Was it a success? Failure? Why?
>>1110498
If it wasn't for new deal the crisis would last approximately 3 years. But he had to extend it in his retardation.
>>1110524
>would last approximately 3 years
How retarded one's got to be to say such thing?
>>1110543
>FDR destroys economy for more than 2 decades
>wah you're retarded
Tell me about Chetniks, /his/! I've never heard about them,but that flag is fucking badass! Who were they fighting for (I suppose for the Germans, since they have a skull on the flag) ?
one of two rebel groups in Serbia during WWII, now overzealous nationalist bearded morons
Chetniks were originally paramilitaries who fought in Balkan Wars. Name is derived from četa which means company.
Most famous chetniks are those of WW2 and that story is kinda complicated.
They were nominally Yugoslav but in practice they were Serb nationalists.
Most of them swore allegiance to the King and nominally accepted command of Draža Mihajlović but in reality there were several de facto independent formations which fought in different parts.
In the first year they fought against occupiers and their local collaborators, however later they started collaborating with Germans and Italians and fought communists. Mihajlović argued that they should wait until German and Italian defeat was imminent to avoid unnecessary loses, and that fighting communists was a priority.
Some of the commanders collaborated pretty openly, meanwhile Draža tried to keep a distance, and it's still debated how much he really collaborated.
They did some pretty gruesome crimes and those in Montenegro practically started an ethnic cleansing of Muslim population in the north.
In Croatia they fought with ustašas to protect local Serb population, but later many of them joined partisans while some of četniks started collaborating with ustašas to fight partisans (communists).
Overall by 1944 most of them abandoned the movement and joined Tito's army after he offered them amnesty.
As for my personal opinion, they shouldn't be demonized like they were, but they shouldn't be considered heroes either. Save for some exceptions most of their formations were pretty incompetent or openly collaborated with Germans and Italians.
The Chetniks (from turkish Cheta which means band) were a rebel group during the WW2 which allied with various forces for their own advantage. Their ultimate goal was to establish an "ethnically clean" Greater Serbia in the Balkans which meant they terrorized Croatian and Bosnian muslims in several areas. Their leader was a bearded serb nationalist, Draza. Today they are more of a symbol of nationalist Serbian ideas.
Favourite kings?
>>1110326
Now that the dust is settled, can we agree that he was right about pretty much everything?
I'm fine saying that. The only ones who disagree are people who think the masses will make good choices for both themselves and the common good, which is insane.
He was certainly nasty, brutish and short.
Hobbes, the bane of autistic AnCaps
So, do you think that history and social studies in general should use the same methodology as natural sciences? Or do you think that using the standard hypothesis testing procedure a.k.a. scientific method is unapplicable when we deal with the complex phenomena of human society? Most political scientists whom I've met agree with former, most historians - with the latter. What is /his/ consensus on this?
Pic related.
>>1110232
This is literally what economics is, OP.
>>1110232
as I see it, there is a great deal of difficulty using the scientific method with regards to society/social systems. Especially presently existing ones.
>>1110392
economics sometimes gives me the impressions of religion or some form of physics envy (which I get from sociology too).
they think everything can be reduced down to mathmatical equations and cold logic, not realizing they come off as autistic as a result.
They think people are logical/rational beings when humans are emotional and prone to irrational behavior.
Given that economists/economic theories seem to serve more as justification for a government's policy than anything else. I am not surprised.
>>1110410
>they think everything can be reduced down to mathematical equations and cold logic, not realizing they come off as autistic as a result.
No, they (we) are simply applying scientific methods to research social issues. We don't think everything can be "reduced down to mathematical equations", but we try to in order to build models.
Compare it to how psychologists put up lists with bullet points for different psychological diagnoses. Every person is a complex individual and this needs to be taken into consideration, but having these diagnoses help psychologists form some order and research greater phenomenons on a macro scale. Models are a necessary thing for research, models allow us to research a complex, broad reality.
Adjusting models for things like human rationality vs. irrationality is a major part of economics. If you don't know this I don't think you have a lot of insight into economics at all, I have to say.
Was Dio the best Roman historian?
>>1110193
Nah Tacitus was best. Suetonius was also pretty cool.
>>1110193
I like Livy
>>1110193
RIDE THE TIGER
How differently did the WW2 German military operate compared to other contemporary militaries tactically, operationally and doctrinally?
>>1110082
At least for the start of the war they were very different with their blitzkrieg tactics, the French and British were expecting another WW1 slow grind so the Germans managed to get a pretty good first blow in when they advanced through Belgium.
>>1110148
>muh blitzkrieg
That wasn't actually a doctrine.
>>1110082
Auftragstaktik
>Rooting for the Romans during the Bar Kokhba revolt
>"rooting" for anyone
>not seeing it as an unavoidable tragedy
>>1109999
first post best post + quads of truth = /thread
>>1109991
>tfw no $200,000,000 budget blockbuster exploring the revolt and dramatic conclusion, only to be revealed the thoughts of Josephus as he finishes writing
What does /his/ think of Caliph Umar?
Boring thread. Let's talk about Rhodesia and colonial Africa.
>>1109875
mudslime fucktard
>>1110313
And on what basis do you say that?
Do we have any sort of reference on the revelations that lead to cultures figuring out how to manufacture steel?
Obviously it's going to be different people and events across different cultures, many different people/instances within some I imagine, but I need to know more about the process of the progress of steel; specifically across western Europe and/or the Middle East, as well as any relevant metallurgy that could've been going on in northern Africa; Egypt and elsewhere.
The more obtuse question is: how long and how far could a hypothetical society go with modest access to iron ore, which they've been making into rudimentary tools and weapons, before they figure out steel? Like, what sorts of environments do you need to have to make it so that they've got all the iron they need, though not an abundance, but they don't figure out steel. Or, at least hey don't understand steel. They may have practices that they think are making the iron stronger, and it is, but not for the reasons they think it is.
That, however, is something I can easily address on my own for my purposes if I had a better understanding of the sorts of processes and revelations that steel came from. To my understanding a society with regular access to iron generally figures out some sort of steeling process within that same millennium.
>>1109802
They figured out steel as soon as they figured out Iron. There was no steel age, all iron was steel.
Steel is simply iron with carbon, which happened in all pre modern furnaces because of the charcoal they used. However i guess it would have been the Celts and Romans who truly figured out the right amount of carbon needed to make good quality steel.
>>1109802
Copper in pure form is quite abundant in some areas and could just be grabbed and cold hammered into shape. At some point folks figured out said metal is also found in ores in mines and such. After figuring out that tin mixed with copper gives a good metal you're officially bronze age, or when you import bronze depending on your view of history.
As for steel/iron >>1109810 is spot on.
Here is a more in depth explanation about iron/steel which also covers Japanese shit.
>>1109842
>26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
What did he mean by this?
>>1109641
?
>>1109634
>let us make
>us
He means there are many of them.
>>1109634
Did you not get the answer you wanted last time?
Go ask your fucking priest instead of shit posting such low quality "contributions."
Here: learn to fucking read, http://biblehub.com/commentaries/genesis/1-26.htm
Why was the Iliad and the Trojan war at large such a popular subject for the Greeks?
>>1109608
Because a great sociopolitical, and historical event.
You could ask the same of WWI, or WW2 for most western countries today.
Are you mentally retarded, or do you just lack imagination?
>>1109620
We have firm documentary evidence in genres steeped in facticity that WWI and WWII both occurred.
We have a mythology with no firm connection to actuality for the Trojan War.
It was the Great War of that time
Christie’s Sells Hitler Sculpture for $17.2 Million
http://www.wsj.com/articles/christies-sells-hitler-sculpture-for-17-2-million-1462768647
Christie’s kicked off a crammed week of spring auctions in New York with a contemporary art sale on Sunday that carried a tempting-fate title: “Bound to Fail.”
The sale’s theme alluded to the recent slowdown in the global art market, but Christie’s $78 million sale proved a success, led by a Maurizio Cattelan sculpture of a kneeling Adolf Hitler that sold for $17.2 million.
>>1109531
Tax exemption or money landering.
To be fair christies mostly sells older art simply cause larger output over 1000+ years.
For every hitler sculpture sold for 17 million there's 1,000 more paintings sold by dutch,french,italian masters for a few hundred $ to a few million a pop.
It's not that people don't like older art anymore, of course its nice to buy for prestige but you'll hear more about this then anything else.
Everything is art
Therefore, nothing is art
So I have to write an essay on whether Troy was a real place and whether the war with the Mycenaeans (Homer's Iliad) was real.
I was wondering what the thoughts of /his/ are on the topic.
If you have a source of info, would be appreciated, though not necessary.
Forgot to put into OP but no bullshit from that inaccurate piece of shit movie.
Are you from the 19th Century?
>>1109522
Because the Iliad is much more accurate.
who's the woman in the top right panel? I've seen her in sevel memes relating to stirner but never identified by name and it's really bugging me.
Ein Rennt
>>1109489
Ayn Rand
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