what was the most gruesome era of warfare for the soldiers /his/?
I would say musket line warfare
>have no armor
>have no hearing protetion
>rifles are inacurate af
>can't hide behind cover
>just stand still while you're being shot at
>go deaf from all the shooting
>the faggot with the flute is really annoying
>artillery tears you to shreds from several miles away
>die
>future generations think you look ridiculous with your colourful unifurm
Ancient warfare, where you actually have to destroy someone's body with your own body, while they are desperately trying to do the same to you.
>>1281418
Maybe not the most gruesome, but definitely the worst respected:gruesome ratio.Everyone loves spartans and shit but most people these days would just laught at the uniforms of the musket men.
>>1281418
If you look at the found bones, medieval combat was more than horrific, getting beaten to death with a mace is a lot worse than dying quickly from a gunshot
Does anybody have a timeline of the worlds single dominant power? I'm assuming from my knowledge something on the lines of:
17th century: Spain
18th century: France
19th century: Britain
20th century: United States
>>1293060
>single dominant power?
>18th Century
pick precisely one.
The whole point of the Congress of Vienna was to establish five powers, none of which was meant to be strong enough to dominate the others.
>>1293060
Looking for single dominant world powers before the age of superpowers is fuck stupid. Only the US was able to pull that off and very recently.
>>1293079
That's the 19th century. And it only worked for a few decades. And Britain was still the clear "winner" of the 19th century.
ITT: Post your nine favourite historical figures and try to guess the country of other posters
Can you show me the website where /his/torians make these collages? I've been trying to find it again since these threads stopped being made often.
>>1291132
I always make simple shit like that myself using photoshop desu
Help would be greatly appreciated
>Churchill
Israel?
Ok, I am sick of all these romanboos who post roman threads every day... So now we can finally have the Carthage thread that /his/ might not want, but needs.
So if you have any good stories, pics, videos or anything carthage related, post it!
Phoenicians are welcome aswell.
Here are some good reads:
http://www.phoenician.org/carthage_hannibal_barca.htm
Punics (This is also a punic thread):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanit
http://www.phoenician.org/origin_of_phoenicians.htm
http://phoenicia.org/pagan.html
>>1290629
>>1290629
Beautiful Carthaginian harbor
>>1290629
The first depiction of Tanit weirdly enough are found in pre-punic Sardinia and date back to the XIII-VIII century bc, while Tanit only appears around the 4th century bc in the Punic world.
>>1290629
T. Baby-eater
Is this true?
>>1290040
Fabians, and reformist at large, will say yeah.
>>1290040
Is it true Karl Marx said that? Lmao, no.
Is it true that democracy is the only road to socialism? Debateable but I would say no, historically reformism just gets you deposed by the CIA whereas revolution can potentially put control into the hands of workers even if it's been a struggle to keep control in the hands of workers.
No. True revolution will be only achieved trough the bloodshed of the bourgeois.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6iJVTHMZ6EY
So /his/ what are your thoughts?
>land raider at 4:03
>>1286777
>that vid
Well thanks OP, I have AIDS now.
>>1286902
Don't worry anon your not the only one
Why can't people admit that the humanities are obsolete?
>>1283558
How can the humanities be obsolete if humans still exist?
>>1283566
The ultimate goal of a technologically advanced society is to make humans vestigial.
Outdated =! Obsolete
What are some moments in history where the bad guys actually won (excluding world wars for all you memers out there)?
War in Iraq
Look at Iraq when Hussein was in power
Look at Iraq now
WW2
WW1
Don't spank your children, otherwise they'll violate the non-aggression principle in the name of the state.
>>1292644
lel anarchocapitalists
How does that even work?
>>1292833
It works by NOT spanking your children.
Not an argument, Anon. You have NO argument.
>>1292644
free will doesn't exist
Why can't planned economy work?
>inb4 state can't allocate resources as good as market can
Why?
>>1291066
You just answered it.
>>1291070
You're not explaining me why can't state allocate resources effectively though.
>>1291066
I think once we've maxed out our technology far enough it can be possible. The problem with the USSR, the most famous example of a planned economy, was that a lot of the consumer goods we take for granted today after decades of research (which, admittedly, was driven by firms doing research but also with hefty american govt funding as well iirc). The other problem is that the soviet union got wrekt by Germany in wwii economically and demographically and then had to continue directing investment into heavy industry, a legacy of Stalinist development, to compete with the US during the Cold War, which always assured that the government, even if it wanted to, had little money to channel into producing solid consumer goods that might have increased the perceived quality of soviet life and halted the sense of stagnation in the final years of the USSR.
>if you don't drop all your traditional practices RIGHT NOW and worship this white dude, you're going to hell, nigger!
Christianity everyone
Don't you already feel the true word of God enLIGHTening you, darkie?
>Jesus
>White
My traditional practices are Christian.
Nice bait.
>>1289965
>Don't you already feel the true word of God enLIGHTening you, darkie?
No, but i certainly feel enlightened by my OWN intelligence.
>>1290002
>My traditional practices are Christian.
Who are you fooling?
Your ancestors were mentally chained to this runaway Jewish sect. They had beauty and independence before they fell in with this global disease. Now...
Why do people get so triggered on this site by Belgium? Does it just offend their perfect border autism?
jealousy
>>1289754
>perfect border autism
Speaking of which, I always hated that bulge north of Charleville-Mezieres on the map, I wish the border was more simple there.
For some reason every Belgian I come across on /int/ is a complete cunt. I really hate them all. This isn't some prejudice either, it's a hatred based on personal experience. I had literally no opinion on Belgians until I came to 4chan.
If they didn't produce godly beer and frites I'd be questioning why they haven't been nuked yet.
I don't know if this is the best place to ask about this?
But why do I feel okay with eating pigs, cows, chickens, sheep, and all sorts of stuff but the Yulin festival leaves me in disgust?
Am I a hypocrite? Do I not accept cultural relativism?
Bump for other opinions
It's not that you don't accept cultural relativism, it's that the very culture which you are in views these acts as wrong,
You (and I for that matter) are self-aware, however you can't help but feel a bit upset about it is all.
There's nothing that makes eating a dog worse than eating a pig besides our subjective morals
I personally can't stand people eating dogs and cats, but that's totally biased and based on nothing besides muh feels
Is GoT really faithful to the time period it is supposed to be potraying
Pic unrelated
>GoT
>Being anywhere historically accurate
Summerfag alert
>>1279832
Fucking this. I hate how the masses just asume because they look medieval enough they are anyway historical
>According to the Russian historian Kluchevsky, the rise of Moscow under Ivan I Kalita was determined by three factors. The first one was that the Moscow principality was situated in the middle of other Russian principalities; thus, it was protected from any invasions from the East and from the West. Compared to its neighbors, Ryazan principality and Tver principality, Moscow was less often devastated.
>Ivan Kalita intentionally pursued the policy of relocation of people to his principality by an invitation of people from other places and by purchase of Russian people captured by Mongols during their raids.
>Ivan made Moscow very wealthy by maintaining his loyalty to the Horde
The eternal slave, literally mongol serfs established in the 14th century by a viking descendent
>>1296595
>Try monarchy
>Get despotism
>Try western absolute monarchy
>Get despotism
>Try constitutional monarchy
>Get despotism
>Try communism
>Get despotism
>Try liberal capitalism
>Get despotism.
can't make this shit up
It wasn't quite like other national leaders would be any more honorable really.
