>Democratic People's Republic of Korea
>is not a democracy
>is neither of, by, nor for the people
>is not a republic
It's all three actually. Read Leddihn :^)
>United Soviet Socialist "Republic"
>>946647
DPRK is a republic by the virtue of it lacking a monarchy. Yeah it's kind of a hereditary oligarchy but as long as the Kims don't literally crown themselves, call themselves kings and declare divine right, it's a republic
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Is it fair to say that Egypt was the true heir to Alexander out of the successor kingdoms, and a true Hellenic nation?
>>946563
I think using the term "egypt" is a broad term.
Ptolemaic Kingdom within Egypt adapted it's native customs and it's Hellenic culture for 300 years.
Fuck off normie Egypt is NOT HELLENIC.
>>946563
No, it was obviously Macedonia.
who's your favorite assassin, /his/?
>>946402
This guy
Dutch history thread. How did such a small country create such an impressive trading empire? Could they have ever been a legitimate competitor to Britain's empire building? Could the Netherlands become a European hegemon in the future? Any and all Dutch related history welcome.
tulips
Flemish brain drain
>>946325
Capitalism, free trade, de facto freedom of speech and religion, high literacy rates, high labor productivity, high human capital, insane preindustrial urbanization rates, female work force, high age of marriage, innovative shipbuilding, a bunch of great leaders and traders.
I'd say the above mentioned are both symptoms and effects of a good economy and once the ball got rolling it kept going until Napoleon and the industrial revolution.
>The concept of a white, blond-haired, blue-eyed master Nordic race didn't originate with Hitler. The idea was created in the United States, and cultivated in California, decades before Hitler came to power. California eugenicists played an important, although little known, role in the American eugenics movement's campaign for ethnic cleansing.
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/1796
>What Sherman called the “final solution of the Indian problem” involved “killing hostile Indians and segregating their pauperized survivors in remote places.” “These men,” writes Fellman, “applied their shared ruthlessness, born of their Civil War experiences, against a people all three [men] despised. . . . Sherman’s overall policy was never accommodation and compromise, but vigorous war against the Indians,” whom he regarded as “a less-than-human and savage race”
http://www.houseofpaine.org/sherman.html
(Cited in Michael Fellman, Citizen Sherman, p. 260) Sherman's memoirs
>German geographer Friedrich Ratzel visited North America beginning in 1873 and saw the effects of American manifest destiny. Ratzel sympathized with the results of "manifest destiny", but he never used the term. Instead he relied on the Frontier Thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner. Ratzel promoted overseas colonies for Germany in Asia and Africa, but not an expansion into Slavic lands. Later German publicists misinterpreted Ratzel to argue for the right of the German race to expand within Europe; that notion was later incorporated into Nazi ideology, as Lebensraum. Harriet Wanklyn (1961) argues that Ratzel's theory was designed to advance science, and that politicians distorted it for political goals
https://historyasiseeit.wordpress.com/2014/01/06/the-americans-manifest-destiny-and-hitlers-lebensraum-similar/
Here's a tip.
If you're debating whether to attack white people or brown people, attack the brown people.
For the purposes of this discussion, Native Americans should be considered brown.
Also, don't be late to the party and expect anything good to be left.
>>946238
We didn't. We learned about this all the time.
>>946238
Because America had the continent effectively to itself; who was going to offer meaningful resistance to its?
Are there any /his/-approved board games? Please do tell.
>>946231
Europa Universalis 4, Age of Chivalry the mod of HL2, Mount and Blade Warband, Pirates Knights and Vikings 2, Darkest Hour: Europe '44 - '45, Darkest Hour: Mare Nostrum, JFK Reloaded, Verdun, Knights of Honor, Victoria 2.
Try not to get yourself consumed with this like I do. I feel very weak and my mind feels like a slave to these games.
Also if you want to add me on Steam here's my address: http://steamcommunity.com/id/
PullTheTriggerKillTheNigger/
>>946259
None of those are board games you cuck.
>>946260
Oh, board games. I'd do Risk, but that's really the only boardgame I know about.
are good and evil human constructs?
Good isn't, evil is.
>>946150
Perhaps.
We can't really ask animals, can we?
Not exactly sure this question belongs here but due to the philosophical nature of it I'll post it here regardless.
Does anybody here really believe that our behaviour is fully(or mostly) predetermined by our genetics? I mean in the sense that our personalities, how violent we are etc are shaped by genetics?
Do you also believe in the notion of free will?
Because those two beliefs seem rather antithetical to eachother in my opinion.
>>946105
>Do you also believe in the notion of free will?
No.
>>946109
How curious. I was looking for someone to say this actually. Care to elaborate a little? In my opinion the lack of belief in free will seems like a rather depressing outlook on life.
>>946105
Playing devil's advocate here: you can have certain proclivities and personality flaws and still resist them for rational reasons.
As an easy example, humans are biologically predisposed to be afraid of the dark but most people have no trouble mastering this fear.
So what's the deal with the Holy Roman Empire?
It's not Holy
It ain't Roman
And it most certainly isn't an Empire
>>945059
THis meme stopped being funny, like, the second time it was posted.
>inb4 butthurt Kraut
the what?
>>945059
LOLLLLLLLLL
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/vikings-newfoundland-1.3515747
April 1, 2016
CBC News
Potential Viking site found in Newfoundland
Satellites help locate potential Norse site in island's southwest corner
Researchers in Newfoundland and Labrador are finding evidence that may give more answers to a millennium-old mystery — just how far the Vikings reached into North America.
A second, moresouthernViking site may have just been found in Newfoundland, according to research from aninternational team of archeologists working in the province.
ResearcherSarah Parcak told CBC News that her team has found evidence of a Norse-like hearth and eight kilograms of early bog ironin an areanear the southwestern-mostcoast of Newfoundland.
Parcak, a professor of anthropology at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, saidthe findings at Point Roseeon the island are highly suggestive of a Norse presence in the area.
"We did not find one single shred of any [contradictory]evidence, so that leaves two options," she said. "It's either a new culture that looks and presents exactly like Norse, or Norse."
"But obviously we have a lot of work left in front of us before we can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that it is."
cont.
>>944933
A potentially historic find
If the results are born out through further research, Point Roseewould become just the second verified Viking site in North America.
The first site is at L'Anse Aux Meadows, near the northern-most tip of Newfoundland, about 600 kilometres away.
Evidence of that thousand-year-oldsettlement was discovered in the 1960sand took years to verify.
Archeologists maintainthat Vikings may have usedtheirL'Anseaux Meadows settlement as a "base camp for expeditions further south."
It's not known how long thatcamp— now apopular tourist attraction that Parks Canada operates as a National Historic Site —was used before it was abandoned about a thousand years ago.
At the very least, the researchers in Point Roseehave found evidence of another early iron-working site in the province.
The Norse were the only ones extracting iron from bogs 1,000 years ago.
cont.
>>944935
Satellite innovations
As part of their early research, Parcak said, the team used Google Maps satellite imagery to look for potential hot spots along the Atlantic Ocean.
Furtherhigh-resolution scans led them to send a team to Point Roseeand start to survey for artifacts.
Parcak won the 2016 TED Prize for her work using satellite imagery in archeology, a field the organization said she largely engineered.
"When we started the project, my hypothesis wasn't that we would find anything Norse, my hypothesis was that we would not," she said.
Instead, after a survey in 2015,her team found signs of iron-working and evidence of a turf wall, like the ones the Norse are known to have used.
Newfoundland and Labrador government officials who worked alongside the searcherssay more evidence, and more artifacts, are needed to be sure of aViking presence on the island`s western coast.
"There's just not enough evidence to date to go either way on it," said Martha Drake, an archeologist with the provincial offices.
cont.
>>944938
Birgitta Wallace, considered the foremost authority on the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, was equally unconvinced that the find was an authentic Norse site.
"The roasting of the ore could be accidental. All it would take is a camp fire on the ground where the soil is full of bog ore. Such areas are common in Newfoundland," she wrote in an email.
Wallace was part of the excavation team at L'Anse aux Meadows.
She's not sure the supposed turf walls are an exact match, either.
"The results could be exciting, but until then I consider the case unsettled."
Parcaksaidshe's looking for more evidence. She'd like to see more carbon-dating that coincides with the Viking era, further evidence of metal-working and maybe a Norse-specificobject to put them over the top.
"I hate, as an archeologist … to say it's definitely Norse," she said. "We absolutely cannot say that right now."
"A lot of people in the press are calling this a Norse settlement. We absolutely cannot call it a settlement."
"If it is Norse, the most we can say right now is that it's a small farm or perhaps a temporary winter camp."
cont.
I am on the mission here to destroy the moral version of good and bad since it has mocked and insulted me long enough. It is deluded ignorant nonsense to say to a severely crippled depressed person that he/she can still have good meaning in his/her life. The moral version of good says that if we personally judge our lives to have good meaning through our thoughts, then that will make it so. But this is nonsense because this would mean that we could go up to a severely crippled depressed person and say in a joyful/excited tone: "Yipee! Your life is so wonderful since you told yourself that your life was great! Forget the fact that you were on the brink of suicide and were hardly able to function! Your life was so wonderful!" This, right here, is the deluded mocking/insulting ignorant blatant lie that is the moral version of good. It would be no different than telling a person with Parkinson's or a stroke: "Yipee! You can still fully function mentally because you told yourself you can!" It would also be no different than telling a blind and deaf person: "Yipee! You can still see and hear since you told yourself you can!" The fact is, there has to be a scientific version of good and bad that humanity and science is currently unaware of. It would have to be our good moods (pleasant emotions) that are the scientific version of good and it would have to be our unpleasant feelings/emotions (such as depression) that would be the scientific version of bad. Good and bad would have to be senses like sight, hearing, and smell
So they are scientific terms like sight, hearing, and smell. Just as how a blind and deaf person cannot give his/herself sight and hearing through his/her thoughts alone, we cannot give our lives any good or bad meaning either without our pleasant/unpleasant feelings/emotions. If you were to say the phrase: "My life is nothing but hopeless," then that would be no different than saying: "My life is nothing but bad and has no good meaning." Therefore, since depression is a feeling of hopelessness, then if you were to struggle with depression, then you would feel that your life is nothing but bad. Here again, thoughts of our family and such still giving our lives good meaning during our depression won't give our lives any good meaning since we don't have our actual sense of good meaning which would be our pleasant emotions (our reward system). In conclusion, I myself struggle with depression and anhedonia (absence of all my pleasant emotions). This moral version of good and bad is a deluded and mocking/insulting lie towards people such as me who struggle with these illnesses. It is time we destroy this moral lie and instead create a better life. An eternal blissful life of no more suffering, depression, and anhedonia created by science in the future and have people such as me who have missed out resurrected so we can live this life. We would create this eternal blissful life based upon the scientific version of good and bad since scientists would be encouraged like never before to find cures and treatments knowing that our pleasant emotions are all that we have in our lives to make us good people and our lives good.
The scientific version of good and bad is different than the moral version of good and bad. It is a feeling/emotional version of good and bad and is not any moral or any other version of good and bad. I realize that science has no moral lessons to teach us. So you might say that there is no scientific version of good and bad. Like I said before, morality is not the same thing as good and bad. So it would no longer be morality. We would instead have to refer to it as something different. We would instead have to refer to it as us interacting and socializing as human beings and nothing more. Good and bad would instead have to be something completely different. It would have to be the scientific version of good and bad which would be the feeling/emotional version of good and bad.
tl;dr
Simón Bolívar was a hero or a vilain?
life isn't a book, anon
>>944712
>we wuz threads
>who was x threads
>who was the historical x threads
>meme threads
>>944725
History is a lot of books, anon.
What were the motives for Tiberius Gracchus, because I am skeptical they were purely altruistic
>>944314
(OP)
relating to the Lex Sempronia Arigaria
>>944314
What motives did he even need?
What motives would a young politician have nowadays to expose a corruption scheme in the government from which he could gain nothing?
Simple: it would make his career and gain him loads of support from the common man.
Same with Tibs. Who knows, perhaps he was an idealist too, but the point is the situation was so fucked up that solving it would have been common interest rather than altruism to begin with.
>>945025
This
He was young, full of spirit and wanted power. He saw the corruption and dejected veterans, and thought he could gain power and do some good along the way. What he and his bother ended up doing was piss on the government. They paved the way for Marius and Sulla
>Germany didn't even issue warm coats to their soldiers before starting the invasion of Russia
How can one country be so fucking incompetent ar war ? That's even worse than anything Italy ever pulled off.
this is bait
Here, I recommend this book, you'll get your answer to this question among many others concerning Barbarossa, it really is an eye-opener.
>>944216
kek
don't confuse the poor anons
Tell me about the Korean War /his/. Why is it so ignored?
Because it came too soon after WW2 and soon afterwards the much more impactful (is that even a word), at least to the American public, Vietnam War happened.
(Which is a shame because it's a very interesting conflict, you'd think all kinds of people would find it interesting - from the tankboos who get a taste of Shermans going up against T-34s, to Ameriboos who see more of their BAR/Garand troops in action, to Commieboos for obvious reasons, to planeboos who see the funny era of prop planes give way to jet fighters, to large scale massacre & slaughter fetishists because that's what the war looked like very oten).
>>944022
Because the marxists don't want to deal with the fact that they are the true imperialists.
