>Cyrus the >Great.
>Killed by a literally who tribe whore.
>Main characters have magic plot armor like in the movies
Great was a title used by all Persian kings, even Darius III who got btfo by the same guy who took the title when he became king of Persia.
It's the same idea with Shahanshah and the last Shah. What other kings was he king of? It's just a title.
tl;dr Fuck off John Green
There was only one great, its not a coincidence every one else stealing that title was a loser I could take in a fight with bad government policy
When & why did people start viewing this as a metaphor?
>>1288869
the Word of God is not a metaphor. why do you people still buy into NASA's lies that the world is round?
That view of the cosmos is still perfectly valid if you think of the "world" as being this entire level of reality. The ancient Jews, like the ancient Norse, viewed their 'world' as being their own concrete land because their imaginations didn't extend further. They were right about the categories, they just got the scope and scale of those categories wrong.
>>1288892
>he thinks the world is flat
Clearly OP's image indicates it IS round, it's just that the land is flat. When will flatearthers give it up and admit we're surrounded by firmamental waters?
>be the Bolsheviks
>proclaim all power to the soviets and the Russian people
>suppress the soviets
>shoot striking workers
>pressgang people into the Red Army with threats of violence to them or their families
>destroy the Ukrainian Free Territory
>try to impose soviets from the top-down on various eastern European nations and call it 'Revolution'
>centralize power and kill those who protest like the Kronstadt sailors
>throw a fit when you don't win a majority in the assembly and drive out your opponents at the end of bayonets
>talk about 'muh self determination of nations' and then force all of the oppressed ethnic groups of the Russian Empire back into your Soviet Union
>get defeated by the Poles who've only been a country for like two months
What the fuck happened?
PERFIDIOUS
congratulations you just found out that elites just replace each other and nothing changes except the label
>>1288765
Russians happened.
>Be Russian
>Try monarchy
>Get despotism
>Try western absolute monarchy
>Get despotism
>Try constitutional monarchy
>Get despotism
>Try communism
>Get despotism
>Try liberal capitalism
>Get despotism.
>the French Revolution was ruined when Robespierre took over and made himself dictator of France
>If Hitler only listened to his generals he would have won the war
>World War I was a family feud
>Napoleon was like Hitler
>the Roman Emperor Julius Caesar
>The Dark Ages were actually a myth and everything was fine
>if Trotsky had taken over instead of Stalin everything would have been fine
>Lincoln was a tyrant
>Hitler was Austrian, not German
>pepe posters are actually really cool people
>If Hitler only listened to his generals he would have won the war
I can't beleive people post that shit
A rudimentary reading into WWII will show you that most of Hitlers tactical decisions with the exception of attacking Russia and then Stalingrad, were pretty sound.
>>1288738
and it was actual the generals who ignored the logisticians and tried to invade russia in the first place lmao
Give me the truth about the Freemasons. The actual truth, even if it's boring.
Is it just men with grandiose complex circle-jerking during their midlife crisis by playing an elaborate costume game?
Yes it is, but is also just so happens that sometimes those men who involve themselves in shit like that happen to hold power in some way. People with power grouped together are always planning and plotting shit.
It's not necessarily them who control the world, but rather the uber powerful and hyper rich who conglomerate with others like themselves.
>>1288588
It's a philosophical and scientific research organisation, but due to a huge influx of shitty members post-WW2, it's largely an alms-giving group. But there are still good lodges out there true to the purpose.
>>1288588
Aren't they just a long-running worker's guild for stone masons or something? All the secrecy and odd rituals don't really mean anything.
Ahoy-hoy /his/torians,
I'm new to this board ('cuz babby board), so forgive me if this is a dead horse of a subject, but what does /his/ think of Lyndon Baines Johnson as a president? His legacy seems to be very complicated; I've heard everything from accusations that he was the mastermind behind JFK's murder to praises of him being one of the last truly great presidents.
It's no question that he seems to have been a racist and something of an egomaniac in his personal life, but it is also evident that he oversaw and carried out some of the most progressive actions in modern American history (e.g., the Civil Rights and Voting Rights acts, public broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, etc.). He failed to resolve the quagmire in Vietnam, but that was an inherited mess that didn't stop him from attaining domestic success. So what's the verdict?
>>1288485
The original meme president.
Not because of his achievements or lack thereof, but because he was obssessed with his dick.
>>1288492
Hah! Yes, how could I forget to mention "Jumbo"? A true Texan--obsessed with size.
>>1288485
I actually don't believe he was a racist. While he used very racially charged language, he was white trash from Texas. It was just the way he talked.
I don't know why people on here will shit on Johnson. For some reason they think he was a proto-SJW, when in reality he was a raging misogynist with a massive dick obsession. I admire him not just for realizing that endemic poverty is the cause of the majority of society's ills but also for his brilliant political maneuvering. Even if you hate him, there's something admirable about the way he was able to get some of the Dixiecrats behind the Civil Rights Act despite the fact that it was political suicide to them. He literally would tell them that black enfranchisement would save their jobs, despite knowing that their constituencies were mostly white anyway.
And yes, he was involved in the Kennedy assassination, but Kennedy was a shitty president and he had to be removed.
Why didn't anybody see the potential in the Aeolipile and what would happen if they did?
>>1288392
Well, it didn't really have an application at the time.
Slave labour was cheap and plentiful.
>>1288412
Is that the only reason or are there others? I'm also not saying that this isn't a good reason, but just curious if there were other factors.
>>1288437
In order for steam power to be reliable for large scale mechanics (such as transportation, mechanised industry etc.) you need very VERY high pressure boilers and pistons. This necessitates the ability to produce high quality wrought iron in very large quantities, something that was not really possible before the 18th century. Without the metals and metalworking technology needed to make use of it, primitive steam power couldn't be anything more than a curiosity, as it wouldn't produce enough energy to drive anything of any great scale.
The other main problem was that the Romans had no way of making the connection between steam power and the need to drive wheels with it, as they lacked the single most important invention of the industrial revolution, the automatic spinning machine, the spinning jenny being what ignited the industrial revolution in Britain. Having automatic spinning machines gives you the ability to produce vast amounts of cloth insanely cheaply and quickly, these machines were driven by wheels connected to water mills, and unless you live next to a large and fast flowing river, you need some other way of driving these giant wheels, this is where steam power comes in. Without this technological and economic chain going all the way from production of goods to powering of machines, there is simply no need to have steam power, because it only forms one link in the industrial chain.
Even if the Romans had had the metal-working technology to take advantage of steam power on a significant scale, there would have been to reason to, as they did not have a technology to which they could apply steam power to vastly increase productivity, and to allow for productivity autonomous of natural conditions (i.e. the building of factories in cities as happened in the industrial revolution).
There were of course other issues such as the lack of large scale coal production, large scale textile crop production, and a large enough market to make it feasible.
Post /his/torical maps
>>1288239
That is one lazy fucking map considering the Romans knew damn well where to place the Hadrian and Antonine walls by determining the thinnest part of Britain with accuracy.
But you gotta be fucking kidding me about southern Italy though. That there has simply NO excuse to fuck up, while getting southern Greece somewhat correct.
First map to show the Americas as a separate continent from Asia (1507)
Why did China stagnate, unlike Europe or Japan which were able to modernize and invent new and better ways of living?
Why were the Chinese so hated in America during the 19th century /his/?
Typical fear of foreign influence trope which led to the entire treasure fleet getting scuttled.
>>1288213
It wasn't just the chinese. It was anyone who wasn't Anglo-Saxon.
Muslims, I too believe in Muhammad. Except the Muhammad you understand isn't the true Muhammad.
The "prophet" was actually an devote Christian who believed in the Trinity, Jesus died for our sins and rose from the dead. He preached the good news throughout the middle east and the Qu'ran was really an Arabic version of the New Testament. After Muhammad died one of his disciples; Uthman later corrupted the Qu'ran and completely debased Muhammad's legacy, then destroyed any fragmentary manuscripts or whole copies Qa'ran that differ than Uthman's.
Uthman wanted to replaced Muhammad's god with Allah,a pagan deity, but many knew about this(mostly Christians and Jews) so he had them killed. Later he raised to leadership, fame and called the religion: Islam.
>>1288152
ah yes this i didn't think many people knew about this
>>1288152
Do you have any source to back up your claims?
Also, Muslims do not believe in Muhammad, they believe in his message.
>>1288152
If you start to look in any direction with abrahamics you're always gonna' see a spiderweb of this sort of thing.
We all know about the first, second and the third crusade. But what about the rest of them? What about the child crusade? Let's talk about them.
[muslims moaning and children sobbing]
Is this intentionally in the style of that "Alexander the >great" guy?
And the children's crusade was most likely a myth.
The Old German word for child and beggar (Or something like that) had the same meaning so people would later mistake it for being a crusade of children.
>>1287911
Even if it were beggars and not kids the idea of walking into the mediterranian sea at Marseille and be able step right to Jerusalem is pretty hilarious
Were they real? Do we have any evidence of them? Could it have been mistaken identity?
>>1287858
WHO TF U TALKING BOUT
>>1287974
The Nephilites. Y'know, tribes of huge people.
>>1287858
>6'1"
>5' 11"
>6' 2"
WHEN WILL THEY LEARN
Why the did the Argies invade the Falklands when they knew the Brits were thinking of handing it over?
All they had to do was wait a few years for the Pro-Falkland MPs to get ousted.
>>1287612
Because spics are fucking retarded.
See; every spic country as evidence.
>>1287612
Argies are fucking stupid
>>1287627
erudite post from one of our learned /pol/ friends
What involvement did actual Lithuanians have in this thing?
This is anecdotal, but most of the winged Hussars in this battle was of Lithunian stock.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kircholm
>russians actually think the grand duchy of Lithunia pre commonwealth was a Russian creation
>>1287726
They are not exactly wrong.
Before the personal union Lithuania had more land than Poland all tho I don't think it was as strong
Ur mom
/thread
>>1287167
His plan helped turn a colonial backwater that was basically just an agricultural plant into the world's biggest economy within 100 years, so id say mr. hamilton.
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