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>>1086641
>>1086641
Who's that supposed to be?
>>1086675
Jaan Valsiner
What are some historical battles who had a huge impact on History, that are impressive by their symbolic power or just what happened afterwards ?
I'd say the battle of Castillon is pretty powerful : The french army was a modern army, using a conscription system (The franc-archers), a permanent army (The compagnie d'ordonnance) and artillery to crush a medieval army. Basically, France ceased to be a feudal regime, from now on, it was the King who was the ultimate power of France, and he based that power on his military that only he could afford, not any duke...
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>>1086636
The battle of tours. Prevented Europe from becoming Muslim and set up the Carolingion dynasty.
Battle of Solferino.
Most important Victory over the Habsburgs, eventually leading to Italian statehood.
Those locals who aided the wounded were horrified by the carnage.
This would lead directly to the creation of the Red Cross.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fifteen_Decisive_Battles_of_the_World
Written in 1851 though.
>>1087367
Exaggerated
Is Pilate's reluctance to punish Jesus in the Gospels a way of deflecting blame away from the Roman government and onto the Joos?
The Romans only used crucifixion for slaves and for crimes against the Roman state. If Jesus was crucified, it was because the Romans perceived him as an enemy of the state. The Sanhedrin would have had nothing to do with it, and no Jewish religious squabble would have had anything to do with it. All four Gospels explicitly state that the official reason for the crucifixion was that Jesus had claimed to be the King of the Jews (or at...
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>Jesus was gud jew he dindu nuffin
The Jews of ancient Rome were a bunch of inbred peasants with profound anger issues. PP just gave them what they were asking for, to appease the angry mob.
>>1086602
>PP just gave them what they were asking for
Who is 'them'? the Sanhedrin?
>>1086595
No, his wife had a vivid dream the night before and told him to have nothing to do with this Jesus of Nazareth person.
This is more of a re-enactment thread, but where do YOU buy your stuff?
Because, i would like to know which vendors to trust. I mean, isn't it pretty much with WW2 stuff that it's produced a lot, but in very varying qualities.
But more specifically, where do you buy your WW1 stuff? Also discussion is welcomed on other periods too. So tell me your recommendations.(also on sources of quality fabrics)
I only do civilian re-enactments, but I buy from other re-enactors and historical costume enthusiasts since it's hard to find companies who care about historical accuracy enough not to cut corners.
Many states have at least one historical re-enactor convention or festival once a year, where you can find vendors selling or advertising themselves. I would recommend checking one out!
>>1086547
Is there like a /His/ con somewhere? Where people dress as historical persons and get together at a convention? Would be cool to see. Would be cool to see Genghis Khan talking to an Aztec priest..
I tried a thread like this before, but it was a complete failure.
Are there any books/guides for the making of recreations?
>"Alexander was Macedonian, not greek"
When will this meme end?
>>1086361
It's not a meme if it's technically true.
I bet you consider Russell Crowe an Australian.
Greeks started that meme
you can't blame us for using something THEY started
>"Hannibal was white"
When will this meme end?
How important is the impact of childhood on different historically relevant people?
Do parents, upbringings, kindergarten friends, school bullying, the relation of kids with their junior year teachers, this kind of childhood thing, do you think it has any relevant impact on the behaviour, decisions and overall character of historical people?
How was Napoleon's childhood? How was Hitler's? How was Jesus', or Martin Luther's?
I think that we can learn and understand a lot more about history by answering these questions, and that childhoods...
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The only historical figure childhood I know about is Marie Antoinette's, which led her to have a love and yearning for the relatively casual Hapsburg upbringing and family/relatively private life that led her to try to recreate it at Versailles, which pissed off the French courtiers in some respects (how dare you only want to hang out with people who genuinely like instead of people we appoint because of their lineage) and pissed off the French people in others (how dare you want any privacy).
>>1086356
>Hapsburg
>>1086366
sorry, I always get my p's and b's mixed up on May the 4th.
How useful was the Great Wall of China?
If so, how long was it useful for?
It's pretty useful right now for tourism I'd say
>>1086281
Well I mean in its original purpose.
How brainwashed is the average American?
Between the political misinformation campaigns, mass media distortions, ideological oversimplifications, scientifically engineered advertisements, narrow school curricula, religious mystification, and lack of historical awareness and appreciation of other cultures and perspectives, you could venture that the average american's grasp on sociopolitical reality is tenuous at best and that this state of affairs is deliberately intended by the powers that be.
Only in America do you have huge swathes of the population unable...
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"and humanities" was a mistake
>>1086240
>Only in America do you have huge swathes of the population unable to grasp the true roots of the economic and political forces that have seen a steady decline in the prospects of middle class in the past decades and massive shift in wealth from the majority of the population to the very few.
Yeah man, I'm sure if you go to like, Greece or Russia, everyone will totally understand economics and realpolitik.
>>1086240
>Only in America
Are you delusional? The average person all over the world is stupid and uninformed. Its just that Americans are on TV more often.
Why did the middle east (Egypt, Mesopotamia) develop advanced civilization before anyone else?
what made this place so special?
>>1086206
Fertile land and rivers.
>>1086214
Plus great weather for primitive living
>>1086206
Natural boundaries that protect against invasion, good land for agriculture, and the ability to trade with other groups up/down the rivers without being settled so close they'd encroach on each other's land.
>Western Roman "Empire"
>Eastern "Roman" Empire
>"Holy" "Roman" "Empire"
>>1086185
"""""Roman""""""""" """"""""""Empire""""""""
>>1086185
>Orthodox Christian
>Greek speaking
>Monarchy
The Eastern """"""Roman"""""" Empire
>Empire
>Roman
>Holy
literally WHAT THE FUCK
Why didn't the Crusades to restore the Holy Land to Western Christian rule pick up when Christian Europe massively eclipsed the Muslim world in power in the age of colonialism?
When Jerusalem and the rest of the Levant was finally captured in the WW1 it seems like it was a complete afterthought; presumably the European powers could have done it with relative ease centuries before. Why didn't they?
I assume the answer is the Catholic/Protestant split, but couldn't they have easily competed for control of the Holy Land?
>>1086117
The same reason the Pope excommunicating kings died off. Moral authority from religion was on the wane.
Also the Ottomans were relatively respectful stewards of the holyland and Jerusalem in particular. It was acceptable to let them hold on to it rather than fight out which whitey would get it.
>>1086117
Because 19th Century Eurocunts were all about MUH RATIONALITY AND MUH SCIENTIFIC METHODS that were supposed to enlighten the benighted peoples of the world. This was a very optimistic age in which the Europeans felt they owe much to their advance by secularism, science, and rationality.
Acting like a religious zealot is contrary to that image.
Hence the whole fucking Romantic movement and its BRING BACK MUH FEELS, like romanticizing premodern history, idealizing rural life, and religious faith.
Because thanks to Crusaders in the Middle Ages there were no Christians left in Palestine.
So, yesterday, I had a train of thought concerning the arguments between Christians and their oppositions. Now, a huge portion of the arguments opposing Christianity is how quoting the Bible for things that proves the Bible's alleged authenticity falls under "circular reasoning".
Now, the Bible is a compilation of books and letters written by various people and sent to various audiences spanning years of time in between the books. So, would calling it circular reasoning be justifiable? I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm very skeptical about the Bible, but... is it fair?
And it got me thinking, had the Bible not been compiled, would Christianity be more acceptable in this modern age?
But that leaves us with another question; what about the Koran? I'm not too familiar with the Koran itself, but with my various discussions with real life Muslims, daily, I'm pretty sure that it, too, is a compilation. So... what about them, then?
Discuss.
Also, pic unrelated.
Phrases such as "scripture tells us all scripture is from god, therefore all the scriptures are true" is circular.
The fact that it is a compiled list of the prophets and hebrew tradition with the books of the apostles doesn't really alleviate the circularity of that line of thinking.
Like you mentioned the Koran,
They have every right to claim their book is true and holy and sacred as well. And there will surely be others that come that claim to be the truth, whole truth, and nothing but.
But does something's own claim to truth make it any more truthful?
>>1085983
>All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,
2 Timothy 3:16
>Koran
Demonic.
>>1086013
Ah, yeah. Forgot about that verse.
¿Was the American revolution really a revolution or just a war of independence?
>>1085968
>Was the American revolution really a revolution
Democratic Republic in a world of monarchies? I'd say so.
Just a war of independence
Sure was a revolution.
It was the first secular republic in the world.
Was there a correlation to the Roman Empire abolishing Judaism as state religion, replacing it with Chrisitianty, Jewish rebellion, and the collapse of the empire?
>>1085922
Judaism was never the Empires state religion
Rome having a string of internal conflicts and misfortunes made christianity more appealing.
>>1085922
>Roman Empire abolishing Judaism as state religion
Does a resource-scarce environment facilitate authoritarian regimes?
A resource-scarce environment rewards rapid action, and forbids luxuries such as bureaucrats arguing themselves to death.
not necessarily, i mean look at russia
it does however instigate expansionism
I read a few interesting arguments that actually resource rich environments fuel authoritarian regimes, specifically with oil
