Let's have a favorite coat of arms thread
>inb4 not an eagle
That Colleoni guy really got a balls to run with that coat of arms on a battlefield.
Did chivalry and bushido actually exist?
>>1211627
Chivalry did, bushido no.
>>1211627
kind of, there were codes of conduct that samurai had to obey or they would be ostracized/killed, but those codes tended to be open to interpretation, and changed with the times
Chivalry and Budhido were both creations by bored nobility whose families hadn't seen combat for generations
So what made North America to become a continent with only three massive states (if we don't count the Caribbean), instead of several "smaller" states like South America?
What timelines and historical events could have produced a continental North America divided between several big but not so big states?
Picture not really related.
>>1211209
What am I looking at?
>>1211352
Fallout Mod for Crusader Kings 2.
It wasn't colonized by Spain. Imagine if it was! At no time there would be dozens of dictatorships as you can see at Latin and South Americas.
Why would heaven have a street of gold?
Isn't the main reason gold is so valuable to us is because it is very rare on THIS planet earth? Like, there isn't any other more valuable material in the universe? Is gold really that pleasant to look at?
It'd be pretty friggin pointless to have a golden street. That's just my thoughts.
>>1210768
Why would there be 72 virgins and not 80?
>>1210768
It's just a metaphor, bro!
>>1210768
Because the bible is the product of man's imagination and it's fantasies are based on his experiences?
How do you deal with the fact that you are going to die and life has no meaning?
>>1210766
>and life has no meaning
That's not a fact.
>>1210766
>Hitler
Hitler never wanted to get rid of religion, Himmler did.
What the fuck was their problem? Were they the SJWs of the Antebellum era? How big of a role did they play in instigating the Civil War?
>>1209894
Their 'problem' was that they took Jesus' message seriously.
>>1209901
So Protestant autism as usual?
>>1209901
>Jesus' message seriously.
Which message was that? He said a lot of things to different people, some of which was contradictory. Also Jesus never talked about overthrowing government-backed institutions.
Let's have a communist monuments thread, /his/.
>>1209247
>brutalism
>>1209247
What a weird TIE fighter.
What is the finest Naval General ? I think it it Afonso Albuquerque .
In one live time he has done so much .
"Afonso is generally considered a military genius, and "probably the greatest naval commander of the age" given his successful strategy – he attempted to close all the Indian Ocean naval passages to the Atlantic, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, and to the Pacific, transforming it into a Portuguese mare clausum established over the opposition of the Ottoman Empire and its Muslim and Hindu allies. In the expansion of the Portuguese Empire, Afonso initiated a rivalry that would become known as the Ottoman–Portuguese war, which would endure for many years. Many of the Ottoman–Portuguese conflicts in which he was directly involved took place in the Indian Ocean, in the Persian Gulf regions for control of the trade routes, and on the coasts of India. It was his military brilliance in these initial campaigns against the much larger Ottoman Empire and its allies that enabled Portugal to become the first global empire in history. He had a record of engaging and defeating much larger armies and fleets. For example, his capture of Ormuz in 1507 against the Persians was accomplished with a fleet of seven ships. Other famous battles and offensives which he led include the conquest of Goa in 1510 and the capture of Malacca in 1511. He became admiral of the Indian Ocean, and was appointed head of the "fleet of the Arabian and Persian sea" in 1506."
Of course not Admiral Yi meme
>>1209225
Admiral Yi was a fine one, but not in the level of Afonso Albuquerque , since the later traveled the world and build the first Global empire against much larger empires . Portugal at the time had less then a 1 million souls
Nelson.
Tell me about the Scottish clans /his/
Recently wrote my dissertation on Scottish familial systems, what do you want to know?
>>1208847
What sort of authority did clan leaders hold and how did this mesh with the legitimacy and authority of the crown?
>>1208863
Clan Chiefs didn't have absolute or exclusive rights over the land they governed. Ultimately they were subservient to the King and Clan land was regarded as being quasi-communal, at least until the 18th century. The Chief owned the land, his Tacksmen rented the land and allowed his own tenants to farm it, but it was commonly regarded as "Clan land", rather than the Chief's land. Most Kings were happy enough to let the Clans do their own thing, especially once Scottish royal authority started to concentrate in the Lowlands, where Clans existed but were more feudal in their operations. This changed a bit with the later Stuarts but it wasn't until the Union that their power started to be consciously and purposely challenged.
What can the Milgram Experiment teach us about human nature?
people will gladly push a few buttons for cash.
the authority of money eliminates the presence of physical authority to push others into doing something they may regret.
Gets real interesting when the only one the subject has to blame is himself.
Like all but the most trivial of experiments in psychology, it tells us whatever the fuck we want it to. There's a thousand possible interpretations and no clear way of selecting one.
>Ancient
Sumerian
>Classical
Greece
>Medieval
Abbasid Caliphate
>Early Modern
Dutch Empire
>Late Modern
British Empire
>>1207885
>Ancient
Hittite
>Classical
Rome
>Medieval
Holy Roman Empire
>Early Modern
Holy Roman Empire
>Late Modern
Italian Empire
>Ancient
Minoan
>Classical
Greece
>Medieval
Japanese
>Early modern
Dutch
>Late modern
Japanese
>>1207885
>Soviet Union
>Empire.
Can one person save or destroy the entire nation?
Yes.
See Ataturk as a positive.
Mugabe as a negative.
Yes to both. If they are a dictator.
>>1206252
Is there literally anyone that could be considered a worse leader than mugabe?
ITT: pranks that went WAY too far
>>1205347
Evil Bert didn't go far enough
so they're basically polish samurai or what
someone explain it to me
>>1201376
>basically polish samurai or what
What is the meaning of all this? What is your idea of a samurai? What - according to you - defines a samurai?
Otherwise no friendo
>>1201380
kinda fits the aesthetic
explain their role in the society
>>1201385
Being a hussar didn't give you any special role in society. It was just a type of cavalary unit, made up of higher born men since they had to buy all the equipment themselves.
desu being a hussar only mattered during times of war
Hey /his/.
Why is it called Latin and not Roman?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latium
>>1208182
Because originally Rome was just one settlement out of dozens that spoke the language which originated in a region called Latium.
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