Was King Arthur real?
>>1193987
prob not
>>1193987
Yeah she was
Yes. He was a Romani British king named 'Arturius' who seceded from the empire and pushed back the Anglo-Saxons.
Anyone know?
A familiar face is more comfortable.
Who stopped?
>>1193995
Europeans, for the most part.
It's a trend in art that has steadily decreased. Save for shit like Neon Genesis Evangelion, modern depiction of angels is almost exclusively in the "robed androgyn" school of thought.
What the fuck was this guy's problem?
>>1193927
B E A D Y
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He just didn't really liked christmas
>Muslim
>Name themselves after an alcoholic beverage
>>1193774
The name Rûm reflects the Arabic name of Anatolia.
wu lad
>>1193890
wei lad
How the fuck was navy battles done before cannons? Was there any particular tactics and strategies or did they try to board ships pirate style?
>>1193500
I know ramming was a pretty standard strategy for Greeks, and some boats even had ballistae attached.
But other than that not too sure.
>>1193537
>ramming was a pretty standard strategy for Greeks
>>1193500
Mediterraneans typically built ships with mortise and tennon joins joining the planks with the frame not supported that much but the skin being the main structural body. This made them good ships but also vulnerable to underwater rams which could dig in this type of hull with some ease.
So Boarding and ramming it is!
Medieval galleys were built in a different manner and the underwater ram lost it's effectiveness so they were just stuck with boarding.
>pic not really related
Hey /his/, brainstorming ideas for a book. I want to do a western that's not set on the American frontier/American West. I was thinking there would be some time periods in Europe that showed the same traits as the american frontier or the traits of a good western.
Any period of time like this in europe?
>>1193498
WW1
One of my thoughts is pic related, the more sparsely populated parts of russia during the russian revolution. that was pretty lawless and I think the idea of Slavic "cowboys" with Mosin rifles and Nagant revolvers could be pretty cool.
Perhaps in Eastern Europe and Ukraine in the 17th-19th century, or the Russian colonization of Asia.
What conditions in our society and intellectual life cause the scourge of scientism?
Is it public education and the Prussian education model?
>>1193425
Due to the death of God people now place their faith in science - at least (to them) it has enough evidence of its effectiveness.
>>1193459
How do we get with the Greeks then - no God but a healthier society?
I hate to sound like a god-botherer here, but IMO it's because people try to answer questions with science that that have traditionally been answered with metaphysics and/or philosophy out of a disdain for the latter two approaches and, ironically, place faith in science even when it doesn't answer satisfactorily because of their aforementioned disdain.
I blame the decline in the quality of education desu, but that's another thread and probably more suitable for /pol/.
Is pic related proof enough to say that a Sengoku Jidai army would get rekt if it ever faced an european tercio?
Why are japs so characteristically bad at warfare?
>>1193408
Also, before you start retorting with muh citations needed, note that firstly, most of those edits were made by mad weeaboos, as demonstrated by pic related (also the spanish article is far better written and researched).
Also, here is the primary source, although I don't think it'll be very useful for most of you as it is written in XVII century spanish caligraphy
http://pares.mcu.es/ParesBusquedas/servlets/ImageServlet?accion=41&txt_id_imagen=1&txt_rotar=0&txt_contraste=0&txt_zoom=10&appOrigen=&cabecera=N
>>1193408
>Wokou
>Sengoku Jidai army
pick one
"Japanese pirates" were most of the time not even Japanese.
And there is a whole lot of difference between a pirate crew and... for example, Shimazu Yoshihisa's army.
>kant kwno nuff
>alls ilusion
>dankness consumed me
>leds pretend that...
>cogiot ergo smufs
>herp derp
>$300k/month
How do you know anything that you "know" is true?
>>1193320
I don't need to, Jesus is at the wheel.
Hello /his/. Im quite new to this board so forgive me for anything that is questionable on this board.
I'm doing a 2000 word essay on whether or no Leonardo da Vinci did actually have subliminal messages in his artworks and whether or not they were intentional. I need some input here because I'm just finding far fetched explanations all over the internet as opposed to an actual unbiased argument as to whether or not he did actually have subliminal messages in his works. So I come in my time of need asking you all to say anything that you believe is beneficial towards the subject at hand as well as have an open debate about it. Hit me.
all i know is that people think the mona lisa was a self portrait and theres some weird messages in the last supper. i cant tell you how much of that is fact though
>>1193309
but why would he make his self portrait in the form of a female? what was he trying to hide or what was he trying to accomplish by doing so
>>1193314
Well there are some hidden messages in the mona lisa. Maybe he wanted to separate himself from the hidden messages as much as possible by doing it in the form of a female
Why did Europeans before modernity look like a bunch of fags?
>>1193162
Modern Americans look like bigger fags to be honest, mate.
Long story short, I'll explain it in simple terms so even a retard like yourself can understand it: cultural fashion norms and trends change. Especially over the course of LITERALLY FUCKING CENTURIES.
To name the most prominent examples: high heels. First they were invented for knights, to ensure they had a better grip on their stirrups with their feet. As the noble knightly class faded out and the noblesse d'épée (nobility of the blade) became the noblesse de robe (nobility of the robe, basically privileged administrators), these high heels were adapted as day-to-day fashion. They were masculine because they made you look taller and more imposing. After the French Revolution this kind of stopped (as did other noble fashions like powdered wigs) because they were seen as vain excesses of the nobility. Ironically women started wearing high heels around this time. Does this mean women are the new leisure class? One could make a case for that, but that's a whole different can of worms.
>>1193204
>Canacuck
>>1193162
Why are you applying modern standards to an historical culture?
That guy certainly had way more fun whoring and stabbing peasants than you'll ever have.
How strong was the royal power during the Tudor period?
Did it decline when the Stuarts took over?
>>1193030
>King Francis, I'm VIII
>Huh, you don't get to bring catholics
>>1193030
>How strong was the royal power during the Tudor period?
Extremely.
>Did it decline when the Stuarts took over?
Wouldn't say it declined; rather it stagnated and proved unfit to face the challenges of more modern statesmanship. Stuarts had their own style of doing politics which was at odds with the expansion of parliament and gentry power, but even as late as 1700 English Monarchs were style pretty dominant. The real objective decline only came under the Georges imo.
>>1193030
>How strong was the royal power during the Tudor period?
relative to what? anyway, yes, the Tudors were strongwilled kings generally. Henry VII attainted (i.e. accuse of treason and thereby seized the land and wealth) of dozens of leading peers in the realm, leading to a great drop in the number of noble families, as Henry didn't create as many peers as he destroyed.
He stretched the feudal system to the limit by collecting all sorts of dues and fees that were totally legal, but rarely exercised in practice by the king. This has generally been called "bastard feudalism", because feudal relations were no longer personal bonds but commuted to the collection of fees.
The most prominent of these were legal fees and the king's assertion of wardship over underage peers, during which he basically looted their estates and collected the revenue as his own. Henry basically continued this legacy, though he was not as miserly as his father. He was not afraid to bring any noble to heel that disobeyed him and he generally was able to get parliament to raise extraordinary revenue for his military ventures. The 1530s saw experiments in centralization under the direction of Thomas Cromwell. The liquidation of the monasteries brought in huge sums of gold and silver plate melted down. All opposition to Henry's elimination of papal jurisdiction was eliminated (see, Thomas More and the Pilgrimage of Grace). Mary and Elizabeth were more of the same, though the fiscal situation went to shit late in the century, with the Spanish war. Elizabeth though was not as financially vigorous as the other Tudors either. Also, Ireland came under control during the Tudor century, but at a huge financial cost to Elizabeth and created deepseated bitterness among the Irish. Wales, though, was politically united under VIII in the 1530s and the area was administratively, legally and financially incorporated into England, as Scotland would be in 1707.
the name "popol vuh" literally means "people's book", is the phonetic similarity a coincidence or are mayan languages somehow related to indo-european?
I think it translates as Book of the Assembly or Counsel
>>1193028
Pure coincidence, or maybe onomatopoeia.
North American Indian languages could possibly have a small similarity with PIE roots due to their (speculative?) origin in India, but Central and South American had literally no contact with Eurasia.
HOL UP
Did Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination in 1968 lead to race riots in large cities in the US which in turn then lead to the degradation of urban centers in America? In the 60s average urban crime rates weren't too much higher than the 50s and in the 70s urban crime rates rose significantly
>whites moved out of cities into suburbs in the 50s
>blacks moved into the cities in the 60s
>economy goes to shit in the 70s
>unemployment, crime and misery
>>1192909
Race riots were happening years before King was assassinated.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots
>>1193133
I'd also mention the Greenwood riots which happened in Tulsa,OK and that happened in 1921. Greenwood was a nice area though.
Pablo Escobar is the most successful crime boss of all time.
Who is 2nd?
>>1192857
That Jesus guy.
>>1192857
succesful? he died alone betrayed by everyone
>>1192857
The most succesful are the ones never caught.
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