Is Justinian basically the greatest emperor of all time? Why and why not?
>>983615
>the greatest Emperor of all time
That's not Napoleon or Augustus.
>>983615
>greatest emperor of all time
The greatest emperor spot can't be occupied by cvcks.
Darius I was pretty neat.
![old-dragons-head-Shanhaiguan-9[5].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/t2kaS2q.jpg "old-dragons-head-Shanhaiguan-9[5]")
>the end of the Great Wall of China
Why didn't the Mongols just go around it?
Mongols and Spics cant swim
Probably more guards over there or something
>>983231
Are you fucking autistic? You're no Alexander, that's for sure
>tfw you will never purge the revisionism from the party.
>tfw you will never destroy the four olds
>tfw you see the peoples revolution being co-opted by capitalist tendencies everywhere you look
Why live /his/?
>>982493
>you will never completely destroy and purge a 5000 year old culture from the face of the earth with your commie bros
feels bad man
>you will never get to smash your qt commie wife after a long day of smashing capitalism.
>>982553
You gotta share it with your gomrades though.
I've noticed that a lot of people tend to really dislike Thomas Jefferson. I actually sort of used to think that he was the great thinker of the American Revolution but after all the reading and opinions that I've heard, I'm not so sure. What you think about him as a thinker, president, and person?
In honor of his 273rd birthday, Thomas Jefferson thread.
As a Christian I'm predisposed not to like him. By all accounts he's one my religion's greatest enemies.
>>981688
>that he was the great thinker of the American Revolution but after all the reading and opinions that I've heard, I'm not so sure
It was actually Madison, Hamilton and Adams that were the thinkers of the revolution. What Jefferson did was ensure French alliances and support and wrote a very rough draft of the Declaration of Independence. Madison is, imo, the true founding father of the United States of America. Hamilton quickly perverted the purpose of the revolution and used Washington as a sock puppet for 8 years after federalization.
>>981688
Jefferson was a true liberal, in the classical sense. His attacks on Christianity on one hand and his insistence on small government and individualism on the other means that both conservatives and modern liberals have things to dislike about him
I'm having a Greek, Roman an Medieval art exam tomorrow.
Anything important I should know?
Nigga how the fuck should we know
Whatever your prof has been talking about will be on the test, anything we tell you is unlikely to be relevant to your final score
>>981349
Start with the Greeks
>>981377
Then the Romans.
Why would they build such a beautiful piece of detailed art, and then place it on a huge pedestal in the middle of an open forum so high up that no one could see shit?
>>980587
I'm pretty sure he knew we'd be looking at it in the future
it's was painted and wasn't on a huge pedestal in an open forum, it was inside a building with different levels
>>980588
Jokes on you I'm not looking at it ahahaha faggot
ITT: We list reasons why Christianity is the best religion ever
http://www.firstworldwar.com/features/christmastruce.htm
1. Because it makes saracens dead
2. Because Jesus was based
>>979192
It in no way shape or form conflicts with capitalism. BASED Christianity!
>>980953
I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and asked, “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” Matthew 19:23-26
Um.
Truly a more civilized time.
>>980512
Maybe Seneca was just throwing some top banter, or meant the Romans had so much excess they would get rid of what was already good in order to consume more, or he was a butthurt Greek captive philosopher
Reminds me of that one feast in The Hunger Games, involving a character called Seneca Crane. The feastgoers drank a vomit inducing drink so that they could eat more
educate yourselves lads
i should organize my /his/ spurdos into folders. If any drawfags (or even someone moderately skilled, gondolas aren't that hard to draw, but I'm sure I'm still not that good) I'd love to drop some /his/ related art and photos for you to draw gondolas into.
Was USRR greatest empire ever existed ?
>>978193
Any Empire that bases its economy on one single recourse ((oil)) deserves to die.
>>978202
delet this
The theodicy presented in Hegel's philosophy of history and preserved in his lecture notes succeeds as a theodicy but not as a theory of history.
What Leibniz called the "principle of the best" pertains to this world (i.e. all events tend toward the best possible outcome).
Marx has some merit, but only as a dissenting voice among a group of yes-men.
The United States is a good country, overall.
Philosophy is a worthwhile activity insofar as it results in moral progress on the part of the one who performs it.
>anyone who thinks murder is abortion and should be outlawed should also think it's acceptable to assassinate abortion doctors
>the fall of the Soviet Union is the worst thing to happen since WWII; not because the USSR was better than the countries that succeeded it, but because now Islamism is the only serious threat to neoliberal hegemony
>Stirner is interesting but ultimately contributed little of value
>Taoism is just a contrarian Confucianism
>>975335
>it would be very convenient to the left if the right were that ideologically pure
>double-think and cognitive dissonance are actually incredibly important to thinking in a healthy way, and we would all be completely autistic and unfit to survive without them.
>Byzantium's fall was mostly their own fault
>The Balts had the crusade coming
I'll start, even though mine's kinda lame.
>be 5 or younger
>used to think tug-of-war was called tug-of-war because people used to fight and settle wars by having a giant tug-of-war match
>>965041
The rape of Belgium made them bad guys.
I didn't believe this but I once had a dream with a History book. It was in the style of an actual one I read as a kid.
It said the Saxon's first city was destroyed by a giant candy.
I didn't know much about Saxons and neither about the migration period, but I now guess it explains the migatrions
Let's get through the common ones first:
>rome fell due to lead poisoning from plumbing pipes
>civil war was about slavery
>medieval knights' armor was so heavy they needed help to mount their horse, and couldn't stand up if they fell over
>Ancient Egypt was the most advanced and sophisticated of all ancient civilizations
>"barbarian" european tribes who fought against the Romans were all the same, un-shaved savages who lived in mudhuts and drank babies' blood for fun
>Believed that Russia and Prussia were the same or very similar
>Thought that native americans and native africans didn' do nuffin until the evil Europeans showed up
>thought that caveman lived at the same time as dinosaurs
>believed in christian shit like the flood myth, Earth is a few thousand years old, adam and eve and the garden of eden was literally a historical place (probably believed this due to retarded "documentaries" on Histroy channel), Moses literally parted the Red Sea, etc.
>Believed that Hitler's goal in WW2 was to conquer the world because he was literally a comic book supervillain.
>tfw Germany didn't win the Battle of the Marne
>tfw France didn't just surrender, lose some territory and let Germany rise to prominence
>tfw WWI became a horrorshow of attrition
>tfw those millions of lives lost in WWI
>tfw it caused Russia to become a communist police state
>tfw it set the stage for WWII
>tfw the cold war
>tfw Vietnam
>tfw Hippies
>>982068
Shouldn't have taken Alsace lorraine from us, Klaus
>>982068
The Battle of Marne was near the beginning of the War you dingus. If the French just upped and quit right at the beginning they would have lost so much face on the world scene that any chance at world political player pull would have gone straight out the window for the next century and a half with no one ever considering France an ally at all. Furthermore the impact on french territories world wide would have had severe back lashes as well.
It would have not been a slap on the wrist with Germany saying "Bad France, Bad" like the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
WW 1 had so much political smut and whorish snobbery that a humble Austrian Prince getting Serbed is just the tip of the shaft thrusting deep into a Hapsburg chamber maiden.
what a good feel that is OP
a lot of confusion on 4chan stems from the fact English "you" stands for both singular and plural use, both informal and formal, also there's no satisfactory synonym for it
worst language desu
>>982218
Then what do you suggest?
>>982225
why French of course
>>982239 gotta to kidding me.
You should stop baiting people.
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Why didn't the Spanish and Portuguese convert to Islam under moorish rule?
>>982084
They did. "Moors" were mostly converted Iberians.
>>982084
They did
They did
