What is your favorite obscure autonomous or semi-autonomous state?
I got to go with Britanny, Burgundianboo nerds can smd
>Britanny
>obscure
Nigga ...
Most paternal lineage is britainic, but originally french Huguenots from Brittany. Can confirm minor nobility/at least land owning wealthy ancestprs in the distant past.
Never really bothered looking much into Breton history being that I am more enamoured with Ancient History.
So what can you tell me Breton-lover
If anything I know much more about Gascony, Normandy, and Anjou because I know a fair amount about England's medieval-modern history
http://www.strawpoll.me/10275005
What does /his/ think of Stalin?
Cuck.
>>1174749
the results of the poll were unexpected...
still i can partially agree with mass murdering his own people since they were russians - but ukrainians and some others around probably didn't deserve what they had.
Well Lenin was numba 1 and Stalin 2, Rasputin 3rd
> tfw mongols will never conquer territory again
they will in my Civ games
>>1174623
steppe stronk
>>1174615
Anon, there might be a slight chance you are a descendant of Temujin. Go forth and unite the steppe tribes under your banner.
Was this the most influential event of the 20th century?
Hiroshima's nonexistence probably caused more fallout (pun intended and not intended) than archduke "excuse" ferdinand
>>1174432
The Death of Queen Victoria
The bomb. There's no other answer. This includes all science that led to it, and it include all fallout since
>Alexander's conquests laid the foundation of the Roman Empire
Why is this meme history? Or is it just a gross oversimplification?
>>1174398
Caesar was an avid admirer of Alexander and thus he was his "inspiration" if you will.
It is an oversimplification though
Alexander had a horn growing out of his head.
>>1174467
Alexander was basically trying to do Cyrus cosplay.
Meaning piled upon meaning, layers upon layers.
Jewish religious and historical text reads like a hall of mirrors. Numbers, symbols, geometria, ancestral traditions and customs rising out of deep Old World history.
The Jews seem to be some of the most significant people ever to walk the Earth. Most conspiracy theorists have some special place for the Jews embedded deep within their lore. Most modern political ideologies have some twist to accommodate, explain, or otherwise deal with the "Jewish Question".
How to make sense of it all?
So deep
So deep
So deep that it put her ass to sleep
“That which is hateful to you, do not do to another. That is the whole Law. The rest is commentary. Now go and learn.”
― Rabbi Hillel
>HOW DEEP IS YOUR LOVE
TL:DR description of hundred years war? Any good movies, shows, games, comics about it?
>>1174150
robin hood (2010)
>>1174168
>Any good movies
>>1174150
>Dynastic Conflict turns into a war that defines two nations and their relationship for the next 400 years.
How could they have avoided it?
if they were a white country
>>1174141
Avoid Peron
If only they had the Falklands.
daily reminder to do it for him
This is the meme that keeps on memeing
Britain didn't seem to buy the whole bunch of guys wearing strange uniforms marching around waving swasticka flags quite like the Germans did for some reason
BEADY
Why it took so long to develop a halberd? You would think that an axe on a long stick would be one of the earliest weapons ever made but nope. People were so retarded back then.
>>1174080
No, it wasn't needed until the high/late medieval period.
It's actually quite an impracticable weapon, its off balance, heavy and difficult to take full advantage of while in formation.
>>1174097
Yeah, isn't it specifically made to fight late medieval knights?
>>1174102
No it was made as dildo prototype used by noble women.
OK, so we all know the question "what if the wrong side won World War II?" but I ask you, what if it's really that the wrong side won World War I?
hitler was a nutter no doubt about it
but maybe it was a lesser evil compared to islam. we would be certainly less tolerant of it right now thats for sure
IMO there was no real bad guys of WW1, there was just incompotence.
>>1174029
Hitler was okay with Islam and we would probably be even more tolerant of it then today.
Why did the combined might of The British and French Empires even struggle slightly to defeat Germany? You have the population of Canada, India, Nigeria, South Africa, Australia, and Morocco, against Germany and Austro Hungary. This isn't even mentioning Russia. The Ottomans struggled to hold back the revolt too.
Why wasn't this shit over in months?
>>1173958
Because technology had rendered most strategy and tactics obsolete. They had to figure out how to fight a war no one had ever fought before on a continental scale
>>1173958
They were up against Germans thats why..
>>1173999
German war tactics are nothing against numbers like these though.
What's /his/ opinion on Effective altruism?
>Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement that applies evidence and reason to determining the most effective ways to improve the world.
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Effective_altruism
Basically, Effective altruism is the no bullshit-attitude toward charity. Doing volunteer work at a dog shelter, for example, may feel fluffy and fine and Instagram-friendly, but it's less reasonable than taking a job in finance, making the $$$ and donating it to well-thought-out causes if it's true altruism you're after.
Effective altruism can be considered from everything to choosing charity organizations, to choosing lifestyle and career (as the example above), or to even world politics.
>>1173809
Isn't this just utilitarianism?
The topic of effective altruism deserves a better OP than some young stalin meme.
Could we get an old picture thread going?
alri lads
can we get some pictures of old timey slags
Swords were utter dog shit and the fact that people wasted money on them proves that everyone pre 19th century was nothing more than an ape. Battles were all about spears, polearms, bows that sort of thing the shitty meme weapon was only a sidearm which was used maybe as a toothpick at most
>inb4 muh 1v1 combat
yeah because that's what warfare is all about right? Mortal Kombat tournaments. Swords were to weapons what Miley Cyrus is to music.
At least you tried somewhat to make it subtle
Nice bait. But we all know that katana was the real kind of the battlefield.
>shh nothing personel, puer
