What made Athenian Democracy so effective, and is it better than the current model of democracy in say, Britain
Why post a picture depicting the Roman Senate?
>>1300543
It wasn't, it was mostly squabbling and mob rule. But then, britain is shit too.
t.Brit
>>1300543
It wasn't effective.
Apparently this is a poleaxe wound (skull is from battle of Towton which is pretty well known for similar gruesome finds) I wonder if he got hit with the blade or the hammer part.
Post damaged skulls.
This skull is from viking age and it's a sword wound so there goes the myth of ''le blunt european swords''
This one is from battle of Visby and I don't know what killed this guy but he is still wearing armor which is pretty fucking metal.
Also from Visby and also no details what happened to this guy.
Can the strategies/tactics described in The Art of War still be applied to todays combat?
>>1300034
Yes. Burn everything.
Some of them yes, some of them no.
>>1300034
Most of it can really be applied to any struggle one has in life.
Can someone recommend me some reading material about historical Jesus or early Christianity? Preferably one that compares current New Testament interpretations with what they (probably) actually meant back then.
>>1299764
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium by Bart Ehrman.
I found it to be fantastic, and I was pleased with how much of the sayings and radical theology of Jesus were found to be consistent with the historical analysis by Ehrman.
He's one of the foremost New Testament scholars and historians.
I also recommend How Jesus Became God, also by him, on the subject of early Christianity.
Another book I recommend is When God Spoke Greek: The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian Bible by Timothy Michael Law, based on the usage of the Greek translation of the Old Testament by the early Churches and New Testament writers themselves.
>>1299829
Thanks. I think I'd already heard his (Ehrman's) name, but I don't remember the context. I'll look for those books.
>>1299764
Nothing by that cunt Bart Ehrman. He's an absolute fraud.
For ancient & dead languages, how do historians know when they have deciphered/translated them successfully?
What frame of reference exists for them to know that they have for certain deciphered and translated, say, a Sumerian tablet? How can they ever know that they are correct if there's nothing to really say "yeah, that's what it's saying"?
>>1297869
Peer-review, mostly.
Also, if you can translate other texts, without sounding silly.
>>1297869
>frame of reference
The Rosetta Stone (examples of older translations which language by language have led us to quasi living languages like Latin, Greek and Hebrew.)
>>1297897 /this
>>1297869
Often in a language we already know exist merchant vocabulary lists for those we don't.
From that few words you can usually reverse engineer other words and the grammar.
Often Languages as well are close enough that you can transfer stuff over. Hebrew and Arab are for example REALLY close and it easy to learn the other if you know one of them.
There are some ancient languages where neither is the case. And guess what: We don't have a clue what they say.
He was a poorly-spoken Corsican who was relentlessly cuckolded by his wife Josephine, and he had lost many wars, why is he even seen as the next Caesar? Caesar was better than Napoleon and accomplished much more, Caesar's Empire lasted over a millennium, while his couldn't even survive a mere ten years.
>>1297811
half a millennium*
>>1297821
1453
>>1297811
Napoleon eventually divorced Josephine. Caesar's first wife also cucked him (see good goddess scandal). Caesar did not establish an empire; Augustus did. Define "better."
Post more pics like this
>>1296572
Based prince.
<black prince
WE
>The age of unique uniforms are over
>>1295585
Camouflage was a mistake.
>>1295589
It was.
Best uniform
What did you learn today, /his/?
Today I learned that Cape Horn is named such not because it is pointy and resembles a horn, but because the Dutch ship that first went around it was called the Horne.
Reddit tier
Today I learned that Cape Horn is named such not because it is pointy and resembles a horn, but because the Dutch ship that first went around it was called the Horne.
I learned about a ship named the Cape Horn and that Baltimore is apparently in Maryland.
>>1294360
>Coahuila
>capital city is Acuña
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>>1294468
Also, why is it at the center and not at the north?
>>1294360
Pls don't lump us with the costeños.
t. Antioquian
>early 1900's
>more prosperous and wealthy than Canada and most of Western Europe
>2001
>essentially a failed state with an economy melting down similar to modern day Venezuela
When did it all go wrong?
Jaja nothing is wrong, everything is muy bien jajaja you know the real problem? BRITAIN STOLE OUR ISLANDS!
>>1273194
Populism à la Perón
>>1273194
US cold-war influence
All of South America is basically fucked at this point, not a single true succes story stands out
Roses are red
But they're also white
LANCASTER VS YORK
WHO WINS THIS FIGHT!?
Humanity
Lancaster
> this triggers the Yorkist
>>1272123
TRIGGERED!
>Rome lived for close to a thousand years, then adopted the Christian religion and 150 years later fell...
Hmm... Coincidence?
>>1303504
Considering the death blow to the roman empire came a century before the religion shift, I'd say yeah. If anything, Christianity actually helped tame the barbarians some and making them more easily assimilable.
Pure coincidence. Now go back to your wars in the Middle East and donating she- I mean excess wealth so you won't burn in hell for eternity.
Browsing /pol/ and /his/ i see alot of speculators with biased answers to why the Holocaust didn't happen
if you seriously believe it didn't happen, present a valid point to why it was a lie.
tb h i have no idea if it did happen or not
(not that i particularly care one way or the other)
There were no gas chambers
>>1303350
Source?
How is it that foreign tribes managed to subjugate nearly all the native population in Western Europe in what used to be the Roman Empire ?
How could the Franks, Visigoths, langobards etc. even happen ?
Why didn't local nobility take control over these regions ?
I'll self bumb until i get a satisfying answer.
I wanna know
>>1302788
There was a bit of warfare and subjugation but if you want a good look at how the tribes took over those areas look to the Migrant Crisis in Europe. It wasn't a matter of conquest, it was a matter of "this looks good let's settle here"
>>1302793
But, surely the natives and the local elites didn't all volunteered to submit to a foreign overlord.
I heard the masses of invaders were still relatively small compared to the native population ?
So how did the barbarians (i don't mean this in a diminishing way) have the means to submit the locals, and why did the locals accept it ?
The invaders didn't have superior numbers nor technological advantages nor did they know the territory.
It seems like all odds where against them, still almost all of Western Europe ended having new foreign overlords by the 7th century
