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"And then I said, the what what what?"
>HOLY
>ROMAN
>EMPIRE
>reportedly crowned while in utero
>reigned for over 70 fucking years
>defeated multiple Roman Emperors
>reign coincides with the Sassanids first great Golden Age
Tell me about this man, /hist/.
>>987913
I'll give you a bump but I'm so weak in later Persian history got any good reads
>>987913
Here you go
>reportedly crowned while in utero
>reigned for over 70 fucking years
>defeated multiple Roman Emperors
>reign coincides with the Sassanids first great Golden Age
>>987919
Sassanid Persia: Rise and Fall of an Empire by Touraj Daryaee
And thanks
>there still hasn't been an interesting war of the 2010s
I feel bad for the people in 100 years who are going to research our era. Its so boring.
Which two major countries or groups will likely go to war with each other in the next few years?
>its a fat autists glorify death and misery episode
>>983823
We're in the throes of WWIII, and you can't tell.
Ponderous.
Symmetric warfare might as well be history.
And wars aren't waged to be interesting anyway.
Whats the motivation behind the double-headed eagle? Early Roman eagles had a single head, but the HRE, the Muscovites and the Byzantine Empire all prefer a double-headed eagle? Whats the reason of that?
>>983002
Top row: Holy Roman Empire, Russian Empire, Turkish Empire. Bottom row: Austrian Empire, Byzantine Empire, and Albania.
>>983009
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte_der_Hethiter
>all
>is
>for
>the
>best
Hey, guys. I don't think I've ever seen anywhere that supports honesty about our beliefs quite like 4chan, and I'm curious, what laws would you all like to see established?
Let's try not to get too boring with this. Anti-corruption laws aren't exactly what I'm looking for.
Pic unrelated.
>>1016746
The gradual implementation of a Land Value Tax in order to slowly eliminate corporate taxes and lower income taxes without losing revenue.
Anti-gerrymandering laws
Externality taxes
the repealing of the 1986 brady bill.
the repealing of the NFA.
muh guns reeeeee
Establishment of some actual militias, because fuck the National Guard.
If you own land, you should be able to take your shit and secede.
Elected Supreme Court, or at least fixed terms.
Was Roman Empire a superpower?
>>1006606
In the context of the ancient world, yes. It was an unchallenged hegemony in Europe matched only by Persia and China.
>>1006644
>only by Persia
Even then Persia never really was an existential threat to Rome; they were just too powerful to be subdued and could put up a good fight due to their (relatively) large size.
I'd say Rome is one of the few examples of an actual hyperpower existing in its context. They more or less controlled the entire "classical" world - few other polities can claim such absolute dominion of an area.
>>1006606
It only became a power, or really relevant in any way once it had embraced Christianity.
Rekt thread?
>norse warriors were """""""feared"""""" worldwide
Scandi here. The TRUE story which OP obviously leaves out and the PRO GAELIC site of Wikipedia also leaves out is that they lost because they all died from a rogue wave before reaching the battle and there actually was no battle because uh and also ehrm eh
and the 20 dead irish just dropped dead because FUCKING GAELICS ARE DUMB FUCK U
>>998715
fuck off scandicunt, you guys are faggots
I am a Swede and the viking hype makes me feel mentally ill. Go Fetishiche someone else's history for a change.
>WW1 was a thing that happened
Can we all agree that WW1 is the most depressing time period in history?
I wish all the empires, monoarchies and old world order weren't destroyed.
>WW1 was literally a family disagreement
>>995417
pffff....no. big reason we run everything.
How comes despite having been a superpower, Poland never achieved anything worthy of notice?
>>1001313
Because it was never a superpower.
It was arguably a world leader in constitutionalism.
So are Ukrainians just Polish-Russians?
>being so fucking petty you use BCE & CE instead of BC & AD
Fucking cultureless athiest
>>996706
I think changing the dating system is fine (I don't have anything against the current one though) but I think BCE and CE are really stupid. What's the point of changing the letters when the date is still based on the Bible?
>>996706
>History is Christian.
Lyl.
Personally I don't care if cunts use either dating names. Its just arbitrary shit that keeps us from using fuckhuge numbers at the end of the day.
>>996706
I'm classing this economics question as humanities.
>Right wing person says that the government debt must be lowered
>Left wing person scoffs.
So who is in the right? And this doesn't seem like an assertion from the left wing person that public services are valuable / we need investment now that will pay off later. It literally seems like they laugh at the idea that government debt could matter. Who is right?
And treating America as a separate case due to its magical dollar.
Go ask Greece if government debt matters
It depends on the level of debt and the interest rates.
>It literally seems like they laugh at the idea that government debt could matter
You should ignore someone that does this.
The only time you should be worrying about paying debt is when the economy is booming, and that will happen naturally since more people working = more people paying more taxes etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r641gMu45zI
>>999552
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHRWe_b3v8
>>999562
Beautiful, got more like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aw_n8kOhQ88
So were fat women ever regarded as attractive or was it just seen as a sign of wealth? What bodily ideals have we had in times past and was obesity ever one of them?
>tfw you have 100 gigs of fat porn
>>997424
anon, please. I'm worried for you
>>997394
dude's face on the left says it all
I like seeing patent sketches, speculative technology, and experimental prototyping that just ended up being really terrible ideas.
Basically a thread for predictions and inventors who took a left turn while history took a right.
![34---Square-wheel-patent[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/0Y0gyF5.jpg "34---Square-wheel-patent[1].jpg")
Even the most obvious designs must go through a period of trying everything else out JUST IN CASE
>>996525
I got one of those
>>997565
Is the cone gun supposed to double as a helmet?
Are there any recorded jokes from antiquity? I don't mean some witty one liner or observation, I mean a common sort of joke that many people would have heard or known of.
Not exactly a joke, but a popular/recurring character in stories was "the absent-minded professor" who is so distracted by his studies that he forgets his surroundings.
It's been recorded as early as ~600 BC when the philosopher Thales was said to have been too busy gazing at the heavens to notice that he was about to fall into a well.
Basically, people have always liked making fun of nerds.
>>970687
I'm not sure if what is contained in "The Clouds" by Aristophanes would count under your definition, but it mocked the practice of philosophy and philosophers in silly ways that must have resonated with the audience. Basically repeatedly portrayed them as detached, comical hippies with crackpot theories.
Read anything by Aristophanes, actually. You'll probably find something along those lines.
>>970687
There was a trope that Heracles was hungry that was used in a lot of Athenian comedy. Apparently it was used so often, that Aristophanes makes fun of the fact that it's a trope.
