How the hell the norte chico civilization came to be so densely populated in fucking south america, of all places?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norte_Chico_civilization
>Norte Chico sites are notable for exceptional collective density, as well as individual size. Haas argues that the density of sites in such a small area is globally unique for a nascent civilization. During the third millennium BC, Norte Chico may have been the most densely populated area of the world (excepting, possibly, northern China).[11]
How the fuck they even existed in the first place, when they were in such a desolate place?
>>1230333
Well, just continuing that wiki link:
>The region is punctuated by more than 50 rivers that carry Andean snowmelt. The development of widespread irrigation from these water sources is seen as decisive in the emergence of Norte Chico;[13][14] since all of the monumental architecture at various sites has been found close to irrigation channels.
River valleys often contain large population centers, and if the natural geography has a lot of rivers and thus easy irrigation, you get a lot of food growth and consequently a dense population.
>>1230356
this
as well as the wonderful, magical vegetable that we today call the potato
>>1230356
Oh thanks, that sounds plausible.
But if it is that way, shouldn't a lot of places in the ancient world have had as much or more people?
>Saddle up, let's get this rap battle going
>I spread the Roman Empire anywhere the wind's blowing
>Other mc's can't match what I'm displayin
>There is no caging or containing the Raging Trajan
>Yo, Augustus, your shit is weak
>You might have started this Empire but I took it to it's peak.
>I'm the master of territorial expansion
>You're a pretty boy like those girls in Hanson.
>Without Agrippa fighting for you your combat record is as depressing as a Greek tradgedy chorus
>"Where are my legions Varus?" - laying face down in the Teutoburg Forest!!!
>You might have been ok, but your successors were anus
> Your boy Tiberius left Rome run by that pleb Sejanus
>Trajan coming at ya, you can't fuck with this
>Keep talking shit I'll send ya down to Dis.
>>1230327
Any MC step to me and I'll beat them
Flavian, I think you're compensating for something with that giant colluseum
Back up bitch, you can suck this
There is no matching the illness of Augustus
I founded an Empire that lasted for hundreds of years
I get hyped up when I see Senatorial class tears
I'm the original, you're a weak copy
and to be honest you're conquests were all sloppy
Got a lot of desert but that shit was unholdable
I blast through your raps like a Goth at Adrianople
Don't step, asking what kinda man I am
Where did your conquests go? Ask your boy Hadrian!
>>1230346
>>1230327
>Roman pussies think they hardcore
>But they can't mess with the great Sharpur
>Taken Roman clay, going on excursions
>Raping all the legions with my army of Persians
> I'm a straight G for the exotic Near East
> And when I face the legions, I fight like a beast
> A Golden Age king who ruled for 70 years
> What's my secret? Drinking Roman tears
> You're shit was all right, but we're the rising power
> Got indoor plumbing but ya both still need a shower
> So get behind the lines and just stand there and cower
> Sharpur II is built like a strong iron tower
gaius marius there is no other
smack you sassanids down to hell like i killed your brother
if you faced my legions you wouldnt be laughing
i got great commanders and proper staffing
sand niggers go back to your homes of clay
before you get crucified on appian way
backed by citizens so strong
youll never be able to do rome wrong
Watching breaking bad and saw the scene where Walt mentions the Schwerer Gustav was actually useful, could survive days of aerial bombing, and was only destroyed by a commando who parachuted in and used thermite to melt the barrel.
Any other examples of blatantly wrong or funny history in popular media?
>>1230309
Literally everything in 300.
>>1230313
I got triggered so hard while watching it
>>1230324
>getting triggered by a movie
What did he mean by this?
Considering the quote was done in comic sans on a crudely shopped image I doubt its real
>>1232842
Essentially, yes.
Knowledge is only power if you have power to begin with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3BOd8vlRkg
Why everytime socialism is tried, it always end up like this?
It doesn't work.
See the economic calculation problem
>>1230195
any economic literature to understand on economic terms why socialism and comunism doesn't work?
>>1230204
Sowell makes it pretty clear in Basic Economics by showing how markets work based on certain mechanisms and how socialism fails because it lacks those mechanisms.
You could also read Socialism by Mises, but it's pretty dense and old. The economic calculation problem was introduced here:
https://mises.org/sites/default/files/Economic%20Calculation%20in%20the%20Socialist%20Commonwealth_Vol_2_3.pdf
The western Church has Saint Thomas Aquinas, who do the Eastern church view as their version of Aquinas
It's going a bit further in time. but Alexander Pushkin is considered the father of Russian literature.
Michael Choniates is also a pretty famous byzantine writer/philosopher.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Choniates
>>1229801
I think he's talking in terms of theologians from Byzantium glory days desu
>>1229751
Orthodoxy shuns innovators so most of their theologians were just hair-splitting pedants arguing over semantics. They rejected the scholastic tendency to meld philosophy with religion, so once they came up with a consistent Christology there was no need to add more to it.
One handed axes were pure shit what even was their purpose?
>muh price
no fuck off that's a dumb pseudo historical meme people who know fuck all about history say when they want to sound smart it only applies to early middle ages and only to shitholes.
Meme weapons.
>>1229657
Ever tried to wield a two handed axe and a shield?
What's even the purpose of any weapon
People have preferences, dongmaster
>>1229675
I don't know about a single instance when someone who could afford a sword bought a one handed axe instead (heard about people picking up poleaxe or Dane Axe but those are two handers)
Post art you like that is of the more "odd" sort. Odd in whatever sense. Modern, old - whatever.
It just needs to be good.
Post places you'd like to go and feel comfy. I'll start. Muir Woods, California
>crisp, fresh air with the sent of redwoods
>slightly cold, and misty/drizzling
>the sound of raindrops hitting the clovers at the ground
>see tiny birds under the clovers hiding, and looking at you with curiosity
>here the nearby creek carry the water through the forest
SERIOUSLY WHAT COULD BE BETTER???
That sounds really nice.
But don't they have mosquitoes?
/out/ on /his/ My two favorite boards combined. That said, what does this have to do with history?
ITT: We talk about Texas! How long could it have landed as a sovereign nation if Mexico or the U.S. never claimed it? What would it be like today if that happened?
*lasted
>>1229488
It was a sort of sovereignty for a time, unrecognized by Mexico. Political wrangling led to a vote to be annexed by the USA for its own protection. I don't think the USA would ever have invaded it, but I don't think Mexico would have allowed it to remain in insurrection.
>>1229488
Don't let your bias education fool you Texas wanted to become part of the US. The US initially didn't because it would fuck up the ratio of slave states to free states.
Why do people today still like him? He talked about having a black only state, for a long part of his fame was under the influence of the NOI who killed him later on.
>>1229274
Angry people enjoy him. Didn't he have a slight vindictive message? Like if you compare him to MLK Jr, wasn't Malcolm a little more aggressive?
Also I think Malcolm calmed down before his death. I sincerely hope he did. Can't go around adding fuel to a fire like that forever.
>>1229454
>Can't go around adding fuel to a fire like that forever.
liberal please go
>>1229274
Surprisingly White Nationalists like him, because he spoke a message that resonates with their values; Racial separatism. Don't make the mistake of thinking that past values are all dead and gone, anon. The racial angst of the 1960s is very much alive today.
Our world is dying, there’s nothing to go back to. If our people are to survive, we must make our home here.
For jews, there is no other life but war.
No, but with the UNs help.... there could be.
>>1229265
Stalin gave us the OK, now the goyim will know
THROUGH THE GATES OF HELL
who the fuck likes power metal anyway?
>>1228886
Dildos.
>>1228882
(You)
Primo Victoria.
If the Aztecs had discovered Madagascar, would they have been able to prevent French colonialism and the European intrusion into the Indian Ocean trade?
>>1228759
But how did they discover Madagascar desu? My own humble theory, which I thought long and clearly of, is that if the Aztecs would seek alliances with the Chinese they would be pretty much instoppable.
>>1228771
>how
Their gods would fly them there.
>alliances with the Chinese
How would that ever happen? They'd have to acknowledge the supremacy of the Chinese Emperor. THey wouldn't want to do that when they could just sacrifice them.
>>1228759
not only that, they would have colonized antarctica
How is it even controversial? Who can seriously claim it wasn't a genocide? It's just baffling.
>>1228610
>How is it even controversial?
It isn't, unless you're Turkish.
>>1228610
No one is saying it didnt happen. If they are they are delusional. Usual arhuements are
1. Ottoman did it none of our bussiness we dont have to say sorry
2. It was just a relocation of people and they happened to die in harsh road conditions. Such things happen in war.
>>1228625
Cenk Ugyhur says it didn't happen (Which is hilarious because he'll also say Americans are responsible for the Holocaust because it was done by "White" people).
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