What are some common misunderstood historical quotes?
>SECRET SOCIETIES? DUDE HE MEANS THE ILLUMINATI!
>hes actually talking about the mafia and KKK
Weirdly enough the mafia got him elected.
The entirety of the Prince.
>opposed to secret proceedings
Then why was he Catholic?
People like Augustus and Napoleon would've been forgotten as wannabes if they hadn't been so successful. Who was close to being as great as them but failed at some point?
Who remembers
Imagine modern Sweden or even modern world if this guy won against Russians instead of be killed by accident.
Were the Austrians ever actually competent on the battlefield? Their history seems to be a chronicle of both immense luck and immense failure.
>>789903
That info box is misleading. The Austrian columns were separated and moving out of the area, so that for most of the battle they were actually outnumbered by the French forces and Piedmontese cavalry. At no point were 30,000 Austrian troops deployed for battle there.
>wikipedia as a source
At least nitpick a real battle.
>>789903
Nope, never ever
>>790062
>karansebes
>literally a made up event first written about 40 years after is supposedly took place and completely unknown to the Ottomans of the day
wew lad, how long did it take you to make that?
Were the macedonians before Philip and Alexander the great a different ethnic group? Like Dorians were different from Achaeans.
Glorified Thracians
>>789652
This.
Macedonians were not Greek.
>>789629
Hilltribal Peoples having shitfights with Thracians and Odrysians
So I'm brushing up my Asian history and I am just wondering
Everyone has heard of eastern tech such as gunpowder and paper making traveling westward but was it just a one sided affair?
Did the Chinese not incorporate any western tech before?
The only thing I even think they used was superior Portuguese cannons and even the I think it was prodominatly used by the Japanese
>>789583
Glass from Byzantines.
Its first Chinese application? The creation of sunglasses.
>>789583
The portugese brought bread and deep frying to japan.
>>789583
Other way around. The Chinese used more cannons than Japs.
Theres a reason why japan uses the Chinese name for Portuguese breech loaders (Furanki. From the Chinese Folangqi Pao= Ferenggi Cannon)
It's 100 A.D.
>You're just an average Roman high-school senior.
>Don't know what to do with your life as of yet, what career you want.
>3rd period ends
>fuckyes.jpg lunch hour
>go to lunch hall
>see recruiter, he looks at you, your eyes meet
>fuck he's gonna talk to you
>tells you to come join the Velites
>tells you about honor
>tells you it looks excellent on your resume in future
>tells you you get to see the whole world, visit far away places
>tells you you'll get all kinds of pussy in distant lands
>tells you about loot
>tells you you'll be able to vote after service is done
>tells you, you get land after you serve
>tells you after you serve people everywhere will respect you
>You're a dumb ass, so you stayed and listened, now your interested: pussy, gold, land, etc.
>soundsgood.jpg
What do /his/? Do you join? Do you not join?Why?
>>789516
I can't tell if this is a spoof or you're just profoundly ignorant of Roman history.
>>789522
An attempt at a spoof since it seems like you found it completely unfunny. Sorry
>>789516
>AD100
>career
>college
>velites
>army getting respect
Any good books on Irish slavery in America?
There never were Irish slaves.
Saged & filtered.
>muh irish slavery
What went wrong?
The winter
>>788790
shit logistics in supply lines
>mason spike
Nothing, it was a beautiful tragedy, shame that Kubrick never made that movie
How would you think if you never learnt a language? In Ideas?
>>788772
like a violent fuse line wwhwwhhwhwwhissssppp anddd its gone.
>>788772
Senpai
There are people out there who do not think by words.
A lot of people think through images.
>>788772
Images, movement, sound, sentiments, bodily sensations, taste, like an animal.
Is wicca the western version of buddhism?
Buddhism is a philosophy and a way of life.
Wicca is hardly more than WE WUZ WIZARDS N SHEIT
>>788749
Buddhism relies on karma and chakra. That's literally Naruto-tier.
>>788744
>when she wakes up the next day covered in shit with mascara running down her face dired and caked
dat shits wikka nigga
When and why did it stop being normal for educated English-speakers to recognize allusions to the Bible, Homer, Virgil, Ovid, Horace, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton? What happened to the idea of the classical tradition?
Honestly, does it matter?
thank STEM
>>788694
This. When uni started to be about educating you for a niche profession.
>existence can exist
Proof: You
>existence can exist again
Cannot be disproved
>therefore literally everything has happened before exactly as it has happened in this lifetime in all aspects and will happen again ad nauseum
>implying this hasn't happened and will happen endlessly and is the only true example of infinity the 'universe' offers
>implying there is anything you can do to break the cycle
>implying you aren't in hell
>implying I am wrong
>>788528
>reading Nietzsche wrong
Not that I dislike the idea, it's great.
Prove "you" exist.
Why aren't you reading primary sources? Don't you realize all history books are merely an interpretation?
>>788275
But i do.
It's complicated. I recently read a book by some woman who read through 30,000 English court documents from the middle ages. I don't want to do that myself.
>>788275
>primary sources
>implying you understand multiple classical or dead languages
Don't you realize translations are interpretations?
Anyone who has come to reject the rationalist myth of "progress" and the interpretation of history as an unbroken positive development of mankind will find himself gradually drawn towards the world-view that was common to all the great traditional cultures, and which had at its centre the memory of a process of degeneration, slow obscuration, or collapse of a higher preceding world. As we penetrate deeper into this new (and old) interpretation, we encounter various problems, foremost among which is the question of the secret of degeneration.
In its literal sense, this question is by no means a novel one. While contemplating the magnificent remains of cultures whose very name has not even come down to us, but which seem to have conveyed, even in their physical material, a greatness and power that is more than earthly, scarcely anyone has failed to ask themselves questions about the death of cultures, and sensed the inadequacy of the reasons that are usually given to explain it.
>>788206
We can thank the Comte de Gobineau for the best and best-known summary of this problem, and also for a masterly criticism of the main hypotheses about it. His solution on the basis of racial thought and racial purity also has much truth in it, but it needs to be expanded by a few observations concerning a higher order of things. For there have been many cases in which a culture has collapsed even when its race has remained pure, as is especially clear in certain groups that have suffered slow, inexorable extinction despite remaining as racially isolated as if they were islands. An example quite close at hand is the case of the Swedes and the Dutch. These people are in the same racial condition today as they were two centuries ago, but there is little to be found now of the heroic disposition and the racial awareness that they once possessed. Other great cultures seem merely to have remained standing in the condition of mummies: they have long been inwardly dead, so that it takes only the slightest push to knock them down. This was the case, for example, with ancient Peru, that giant solar empire which was annihilated by a few adventurers drawn from the worst rabble of Europe.
>>788207
If we look at the secret of degeneration from the exclusively traditional point of view, it becomes even harder to solve it completely. It is then a matter of the division of all cultures into two main types. On the one hand there are the traditional cultures, whose principle is identical and unchangeable, despite all the differences evident on the surface. The axis of these cultures and the summit of their hierarchical order consists of metaphysical, supra-individual powers and actions, which serve to inform and justify everything that is merely human, temporal, subject to becoming and to "history." On the other hand there is "modern culture," which is actually the anti-tradition and which exhausts itself in a construction of purely human and earthly conditions and in the total development of these, in pursuit of a life entirely detached from the "higher world."
From the standpoint of the latter, the whole of history is degeneration, because it shows the universal decline of earlier cultures of the traditional type, and the decisive and violent rise of a new universal civilization of the "modern" type.
Why have Germany and Japan had such close ties for so much of the time they've been aware of each other? Similar militaristic values stretching back to a semi-mythical, romanticized warrior past? Or just historical synchronicity?
They haven't.
>>787941
>Why have Germany and Japan had such close ties for so much of the time they've been aware of each other?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-German_cooperation_until_1941
>>787941
They didn't. Germany just up and switched from backing China to backing Japan.
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