What if the the Byzantine Empire had won or not have the Battle of Manzikert, assuming that history plays out similar to our timeline with the exception of events influenced by the fall of the Byzantine Empire and such (The Crusades)?
>>1217831
It would have been known as the battle of Theodosiopolis then
>>1217831
If the battle of Manzikert had been won then the Byzantine Empire would've remained a powerhouse, there wouldn't have been the crusades in the first place and who knows how different history would've been.
Here's another question, how would this alternate Byzantine fare against the Mongols?
What are the best documentaries about us history?
>>1217086
what's us?
>>1217093
The US
>US
>""""""""""history""""""""""
JUST
Why did the burgers kill each other again?
Don't say slavery.
>>1216004
The North was afraid that cheap slave labor would destroy their jobs, and that the South, with their ability to import humans and then assume two thirds of their votes in the House of Representatives and in the Electoral collage, would outmaneuver them and render American democracy meaningless.
The South was worried that as more states were added to the union, the political balance of the country would tip towards the abolitionists, and they'd eventually have their entire social system destroyed.
>>1216004
I think one of the reasons was that the Federal Government was using taxes to expand Northern industry at the expense of Southern agriculture. Weren't the taxes much greater than the ones that sparked the American Revolution as well?
What the fuck was his problem?
>>1215818
what the fuck was his problem? :D
Is that the Butler from Hellsing?
I don't recognize the guy, as expected, but obviously not being able to grow a full beard was his problem.
People you wish you could go back in time and save.
>>1206625
George V?
Did Napoleon do anything wrong?
He picked a shitty wife when he was still a beta.
>>1218875
He shouldn't have invaded the Gambia, it was really the start of his path to ruin.
He didn't have his sleeper agent Alexander assassinate Rostopchin immediately after the battle of borodino.
ITT: people who got fucked over for trying to do good
You knew it was coming.
>>1218031
inb4 someone says hitler
rip in peace
What is the most historically accurate movie you've ever seen?
Pic related.
Erdogan's favourite film kek
>>1217924
Top drawer comedy.
>>1217924
Previous to which era?
>This is what all of history leads up to
Isn't that a depressing thought.
Christ will establish His Kingdom long before then
>>1216752
Son of a bitch
>>1216752
>Isn't that a depressing thought
not at all
My sources (see pic) tell me that the United States had knowledge that Japan expressed willingness to surrender WWII in messages to other countries a year before the bombing, and they were on their last legs by the time they were bombed, and Harriet Truman ignored this so the Atomic Bomb could be finished and he wanted to show it off to the Soviet Union.
Was that true? I think it's at odds with Harriet Truman's warning to Japan to surrender.
Then perhaps they should have surrendered
To my understanding they were willing to surrender if they got to keep some lands from korea and china.
>>1214156
They didn't surrender after the first bombing, so no. Not to mention the firebombing which killed more than the atomics.
Has there been anything worse than the holocaust? If so, what?
>>1211899
Bubonic plague?
>>1211899
As we know from the enlightenment, in particular Hume, there is no arguable moral basis. Therefore your question is meaningless tripe.
>>1211899
The Allied Victory in Europe
You wake up in 1912. What do you do?
>>1205345
Assassinate the Kaiser and hope it only causes a dissolution of the Reichstag
>>1205345
Assassinate Lenin and Hitler.
>>1205345
Fuck my great-great-grandmother.
Fasting can induce hallucination.[1]
This also happened to be one Jesus', Muhammad's, Buddha's, and Moses' favorite activities, and significant relevations happened to them after fasting.
Coincidence?
What do religious people have to say about this?
1. http://hallucinations.enacademic.com/643/fasting-induced_hallucination
Probably something like "muh Jeusus was like son of himself so you are wrong and I'm right".
>>1219321
Not all of us religious people believe in fasting.
>>1219364
What religion are you?
Christians must by definition believe in both demons and Satan.
The new testament is FULL of references to demons: it was Jesus' power to cast out demons that was considered one of his most serious proofs of divinity. Jesus not only casts out demons in the NT, but talks with them.
Jesus is also tempted by the devil in the desert, who offers him power. This devil is called 'Satan' by name in Mark, and Jesus actually says that he witnessed Satan fall from heaven. Satan is also identified by other names, like Beelzebub.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_in_Christianity#New_Testament
It's just a metaphor, bro.
I'm pretty sure they do, unless you're talking about liberal Protestantism.
>>1219164
Iblis is the self we must vanquish in order to reach unity with Allah.
which was the best army of World War One
>>1217799
british
no jokes
tanks, and all the other inventions
>>1217805
[sounds of losing to T*rks in the distance]
>>1217805
Nope.
While the Germans had excellent small unit tactics with the introduction of the Sturmtruppen, I don't really know if I can say that any one army was the best for WWI. But one thing is for sure, it wasn't the Austro-Hungarians, Italians, or Russians.
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