Can someone tell me about the samurai? Were they really super warriors capable of slaying 5 men with a single swing of their razor sharp blade?
Slant eyed knights.
>>847480
slant eyed knights with worse but arguably better looking armour
>>847472
Probably not. They were pretty good at killing peasants and they practiced drawing their swords really fast. Even with all their hand-to-hand training they wouldn't be able to just superman their way into a peasant pike brigade. Instead they were really good at archery (and marksmanship, once the matchlock was introduced). They were also formidable on horseback.
During a samurai duel you could maybe see a guy get cut in half with one slash. However they often didn't wear armor during duels so that's not really a surprise.
In a one on one situation, your typical samurai had the training and experience to easily defeat the average peasant soldier. However, multiply the number of armed peasants and this becomes more difficult. It would've been pretty difficult for a lone samurai to defeat five determined men who were armed even with improvised weapons.
What is the best sword in history?
>>847118
probably one made by a modern smith. metal work has really improved since they were practical weapons
>>847118
You mean 'favorite sword', right? Type XVIa
http://www.albion-swords.com/articles/oakeshott-typology.htm
>>847126
I once watched a one-hour documentary of a modern French guy hand-forging an entire sword with case.
Breddy cool.
Its the humanities thread yet we keep ignoring arguably one of the most important ones. Economics.
Anways, how do we successfully develop nations lads? What policies success cause Korea tier growth, while other's cause India tier?
>>846823
stick to austrian and you will be fine
>>846838
>Austrian Economics
>anything but rambling nonsense
>>846823
Economics is a Popperian science nigger.
Anyway, nation building is political economy.
Why are the 1950s so romanticized in the US?
Because it was a period of intense prosperity precipitated by the economic boom of the postwar economy that largely served the interests of white men. Like a third of the US population ascended into the suburban middle class between 1950-1970. Union membership was high and wages grew, the government heavily subsidized education and housing through the GI bill, establishing hundreds of thousands of veterans, segregation and northern racially exclusive practices ensured a large working class in major cities to work in the service sector/shitty underpaid jobs.
The predominant narrative, the white suburban middle class one, was most ingrained in our culture through the media and other nostalgic recollections that began right around the emergence of the countercultural movement in the 60s, which most Americans despised.
>>846801
because it was fun
>>846801
Because of fucking faggots that saw happy days and some old james dean movies and decided it was cool.
Despite being born after the 50's.
Have I ever told you the tragedy of ___________?
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Emperor Valerian
Alan Turing
Has anyone else read the humanae vitea and found it prescient?
Slippery slope.
>>846388
The encyclical came out in 1968, almost 50 years ago.
Now look at what it said and see if it's warnings exist at all in modern day.
It's far past the timeframe for "slippery slope" to be immediately applicable in discussion.
>>846418
Well it's not like in all time periods up to now, all men cherished their wives, and only now do men feel suddenly abusive. Now at least women have a say in the pregnancy situation.
Ultimately our society is better off with access to medical treatment than having it be banned by religious institutions.
>/pol/ sends letters to MLK
>>846090
>All people in foreign countries are Catholics
My fucking sides.
Ex:
>Alan Turing, father of modern computer science
>revolutionized computers
>Pretty much one of the reasons why you are able to read this
>Obscure and unrecognized in his lifetime
>Prosecuted and sterilized for being gay
>No one said sorry till 2009
Thanks for the computers buddy.
>>845811
It wasn't just that he was gay, it was his experiments into construction of hydraulic penises that really got him into hot water.
Being gay doesn't make him more interesting. I'd be more interested in a film where a computer is the main character than I was in a film where a homosexual fell in love with a computer.
>>845827
>Being gay doesn't make him more interesting
And it wouldn't. The fact his gayness let to betrayal and abuse by his own country does.
It really is one of the more biting tragedies I know of. A mind so brilliant and capable ruined by something so petty.
Who was the greatest American who ever lived?
>pic extremely related
>>845424
George Washington.
>>845455
>greatest american
>wasn't born in america
I'll start
Why does /his/ hate the Byzantine Empire, but have a hard-on for the "Holy" "Roman" ""Empire""?
Byzantine Empire - an actual surviving Roman Imperial remnant with surviving institutions (i.e. the Senate, the military) that continues to exist for 1000 more years. A great and noble history, renowned for its great cities and its trade and its military exploits.
"Holy" "Roman" ""Empire"" - a series of extremely loosely affiliated duchies, baronies, princedoms, kingdoms, free cities, republics, bisphorics, and counties that only nominally (if even that) recognize the ""Emperor"", but are de facto independent and not obliged to follow the ""Emperor's"" demands. Not a trace of classical Greco-Roman culture or tradition. Nothing particularly great comes out of this ""Empire"" except instability, confusion, and disintegration that mercifully ends when Napoleon deposes the last ""Emperor"".
The Holy Roman Empire was not always as decentralized as it was in the late Habsburg era. You are just following Europa Universalis history.
Excuse me, superior state coming through
>>843454
It was always decentralized, from the very start. It was more of a loose alliance based on clan affiliations than an actual ordered empire. One would have needed an extremely charismatic emperor to rule, seeing as other than that, nothing really compelled vassals to follow the head other than nominally.
>>843460
1797 best day of my life
Were the people of the Andes very peaceful relative to the rest of the world, aside for the Incan conquest? Their culture and technology seemed completely agricultural while remaining very primitive in respect to warfare. If so, it sounds almost utopian... at least until the techno-barbarians came.
>>843263
Noble savage never existed.
Also they had no slavery. Without war they had no supply of slaves nor a need for metal weapons from mines worked by slaves.
>>843282
he might in the future though
Why have bears played important roles in many cultures?
because germans are like sand and get everywhere
>>843103
Because killing a bear could mean life or death in places where fat for calories and fur for warmth is important. Their prestige laid in those things and the predatory status that made them aggressive adversaries later augmented by their rarity.
>>843114
So, basically, you're saying bears are awesome?
Lets have an arms and armour thread
Were the Saxons the best dressed northmen?
One of the most iconic and
Coolest helmets
>>842621
That is copy from Sparta.
>>842625
Looks more corinthian to me senpai
always loved them but fuck me the day I noticed that plumeless variants look like cock heads hurt me
Greatest men thread
>>842556
He doesn't look like Nap.
>>842581
Your country will be mine soon!
Having one of the most badass statues ever helps too
![Samurai[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/zu9Urtd.jpg "Samurai[1]")
