According to most anthropologists, modern man, or homo sapiens, first appeared between 150.000 and 200.000 years ago. However, the first stone structures and evidence of permanent habitation appeared less than 10.000 years ago.
What the fuck was humanity up to those 140.000-190.000 years before that? Did we really spend all those years as hunters and gatherers, in tribes? 150.000 years is an incredible amount of time. Is there no chance there have been primitive or even advanced civilizations more than 10.000 years ago? Time could have wiped out all traces, or perhaps we haven't found anything yet. If not, why not?
>>968538
Do you want Finno-Korean hyper war threads? This is how you get them.
Because until about 10.000 years ago the climate unsuitable for us to start investing in anything like agriculture. When the climate began to change too more stable seasons we began to settle down and become able to build larger monuments of stone.
Humans made nests till then
So what do you think about "Hark! A vagrant"
I'm told that the US considered the USSR their allies until WWII ended, but this propaganda comic shows Superman taking both Hitler and Stalin to court. How much "Allies" were Russia and the West, really?
>>971503
As much as they needed to be
It was an alliance of convenience in order to defeat nazi germany.
In america they called stalin uncle joe
>>971520
If only Stalin lived to expose the NWO, he was one of the last leaders of the Greatest Generation.
Sad that they poisoned him before he could make light of it...
How tall was he?
>>971137
Probably 6 foot. Looks pretty tall.
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Did he actually work for Mossad after the war?
>>969481
Yes. It wasn't his job but he(personally) shot some German rocket scientist working for Egyptians and all of this was arranged by mossad.
>>969522
and an article
http://forward.com/news/336943/ht/
>>969528
But the only sources I've found are articles written in March 2016. Where are proofs
Platinum thread.
In my opinion, Hitler was doomed since day 1 of invading Poland.But what were his major mistakes that, if not made, could have led him to victory?
>>968725
Killing 11 million of his workers.
>inb4 muh six gorillion
Not advancing to Msocow as quickly as possible.
Not liberating the Ukranians and genocidi get them later.
Not coordinating attacks with the japs
Not killing all of the Brits at Dunkirk
Bombing London instead of keeping pressure on the R.A.F
Also I wouldn't say he was doomed at the start of the war, it was winnable but there was no margin for error there.
His war goals were quite insane.
He was basically just a bitchy art-student with a whole lot of silly ideas and little care for practicality.
>>968725
> In my opinion, Hitler was doomed since day 1 of invading Poland.
Nah. That was still cool.
The problem was dealing with the Allies. Soviets would've never attacked first (USSR expected Germans and Allies to ally against them).
I'd say, declaring Poland non-existent was a bad move.
>>968854
> Not advancing to Msocow as quickly as possible.
If Germans would've concentrated attack on Moscow, they would've forced to leave Ukraine unconquered in 1941-42.
> Not liberating the Ukranians and genocidi get them later.
Not an option. Nazism, remember?
I was going to post this on /sp/, but that place is a shit hole and /his/ seems just as relevant to the topic.
What do we know about the history of boxing? Specifically the beginning of it as a sport on ancient Greece, the rules used during that time period, the equipment they used, any notable champions of the era.
The same question for boxing in the later Roman Republic and Empire (if it was even a sport there?) and other early civilizations up to its popularity in the Anglo world (including the early US) before the Marquess of Queensbury Rules.
And optional bonus questions:
>Who do you think changed the sport of boxing the most?
>Who do you think was the greatest boxer of all-time?
>Who is your favorite boxer of all-time?
>What does the sport need to do to regain popularity in the States and push ahead of MMA and the UFC?
The Wiki article on that statue seems to suggest that it was of a slave, who fought for the amusement of his masters
>>966732
>Who do you think changed the sport of boxing the most?
Daniel Mendoza for sure.
>Before Mendoza, boxers generally stood still and merely swapped punches. Mendoza's style consisted of more than simply battering opponents; his "scientific style" included much defensive movement. He developed an entirely new style of boxing, incorporating defensive strategies, such as what he called "side-stepping", moving around, ducking, blocking, and, all in all, avoiding punches. At the time, this was revolutionary, and Mendoza was able to overcome much heavier opponents as a result of this new style. Though he stood only 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm) and weighed only 160 pounds (73 kg), Mendoza was England's sixteenth Heavyweight Champion from 1792 to 1795, and is the first middleweight to ever win the Heavyweight Championship of the World. In 1789 he opened his own boxing academy and published the book The Art of Boxing[3] on modern "scientific" style boxing which every subsequent boxer learned from.
Boxing went from "punch the other guy in the head until he gives up" to the very athletic and footwork oriented sport we know today. Mendoza (quite literally) wrote the book on bobbing and weaving. Muhammad Ali was famous for utilizing this sort of boxing in the modern era but he owes a lot to Mendoza.
>>966732
>who
The British, they really codified the rules and guidelines of pugilism.
>greatest
Pound for pound, probably sugar Ray Robinson. "Ali/Tyson was the GOAT" is a meme.
>my favorite
Max Baer
>how to keep ahead of MMA
The biggest thing mma has over boxing (I'm a huge fan of MMA admittedly) is that there are more "brutal" ways to win (knees to the face, body slams, no standing 8, certain submissions etc) and carnage is what sells. There is no shortage of talent in boxing today, just in my opinion there's simply too many meaningless belts and undeserving champs. It needs to keep being more exciting,
it's inevitable UFC becomes more popular. It simply appeals to a casual audience much more than boxing does.
What are some good non-biased books on Andalusia?
>>966630
"Dogs of War" by James Reston Jr...though its written in the style of a fictional story it uses actual sources. More of an entertaining read though
>>966630
That looks pretty cool
>>966630
http://pastebin.com/WzdNxB71
Is there a difference between Henry Corbin's concept of our guiding Angel and Ibn Arabi's personal Lord?
thank you
>>963807
I love Arabic calligraphy
>>964825
muh scibbles
It seems to me that the idea of the bible being divinely inspired is suspect. Why would God express the world to be different than the world we actually inhabit? I mean all the ways empiricism conflicts with what is said by him.
>>963672
The idea that God could express anything is suspect.
Who among us can claim to know God's motivations?
>>963711
Why would God have motivations?
Why is the Enlightenment so shit?
>>969945
because /his/ is evolachan
what makes it shit
>>970040
Muh traditional morals
Muh monarchy
yo his, here is my thesis what ways can I expand?
Thesis: The events within the Hundred Years’ War allowed for the power over the means of production, land and agriculture in this case, to shift away from the nobles to the peasants, and start England on the path to capitalism.
I'm talking about the Black Death, failing economy and the rise of the yeoman. any ideas?
guys please help, I need you more than anything right now
>>969887
Sure you aren't plagiarizing?
Also:
Define capitalism
Define Peasant
>>969933
I'm using Paul Sweezy's definition of capitalism:
(1) ownership of the means of production by private capitalists; (2) separation of the total social capital into many competing or potentially competing units; and (3) production of the great bulk of commodities (both goods and services) by workers who, owning no means of production of their own, are obliged to sell their labor power to capitalists in order to acquire the means of subsistence.
and by peasant I mean anybody that works as a farmer under a manorial lord.
not plagiarism, but if you've read this somewhere before and know the source name that could help get me some ideas
Heh.
>>969520
They're all English by descent because all of those monarchs are descended from Alfred.
/thread
>>969550
>English by descent
>this is what the English tell themselves
House of Lancaster was English. At least culturally and linguistically.
Who is the best eastern Roman emperor and why is it Justinian?
>Waist your entire treasury on retaking a war damanged Italy for 40 minutes
>Good
>>969523
>Waist
Considering circumstances, best emperors were Theodore Laskaris and John Vatatzes.
What happened ?
The jews happened
>>969199
this meme again
>>969138
Nobody won, it was a stalemate because the farmers kept hiding in holes and USA had to keep killing them all with their seemingly infinite amount of resources.
