>this triggers the southerner
>>887843
Ending Reconstruction was a mistake.
>>887936
This.
A proper Reconstruction would've fixed everything.
>inb4 le back to afruka maymay
I am a resident of North Carolina. To this day, if you whisper, "Sherman is coming." in your local grocer, people will flock to the bread and milk isles.
Any and all maps with information on them.
>>887783
map of spilfy
says the rog
Lets get some armor and weapon discussions in here
>>884839
HNNNNNG
>>884848
That reminds me, does anyone have that photo of a bronze age burial where there was a golden cock sheath ?
Tell us about your current campaign, /his/torians. What kind of autistic shenanigans are you trying to pull?
>Tfw went from a lowly independent Count to King of Sicily, and just emerged from a civil war in which I imprisoned my vassal-brother
>Tfw I'll revoke his title and grant it to my two sons once they come of age
>Tfw have conquered the Republic of Ragusa, and am preparing an offensive against the Byzantines, who are dealing with both a large revolt and a war against the Seljuks
Feels GOOD, man
I stopped playing when they implemented the shattered retreat garbage, but I did have a rather interesting playthrough shortly before.
>Be Venice
>Swear fealty to worst Rome
>Expand wares throughout the entire Mediterranean for a couple of centuries, crushing rival republics while I'm at it
>Fund civil wars constantly so I can wage my trade wars
>Through a careful mix of strategic marriages and assassinations, put my grandson on the throne
>Naturally the empire explodes again, declare independence
>Betray grandson, leave him in the wreckage
>Opportunistic Muslim caliphate starts conquering the warring nobles, before exploding due to degeneracy
>Sit back and watch the fire
>Swoop in after it's all over and conquer myself most of Anatolia and the Levant
It was pretty fun.
>>882472
I don't particularly mind shattered retreat - why the hate for it? If anything, it benefits me: the enemy army disperses very far away, and I am free to lay siege to their territory without interference.
>>882484
Can't chase down large armies, so in most situations my doomstack dies to attrition while the enemy takes almost no losses. They then come back with their army to crush whatever is left of my troops. It's particularly bad with adventurers, because while their 30k stack is running aimlessly around the country, your army is costing you upkeep and angering your vassals.
It's unrealistic, if anything, shattered retreat should be an uncommon occurrence that allows me to just run down the enemy, not watch them run about taking no attrition while I am unable to attack them.
Show me the horrors of war, /his/
The most horrifying fact about war is that its not much different than normal life
>Stop sending people to kill me. We've already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle. (...) If you don't stop sending killers, I'll send one to Moscow, and I won't have to send a second.
>mfw
Shame it all fell apart when he died
>>923150
Story?
Teach me about the Edelweiss Pirates and the anti Nazi movement in Germany during the 1930's
>>922935
The anti nazis got sent to the gulag
>>922950
Other than that fuccboi
>>922959
You know the rest
You know how we always have self-appointed "experts" predicting when World War 3 will happen during our times, did any "pundits" or "experts" predict World War 1 or 2 to happen before they happened during that period of history?
>>922915
You know how some cunts in Post World War 1 referred to the treaty of Versailles as an armistice? Precisely they were thinking that there would be Part 2.
Though it was rather highly likely given how
1) People (like in Germany) thought that Versailles was harsh.
2) People (like in France) thought Germany wasn't destroyed enough.
And turned out they were right.
What separates WWII predictors and WIII "predictions" is that WWII had the benefit of a shitty peace going for them while WWIII doesn't.
Instead, we got nuclear weapons and the emergence of a globalized economy.
>>922915
>This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years
Also before WWI people expected a big european war eventually but I don't think anybody really imagined that it would be on the scale that it was. Bismarck even said that if a great European war happened, it would start with "some damn foolish thing in the Balkans."
>>923355
That'll never happen. The economies of Europe are so connected that if one nation were to wage war on another great damage would befall the attacker. Just as it would the attacked.
What's the truth behind the argument of the Islamic golden age and its contributions to Europe in the dark ages? Is it a myth?
>>922892
They translated Aristotle into Latin so the greek illiterate yuropoors could read him. This one act is responsible for the rennisance and enlightenment in Europe. If you read any major treatise of the periods, they respond directly to Aristotle's theories.
>>922892
It isn't a myth but due to just how fucking long the time period was we really don't know how exact anything was.
What we DO know was that much of the muslim world had a strong intellectual tradition that led to those places becoming safe havens for pretty much everybody who needed a safe haven. This tradition was later echoed in the modern Ottoman Empire's high level of tolerance and acceptance towards outsiders.
We also know that the crusaders' experiencing of then-superior Muslim culture was a minor factor in kickstarting the renaissance, as it disenfranchised many of the wealthy Europeans who bankrolled by the Crusades with European lifestyle.
>>922892
While the Dark Ages is a myth, the Islamic Golden Age and its intellectuals was part of the some proto-"republic of letters" that stretched from Medieval Europe to Islamic East in which scholarly cunts regularly took copies of each other's works/translations and built from there.
People tend to underestimate how interconnected intellectuals were, thinking that everyone was like some medieval peasant tied to the land.
Muslim Scholars regularly got Latinshit from Medieval Scholars while in turn Medieval Scholars got Greekshit from Muslims. The exchange was even higher during the crusades.
With Games like No Mans sky coming out, in a few hundred years or so (obviously assuming we last this long) we can start creating these “endless” simulations, entire universes in them, now we add consciousness, conscious people into the game.
Now they evolve over time, and now they create their own simulations.
This goes on forever, so how likely do you think we are living in an endless chain of simulations,
>>922598
bump
>>922598
Creating a universe is the endgame for any intelligent race for two reasons:
1. At that point the race has become a creator god
2. By creating life with emotions and will to power you perform the ultimate good and the ultimate evil; no matter what good and evil are, you create all of each when you make a universe.
i don't know
Who is to blame for the atrocities comitted by Imperial Japan? Was emperor Hirohito Japanese Hitler? Or were things like Nanking and Unit 731 just the military acting on their own?
>>922483
why do you wish to blame somebody?
why do you wish to blame dead people ?
wht do you call blame ?
>>922489
Who is 'responsbile' then.
Blame wasn't the right word, as it implies a moral judgement.
Who was in control of the Japanese millitary.
>>922483
>Or were things like Nanking and Unit 731 just the military acting on their own?
Absolutely. Nobody outside the military had any real control over it at all. Their government was a really weird mess and the closest it ever came to operating like a normal unified state was near the end when everything was basically run by the supreme war council.
Did World War 1 cause the death of the American dream?
The American Dream is relative. It will always exist.
....................?
why ww1 of all things? did you just read the great gatsby or something?
>>921807
The American dream has always been a meme.
Which country that was once part of the British empire gave the empire the most grief in terms of rebellions, refusing to be part of the empire etc?
Probably curry or burger.
>>921433
The Irish without a doubt, they had so many rebellions I've lost count. Minus world wars, More British people have died in Ireland over the centuries trying to control the country than anything else.
india in terms of most rebellions, i think
Do you think morality is fucked in the age of industrialisation and nations and scale? People like George Bush or [world leader] are still popular even after they order the deaths of tonnes of innocents. Obviously I can write down my ethical rules and they'd be similar to yours and we'd probably agree that they're bad people. But morality is basically feels and, let's be srs, we lack the capability to empathise as much when events are so large scale and remote.
>>921151
I don't think you can separate the feels from a human. plus unless you think that we would do better in some sort of state of nature morality, excluding victimless crimes, has an important role in humans working together, ie living together in a society
>>921151
>Do you think morality is fucked in the age of industrialisation and nations and scale?
No, it just has to work with system
>george bush
>popular
Question /his/.
How did the "Holy" "Roman" "Empire" get it's name?
>>920889
>H>R>E memeshitters don't even know basic history
why am I not suprised
>>920889
Through the title of "Holy Roman Emperor" which is a continuation of the Western Roman emperorship granted by the Pope
The title itself was created before the HRE even came into existence
>>920903
this
its just a matter of claims. stirner probably hated the >h>r>e worse than voltaire did
