Is this film historically accurate?
>>1210381
I'm pretty sure we have no idea of Puyi's ghost haunts the forbidden city giving children crickets.
>>1210392
Naw shiiiiet
>His name sounds like Pooey
What if it actually happened?
It would have been... unthinkable.
>>1214059
Beat me to it.
>>1214052
Glorious communism from Gibraltar to Siberia
Who was the cutest pretty boy that was also historically significant?
Additionally, who are some historically significant people that were surprisingly qt?
Here's benedict.
That one Roman Emprors trap who died in Egypt or something
>>1211089
who??
Guy had a goon that he ordered around
>>1209218
>literally tried to destroy all that was good in the world.
>>1210855
There's nothing objectively wrong with what he did. People die anyways. In 100 years 99.99% of the people alive today will be rotting corpses. It's just your opinion that it's bad to torture and rape children.
>some people honestly want to get rid of nukes
Why? Don't they realize it's what prevented WW3 from actually happening?
And that this is what nations try to get to become 'invasion-proof'.
A conventional war is much more likely if the other party doesn't have these types of WMD's.
The world wouldn't be more peaceful without them. Quite the contrary even.
I think we should get rid of them by dropping them on the most populous cities in the world in order until the arsenals are compltely depleted 2bh
Lmao you can't be serious
>>1218394
Because a war now and then is still better than peace for 500 years until some idiot decides to kill off everyone at once.
What are some philosophies that you actually believe in?
>>1213767
Wholesale? None of them. Most of my philosophy comes from Nietzsche, Stirner, and Buddha.
Nihilism
>>1213767
Stoicism, besides the pan-deism.
Shame I also think it's pretty unrealistic.
How is Austrian economics any different than theology?
>>1212864
Theology has to be consistent with a known and knowable set of documents.
Theology doesn't want to turn society into an free-market fundamentalist heaven.
>>1212864
You don't get to see the big red monster Kane teach it.
Why cats was sacred? I understand how cow can be important, but cats are useless creatures.
>>1211689
Because of Toxoplasma Gondii
>be agricultural society
>90% of the wealth your society generates takes the form of grains in storehouses
>rats and mice want your grain
>cats kill them
>>1211701
Beat me to it.
Does it make you cringe?
"Arresting thousands of natives suspected of idolatry, Landa supervised the torture of more than 4,500 people over the course of three months; many were tortured to death.
On July 12, 1562, at the Manà mission, Landa oversaw a huge auto-da-fé, a public spectacle meant to demonstrate the superior moral and political power of the Christian Church. Huge piles of idols were set to the torch and many convicted idolaters were put to the lash.
The inquisitions and tortures continued, as did the destruction of idols. Many of the so-called idols were Maya sacred books. Only three survived the fires. Scholars consider the destruction of these sacred Maya texts among the most tragic losses of accumulated human knowledge in world history.
>>1206128
>"books"
>without words
ISIStianity. Enough said.
Lost mayan texts would have shed a lot of light on their society, but there probably wouldn't have been anything groundbreaking. We can still see a lot of what they left behind, and it's pretty rudimentary.
Now, the Libraries of Alexandria that have burned down? FUCK.
Post your favorite equestrian statues ... perhaps with some informations about who is sitting on that horse and why (xtra bonus for the name of the horse)
Prague: Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia
Vienna: Archduke Charles, Duke of Austria-Teschen
How were the people from olden timey days such good composers?
This is a piece by His Eminence Hilarion, it's contemporary and I think it's breddy gud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kC13O-GdMw
>>1212843
they didn't smoke marijuana all day
We have geniuses today too. The only thing that's changed is the prominence of orchestral compositions.
Why is Africa so undeveloped?
inb4 muh colonialism
muh colonialism
that map show HDI by the way
>the truth has to conform to my world view
Colonialism
So... Why people in Africa allowed themselves to be colonized?! They got like thousands of people for ten of Europeans. Resistance couldn't be that hard.
>>1211225
I dunno son, maybe cuz they had big ass guns and the Africans didn't?
>>1211244
Verily, the difference of posterior firearm caliber was sufficient to render any resistance futile.
What little ass guns the Africans had were of little use, and what 8" ass guns they captured from the Europeand they had no munitions for.
>>1211244
as well as better logistics, institutions, funding, managers, politicians, science and technology and so on
Why the fuck is monotheism so much more popular than polytheism?
Most polytheist religions in history faded away into insignificance. The only one still existing today is hinduism and even those who believe in it don't seem to take it really serious. Monotheistic religions on the other hand always spreaded like a virus. Christianity immediately infected the enitre Roman empire and populations beyond its borders. Islam instantly created a huge as fuck caliphate and is still spreading rapidly today.
What makes monotheism such a strong meme?
>>1209481
Monotheists can't into polytheism, but polytheists can into monotheism
Its that simple desu
>>1209481
>Monotheistic religions on the other hand always spreaded like a virus. Christianity immediately infected the enitre Roman empire and populations beyond its borders.
>implying Christians are monotheists
>>1209481
>The only one still existing today is hinduism
And folk chinese. And Shinto.
>Monotheistic religions on the other hand always spreaded like a virus.
Because Christians & Muslims were vicious cunts.
>is still spreading rapidly today.
So is irreligiosity and atheism.
In Britain during the Pride & Prejudice/Napoleonic Era, which parts of the British Isles were the nicest to live in? Are there specific cities and towns we can look to from history for an answer?
If we take for example Portsmouth, we know it's an important dockyard city historically. From this, can we tell whether it was a lavish one or a dross one? I remember in Hornblower there was some scenes there, but it looked like only an ok place to be and nothing special.
London I can imagine had all types of classes ranging from the poorest paupers to the richest nobles (like Wellington and of course the King George III). Naturally any city has this divide, as most cities today do too - however perhaps in that period the economic divide may be a bit more clear cut?
What of the middle of England farm areas and small towns and cities? What of say the Isle of Wight, Cornwall, or Manchester? Were these areas known for having certain economic attributes or person stereotypes during the period?
What a shitty thread.
>>1216308
Bath. There's a huge amount of high-end housing left from the period
>>1216316
at least OP has genuine curiosity about a specific subject area
