>"In his advice to the Persians, Cyrus the Great claims, “soft lands tend to breed soft men" -
What did he mean by this?
My friend :
Machiavelli, "Discorsi sopra la prima deca di Tito Livio"
First Book
First Chapter
>>1052431
>soft lands tend to breed soft men
Comfortable living environments make dudes fags. People in the city are statistically weaker then people who live in rural areas. Less injuries, less physical activity, less thought put into surviving. Even my lil female cousins in the mountains are tough as fuck, climbing trees and hiking all the time, splitting their heads open way more often.
>>1052431
>Cyrus is a pale European with a golden mane and feminine face
And people say Medieval artists took liberties.
>(Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio): Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
>(peristyle of the Tavern of Verecundus): Restitutus says: “Restituta, take off your tunic, please, and show us your hairy privates”.
I.7.8 (bar; left of the door); 8162: We two dear men, friends forever, were here. If you want to know our names, they are Gaius and Aulus.
>(Bar of Prima): The story of Successus, Severus and Iris is played out on the walls of a bar: [Severus]: “Successus, a weaver, loves the innkeeper’s slave girl named Iris. She, however, does not love him. Still, he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye.”. [Answer by Successus]: “Envious one, why do you get in the way. Submit to a handsomer man and one who is being treated very wrongly and good looking.” [Answer by Severus]: “I have spoken. I have written all there is to say. You love Iris, but she does not love you.”
>(Bar of Astylus and Pardalus): Lovers are like bees in that they live a honeyed life
>(Bar of Athictus; right of the door): I screwed the barmaid
>(gladiator barracks): Floronius, privileged soldier of the 7th legion, was here. The women did not know of his presence. Only six women came to know, too few for such a stallion.
>(gladiator barracks): Antiochus hung out here with his girlfriend Cithera.
>(on the wall in the street): Theophilus, don’t perform oral sex on girls against the city wall like a dog
>(House of Valerius Flaccus and Valerius Rufinus; right of the door): Daphnus was here with his Felicla.
>(House of Caecilius Iucundus): Whoever loves, let him flourish. Let him perish who knows not love. Let him perish twice over whoever forbids love.
>(House of Cosmus and Epidia; right of the door): Aufidius was here. Goodbye
http://www.pompeiana.org/Resources/Ancient/Graffiti%20from%20Pompeii.htm
>(On the wall of the Forum, Slave quarter): Opius, you are a bugger of men.
>a degenerate city being destroyed in flames
Like poetry.
>>1052938
Judean insurgent detected. Legio IX drones are already coming for your ass, barbarian.
Lets make a thread about plans that would have been.
Pure autism.
>>1052382
What's that?
>>1052382
The last time Gibraltar was blocked the Mediterranean got rekt, that idea is fucking retarded
Non-existence is far better than existence, is there any sane man who could disagree?
>>1052320
existence is a spook
>>1052320
I haven't killed myself yet, so there must be something to this whole existence thing that doesn't suck shit.
where does the "best thing for a man would be to not have existed at all, and the second best thing is to kill himself right now" come from? and i dont mean the greek tales. i mean what's the logic behind that? life is suffering, so in order to avoid suffering it's better to not exist at all?
bitch, i would rather live a hundred years in judas' place at the 9h or so circle of hell getting my ass flayed off by the devil than not have existed at all. atleast while i suffered, i could think about all those pleasurable things in the world that didn't include suffering. who is such a weak little shit that they would forgo all the potential pleasure they can experience just because they're afraid of suffering?
Personal opinions and origins?
>original hebrew
>adopted by pagan celtic/anglo
>The Lion of Judah who is the seven horned Lamb with seven eyes
>four horsemen of the apocalypse
>>1052267
>original hebrew
>adopted by pagan celtic/anglo
wut, it's written in greek. and when was it ever adapted by pagans? all of it's themes are based in christianity and it is heavily influenced by the book of Daniel
>>1052296
it was translated into greek from the old testament, wasn't it?
And i guess im thinking of the christians that fled to ireland during migration period, and later converted germanic pagans
>>1052315
You must be older than 18 to post on this site.
>The crusaders were really just illiterate barbarians
>mean while the arabs had maths and science
>i mean just look at the peoples crusade
wat do /his/
>>1052185
That would imply the crusaders built all those churches, castles and cathedrals without using mathematics or science.
>>1052277
Obviously stolen from the locals
Muh renaissance
>>1052185
What kind of hollow statement is "The arabs had maths and science"?
What does this mean? That every Arab had some maths and science he carried around with him? That Europe didn't know how to count and everyone lived in a hole?
What a shit thread OP.
Which one of these two really fought the Japanese?
Neither. Americans did.
>>1052065
Not even during the 4 years that China was fighting Japan prior to America entering the war?
>>1052060
Both of them primarily viewed the other as their real enemy, and the Japanese as an unfortunate distraction from their attempts to exterminate each other.
However, the Chi-Coms realized that one of the best ways to win the support of the Chinese people was to act in a way to protect them from the Japanese threat; they were much more aggressive in taking the fight to the Japanese than the KMT was.
Of course, the KMT had about 5 times as many troops, and a lot of the Japanese deployment was arrayed against them, not the commies. Overall, probably the KMT did more to hold the Japs out, bu the CCP was more invested in actually fighting, not just staring across the mountains at the enemy.
How well would Hitler have been able to do if he had not signed the Molotov Ribbentrop pact?
>>1051963
What always confused me about the Pact is the Soviet Union's invasion of eastern Poland. Why did the Allies not declare war on the Soviets after they did that? Wasn't Poland the reason they declared war on Germany?
I still think the raping would have went done before it was all over with ol' Adolph putting a bullet through his cowardly brain pan.
>Orthodox, not Catholic
>Main language was Greek, not Latin
>Monarchy, not Republic
>People on here insist on calling it the Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was more Roman than the Byzantine Empire was.
>HRE called itself HRE so we shall call it HRE
>ERE called itself The Roman Empire, but we shall call it by the term invented by butthurt german a century after the fall of Constantinople, because reasons
>>1051788
Why do autists care so much about the successor to the Roman Empire
Other than the pope recognizing it there was literally nothing Roman about HRE.
Which youtube channels do you follow, /his/?
>Wireless Philosophy
Great channel where different scholars give lectures on philosophy n shieet
>Historia Civilis
Kinda small channel, just one guy who tells stories about history of rome, the senate, battles etc. With simple animations.
>Epic History TV
They have only a few videos and seem really inactive. But their videos on WW1 are great.
>Metatron
Interesting, autistic Italian guy with a lot of information to share.
>Forgotten Weapons
Based Ian showing all kinds of weird firearms and talking about them.
School of life is trash to be honest.
r8nh8
The Great War
It's a week by week story of the first world war, as it happened 100 years ago. It can be a bit on the poppy side of history, but it's quite entertaining
Plus they have some fantastic video footage from the war.
Can we have a thread about Cataphracts? What made these guys so amazing on the battlefield for thousands of years?
I thought they were shortly used cavalry, in a very marginal part of the empire, til better methods were discovered.
>>1051726
>I thought they were short used cavalry
What?
>in a very marginal part of the empire
What?
>til better methods were discovered
What?
stirrup and stronger breeds of horses
I was reading about late medieval warfare and happened upon Charles the Bold's 15th Century ordinances describing the composition of a lance. Ideally, it would consist of a man-at-arms and a mounted swordsman together with a mounted non-combatan, three mounted archers and one pikeman, one crossbowman and one handgunner. Now, historians debate if a lance was a purely administrative unit or indeed a tactical unit but this is not really pertinent to this thread even though all discussion is welcome.
What I'm more curious about is why the different kinds of missile troops are mixed? Do they compliment each other and are used in conjunction or is it because the recruitment pool was too small to allow just handgunners for instance?
Also, the mounted archers, were they expected to dismount or did they actually fight on horseback like a skirmishing force? They were paid a little more than the ground soldiers, I don't know if this is because their skillset or to help pay for the upkeep of the horse.
>>1051629
>What I'm more curious about is why the different kinds of missile troops are mixed? Do they compliment each other and are used in conjunction or is it because the recruitment pool was too small to allow just handgunners for instance?
I'm more inclined to think that it had administrative purposes, e.g. provide a commander with a good ratio of troops. I don't think they would fight together. Fielding cavalry and infantry together in the same unit would have made no sense, as it would have only slowed the cavalry down. When it comes to different types of missile troops it's possible that they complemented each other, but most contemporary depictions, that don't feature some sort of siege, usually don't show troops being mixed. They might have different quality of equipment, but they're usually armed similarly. When it comes to mounted archers, both is possible. I've definitely seen archers fighting from horseback in historical depictions.
As an example, here's a late medieval army taken from the Hausbuch Wolfegg, one can see that the troops march together depending on their type of equipment.
>>1051928
I've just noticed a few crossbowmen among the men with the handguns, so essentially I've proven myself wrong here. Nevermind what I said in that regard.
>>1051928
Interesting. Around what time would this painting be from? Also, from the ordinances we know that the crossbowman and handgunner were paid the same, so there doesn't seem to be any favoritism in play. With that said it'd be interesting to know just what drove so many leaders into hiring handgunners. By all accounts they were slow, unreliable and inaccurate as opposed to other type of missile troops. Economics? I get that they would be frightening but by the middle of the 15th Century guns would hardly be news to any field soldier.
The Roman Empire lasted a gorillion years.
Which technological advancements happened in all those years?
99 out of 100 technological or artistic wonders of the Empire were taken from other people who, after creating shit like crazy, stopped doing so under Roman rule.
>>1051535
It's so cute when children have such strong opinions of things they know so little about
Oh yeah? and your mom was better?
ITT:
Names you wish you could name your children
>Gaius
Adolf/Adolphus actually sounds pretty good with my last name desu.
>>1051355
shoo shoo Hitler
He'd catch shit on /his/ but I actually like the name Charlemagne
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-society-myth/471051/
so apparently currency and debt was not preceded by a barter economy, but rather a "quid pro quo" community system where everyone gave what they could to anyone who happened to be in need
what does /his/ think of this? the article suggests that the concept of currency was a freak idea that happened to spread out succesfully, and is now so firmly embedded in our collective mindset that we retroactively think bartering came before it
is money just an evolutionary mistake? do debt and currency allow for too much subjugation of the people? should we set up a "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" system instead?
I still don't understand the difference between barter and banter. English is a retarded language.
>>1051297
>i don't understand thing so its dumb
>>1051305
t. Anglo
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