What if Siege of Constantinople (1453) failed? Would Bizantine Empire recover entire Anatolia?
>>896336
No.
No, they would have most likely simply have been conquered later. There really was no chance for them to ever regain their glory.
>>896336
They'd be completely surrounded by the enemy, half starving, and with most of their defenders dead.
Remind me again - What did this agglomeration refer to itself as?
Heiliges römisches Reich deutscher Nation
The Central Unstable Confederation of Krautland
KEK
>>896282
The great autistic german circlejerk
Why did the Western Roman Empire collapse but not the Eastern Roman Empire?
>>896077
East was more stable, wealthier and easier to defend.
I personally have the opinion that because it didn't have Rome and was less well known, it was sort of less of a target for migrating tribes, to an extent. This took some of the heat off it.
You could also argue that the East ruled former empires while the west mostly ruled former tribes people, though centuries of Romanisation had its effect, they quickly balkanised during strife.
t. ERE
>>896077
The Silk Road made it more wealthy and more Stable
Whose bust is on this album cover?
alexander
S E K K O
B O Y S
helios
Why do people refuse to acknowledge Ayn Rand as a serious philosopher?
Because she isn't one.
/thread
>>895473
Because she doesn't have cohesive philosophy, and its a rip off of other philosophies?
aggregate writers have no genius of their own.
What distinguishes a pseudo-intellectual from a true intellectual?
one is pretending to be the other
what kind of answer did you think you'd get?
>>895482
Psuedo-intellectuals are driven to show other people that they are right.
Intellectuals are driven to show themselves they are wrong.
Its a trick question, both are usually garbage. Same thing for people that take iq seriously.
>10,000 BC
>Still being hunter-gatherers instead of settling and utilizing agriculture
>>895458
>tfw Atlanteans already had computers, canned foods, steam engines, and robots while the Egyptians were still figuring out agriculture.
>1000 AD
>not having mastery of interstellar travel
>>895458
>1493 AD
>not using motorboats to cross atlantic
christopher columballs doesn't know shit
"ex nihilo nihil fit"
WHY?
If there's nothing (not even natural laws like causality or conservation of mass)
what would prevent something from just appearing?
Is there anything except our apish intuitions that tells us that "from nothing nothing comes", just because we don't see it happen in our daily lives?
>>895031
Ask /sci/ about quantum fluctuation.
>>895049
I don't see how that relates to what I asked though. In this hypothetical nothing, there'd be no quantum mechanics, or anything else operating at all. Or at least thats what the religious argue to then posit a prime mover thingy. I'm asking why that would be needed.
>>895031
there never was nothing.
nothing is just a figure of speech.
How come the Irish Famine is not considered a deliberate genocide today?
Facts:
-The vast majority of Irish people were forced to live in the poorest quarter of the island
-Discriminatory laws on Catholic inheritance meant that any owned land had to be subdivided among heirs, in practice this lead to the majority of the population having a plot of land measuring several square meters on which they had to grow their food for a year. Other laws prevented from going to school, speaking their own language, buying property or working in a government job.
-In this wet north atlantic climate the only crop that could produce enough calories to keep people alive under these conditions was the potato, and summer was known as the "hungry months" where people had inevitably run out of food and tried to somehow survive until the next harvest, a situation created entirely by the British government.
-The rest of Ireland was used to grow food for England, owned by absentee English landlords and worked by Irish serfs
-The only tangible effort the British government made to alleviate the famine was to set up workhouses which functioned the same as nazi concentration camps, with rampant disease carrying off the whole population who would be buried in a mass grave, before being restocked with new victims
-Related to this was the board of "public works" where people would engage in pointless hard labour for 14 hours a day such as breaking stones or building roads to nowhere, using the money they earned to buy a little bit of food which was not enough to sustain them calorically for this task, only getting maybe 10% of what they actually needed. People dropped like flies and were instantly replaced with other desperate people.
-Protestant zealots would set up soup kitchens but only give them food if they converted right there
-Most damning of all: the British government continued to export food under armed guard throughout the entirety of the famine as millions starved to death
>>895029
no one sat down in cabinet and thought "how can we kill all of the irish?". and if they did, some half arsed, convuluted plan that relies entirely on an unforeseen fungal blight seems unrealistic, when you have billions of acres of land overseas you can ship them to or rifles you can shoot them with.
the irish catholics were discriminated against, sure, but the famine was an unfortunate coincedence of events which all came together, not a deliberate plan to kill the irish.
besides, ireland was heavily overpopulated. if the irish catholics (note plenty became protestants and mysteriously became ebil english landlords through the process of nationalistic retcon) had had primogeniture, what would have happened to all the following sons and daughters? you would have had latifundia instead of minifundia and a large class of poor servants making do with growing their own potatoes rather than a large class of poor smallholders making do with growing their own potatoes.
>>895053
>no one sat down in cabinet and thought "how can we kill all of the irish?
No but DID say "let them all die and dont help"
>>895072
the government were free marketeers (kind of like now), and that's the how the free market works, anon. the invisible hand giveth and the invisible hand taketh away. what are mere irish lives before the pure rationality that is the invisible hand?
When did combat musicians and colour bearers become a thing on the battlefield and when did they stop?
>>894577
Renaissance. Reached their peak in Crimean war
>>894577
>1805
why is that eagle bearing a Tricolor instead of the 1804 pattern standard?
>>894577
Since antiquity, though medieval Europe was less fond of them than other cultures.
https://www.biblegateway.com/versions/Hawaii-Pidgin-HWP/
2 “Wen you guys give money to da guys dat no mo notting, no make big show jalike da guys dat say one ting an do anodda wen dey go inside da Jewish churches an wen dey walk in da town wea da peopo stay. Dey like da peopo say dat dey awesome. Dass right! An I telling you guys dis too: Dey wen get all dea pay awready.
>>894555
Still a better version than the Message.
>>894555
>DASS RIGHT
>>894555
>Acts of the Apostles is called Jesus Guys
>16 An dey wen show him. He say, “Who dis guy on top da coin? An wass his name?” Dey say, “Dass King Cesar.” 17 An he tell um, “Kay den. Give um to Cesar, wat his, an give to God, wat his!” Wen dey hear dat, wen blow dea minds.
Tell me /his/ why did the Greeks paint their armor green? I think it looks pretty dumb.
Who the fuck cares what you think
>>894269
Its called camouflage you brat.
>>894277
>needing camouflage before the invention of machine guns
Why is it that many view Tito as the 'Harsh Good Commie'?
I can't find much criticism on his administration even from the right.
>>894126
because he did what he saw necessary without ever bootlicking anyone
>>894126
Because in an era when all commies were either Moscow's bitch or Beijing's bitch, he had the balls to flip the bird to the Soviets and do shit his own way. The ability to be your own man and fight to pave your own destiny is one of the most universally admired traits across the political spectrum.
Technically he abused human rights, but in se cases for a reason. Example, if a Bosnian Serb was arrested for disseminating independence pamphlets, a Bosnian Croat and Bosniak would be arrested on similar but made up charges. Two innocents arrested, but no ethnicity is seen to be "singled out".
I'm planning on studying philosphy in here, does anybody know how's it like, what to expect?
I know most american philosophy departments are analytic, but I've heard that UNAM is pretty conty, can anyone confirm/deny?
It's fucking horrible bro. Your teachers will never be on time, your faculty's library is a joke, every time there is going to be a protest for some dumb shit, you will smell like weed after an hour being there and you will feel pretty depressed for your choice. Are you a poorfag? If not try ITAM and if you have the heart try Colmex.
>>894055
Wow is it really that bad? I had a rather positive image of it, I'm not that poor, I'll check out ITAM, thanks man.
Fucking chairos desu.
>>893840
My mom went to UNAM and while she went she enjoyed it the cost of the uni was low so she worked and went to school id honestly make a choice depending on what your field of study is
I was absolutely fascinated by the concept of a "meme" when I first heard of it, and I am so bummed that it has come to basically mean: "a picture with a caption", or "a silly idea".
For instance, when someone talks about "creating a meme", it sets my teeth on edge.
I'm sure that there are many here with a better understanding of memetics than I. Please share your understanding of this fascinating concept.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme
>he doesn't know what a meme is
Well there are two, but the ladder is not so different from the former.
When they say they want to make a meme the intent is to make something that does what a meme does what a meme is suppose to but since a meme is not made it must mean that whatever they've made must have contained a meme
don't be on the edge for too long
>>891742
>Fun
