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>>1032963

You really think anyone knows how the HRE was even a thing past Charlemagne?

>>1032972
The HRE didnt exists in Charlemagne' time
When the Frankish Empire divided in 843, the glorious Western part became the Kingdom of France, and the shitty Eastern part became the Kingdom of Germany (which renamed itself into "HRE" in 962)

>>1032952
Multiple accounts of completely different circumstances told by many different people.

We'll never really know

>>1032975

It was the warriors

>>1033010
Fuck off

Because he didn't free the Church from the control of corrupt officials. Instead he just put himself in the position of Pope and kept the same system while altering a few doctrines here and there. He also had Protestant reformers killed.

Is the Church of England ok in the eyes of God?

Because he pretty much psycho

>>1032853
>Does the natural environment/geography determine the course of history?

of course. anyone who claims otherwise is an overzealous liberal. the tigris and euphrates caused mesopotamian society to flourish, the nile caused egypt to flourish, etc.

>>1033042
What about the Congo and Amazon?

>>1033042
what liberals reject that geography determines history? this seems to be more likely for /pol/-types to reject since it is counter to the claim of there being superior races that do better than inferior races

>>1032702
Desert Storm.

The Anglo-Zanzibar War was pretty unfair.

Besides, most countries were just trying to make sure neither Iran or Iraq won, because a victory for either one would be disastrous.

>>1032711
My nipples get hard reading about Desert Storm sometimes
tbqh

Saying "I want to be an historian" is like saying "I want to be a scientist", there's a fuckton of categories that do a fuckton of different things.

Basically - Historians do historical research professionally.
Some write books and if they pick an appealing subject, they sell them. Some teach.
I had a job doing archival research on military files to try and help identify WWI and WWII bodies when they get found. It didn't even occur to me that this was an application of history education but there you go.

>>1032612
Here are the kinds of jobs and small business activities that historians conduct:

The majority of historians are employed as lecturers by Universities. At current standards this involves producing two to three research monograph equivalents, sucking AHA cock or the equivalent, finally if you're super lucky and good getting a full time job at 35, which involves 60 to 80 hour weeks teaching shits who don't want to be there nationalist lies and pumping out more monograph equivalents on topics which disinterest you. In non-unitary pay systems the pay is worse. The research funding is worse.

The second most common occupation for the historian is the Government Glorifier of Nationalism and the Military. Generally you need to have hit captain or major in the military officer hierarchy to be eligible. (Special forces involve lower requirements). Your national cultural institutions (museum, library or archive as appropriate to your nation's shit fight between curators, librarians and archivists for funding) may also employ glorifiers. You don't control your research, but you have to be a person who believes the old lie dulce et decorum est pro patria mori to get the job.

Another stream is the historian for hire. Here you glorify private and commercial institutions, and the small government institutions, for pay. Remember, your base research rate is the lecture rate and triple triple for oncosts and unbillable hours. You generally need to be someone's son to get work.

Another category of glorifier is the party worker. These tend to be from labour parties and leftwards (bourgeois parties hand out academic sinecures to their old war horses). Here you have to be active senior cadre, continue your "day job" for the party, and write approved party history.

Finally, there's unemployment / disability pension plus living in a caravan near archives. I know at least one historian who made his career like this.

>>1032612
>but what do they physically do?

Plan, prepare and deliver lectures and tutorials, conduct marking, and sit in the attendant staff meetings (60%+ of their time).

>Do they spend their time reading all day, and writing reports?

You generally can't sustain reading for more than two to four hours straight, unless you're on archival materials in which case you can sustain 10+ hours straight (because its archives mang.)

Most people can't write for more than 2 hours a day seriously. Then again 2 hours a day is more than enough to get your thousand words out.

>Do they just shit around in museums all day?

I generally shit once or twice a day, less when reading archives because of the nervous tension and dehydration. Museums have an obligation to collect the physical remains of the past to typify. Historians are interested in the documentary record of the past, and the physical remains of the past are rarely fruitful enough documents. Historians prefer libraries and in particular archives.

Most of their time, though, is taken up by reading books they'd rather not read for teaching, review purposes, or because they are obliged to cite them if only to show they disagree.

>I need an answer

Your needs don't matter in this world, mate. Learn it. Try reading some fucking labour history.

>>1032596
Let me clarify myself a bit. People seem to act as if the Reformation wasn't a fully natural reaction to a Church that needed reformed but refused reforms. The Reformation even indirectly lead the Church to improve, as they didn't want to be the super corrupt douchebags of Europe anymore.

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>>1032619
You are right in that the Church reformed as a result of Luther. However, Luther also created Protestantism, which is basically a living, breathing, heaving edifice of heresy. Let me reiterate that : Protestants are heretics. They are in complete violation of Christian teachings. If any Protestants are good Christians, they are so in spite of their Protestantism, not because of it.

So no, the Reformation on balance did nothing good. It caused the Devil to enter in and pollute Christendom. But of course all of this was foretold, and true Christians have kept the Faith.

It led to schism. A schism that went wrong. Look at America today, it's filled with heretic cults and sometimes very hateful sects. This is why we had synods, you know, to avoid this kind of shit.

I'm currently studying Computer Science, feel a bit compelled to switch to Political Science though.

philosophy

Studying Paleontology.
I study and read history and philosophy because I enjoy it.

Laws are from Sumer

>>1032463
Maintaining a community requires laws that protect the well-being of the people that make up said community. Basic survival.

Code of Hammurabi is amongst the earliest codes of law.

God, desu

>>1032337
Honestly it was trying to run his country. He cares way to much. Should have been a figure head and let smarter men make the decisions that matter. Honestly his stupidityis one the leading causes of ww1

>>1032337
Indy Naidel? Probably that he's an actor rather than a historian and his researchers basically read wikipedia.

>>1032381
Really, Indy would make a great Willy if you'd just put a mustache on him

>>1032198
How's the weather in Nantes today?

>>1032198
nah.
bullets are only useful for keeping the enemy in one place while you wait for a plane/drone/artillery to fuck their shit up.

>>1032198
>what is CAS

>>1032113
Japan is just Japan. It mirrors a lot of things from China in Japan's old times but modern day it leans more towards America and the West because we forced them to starting with Perry, and later after WW2.

So basically, Japan is just a country that likes to copy others but make it there own.

>>1032113
>tfw no anime about non-Japanese Asian cultures/Event
Yes I know there are some but it isn't nearly as widespread as Anime with western Influence

>>1032194
What are some anime with Americans in it?

>>1031991
they wouldn't have

I am rather sure that we would have to change lots and lots of things to make Austria able to unite Germany.
I would say it became impossible after the transformation into the double Monarchy,

>>1032003
What would've happened if Prussia didn't score victory after victory?

>>1031887
>industrial revolution wasn't progress

It wasn't exactly moral or good sometimes, but it was progress.

Beats living in mudhuts

Steampunk is best.

>>1031813
Austerlitz and Marengo were just as good as anything Hannibal did.

He had an uncanny ability to win many battles but lose the war.

>>1031813
Part of it had to do with facing numbskull generals before Scipio came on the scene.