one of my favorite monarchs. Because he banged his first cousin, once removed, who was at a time, engaged to his father.
Am I the only one here that doesn't know shit about history?
>>1348717
Many of the posters here dont know anything about history either, though it doesn't stop them from repeating widely discredited theories and myths
probably not
there are plenty of people that only learned history from a cracked 10 ways europeans enslaved the world and stole the rights of women article
literally everyone here is a Wikipedia warrior
Let's talk about logic.
1. Is logic a branch of philosophy or a branch of math? After all, every modern logician had a math degree, e.g. Russell, Frege, Gödel, Hilbert, Kripke.
2. Can all philosophy be reduced to logic? I mean not necessarily propositional logic or first order logic, but perhaps some higher order logic, modal logic, fuzzy logic, quantum logic or any other known extension of logic. Or is there some way of thinking which can never be formalized?
3. How much logic do I need to know if I want to do serious philosophy?
Schopy compared feeling like you need to know logic to do philosophy is like feeling you need to read a biology textbook to digest your food
it's literally autism
>>1348758
Did he really say that? Where?
>>1348764
In the epistemology section of The World as Will and Representation
>Hence arises the remarkable fact, that while in other sciences the particular case is always proved by the rule, in logic, on the contrary, the rule must always be proved from the particular case; and even the most practised logician, if he remark that in some particular case he concludes otherwise than the rule prescribes, will always expect to find a mistake in the rule rather than in his own conclusion.
>To desire to make practical use of logic means, therefore, to desire to derive with unspeakable trouble, from general rules, that which is immediately known with the greatest certainty in the particular case. It is just as if a man were to consult mechanics as to the motion of his body, and physiology as to his digestion; and whoever has learnt logic for practical purposes is like him who would teach a beaver to make its own dam.
Based fucking Schopy blowing the fuck out whole movements in like a line
Nevertheless, he does say:
>Logic is, therefore, without practical utility; but it must nevertheless be retained, because it has philosophical interest as the special knowledge of the organisation and action of reason
Persia thread
I've read that the Achaemenids banned slavery, but I've also heard others say it's not true or was decreed but never actually implemented. Maybe they didn't practice slavery themselves, but allowed its practice among subject populations? Can anyone shed some light on this?
I'll dump some reconstructions anyway.
Why did nations like Paraguay have such a strong sense of national identity, and fight horrendous wars against their neighbours in the hope of preserving their independence?
Weren't they just some glorified administrative subdivision of Spanish SA? Why did the rebelling colonies have such a strong sense of nationhood?
>>1348335
Paraguayan nationalism is just as imaginary as all nationalism
Paraguayans are some of the most proud, patriotic people I've ever met, even to this day. No idea why.
>>1348335
There should more Paraguayian War based memes.
How could Western society go from ultra conformist in the 1950s to completely anti-conformist in only 10 years? The change in society from the 50s to the 60s has to be the biggest societal change in only 10 years in all of Western history. Was there 1 event that caused this?
>>1348320
College indoctrination. It is at a point where the human mind is very impressionable but very egotistical at the same time.
>completely anti-conformist
If you didn't get the memo: The 60s counterculture movement failed miserably and started the war on drugs.
>>1348320
I can think of one issue.
The war was getting pretty scary and, while the commies were still considered bad guys, propaganda couldn't put enough of a positive spin on USA intervention in Vietnam to make it all seem black and white, with USA as the heroes.
A = ~A
what does this imply, if simply assumed and taken as an axiomatic truth?
>inb4 nypa
halp pls
>A = ~A
>what does this imply
Uh, contradiction?
>>1348183
>A = ~A
wut?
>>1348183
isnt that a straight up logical impossibility?
A = ~A is ground for disproving any other argument, assuming that statement to be true is in essence gibberish. It's like assuming Light = Dark or 1 = -1.
Tell me about the history of whistleblowers /his/. Who was the biggest one in history?
>>1347968
Martin Luther.
>>1347968
Jesus Christ
>>1348357
This and Muhammad.
Predict what happens to North Korea in the next 10-20 years.
>people are starving
>beg for more aid
>survive another year
>repeat
It feels now that the people are less brainwashed and the military elite know that the people are less brainwashed so sometghings gotta give.
nknews.org/2014/04/how-long-until-north-korea-collapses-eleven-defector-perspectives/
Also, the Spaniard in this documentary has to spy right?
>>1347960
>strong military leader decides to man up and start a coup
>the coup ousts the Kim dynasty
>US is happy
>new government calls for reunification of Korea
>US gets buttmad and plots a coup with the remnants of the Kim
Just when the US supported Pol Pot after the Vietnam War.
>>1347980
Nigga this isn't 1976
>>1347980
Pretty sure the US are 100% behind unified Korea. The their troops can piss into China and Russia from the Korean border.
What was his fucking problem?
He was skeptical of progress, contrary to all the other German thinkers of his century who saw some new and great age right beyond the horizon when their philosophy would define the world.
The Will
>>1347814
Buddhism is a helluva drug.
Is the history of the Horn of Africa as intrinsically linked to the Middle East as North Africa?
yeah, there was a bit of trade
The Land of Punt (now Eritrea and Somalia) was a trading partner of Egypt. Mostly gold, ivory and incense
Depends on the what area and subject you're talking about. The civilizations that flourished there certainly were. The first civilization there in northern Ethiopia, called D'mt, seems to have originated with the Yemeni Sabaean civilization. Later civilizations, like the Aksumites and later Ethiopian Christians, the Somali city states and the Muslim sultanates in the eastern/central highlands were culturally linked with the Middle East and the rest of the Eurasian/North African world in their religious and political culture. Linguistically, most people in the Horn speak Afro-Asiatic languages. That said, Christian Ethiopia mostly developed in relative isolation from the Middle East after the 7th century AD (they still traded and had contacts with places like Egypt and Nubia, but their development as a civilization was mostly insular). Looking away from civilization, there were also plenty of other cultures whose development owed a lot less (if anything at all) to the Middle East. Cultures in southern Ethiopia for example domesticated ensete and thrived independently of Middle Eastern developments..
>not semitics
>not indo-europeans
WHO were Sumerians?
Kangz probably
>>1347727
People who lived there before those incursions? Does it need to be something you'd recognize today?
>>1347727
Those are Assyrians.
Sumerians were probably just the native people of southern Iraq who adopted agriculture from around Syria/northern Iraq, or they might have been the descendants of those early agriculturalists who migrated into the region.
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