I want to talk about Byzantium /his/.
Specifically Justinian and Belisarius.
Were they cucks? Was the reconquest justified? Nika riots?
Give me what youve got.
>>995341
>Were they cucks?
Maybe Belisarius, I highly doubt Justinian was
>Was the reconquest justified?
Yes, the Empire doesn't reconquer itself you know
>Nika riots?
Rebels got fucked and Theodora proved she had bigger metaphorical balls than Justinian
>>995387
>Reconquest
How about in terms of lasting value though? The only thing gained from it really was a permanent presence in Southern Italy, everything else was lost.
Would it have been possible in another scenario to keep hold of the conquests instead of losing them so quickly?
>>995387
Depends on your concept of "cuck". Justinian married an ex-whore so, in my book, he's a cuck.
What war had the greatest room for glory? What war had the least room for glory?
>>995267
define glory
As far as least goes, definitely World War 1.
The most pointless war in human history, really.
>>995278
Honor, achievement, pride
What the fuck was his problem?
>>995221
Being a pretentious tit.
>>995253
Making people like you assravaged
He wanted to take the shit out of everyone.
Absolute madman.
When was the objective-subjective split formulated in the history of philosophy?
>>995155
this is a great image, OP.
>>995155
contemporary philosophy is pointless and arguably destructive to society
if any form of speech should be banned, that's it imo
>>995155
Has philosophy ended, /his/?
>"Carolingian Renaissance"
>"Ottonian Renaissance"
>My failing imitation is slightly better than yours
Don't you mean
>B > >>>
I was just reading about crime reports from the 1600th century (I believe I started off researching a coin) and I came across this gentleman:
Johann Jakob Wick (* 1522 in Zürich; †14. August 1588 Zürich)
Pastor and the collector of the Wickiana.
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The Wickiana is recognized as one of the most significant collections of news reports and documents pertaining to current events dating from the 16th century in the form of single-leaf and illustrated broadsheets, pamphlets, prints, handwritten texts and drawings. These time capsules form one of the most important archives pertaining to a particular epoch, namely that of the Reformation in Switzerland. Johann Jakob Wick (1522-1588), after whom the collection is named, was the clergyman at the Predigerkirche and its associated hospital in Zürich from 1552 and then second Archdeacon, and thus also canon, at the Grossmünster in Zürich from 1557. He assembled and arranged contemporary news documents chronologically between 1559 and 1588, also integrating further material from the period approx. 1505 until 1559 into his collection.
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How fucking cool would it be to read that? Has any part of it ever been translated? My googling turns up nothing but photographs of the original documents themselves, which even a german would have difficulty getting through.
Unrelated but I find this whole time period really interesting and would like to own a huge poster of Europe as it existed at some point in it. Preferably something readable and more Crusader Kings II style than "ancient map." I can't find anything so I guess I'm going to have to make it myself by modding a game and somehow wrangling insane resolution screenshots out of there. Just mentioning in case one of you have done something like this and would like to offer comments or tips.
ps. communism is cancer
>from the 1600th century
>>994828
wow it hapens.
>>994825
JO-HANN, JA-COB, WICK!
THAAAT'S, MY NAME, TOO! :D
Are there any credible sources for it? I've read some books on the subject but they all differ wildly.
>>994746
If you mean the pre-Christian beliefs, then no. The Slavic polytheists did not keep written records back during Antiquity and early middle ages. There are some records about the believers of the old faith in Slovenia during early 20th century but there isn't much written about them because most kept in secrecy.
A lot of the pre-Christian Slavic mythology is simply reconstruction. For example, Belobog, several Iranic additions, transplanting Western Slavic deities across all Slavic cultures,...
>>996195
>that filename
The Cyrillic letters spell out Svarog, fyi
>>996201
I know, I just prefer the Slovene version of the name. There's other names for him, too; Tvarog, Rarog, Rarach, Jarog.
What did Deng do so right?
Well not following Mao's total retardation for one.
>>994701
In many ways he did, but he didn't go full retard with the economy or another "revolution".
>>994696
Deng should be the face of the CCP and not Mao.
>be in feudal Europe
>finally get married
>the lord demands the right of primae noctis
what do?
C-can I at least watch, milord?
>>994636
Kek
You roll over and let him take what he wants, serfboi
The Eternal Anglo wins again
How the fuck did the Portuguese get so much of the pie
>>994627
What counts as a colony? When did Greece have one?
>>994637
Cyprus, which belongs to Turkey
How do languages die? I can understand if it was already spoken by a minority of peoples, but in the case of something like Celtics, how did it happen? Another example might be how widespread Niger Congo languages are, surely more families were spoken in Sub-Saharan Africa before? Is it genocide? Do the foreign speakers just slowly begin to outnumber the natives?
>Is it genocide?
>>994453
The same way they're dying today, the population starts to speak another language more frequently, usually a lingua franca, until the old language is marginalised and eventually disappears. European mainlanders don't realise it, but their languages are already dying. The Dutch, Swedes and Norwegians seem to speak English 50% of the time even amongst themselves.
>>994468
>The Dutch, Swedes and Norwegians seem to speak English 50% of the time even amongst themselves.
What? I honestly doubt this.
What caused the Bronze Age Collapse and subsequent Greek Dark Ages?
Short answer: Nobody knows.
Long answer: Probably some combination of natural disasters and economic problems leading to a period of weakness, during which illiterate cultures on the periphery of civilization engaged in unchecked raiding, migration, and conquest.
>>994384
>What caused the Bronze Age Collapse and subsequent Greek Dark Ages?
Inept archaeologists, and lying historians.
Everything went wrong at once, most likely.
States weakened by natural disasters and invasion were doubly crippled by their over dependence on one another.
What went so right?
he was a total homo and homos have a lower time preference because homos can't have children and the fact that you could possibly have children as a result of your favourite kind of sexual activity instantly gives you a higher time preference because praxeology.
>>994241
psychologist voodoo please, just stay out of real scientists way
>>994241
Hoppe please kys.
Can we get a historical fiction thread going? What are you guys reading? Anybody have suggestions for ancient historical fiction (preferably in Mesopotamia/Middle East)?
>>994159
I read Agincourt by Bernard something or other about a year ago. A friend gave it to me and suggested his Anglo Saxon chronicles.
>>994159
>"The Holy Roman Empire was, according to Voltaire, neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire. But it was long-lived, complex, brutal, important, and fascinating, as is evident from the reading of this notable work"
http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Roman-Empire-James-Bryce/dp/1479208523
>>994159
I just read a good one called Black Robe. About a Jesuit priest in Canada in the 1600s who cannot stand the wilderness or Indians but is super devoted and won't give up his mission.
It's pretty dark, lots of Mohawk savagery and torture, and does a good job making the Indians relatable (to the reader, not the protaganist) but not putting Native American culture on a pedestal. He translates the indian speech in a really funny and ignoble way too.
Why does people still consider George Orwell an anti-authoritarian and anti-totalitarian leader when he only criticized the Soviet Union because they persecuted fellow leftists in the late 1930s? I mean, he was silent during forced collectivization and dekulakization, when millions of innocent people were sent to gulags or shot, but once Stalin turned against the perpretators of such crimes during the Great Purge, suddenly he spoke out against the authoritarianism of the Soviet Union?
Also, he was ok with the POUM and Spanish anarchists shooting Catholics, the bourgeoisie and other "class enemies". It seens like the "anti-authoritarian left" is only anti-authoritarian when the authoritarianism of leftist regimes are directed against left-wing victims. People like George Orwell never cared when innocent kulaks and priests are murdered, so he shouldn't be a symbol of anti-authoritarianism.
His views changed over time, he didn't believe in keeping a static opinion, open minded i guess. He wasnt actually very old either.
>>993578
Did he ever criticized dekulakization, though? I don't remember a single left-wing intellectual who did it.
> It seens like the "anti-authoritarian left" is only anti-authoritarian when the authoritarianism of leftist regimes are directed against left-wing victims.
Well, yeah. That's what makes them left-wing.
