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I. Jesus
II. Marcus Aurelius
III. Diocletian?
IV. Constantine
V. Attila
VI. Beowulf?
VII. Muhammad
VIII. Charlemagne
IX. ?
X. ?
XI. Leif Erikson
XII. ?
XIII. Genghis Khan
XIV. ?
XV. Christopher Columbus
XVI. Shakespeare
XVII. Isaac Newton
XVIII. George Washington
XIX. Napoleon
XX. Adolf Hitler
>>1037244
>muhammad
>recognizable
haram
>>1037244
Only us Canadians know about Leif Eriksson
>>1037244
>XVI
>Not Luther
IX might be Alfred the Great, though I'm not sure. That's a bit too western.
VI. Is either Theoderic, Justinian, or Boethius
X. Will be Otto the Great
XI. Is William the Conqueror you dumb idiot
XII. Would probably be Henry II or Barbarossa
XIV. I'd give it to Chaucer for later influence or maybe Edward III
XVII. Is easily Louis XIV
XVIII. George Washington? That's...
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Historic keks thread.
What moments or events in history make you laugh the most?
a few weeks
>>1037238
The thousand flowers campaign in China
>yeah it's cool intellectuals you can critiscise the CCP
>jks lol now we know who doesn't like us we can just purge you all enjoy self denunciation
why isnt the book of apocrypha in the bible?
I am sorry OP, but this is something that's so really easy to google, why can't you just do that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_apocrypha
>>1037083
Because its apocrypha.
That's like asking why the color Red isn't Blue?
>>1037090
Because the matter that the light is reflected at attracts all wave-lengths that isn't red.
It's a rather complicated question, really.
Best US presidents
I like Ike
Overrated but still good:
Kennedy
Reagan
Lincoln
FDR
>>1037097
>Still good
>Reagan
Well this thread didn't last long.
Did he exist? Is he myth? Is he the Christ? So far in my studies im leaning towards he didn't exist at all. If he did exist his original vision has been warped by church teaching. In Matthew he tells us he did not come to abolish the old law, the church would have you believe otherwise.
He says he came to fulfill the Law, not to abolish it, and he did. The Resurrection is the fulfillment of the Law and the Prophets.
Incidentally this makes Judaism something of a religious dead end. Sort of an obsolete faith.
>>1036951
>17 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. 19 Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and...
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He was probably a real man who was mixed in with a lot of myth to form the symbol needed for earlier Christianity to the extent it really doesn't matter if he was real or not.
I have no doubt if Jesus was a real human being he wouldn't approve of at least half of the shit that's directly attributed to his teachings.
>How much did the weather REALLY fuck them at Stalingrad?
The winter wasnt as bad as the winter of 41-42.
It was less the weather than the million Red Army soldiers surrounding them that fucked up Paulus's 6th Army.
>>1036883
Very little. Hell, according to Chuikov, the one time he thought they were really in danger in the city was when you had a partial freeze of the Volga, when the ice was too thin to send sleds across, but it still interrupted barge traffic, and thus made it hard to resupply.
Wasn't really the weather, just the fact troops weren't prepared if I recall
Also, fuck the italians
The Emperor is the rightful leader of these lands.
The Shogun must be overthrown.
Triples over ride singles.
Under the authority of these digits I order your execution under the 3rd article of the code of the warrior.
the only based emperor there ever was tbqh
sucessfully uncucked the imperial throne and made Japan great again
>>1036898
The Meiji Emperor was just a figurhead utilized by anti-Tokugawa warlords.
The last uncucked Emperor was really Go-Daigo back in the Kemmu Restoration of the 1300's.
Uhhh it says here your studies specialize in the; I'm sorry I hope I don't mispronounce this *clears throat* "Holy Roman Empire"... Care to explain?
AAAAAAA STOP IT
It seems there has been a misunderstanding, since in actuality, I studied the Roman Empire in its medieval phase when its capital was based in Constantinople, and certainly not the "Holy Roman Empire".
Out of all the dumb Crash Course-tier "jokes" circulating around /his/, this one's the worst.
Do you think the lone viking from the Stamford Bridge battle was real? Both Norse and Saxon sources talk about him but that '' climbed into a big barrel and floated under the bridge with a long spear and stabbed the viking up through the wooden slats'' part seems weird. Is it even possible to fucking float in a barrel? Where did he get that barrel from? Also ''shrugging off arrows'' is suspicious to say the least.
>>1036573
Why that? It's certainly within the realm of possibility and I know of at least a few occasions where folks shot with arrows just ripped them out and continued fighting.
Sort of related
>At the Battle of Garigliano he single-handedly defended the bridge of the Garigliano against 200 Spaniards, an exploit that brought him such renown that Pope Julius II tried unsuccessfully to entice him into his service.
>Shrugging off arrows
I call bullshit. It would be easier to shrug off getting stabbed than getting shot with an arrow.
>>1036596
Remember how Henry V was shot in the fucking face with a longbow and was more or less okay or how the Swiss ripped crossbow bolts from their body to continue fighting?
Can someone teach me a little bit about Roman placenames?
Mainly, what determined for the Romans calling something -ia vs. -ium? Obviously the words themselves are two different genders, but why is it Italia and Britannia and not Italium and Britannium? Why Antium and not Antia?
Anything else you can tell me about Roman toponymy?
I'm pretty sure -ia is the plural and -ium is the singular.
Regions/countries seem to predominantly have -ia attached to the end while cities seem to be a mixture of -ia and -ium.
>>1036534
somebody asked pretty much exactly this question in my Latin class a while ago, and I think the professor basically said that there was no rhyme or reason to which ending the name used. I think a lot of the names came from whatever the locals called the place anyways, or in some cases the Romans either used the Greek name or just pulled something out of their asses
>>1036537
you're thinking of the neuter gender, which I don't think was used in any placenames,...
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What historical figure was the closest to Conan?
I guess any of the semi-mythical figures.
Greek: Trojan war heroes and the Argonauts
Russian: Ilya Muramets (confirmed historical figure) and other Bogatyrs
Probably that fucker who killed like 50 Saxons on the bridge at the battle of Stanford bridge
David in The Bible.
Starts out trying to save his people from invaders, becomes a brave and noble warrior king.
does chance even exist?
this has been puzzling me for weeks
take a dice roll for instance, surely the side it lands on is a result of conditions being in play since the dawn of time
the only way to prove chance exists is being able to go back in time to that dice roll and have it be a different number which would be impossible
rewinding a film doesn't change what happens
could someone explain this to me or point me in the direction of some books, i can't wrap my head around it
>>1036510
Quantum fluctuations.
By explain do you mean you want us to tell you why it is not true? Because it definitely is true. Our consciousnesses are just passengers/prisoners locked in a brain locked in a body.
Why again is this man credited with defeating Napoleon when he was one of the more incompetent military leaders and didn't even contribute much to Waterloo?
>>1036462
eternal anglo, etc etc
>Didn't even contribute much to Waterloo
No, the meme is that only 1/3 of the army was British but he still commanded the entire army (except for the Prussians, who are always counted as a separate army).
He wasn't incompetent, although we can agree that British propaganda propped up his image.
Given their rate of development, would the former Eastern Bloc states really be poorer if capitalism had not be forced on them?
If anything, the destruction of socialism seems to have hampered their economic growth
>>1036438
Americans will never admit that the Russians hate them for forcing Neo-Liberalism on them.
>>1036438
Nothing was forced on them, it was will of people.
Eastern bloc was going through recession by the end of 80's and it wasnt going to get better.
Find some map that has years up to present and see for yourself how much it has grew.
>>1036438
The stats are accurate?
What is the point of existence?
Isn't it all for naught, ultimately?
I am trapped inside a decaying ball of fat stuck inside a decaying cage of bones and meat. I will experience pain, discomfort, sorrow, anguish, guilt, and envy today, tomorrow, the day after, and every day thereafter until the electrical impulses in the ball of fat can no longer be sustained.
After that I, like uncountable trillions of existences before me, will simply disappear.
What was the point of my coming here? Is this just a sick joke?
To be a fag.
>I am trapped inside a decaying ball of fat stuck inside a decaying cage of bones and meat
What is this "I" you're talking about? You sound like a Cartesian dualist. The first thing to do is stop being retarded.
>>1036433
Anal sex.
