I've read that the crusades were never considered a major threat by the Muslim world and they don't cover it in depth in their own histories- is that accurate?
>>821350
Well, Salahadin continued to conquer North Africa. The Holy Lands were just the Stalingrad of the jihad these days.
I wonder whether the Ottmans were so in first place or if they've just adopted the Greek culture of Constaninople.
You gotta understand, for us Muslims the crusades were like a bullied group of autists who showed up with a big plan to shoot up a school over some old slight only to have their guns fail them so they start stabbing each other
The MONGOLS were fucking horrifying though
>>821350
Kind of. It's more a case that the Crusades weren't distinguished from any other sort of Western or Eastern Christian threat, and Western historians like to categorize these things to the point where people start missing the forest for the trees.
The specific campaigns of specific years by specific Frankish princes didn't get as much press as they obviously did in Europe. But the Muslims did consider Franks overall as a major threat for their conquests in Sicily, Spain, North Africa, and their pirate raids on the eastern Mediterranean.
You are now aware that this was a cowardly war crime and would be an egregious violation of the Geneva Convention.
Ruse of War. It's legit. It's like using camo.
It was a stupid ending to a really stupid war, can't the fucking Spartan dumbass king marry someone else? Can't Paris just fuck off?
>>821323
M-Muh honor mufugga
Why didn't Islam ever catch on in most of India, despite centuries of rule? Shouldn't it have appealed to the lower classes? Why did it stick in Sindh and Kashmir but not the Gangetic plain or the Deccan?
>>821130
I have no idea, but I like the fact that there are friggin elephants walking up a ramp infront of an incredibly huge fortress.
>>821204
Yeah
Moar of these fortresses plz
>>821130
>Why didn't Islam ever catch on in most of India
It did. 14% of the current population of India is Muslim, and that doens't include Pakistan and other places that are historically in the Indu sphere. Islam did appeal to the lower castes, from whom a large percentage of today's Indian Muslims descend from. If by your question you mean:
>Why didn't Islam ever have a super majority in most of India?
The answer is because of the lack of forced conversion, national pride in those that didn't want to convert despite the benefits of doing so, and other imaginable social feelings (no doubt resentment, especially of upper class hindus, etc.)
Was the Nanjing massacre fact? And was it worse than the holocaust?
>>821099
>fact
Yes.
>Worse than Holocaust
Less people died, but both were horrible experiences.
>>821099
its the holoaust of the orient, both in how terrible it was, and how much the victims use it to gain political points even though the nation that commited said crimes payed reparations a long time ago.
>>821171
>reparations
kek
Tell me about some interesting history in the Maghreb pre-Islam.
All I'm aware of is Carthage, Numidia, Vandal kingdoms and a few others. Is the area simply too unexplored or is there really not all that much more significant occurances that took place there than what we know?
Any recommended literature on the topic? Any interesting civlizations or cultures besides those I mentioned?
>>820804
Berber as a linguistic family is very new compared to other afroasiatic languages
North Africans were originally Black and the oldest haplogroup is subsaharan
Tebu a nilo-saharan group found in southern Libya and Chad founded the first black african Islamic kingdoms and nations conquering the native Sao culture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garamantes
>>820804
The vandal kingdom of just amazing
>German snow niggers originally from Scandinavia
>Living in Carthage, North Africa
>That they conquered
>From the Roman Empire
>mfw Vandals were colonizing North Africa before it was cool
1. Muslims pride themselves on their conception of the covenant being always, immutable, black and white, with unchangeable laws of absolute morality. Now Mohammed is presented as the paragon of Islam, but he had thirteen wives, whereas Islam permits only four. Every Islamic rationalization I've seen of this uses consequentialist ethics.
2, The idea of the sacrificial victim being Ishmael instead of Isaac makes no sense. Isaac is Abraham's legitimate son, therefore a greater sacrifice. Isaac's faith is key here too, since it is his descendants which end up being given the covenant and producing all the prophets before Mohammed. Ishmael is father of the Arabs, and it seems to me that the only plausible reason to say he was the sacrifice is to accentuate the importance of the Arabs at the expense of the Jews.
cont
>>820784
3. When Christ asked to be forgiven in the Garden of Gethsemane, he said for it to be in the Father's will, not his will. Showing that he deferred to the Father. In Islam, the Father deferred to him, and saved him. This seems inappropriate.
4. Though more reasonable Muslims don't consider all artistic depiction to be wrong, most who are serious still think it is wrong to depict Mohammed. This grants enormous prestige to Mohammed in a way that is close to deifying him, since it is suggesting any depiction of him would be an idol, as if one were depicting God himself.
5. All Muslims besides Quranists place values on Hadiths, but they widely disagree on which Hadiths are valid. This is a serious issue because Hadiths give moral imperatives, which means that if you don't take particular ones as valid which are, you are disobeying moral injunctions. Now either moral injunctions came from God, or they did not. If they did, then it is a serious flaw that there was not system to determine which are valid left behind by Mohammad (since they weren't actually committed to writing long after his time), such as Ecumenical Councils. And if they are not from God, then they are completely optional, making Quaranists objectively right.
FINIS
>>820784
Didn't read. If you're a christfaggotard you have no right to criticize Islam as you all stem from Abraham flacid, circumcised penis.
>>820784
>Hating on Muslims when orthodox
>Not knowing the problem is other sects
We have an agreement Akhi.
>feudal shithole for thousands of years
>industrializes at the expense of a civil war and bombardment of key ports
>spends countless shekels fighting russia
>spends even more countless shekels in WW2
>gets completely BTFO
>gets nuked
>gets nuked again
>treaty of san francisco
>....
>few years later and it's the world's 2nd largest economy (today's 3rd)
>highly developed country with high quality of life, good education, big companies, leader in robotics and technology, etc
h-how?
I don't know to which thread I should reply first.
>the gook jew planned this
>>820706
Just like Germany. Germany was raped twice (literally by the Ruskies during the 2nd world war) and lost loads of territories. And yet they are once again the continental European hegemon (under the guise of EU and ECB)
>>820722
And look at them now.
Did there really exist a filthy, disgusting man who masturbated in public, made a mockery of all that was holy, made a public nuisance of himself, and yet was so well respected that Alexander the Great begged to meet him?
i guess
>>820574
Sorry wrong picture
Studying ancient history is such a horrible job becuse you never know what percentage of the information you read in chronicles is bullshit. Studying daily life of people back then is fine but details about famous events and individuals? Useless.
But there was Diogenes the Dog. Hence the name of the school: cynics.
Is this the worst """""historical""""" youtuber (or pophis name) ever?
>No sources
>cursory/basic information
>makes strange transitions from "historian" to "reviewer".
Also extremely annoying.
Can't find his channel but there's some African-American guy that does really bad history videos about Africa. I know that's broad but it's the best I can think of.
>>820550
I actually found this guy before this thread, his research is correct, he did a video on braveheart and his facts on William Wallace were right. I know because I've been studying Scottish History at university
Why did he write like he was running out of time?
>>820325
Because the future closes in on visionaries and idealists.
>>820325
Because we're all running out of time.
>>820331
Not everyone. If you do not have purpose, whether you have five decades, or five years to live, makes no difference.
>perfectly outline the coast of Antarctica even though it has allegedly been buried under ice for millions of years
what's going on here?
>>820103
ignore the image in the OP
>>820103
Obviously Antarctica hasn't been frozen for millions of years.
>>820103
>what's going on here?
/x/-tier shitposting without a shred of proofs that the pictures you posted are about Antarctica at all.
Why did western civilization completely abandon authoritarianism after World War 2?
>>820065
You cannot possibly be serious.
>>820065
Sorry lad I didn't catch that
>>820070
o i serious
how could austria hungary even exist
Habsburg Family did a lot of fukkin
>>819994
indeed, and where are they now ?
>>820003
history
What is the criteria for God answering prayers? Serious question.
He doesn't answer prayers
Something has to coincide with his will. You can't ask for a million dollars and expect it to occur. Ask for knowledge and discernment first and always pray for protection, good health and peace.
>>819952
if it coincides with his will then he would do it anyways without needing you to beg
Was fascism really right-wing? And was Stalinism really left-wing? Such questions form the basis of the thought of the new or alt right, Dugin et al.
But what started as promising ended as a mishmash that basically advocates for Russian interests.
But can it be done -- right? Can elements of marxism be appropriated and reformed into a true progressivist (that is, non-left-wing), anti-liberal right-wing ideology, capable of taking the best part of humanity forward to the future and leave the disgenic, degenerate and decadent bourgeois elements behind?
The concepts of 'left' and 'right' are so poorly defined at this point it appears that their only features is being opposed to the others
