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A man's cat is running around the house without being watched. Another man leaves his drink on the edge of a table. The cat knocks it off. Using this information alone, who is liable to clean up the spill?
The cat. Get licking.
>>999683
Can't say.
Help me out: did the second man know of the cat?
>>999683
Nobody just leave it there
![history-books[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/zwPvr83.jpg "history-books[1].jpg")
let's suggest some /his related books here.
http://www.amazon.com/Ottoman-Empire-Classical-Age-1300-1600/dp/1842124420/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1460935667&sr=8-1&keywords=Halil+%C4%B0nalc%C4%B1k
A classical masterpiece on the Ottoman Empire. Recommended 9/10
Caesar : Life of a Colossus.
Will Durant's The Story of Civilization
Why was Ethiopia the only country that escaped colonization?
>>999246
No one wanted to steal their shitty art
They have a +20% combat bonus when fighting units from a country with more cities than Ethiopia
Ethiopia was a country that practiced Colonialism and shared religion with the colonial powers. It's alliances with Portugal and Russia helped a lot when it came to getting modern arms.
help me in my hw
What if you could travel in time
1. Where would you go?
2. Which year or period of time would you travel to?
3. Who would you want to meet or what event would you want to witness? Why?
4. How might you change history? (what things would you like to change?)
>>999242
Dude make up whatever you want but I will take bait
> murder Muhammad
>>999343
FPBP
/thread
>>999242
Go to garden of Eden and kill the snek
Bloody foreigners, they come here and take our land and pollute our language. Why kick we not them all out?
I walked near some bairns in the morning and they said things in that 'imperfect' tense they use, and they used not case!
What think you would have happened to English if the Normans had lost?
It would've stayed autistic gibberish similar to modern Nordic languages
England would stay an irrelevant shithole in the backwater of Europe, instead of becoming a superpower thanks to the superior Norman and Angevin leadership.
>>998935
That would be better than having Sharia zones, surely?
How can a person be a good devout Christian while acknowledging scientific fact that seems to contradict the Bible?
>>998790
It just werks.
>>998790
It was just a metaphor bro.
they may "acknowledge" it doesnt mean they actually believe it
What does /his/ think about Tito?
>>998676
According to my great-uncle, he was a really shitty locksmith. Got some keys from the guy in the 30s and they snapped after a few months of use.
>>998682
>>998682
>Makes keys that snaps a few months once he leaves them
>Creates a country that snaps after a few years once he leaves it
What's your favorite quote and from whom is it ?
>Author, Date, Related Topic required
>Watch the backblast you idiot
- Tsun Zu, Art of War
I find that people interested in history are the most reasonable. So, i've got a question for you: do you think that humans will be able to make a utopia in future, learning from their past mistakes? I think not, because humans always make groups sooner or later, and would need to be brainwashed in order to make an utopia like place. Also, the population would need to drastically decline in order for people to gather around in one group and try not to fight. Not to mention that we are advancing mostly thanks to war research, so war is good, people die, fuck it.
>>998444
>I find that people interested in history are the most reasonable.
You haven't spent enough time on this board then
Anyway to answer your question, utopia is a pretty broad term, basically everyone has their own little definition of it. And learning from past mistakes just paves the road for new mistakes
>>998444
I want to fuck all three of those cute boys
>>998444
Well I think that people interested in history are so much more reasonable because of their capacity for empathy.
History is a science dealing almost exclusively with people, a humanity, it makes sense that people inclinated to that would need a strong sense of empathy.
As for the idea of a utopia, I think if history was marching towards a utopia, we would already be seeing a trend to one. So if you think the present is better than the past, then the future should be better than that.
>tfw from the point of view of people who lived a thousand years ago, we're living in a bizarre, absurdist dreamscape
and?
Yeah compared to 1000 years ago we live in a relative utopia. It's hard to imagine how things will be 1000 years from now.
>>998121
And I find it weird, so I just thought you'd like to know
Did the armenian genocide actually happen?
>>997993
No, it was a series of spontaneous massacres resulting from the chaos of war and social collapse, not an orchestrated genocide.
>>998008
But, if in the end, a huge portion of Armenians end up dead, is that not a genocide? They still were killed in large numbers.
Does intent really matter if the result is the same?
THE TURKS DIDNU NUFFIN
THEY WERE GOOD BOYS
How do the Germans teach WW1 and WW2?
How do the British teach the American Revolution?
They tell us about the objective truths written down by our former enemies.
>>997955
German here
>WW1
The manifestation of Imperialism and chauvinistic Militarism. Mainly caused by Austria-Hungary, Russia and Germany although pretty much every major power could have done more to stop it
>WW2
Hitlers ideology made him wage a war against Poland and later the USSR. There are many factors which lead to his rise like Versailles, the financial crisis and the weak Weimer constitution. And we discuss if there was some sort of collective...
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>>998724
Interesting, German here too, from which Bundesland are you?
I'm fascinated by this event https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Execution_of_the_Romanov_family
Could you show me some books on the matter? Feel free to discuss it among yourself.
>>997921
It's basically the final result of Bernie Sanders philosophy.
Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
The Romanovs: the Final Chapter by Robert K. Massie
The Last Tsar: The Life and Death
The Resurrection of the Romanovs: Anastasia, Anna Anderson and the World's Greatest Mystery
Or if you're interested in the people themselves, Helen Azar has published several translations of most of the daughter's diaries, or rather the volumes that they didn't burn. Helen Rappaport has a new book called The Romanov Sisters but I'm not wild about some of her interpretations.
>>997921
Should happen to his cousins in the UK and to all royal families in the world as well.
How was your Sunday School this morning?
>it's a talk about politics episode
>it's an if evolution is true, why aren't we still evolving episode
>it's a we need to get back to the word of God episode
>it's a never open the bible episode
Then the actual service
>it's a jeremiah 29:11 episode
It's hard being protestant.
>>997697
What country are you in heretic?
>Old Testament
How terrifying.
>>997697
>school at sunday
What the flying fuck.
What is the actual justification for this man being celebrated with a holiday? I get wanting to teach Americans a narrative that painted the nation's history in a mostly positive light, but why base the story on an actual piece of shit? Couldn't we have just made up a guy and say he discovered America? Not this murderous psychopath?
>piece of shit
How come only SJWs use this expression?
>>997626
>SJWs
Haven't been here in a while, has /pol/ officially taken over
>>997630
>only /pol/ hates SJWs
