Animals.
>>1117171
>American Gypsies
holy fuck
Almost as bad as the History channel
Tell me about the Islamic golden age.
Was it a real thing, or a myth?
they picked up where the romans left off
The Islamic Golden age shows why it is good if your prohets make sure to put the interest of the state and the interest of the Church in different folders.
>>1111876
The only people who ever say it's a myth or who exaggerate what it was and did, or who say what it did do is exaggerated, are non-historian plebs.
What went wrong? Why was this allowed to happen?
>>1089755
Labour is cheaper in china
Technological progress resulting in less people needed. This allowed the workforce to specialize in other departments.
>>1089762
So? Why didn't Western politicians defend the interests of their constituents working in the steel industry by preventing the destruction of their employment?
Teach me about Timur /his/
>>1128211
Posting stuff that was on a previous thread.
Timur started as a son of a simple noble. He was highly intelligent, spoke at least three languages. Despite getting crippled in his youth (hence “Timur the Lame”), he became a military leader at the head of a small army. Through military and political acumen he distinguished himself and he ended up getting crowned in Balkh. And thus it begins.
He started his conquests by subjugating the area corresponding to modern-day Afghanistan, not the easiest place on earth to begin if you’re an aspiring conqueror. He followed this up by going into modern-day Iran, slaughtering every city that put up resistance and sparing the cities that surrendered, in the same vein as his hero Genghis. People who were of value were shipped off to his beloved Samarkand. He paused his Persian campaign to retreat to the gorgeous Georgian mountains, where he proclaimed Jihad against the infidel Christians and decimated them. He went back to Persia, killed some more and finished the job.
Afterwards Timur got into trouble with a guy called Tokhtamysh, a competent Mongol khan who burned down Moscow once. As you’d expect, Timur thoroughly beat him and burned down cities all over Russia. Have you ever wondered how the infamous Golden Horde who ruled massive parts of Russia met its demise? Timur.
He then decided to follow in Alexander's footsteps and move eastward towards the Indus river. Again, he thoroughly beat everyone he met, crossed the Indus river and marched on Delhi, thus outdoing Alexander the Great himself. There he faced war elephants for the first time, and like Scipio Africanus he conceived of a successful strategy to defeat them. He succeeded and sacked Delhi, something Genghis and his sons (and grandsons) failed to do. He celebrated this grand achievement by going back to the Caucasus and slaughtering some more infidel Armenians and Georgians.
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>>1128229
Timur followed this up by going to the Levant and sacking cities such as Damascus and Aleppo for vague religiously motivated reasons, thus outdoing even ISIS. Speaking of things ISIS failed to do, Timur then decided to capture Baghdad, where he ordered every single soldier of his to bring him 24 severed heads. Of course there weren’t enough heads to go around, so soldiers resorted to beheading everything in sight, including their own wives apparently.
Meanwhile in Anatolia, a dynasty you might have heard of were on a meteoric rise. The Ottoman emperor Bayezid I managed to get on Timur’s bad side because he apparently liked to talk trash through letters. Talk shit, get hit, and damn did Bayezid I get hit (picture related). Timur destroyed the Ottoman forces at Ankara and was the only one to capture an Ottoman Sultan in battle. Remnants of the Ottoman army were saved by the Genoese and Venetians, because they were scared shitless by Timur and would rather have the Ottomans as a buffer state between them and Timur. This pissed Timur off, but he consoled himself by BTFO’ing the Crusaders at Izmir, thus officially becoming a ghazi.
The Ming emperor, clearly not having heard what happened to Bayezid, also talked shit to Timur, which incited his wrath. Timur started his military campaign and set off in winter, which is the last thing he ever did. He died in modern-day Kazakhstan before reaching Ming territory.
5% of the world’s population killed. Over 4.4 million square kilometers of territory captured in give or take 40 years.
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>>1128211
I have not always been as now:
The fever’d diadem on my brow
I claim’d and won usurpingly —
Hath not the same fierce heirdom given
Rome to the Cæsar — this to me?
The heritage of a kingly mind,
And a proud spirit which hath striven
Triumphantly with human kind.
On mountain soil I first drew life:
The mists of the Taglay have shed
Nightly their dews upon my head,
And, I believe, the winged strife
And tumult of the headlong air
Have nestled in my very hair.
So late from Heaven — that dew — it fell
(’Mid dreams of an unholy night)
Upon me with the touch of Hell,
While the red flashing of the light
From clouds that hung, like banners, o’er,
Appeared to my half-closing eye
The pageantry of monarchy,
And the deep trumpet-thunder’s roar
Came hurriedly upon me, telling
Of human battle, where my voice,
My own voice, silly child! — was swelling
(O! how my spirit would rejoice,
And leap within me at the cry)
The battle-cry of Victory!
The rain came down upon my head
Unshelter’d — and the heavy wind
Rendered me mad and deaf and blind.
It was but man, I thought, who shed
Laurels upon me: and the rush —
The torrent of the chilly air
Gurgled within my ear the crush
Of empires — with the captive’s prayer —
The hum of suitors — and the tone
Of flattery ‘round a sovereign’s throne.
>be Maximilian
>be invited to be Emperor of Mexico by the Mexican aristocracy
>Napoleon III supports your new claim and duly intervenes in an ongoing Mexican conflict to overthrow the corrupt and inane republic
>have the support of the Mexican population and rule Mexico fairly as if they were all your own
>fucking Lincoln puppets and spics fight you because "muh patriotism"
>US uses fear tactics to scare the French away and the Empire into submission to the rebels, while killing you, eternally condemning Mexico to being another poor American bitch
>150 years later my fellow illiterate Mexicans and ignorant Americans will celebrate this with cute songs and dances while our country is dying in their backyard
This is the most painful historical tragedy to me
>>1127763
Monarcucks get rekt.
>>1127768
The French Republic had to get bailed out by the most autocratic emperor in history up to that point, you have nothing to gloat over.
>>1127774
>France today
Republic
>House of Bonaparte today
Irrelevant.
How did Israel conquer the Holy Land?
Modern Israel didn't conquer anything. Ottomans conquered it, then Britain took it, then Britain gave it to them.
>>1127778
in their war of independence they conquered additional territory outside of what the UN had given them and the same is true for the 6 Day War
Was it autism?
it was revolution
>>1127653
t. sonig-sdalin
>>1127660
But he was already in charge
Taking my Greek&Roman Warfare final tomorrow. Any last advice?
Bring a writing utensil
Use a No. 2 pencil
just b urself
I've heard all kinds of rumors over the years that the US and/or Russia (possibly others) have secretly fired tactical nukes in war, in places ranging from Iraq and Afghanistan to Ukraine.
However, a lot of these statements come from dubious sources, such as tinfoil-hat blogs, Malaysian Cartoon chatwebs, random YouTube vids that may or may not have been faked, and so on. (Not that I particularly trust the mainstream media these days any more than those sources.)
It seems to be a difficult thing to detrmine either way. Some accounts and images seem convincing.
What does /his/ think?
no.
/thread
nukes? don´t think so
US used MOABs in the gulf and Russia thermobaric bombs in Checnya, both are pretty impressive
Any common law fags around? I'm doing a thought experiment. Would baptising infants constitute battery under the common law?
According to a Wikipedia definition, battery is the tort of intentionally (or, in Australia, negligently) and voluntarily bringing about an unconsented harmful or offensive contact with a person or to something closely associated with them.
My question is whether the tort of battery is applicable to an infant, who can't speak yet and therefore incapable of consent. Intuitively I'd say yes, since I can't imagine harassing a baby to be legally acceptable.
All these considered, could baptising infants be, at least theoretically, illegal?
>>1126901
>Starting off a common law thread without referring to cases, but a statutory style definition.
You fail common law forever.
And no, it's not battery. For starters, "Socially acceptable" unwanted contacts are not battery. Brushing someone as you push your way through a crowded train isn't battery.
Secondly, parents have the right to make choices on behalf of their minor children, especially children who cannot even articulate themselves, and possibly cannot even form coherent thoughts.
Think of it this way. Getting an unwanted medical procedure is also battery. A surgeon can't arbitrarily decide you need an operation. However, if you have an ill child, it's the parent who consents to the surgery, not the child.
>All these considered, could baptising infants be, at least theoretically, illegal?
Anything can be theoretically illegal; you just need to get a legislature to make it illegal. It is not illegal under the common law of any country I'm aware of.
OP, be honest. Was this a legitimate inquiry, or just an attempt to masturbate about a religious rite being made illegal so you can tip your fedora?
>>1126901
>All these considered, could baptising infants be, at least theoretically, illegal?
No because the baptist was acting in loco parentis, and it is not illegal for a parent to dip his child in some water.
LISTEN TO ME: LOGIC IS WRONG!!
Logic is highly illogical!
A premise can only be valid as long as it is true.
A premise itself can be interpreted as a conclusion of former premises.
For example:
>an apple is red
And these former premises are the conclusions of former former premises, which are the conclusions of former former former premises, and so on.
So what's the original premise?
Certainly this loop will lead us to a beggining, a place where all premises, all valid observations and claims, come from.
What is that premise, then? How can we know it exists? Prove me it does!
In other words, if you say anything, and I ask you "why is that" repedeatly over and over you'll eventually hit a point where you won't be able to give me an answer.
So your whole statement, regardless of how simple it is, has been debunked from its deepest core.
Logic may work at first glance, but when you look deep inside it, that is only because its operating within its own logical framework.
IN THE END, THINGS HAVE NO MEANING.
There is no thing such as "logic", this doesn't exist in the Universe. It's only a mental creation of humans to fullfill their existentialist feelings, which themselves are the mere results of meaningless hormones that are made of meaningless atoms which are made of meaningless quarks and leptons.
LIFE IS ESCAPISM.
Prove me wrong.
>PROTIP: you can't
What I'm trying to say is that the one original logic premise that should have logically originated all others cannot be logically proven to be valid, because there are no other premises to prove it, and therefore, everything that comes after it is very likely to be untrue.
>>1126755
Read Wittgenstein.
Who the fuck do you think you are?
Logic has been studied since Greco-Roman times.
> Logic is highly illogical
Doesn't means that is wrong.
You can be illogical but right in the end.
Do you think that it is impossible to live a 100% logical life, and at the same time, be happy?
I'm starting to think yes. If you really do question everything arround you, you'll find out you can't answer a lot of things, and this will cast a shadow of doubt over your life.
In the end, happiness is just escapism, and things have no meaning.
What do you think?
I think that it is impossible to live a 100% logical life at the first place.
>>1126623
> happiness is just escapism
What does it even means? For example, it can be said logical life is also just an escapism. How you know what is escapism and what is not.
>>1126623
'logic' is interchangeable within cultures. For instance Chinese kill people as a way to save money on hospital bill (you have probably seen videos of many Chinese people doing heinous things which are simply accepted).
Happiness is a simple illusion, it's not static it's always changing so why bother even pursue it in the first place?
Been studying the first World War for a while and I just got to the Gallipoli Campaign. Is this film worth watching? Should I watch it before or after studying the campaign? Any major historical inaccuracies?
>>1126314
Have you tried asking Google?
is a good film with a very young mel gibson
>>1126314
Try "the water diviner" film
Why didn't the Turks scramble for colonies like the other powers in the 18th and 19th century? Not just in Americas, in Africa and Asia too.
Cuz they were dum-dum
>>1126091
>Americas
Too far away. If you noticed, all the nations who colonized the new world were at the edge of the Atlantic, perfect for setting sail without issues.
>Africa
Well they sort of had Africa and even went down to the Horn as your map shows.
>Asia
By the 17th century they started stagnating that went to full on decline in the 18th and 19th century. They couldn't possibly have hoped to defeat Qajar Persia or India.
By the time colonialism really started to catch on, the Ottomans were already weak as fuck.
The height of their power was in the 15th and 16th century.
I've heard plenty of WWII horror stories about the Japs and Nazis, but what about the Italians? Where they too lazy to even commit their own atrocities, or where they simply overshadowed in scope by the other Axis powers?
>>1126087
Axis war crimes are basically non existent and mainly propaganda.
There's a lot more to study about Allied war crimes.
they sprayed ethiopians with mustard gas
(to be fair, ethiopians were using hollow point bullets)
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