How were Muslim-Christian relations like historically in most countries of the world?
How do they compare to Muslim-Christian relations in countries now?
>inb4 crusades
delicate bump
>>929142
>How were Muslim-Christian relations like historically in most countries of the world?
You'd need to write a book to answer this question properly, but - generally speaking - relations were civil. Trade between the two civilisations was ubiquitous, and major cities held populations of both religions without trouble (unless they were being stirred up by a specific event).
>>929887
This.
/his/
Who was Adolf Hitler's successor?
Who was the best man for the job?
Goring before he was kicked out of the party, Donitz and Goebbels after that.
Eh, probably Goring? All the major Nazis that could have taken over for Hitler all had their own terrible flaws that would have left them weak and vulnerable.
He was probably the most cold blooded and badass nazi
Imagine if he was führer
>>928397
Karl Donitz
but he made clear in his suicide note Dr. Goebbels would be his succesor since he was his closest friend.
>>928406
>Goring
what a funny story, when Goring heard rumors that Hitler might commit suicide if allied troops got too far into Germany, he wrote him a letter. So Hitler opens it up expecting "DONT DO IT MEIN FUHRER!" but it was just Goring saying "hey, can I have your country after you kill yourself?"
Best conservative essayists and writers? I like Burke and I'm ready for more.
>>926492
burke's a liberal, opposed french revolution on the grounds that ir violated property rights. Conservatives adopted some of his ideas, but I think they misunderstand him. Regardless, I'd recommend GK Chesterton, Christopher Lasch and Phillip Rieff
>>929239
Modern conservatism is just a branch off of old school Liberalism. Don't let the names fool ya.
Roger Scruton, Michael Oakeshott, George Grant
Something doesn't quite make sense to me /his/
If slaves were beaten and treated like shit, they'll just become unsuitable for work and die of their injuries, which was essentially a loss to a slave owner's investment as they would need to buy a new slave now.
So how come when the number of slaves far exceed the number of slave owners, they didn't just rise up? Why did it take hundreds of years to abolish slavery?
>>945064
they did but it usually didn't work because they lacked organization and concentration of power. Also slavery is such a broad term it refer to many things. The worst type of slavery came from societies that would have large influxes of slave regularly like late roman republic because the slaves were so cheap you really didn't need to keep them alive or healthy
>>945064
Carrot and the stick.
Some slaves were allowed to save money to buy their freedom and it is conceivable that, although slaves and slave owners were unequal, they had some sort of understanding. Or Stockholm syndrome
Better question is why the proletariat isn't rising up.
>>945064
there were slave revolts though. course they weren't successful and all got shot. in order to have success you'd need to be able to get a hold of a substantial number of guns, ammo, powder. no reason to revolt if you can't defend yourself and all of you are just going to get mowed down
All memes aside, can anarchism ever become a viable ideology?
A recurring argument against any form of anarchism is that the absence of a state would lead to military weakness against organized neighboring states.
Another argument against it is that it is impossible to maintain a state of anarchy (no leader, no ruler, no authority) because voluntary association between individuals would inevitably lead to the formation of micro-states, which would later evolve into large entities powerful enough to assert their authority over the rest of the community.
There are other arguments against it but these two are the ones I see anarchism confronted to most frequently.
Is there any answer to this? Are there forms of anarchism which are more realistic than others?
>>943108
No
>>943110
Why?
>>943113
ever seen mad max m8? (old school ones, haven't seen the new one btw)... yes, that's how the world would be.
let's take a break from the world wars and the crusades and have a pirate thread
Finally someone made this thread so I don't have to.
>>941517
Why couldn't you make it yourself?
>>941502
Yo ho ho me mateys. This thread now be only in pirate talk.
Ye should be giving this post an upvote if ye agree
Why wasn't she able to create competitive trade routes when she started getting undercut by colonial empires?
No real experience in ocean navigation, the Mediterranean sea wasn't going to be the center of the world much longer, the capital to reprogram all the shipbuilding for oceanic travel wasn't there, the usual suspects could put a blockade on the strait of Gibraltar if they wanted to, etc.
Playtime was over.
>>950311
The fun stops for good when pic related happens.
>Venice fell
Is this area, known as "the Fertile crescent," historically significant? I'm a Syrian American, so I thought it would be interesting to learn more about it
yeah, significant would be a proper word
That's where history started.
It was out of need, convenience and a good context that the basics of human society were born. There, in the fertile crescent.
The first villages, towns, cities.
A rudimentally organized society with roles divided by gender, age, physical phenotypes.
The beggining of the economies: the idea of trading things for one another, and later on, creating money to make that more convenient.
The greatest discovery ever, agriculture, and how to stop being a retarded mongrel nomad.
The first governments, the first laws, the first police. An army to protect the city.
Cities that, along time, due to geographical and genetic traits, develop their own culture.
And when they realize they're like other cities, a nation is formed.
So many things that we still have to this day come from that time.
I daresay, if you genuinely want to understand today's world, why things are the way they are, the fertile crescent, at the time it was significant, as you say it, is 90% of the deal.
>>947097
Nah
"Bad writers—especially scientific, political, and sociological writers—are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones."
What did he mean by this?
He also espoused shaking your fucking teapot around before pouring.
>>945527
I guess he's saying that its wrong to assume Latin and Greek are objectively better than Germanic words just because they had great and famous cultures, that Germanic words can be just as beautiful and useful.
>>945527
He meant that a lot of people think words of Latin or Greek origin are somehow better than Germanic words
It seems pretty straightforward desu
There seem to be a lot of WW2 threads so let's concentrate them in one place (pun not intended)
Let's discuss Operation Biting.
What was its impact on the air war in Europe?
Have none, but bump.
Didn't the Battle of Britain prove the RAF was superior to the Lufftwaffe?
>>945432
Did the complete ineffectiveness of RAF raids over Germany in 1940-41 prove the Luftwaffe was superior to the RAF?
>wake up
>it's 44BC
>you are sitting at the back of the senate with a kalashnikov and a stab-proof vest on
>julius caesar is about to take the floor
>no one has noticed you yet
what do?
Use my gun to convince them I'm a god and proclaim myself emperor.
Kill the senate, proclaim I was sent by Jupiter and declare myself God Emperor. But I would also kill Caesar, claiming the senate killed him.
Can we argue that Satan is actually the good guy and God the bad guy?
>God created humans as mindless naked animals for his own amusement, to roam the Garden of Eden for all eternity with no purpose at all
>Satan as a snake gave humans the apple
>he gave us self-awareness and free will
>he freed us from the tyranny of god
>made us question our nudity, and thus develop morality
>God punished us for this, instead of appreciating the development
>God ordered his prophets to write a shitload of propaganda texts portraying himself as the only good and Satan as pure evil
>throughout the bible, God actually kills many more people than Satan
Sod off gnostic
We can argue that OP is the gay guy.
>>949411
>>949412
Go away, Christcucks
Also, OP: I don't think the snake was originally any kind of Satanic figure, and this was a later invention/interpolation that occurred after the Babylonian Captivity, the mixing of Hellenic ideas during the Seleucids, and the contributions of early Jewsih-Christian gnostics such as Valentinus.
In its earliest incarnation, the snake was simply a trickster figure.
Fun fact: Satan in Jewish tradition is merely an angel tasked with testing humans: he is completely under God's control and completely loyal to God. Hence why the story of Job makes more sense in a Jewish context than a Christian one.
Can we have a religious art thread?
Doesn't matter if it's paintings or sculptures
European achievements? Don' you mean Ottoman achievements?
keep john green shitposting to /lit/
>>931974
This guy is an annoying self-important twat.
Memes aside, can someone describe the basic workings of the HRE to me? Was it similar to other Kingdoms at its time(France, England) or did it operate completely differently?
inb4 Voltaire
>>950635
It was bunch of countries locked in a meme federation.
There was no single identity.
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