Can this be seen as an accurate descrpition of what happend ?
>>1264239
serbshits
>>1264239
The eternal ***
>>1264239
yo mama
would Caesar be a better emperor than his successors if he hadn't been assasinated?
>>1263947
Define better? Caesar claimed he killed about 1,000,000 gauls and enslaved another million (no doubt exaggerated).
He was a complete sociopath who was mad with power, so I'd imagine he'd be similar to Nero albeit a better conqueror. his treatment of the native populations of conquered territories would probably only spawn more rebellions, so in my opinion not that gr8 m8
>>1263947
well had caesar lived, he wouldn't have been an emperor. the emperors only came about due to and after his death. if caesar live he would have continued to be dictator for life and there is some evidence that he may have wanted to be diefied.
>>1263976
caesar would definitely not have been a Nero before there was even a Nero. caesar actually treated the Gauls and other tribes he conquered rather well considering how many ancients would have. he showed clemency towards them and made alliances with them too.
>threads about religion
>threads about communism
>threads about nazism
Why the fuck is this board so shit? It should be just about fucking history before WWII
>>1263807
If it were restricted to pre-WWII history it would just be
>threads about Rome
At least this way there's a few different types of posts at once.
>>1263807
American hours.
That's /pol/ for ya, bud
So Mike Duncan is compiling and publishing all the transcripts from the History of Rome Podcast in a four-volume set. http://www.revolutionspodcast.com/2016/06/the-history-of-rome-vol-i-the-republic.html
He's also writing "The Storm Before The Storm" about what led to the conditions that allowed Augustus to turn the world's most famous anti-monarchist republic into a monarchy. [spoiler]It's also doing some classic historical writing and trying to place America somewhere along the timeline of Roman history, to see what the possible future might be[/spoiler]
http://www.adweek.com/galleycat/podcast-host-mike-duncan-inks-book-deal/110975
Has he crossed the line into 'actual historian' yet, or at least 'more respected than Dan Carlin'? Also, general hype. For all the errors in the first episodes (which are being corrected in the book) I thought he did a good job of moving at a respectable speed through centuries of history and drawing out some important lessons.
>>1263511
Historians are not describers of the past. Historians do research. They try to explain the past according to the surviving evidence. Some historians do create textbooks and descriptive non fiction works about the past, but creating these kind of works does not make one their author an historian. Therefore, Mike Duncan is not an historian.
>>1263950
So Hans Delbrück is not a historian because he draws conclusions?
Historiography of any scope shows far more people taking in data, interpreting it, and demonstrating conclusions (especially trying to apply past situations to present events) than it shows academic machines who put out bland paste without offering some sort if interpretation (and that many who try still fall prey to their own inherent biases).
>>1263511
He's crossed over into the Tom Holland or John Julius Norwich level of "popular writer of history" but not a historian.
How did the general standard of living change during his rule?
Dramatic decline for anyone who wasn't a government official
>>1263423
being a government official during stalin's regime was a 50/50 chance of ending up with a bullet in your head
>>1263423
In fact, almost the opposite. Standards improved greatly though they were (necessarily) substandard compared to the already advanced capitalist nations of the time.
What the fuck went so wrong?
>>1263348
Liscence Raj and later liberalization.
But how did a really poorly-run formally Communist China, beat India 1990-present?
>>1263348
China just keeps spamming local governments to increase their GDP to keep them in check
>>1263348
Open defection and the ensuing infant diseases.
Is the number 4 real?
This 4 is real.
>>1263329
Are these dubs real?
Numbers aren't real, they're just made up, like the rules of chess
what makes something funny?
It's dangerous but harmless.
If it's lol
""""""""social construct""""""""
Name a memey-er country
Belgium and it's not even close.
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What is the /his/ consensus on pic related?
not drunk but seriously drunk
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/6216594/Drunk-Boris-Yeltsin-tried-to-hail-taxi-outside-White-House-in-underpants.html
>>1263131
Bloviating useless drunkard.
The real destroyer instead of Gorby
Can someone explain this meme to me?
Wtf happened there?
>>1263102
Why don't you just literally read the fucking picture? If you're still confused look it up on Wikipedia.
>>1263126
Don't know where to look m8
>>1263136
Try.battle of magnesia
Are feudalism and the welfare state fundamentally different or are we just led to believe so by buttmad Jewish historians?
>>1263086
Serfs didn't have free healthcare or education
>>1263482
>Technology has nothing to do with this
Can't quite remember the last time some local governor decided to rise his own army against his own ruler in any welfare state.
If the Gospel of John is written by a presumably Judean native and eyewitness, why can't he tell the difference between Hebrew and Aramaic?
Where exactly does the writer fail to do so?
>>1263024
Following the Battle of Vercellae in 101 BC Marius granted all Italian soldiers Roman citizenship. He justified this action to the Senate by saying in the din of battle he could not distinguish Roman from ally. This effectively eliminated the notion of allied legions; henceforth all Italian legions would be regarded as Roman Legions.
>>1263027
John 19 verses 13 and 17 have him explicitly calling Aramaic words Hebrew.
Is Gehngis Khan histories single greatest rapist? Or was there someone we know who personally commented more rape?
>>1262907
Rape is violence + privilege. People of colour can't be rapists.
>>1262918
I know you're being ironic but it horrifies me that this is probably a thing that some people believe.
>>1262907
>Genghiz Khan
>Rapist
No?
Genghiz Khan was following Steppe (and Chinese) practice in which every single powerful entity sends a daughter to the Emperor/Khan so that he's linked to the ruling dynasty via familial ties.
And G. Khan had a big empire.
Pick sort of related. It's the first Ming Dynasty Emperor. Chinese Imperial surnames now number in perhaps hundreds and millions of descendants. Now since the sons of all those concubines followed daddy's practice and took concubines of their own, it's pretty fucking easy how these arrangements would result in thousands of relatives.
And Genghiz Khan followed that. Except he had a bigger empire with a diverse variety of princesses sent to him.
Military battles thread. Videos, pictures, whatever. Post everything battles.
>Pic related
>>1262893
fuck, didn't mean to use tripcode
>>1262893
battle of Issus
>>1262893
battle of waterloo
