Quis separabit?
>>1110499
I will bitch niqqa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2zvWbrv-CY
How did Japan manage to modernize so quickly ? I believe it's the only case of a feudal society becoming a modern one so fast.
>>1105201
Taiwan, Korea, Russia. US went from the stone age to modern within a couple of hundred years.
>>1105216
False for US and Russia, obviously.
Korea and Taiwan were both under japanese rule. It's true that after their independance they adopted laws similar with the Meiji period.
>>1105227
Tell me what laws were similar to what laws from Meiji Japan? I ask because I am 99% sure that you are incapable of naming a single statute from the Meiji period without googling let alone draw a comparison to post-WW2 Taiwanese or Korean laws.
Fucking seriously? Monks? Clothed,peaceful,unarmed scholars? The underpinning of the remmnants of civilization,the centers of learning and you fucking illiterate savages just march in and STEAL beautiful works of art that you don't have in your pea brain the ability to appreciate and DESTROY knowledge. It makes me SICK to the stomach to imagine KILLING a peaceful,unarmed man! HOW can you look these men in the eyes,these salt of the earth,learned,clothed men in the eyes and KILL them? How unnatural,how morally perverse,how sick. You guys are fucking sick,psychopaths,savages. It just makes me angry okay?
t. enraged Christian peasant
>>1105088
>vikings
>glorified assholes
Fuck em
Ok
Who fucked up Africa more, the Belgians, the French or the British?
>>1106098
Okay, be preceding that?
>>1106092
>>1106098
All of the above
>>1106106
Africa was utterly undeveloped when Westerners arrived. You cannot "fuck up" what does not exist. Westerners could have conducted colonialism (which was inevitable given the power difference between Africa and the great powers) in a way which would have benefited Africa more, but this does not mean that their net effect was negative. Africa would be much worse off if the West had left it alone.
Why did western civilisation become so dominant?
Right makes might.
They had guns germs and steel. Nobody else did.
Geographical location meant good access to the New world to colonise for wealth and riches, competition between nations for this made a huge need for technological improvements and advancement. Europe wasn't on top until the 17th century onwards.
The west could i suppose be grouped as a collective civilisation despite our different nations, I imagine we only have a century or so left being dominant. However unlike the past i doubt we'll wane into obscurity while others raise, i actually feel like the whole world will eventually advance to a similar level. Future is actually bright and im not a shitty pessimist.
So what was the point of the Maginot Line again?
>>1105604
So the Germans knew where not to attack
>>1105604
To show how much the French feared another war against Germany?
Doesn't matter anyway, it was one of the biggest failures in the history of mankind.
To prove that defence-in-depthfags are always right.
My apologies if this is poorly worded or an often asked question, but how does free will reconcile itself with the simple concept of cause and effect.
What is the difference between a ball rolling down a ledge and a human making a decision other than the decision having far more nuanced "causes"?
Frankly, I find it incredibly childish to believe that the future is not set in stone. Not knowing how the future will turn out is not the same as the future being undetermined.
Causality, and free will, are not mutually exclusive, or contradictory.
Inform, educate, and cultivate, yourself, but above all, THINK (something which you seemingly are not doing).
Fuck off.
/thread
>>1109002
Quantum Theory shows that the light beam exists in both places thereby creating a Multiverse.
Martin Van Buren can choose which Universe he wants to live in within said Multiverse (or so he is deluded into thinking so by the theory of Free Will).
So...
Are you here in this universe or are you in both universes? Furthermore, is the you in the other universe really you?
>>1109019
>/threading yourself
Bump
>to kill a man in war is okay and in fact seen as a courageous act
>to kill a man for any other reason is seen as cowardly and morally reprehensible
Why? Also, is joining the military anything but immoral?
>>1103748
One is to defend your country and your land.
The other is wrong and immoral because you don't have a good moral reason like defending your country or your land to back it up.
>>1103748
Because ideally you killing other soldiers who willingly signed up to fight
It's not bloody murder but combat
between two trained individuals
It's also for a legitimate purpose (ideally)
>>1103748
Killing another person is never right.
But there can be times when not fighting would be of greater moral consequence than to do so making fighting the lesser evil.
>One is to defend your country and your land.
Not always.
Anyone else find this entire part of world war 2 really interesting? All of the campaigns in China and Manchuria were such massive conflicts that taken out of ww2, they are still some of the most destructive wars in history.
At times when supply lines were broken, soldiers on both sides would run out of ammunition, and have to revert to hand to hand/sword to bayonet combat. The ruination of entire cities at the hands of the Japanese and the massive projects by the Chinese civilians gives me nothing but admiration to their human spirit, anyone else feel the same?
Some materials on the topic
>A Chinese biased american documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vduOjI_e-RI
>The Chinese carved road all carved by hand to reach supplies in allied British territory
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma_Road
>how this whole powder keg erupted to begin withhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident
>>1107705
fucked up the link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Polo_Bridge_Incident
bump
Japanese Chinese casualties are 1:3, similar to American Chinese casualties, and these were large human wave battles, the Chinese suffered from large scale material shortages, and was landlocked. the Japanese also in desperate need of fuel after the Americans weaned them off.
If Herodotus briefly visited the current era, what hilarious ethnographic tales would he record?
>>1107693
This is a fun question
>>1107693
Given that he'd manufacture them from whole cloth, it doesn't matter when he was.
Probably some more bullshit about dog-sized ants digging for gold.
Herodotus a shit.
Which world war was more brutal and devastating?
WW2
>>1107632
WW1 was worse for soldiers, WW2 was worse for civilians.
World War 1 was hardly even a "world war". Nothing of great significance happened outside of Europe.
Are there any Christian churches in Iberia or the Balkans that were originally constructed to be Muslim mosques?
Córdoba Cathedral
>>1107583
Living in thessaloniki,most christian churches in use still were christian to begin with except some mosques who were either demolished(after the liberation circa 1912) or survived as museums or cultural places of sorts.Most minarets were demolished too with the exception of rotunda,a temple that was used as a pagan christian and islamic temple.generally in christian dominating areas most mosques were either destroyed or made into galeries museums or just were totally ruined.generally in southern balkan that was the case.
so very few instances of mosque turned christian temple stands.
>>1107583
There's one in the city center of Pecs, Hungary. It's pretty cool.
Why haven'tq the USA or Russia claimed the bottom-left corner of Antarctica yet?
Antarctic territorial claims have no basis in international law.
Hence why it's only the insignificant countries making them, for self esteem reasons.
>>1107428
>Antarctic territorial claims have no basis in international law.
But the USA and Russia have the right to a free claim of Antarctic territory, it's in the Antarctic treaty
>>1107428
>international law
On a scale from 1-12, how important was accurate timekeeping to the success of modern society?
Also timekeeping history / cool clocks / etc thread
24
>>1107257
We still divide our hours and minutes into 60 parts, an invention of the Sumerians. Does anyone else think this is kind of neat
But anon dont you know there's 4 simultaneous days occuring at once?
Can I have a real, non-/pol/ explanation about Venice and the significance of the "Black Nobility" who allegedly sided against the Pope?
Redpill me on Venetian Guelphs and how the hell Germans got involved with the Venetians (House of Welf.)
Did the Venetians create banking and all the bullshit about the Rothschild's is just bullshit? I want real, non-/pol/ explanations.
Any real history about this topic would be great. No conspiracy theories please.
The Eyes Wide Shut image is simply regarding the Venetian Masks. I want a non-/pol/ historical explanation.
Thanks.
>>1107194
>Redpill
>Rothschilds
>I WANT A REAL NON/POL/ DISCUSSION
Nice /pol/bait, faggot.
>>1107202
Fuck you. I want a real discussion about the Venetians.
>>1107194
The Venetians didn't necessarily invent anything, but they executed "being a merchant republic" better than anyone else.
