>The Roman Republic is no more
Empire was much better.
>tfw EB 2
>republic
Was he the most smart mastermind ever lived?
I wouldn't say exactly smart, but crafty (or maybe both). But I can fucking guarantee you that Fidel Castro's luck stat was off the charts.
>>910097
I hated him while reading The Three Musketeers.
I heard they want to use his name for that Aircraft Carrier, but in the end they choose De Gaule
>tfw no Aircraft Carrier Richelieu
>CHOOSE YOUR SUCCESSOR STATE
>>909746
I wish he had survived just a few decades longer ( ._.)
>>909746
>No Backtria
Imagine being the ultimate trading empire straddling east and west. You have greeks mingling with indians, scythians, persians and the odd chinese trader.
It probably would be the oddest thing to see in that time and era.
>>909754
>According to Plutarch, Bagoas won a dancing contest after the Macedonian crossing of the Gedrosian Desert. The Macedonian troops, with whom Bagoas was very popular, demanded that king Alexander should kiss Bagoas, and he did so. Athenaeus tells, that King Alexander also was madly devoted to boys. Dicaearchus, at any rate, in his book On the Sacrifice at Ilium, says that he was so overcome with love for the eunuch Bagoas that, in full view of the entire theatre, he, bending over, caressed Bagoas fondly, and when the audience clapped and shouted in applause, he, nothing loath, again bent over and kissed him deeply.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagoas_%28courtier%29
RIP, the absolute madman. No homo
Any thoughts? Which do you believe is better for the common man, integrated into government, or anything else really, just opinions for or against one or the other.
It's cosy knowing I am part of the Church that Jesus entrusted to his Apostles and not some barbaric heretic.
It's cosy (sic) knowing I am part of the invisible church that Peter belongs to, and not to the Church of Peter.
>>910910
I'm Eastern, but i'm gonna go with the guys that at least have apostolic succesion, are mentioned in the ancient texts, and have Holy Tradition.
Here's a discussion question to get the ball rolling:
A study from last year found that 40% of economics experiments failed to replicate. Is this good, or bad news? What does this study mean for the debate on whether economics is a "hard science", "soft science", or a science at all?
Source: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/about-40-economics-experiments-fail-replication-survey
>>910714
This is really a thread for /biz/, and I don't really think it has much effect on economics status as a science, social sciences have always been soft with difficult to reproduce results.
I think this is good news. A 60% replication rate doesn't seem bad at all for a social science.
Also, it's useful to compare this to the same initiative taken for psychology. Psychology is a "harder" science than economics, but only had a 36% replication rate (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/349/6251/aac4716)
Overall, I just like that people are waking up, and these replication studies are very good and should improve the social sciences.
>>910714
I don't think its good or bad within itself. But it shines a light on the limitations of economics as a science. There are many unknown variables at play in an economy that are simply impossible to isolate.
What kind of medieval art do you like? I've become interested in art from Charlemagne's time, but I'm not finding much.
>Medieval
>Art
The Book of Kells is nice
>inb4 christfag
>>910047
>being this pleb
Is this man the Lee Kuan Yew of Rwanda?
Will he be remember as a brutal despot who ruthlessly exploited the Congo for financial gain or the man who led Rwanda to stability and growth after civil war and genocide?
That depends if you're a Hutu nationalist or literally anyone else
>>909032
>muh Hutu boogeyman
he is like a nice version of lee kuan yew
>According to the most prevalent theory, the name Rus', like the Finnish name for Sweden (Ruotsi), is derived from an Old Norse term for "the men who row"
>theory
that's very fucking convincing I can totally believe Rus' were scandinavians now just look at how scandinavian Russians look like
What are you talking about
>>910519
there is not a single fucking proof that Rus' were scandinavian yet every tard here claims they were
>>910530
Are you serious?
What's the craziest, most god-defying shit humanity has ever done? I'm going with that one time we tried to terraform the steppe for the shittiest grain in the world
>Nikita "what the FUCK did you just say about corn?" Khrushchev decides to grow some ears in the USSR
>Ukraine is still too Holodomor'd to handle corn
>Blindly points at a map to decide where he should grow corn
>Central Asia
>Decides to go with it anyway and creates a plan to turn a desert waste into paradise
>By completely reversing the course of some of the longest fucking rivers on the planet
>By draining the Aral FUCKING Sea to make the water travel south instead of north
>Ecological disaster ensues
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aral_Sea#Irrigation_canals
Didn't most of the sea dissappear because of overuse of its water?
>>908915
He, reminds me of California.
Knights were dog shit
>rekt by sandniggers
>rekt by Mongols
>rekt by longbowmen
>rekt by commoners with pikes
>Knights were dog shit
>>910396
oi say at tew me face fooker en not online en see wot comes aboot
>avoid England for 40 years after being defeated near Jarrow
>avoid France after battle of Leuven
>muh varangian guard
>consisted of Saxons later on
>also got defeated
>muh Normans
>50% french admixture, no remains of norse culture by the time they conquered England
vikings are a meme
>>910349
>50% french admixture
more like 90%
fresh from getting BTFO in the previous thread you toilet scrubbing pole?
the Varangian guard originally formed under Basil II was 100% Norse, the same varangians that Vladimir of Kiev sent in 988 who he had brought from Sweden
>>910411
and that 100% norse guard achieved what exactly?
tell me about their and viking military feats
Is there a more based artist than Goya??
>>908239
Dali
>>909757
This tbqh.
How do I into it? Both from musical and historical perspective.
>>908211
Start with the Belgians.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPZ-Cflb38Q
Swedish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2kc570KwUs
German
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isxvXITTLLY
>>908211
Why no with the Cantigas of Santa Maria? As you took you pic from there.
Why was the "Aryans are blue-eyed and blonde haired" thing thrown around so much when Hitler was an Aryan with brown hair?
>>909644
because superior autism
>>909644
"WE WUZ IRANIAN AND SHEIT"
Nazism summed up
>>909644
Something something Jews
the feel when you will never again witness the greatest empire of all time
>>908079
>implying the greatest empire would be capable of falling
>>908122
Implying anything lasts forever
Yep
