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Gaul was taken, North Africa was taken, southern Great Britain was taken, Southern Europe was taken, even swaths if the middle east were.
All these places were powerful in their own right, but Germania was not. What gives?
>>671239
They were savage
>>671249
Wouldn't that be easier then?
Also
>be German
>Romans come to take your stuff
>defend yourself
>win
>"omg germaniggers so barbarian"
Were the Gauls just cucks?
>>671239
It is much easier to conquer through empty land such as Hispania, North Africa, Anatolia, and the Levant, or already inhabited places such as Greece, Southern Gaul, and Italia than it is to conquer uncivilized forest.
They did manage to conquer Gaul, Illyria, and Britain, so idk.
I've got a Spanish report due on philosophers. I've got to have 5, but I don't know of any mainstream or even semi-popular Spaniard thinkers.
I'm not asking for too much, just send names and a breakdown of their beliefs
Whoops, I forgot to say that they have to be Spanish philosophers. Though I hope you were able to determine that from my post
uhhh, spanish is vague, can't you use some people who just lived in that area?
Just try to stretch out the criteria of the word "spanish"
I suppose you can use people from the new world as well.
Google is your friend, I would help but I don't know much about those guys.
Jose Primo de Rivera, one of the greatest political thinkers of the 20th century.
It was a Byzantine symbol that was adopted in the middle ages by various Muslim armies.
Countries that use the symbol now just stole it from the Ottoman flag.
Cuck much?
>>671235
>9gag
>>671250
Yes, you can read. Good job
Why did scutums have the horisontal handle?
The vertical one is much better.
you can't hold those shits up for long with vertical
Probably because with a horizontal handle you can fit your whole forearm on it to brace against a hit. If you have a vertical handle youve only got your wrist. Much more liable to break something.
>Yankee """""""""offensive""""""""""
How can blue bellies even compete?
>gettysburg
>vicksburg
>fredericksburg
Jesus Americans wheres teh variety
Even their so-called "victories" are shitty
So while googling norse shit I ran into this and wanted to know what it said.
I've looked through runes for a fucking hour now and can't find anything even remotely close to what's inscribed here.
Anyone have any idea what it says if it's even legit runes?
>>670577
Looks more like larping shit ᛏᛒᚻ ᚠᚨᛗ
>>670608
So made-up bullshit like I assumed?
>>670632
Yes I think.
What were the gayest historical cultures?
The fucking Greeks thought ancient Persia was gay, that should tell you something
>>670546
Ancient Greeks of course, there is no doubt in my mind.
>>670546
ours desu
Enjoy. Re-post for those who didn't see.
Fellow /his/torians, what do you think of the possibility of a third world war in our lifetimes?
What kind of impacts would it have, who would it be fought by, possible catalysts, etc.
I for one am greatly intrigued by piecing together world history to sort of a "big picture" way of viewing. That by divining and recording the past, we can determine the future by tracking the path of human development.
I can't help but feel this would be a war centered around the U.S.A as that is the prominent superpower on the planet and has been for quite some...
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>>670446
>I can't help but feel this would be a war centered around the U.S.A
>implying it wouldn't end in nukes long before any major force got close to american soil
maybe in 20-30 years when the rest of the world has caught up to the American militaries airlift capability
We really need another World War.
It'll spell the end for Russia as we know it, and hopefully the United States and China can finally divvy up that sweet, sweet Siberian land with all its timber and mineral wealth. I'm willing to bet we'll get another space race out of it, too.
>>670465
But what if something is developed that renders nukes useless? I'm not even talking about some super secret future weapon or shield I mean just espionage and sabotage which likely isnt very hard in current day US of A. I mean if you caused just the right amount of social unrest in the US it would have huge reverberations across the globe, you don't even have to directly fight America anymore just engage it in proxy wars and force them to waste billions on some sandniggers wearing jordans in the desert.
If...
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Was there ever a perfectly secular country?
>implying there's a difference between religion and philosophy
>>670421
>Was there ever a perfectly secular country?
To a degree. Most modern nations working on a religion institution's dogma but the term "religion" is so hilariously vague that it cannot be said very clearly that their mainstream doesn't work off of something that could be considered a religion in some essence.
>>670421
China during the Cultural Revolution or Albania during Enver Hoxha's rule
>The köçek (plural köçekler in Turkish) was typically a very handsome young male rakkas, or dancer, who usually cross-dressed in feminine attire, and was employed as an entertainer.
>The youths, often wearing heavy makeup, would curl their hair and wear it in long tresses under a small black or red velvet hat decorated with coins, jewels and gold. [...] They were said to be "sensuous, attractive, effeminate", and their dancing "sexually provocative". Dancers minced and gyrated their hips in slow...
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hot. gimme more, op
>>670315
No.
I'm happy enough to say that the idea of men wearing clothes that society has decided are more suitable for women was not invented in the last one thousand years.
>>670315
Japanese had it way back in the Jomon era 1500 years ago.
Is national debt immoral as it forces consecutive generations into an unfair situation?
youre acting like its a choice
>>670311
Why isn't it?
>>670318
how is it not?
opinions on great man theory? it seemes too simplistic but when i read about extremely unprecedented events, like genghis kahns conquest and hitlers rise to power it just feels like thats whats happening
>>670288
Behind every great man there are millions of "lesser" men simply doing what they're told and not taking any credit for it.
Yeah it's probably too simplistic but history is divided on leaders and followers anyway.
I tend to think that the 'structure' or the the collective situation of all the people within a country tend to dictate the overall direction the course of history takes, its more that certain people end up adjusting the margins
But then consider a Prussia headed by Bismarck versus a Prussia headed by Willy
You'll get a vastly different courses run by the state depending on if its run by an diabolical mastermind versus a histrionic
>>670288
I'd tend to believe it given that even the great men will eventually fall or falter. Hitler went mad, Napoleon stopped being so aggressive and quick thinking, Alexander and Genghis Khan just straight carked it. While I recognize correlation isn't always causation, most of these do have a traceable pattern
>It particularly devastated Paraguay, which suffered catastrophic losses in population—some claim that almost 70% of its adult male population died—and was forced to cede territory to Argentina and Brazil.
>70%
Is this legit?
>>670238
Argentina had a significant African population that was killed in droves as cannonfodder and now they are almost completely gone through assimilation.
70% seems right
>>670238
Yes I believe Paraguay was a regional power that thought it was a global power and got its ass beat by Brazil and Argentina.
Agnostic with no axe to grind one way or the other here but I have some honest questions about the 'argument from morality' for God that I hope some kind anons, from either side of the argument, will answer.
I fully appreciate there are other ways to formulate it but the way I keep seeing it given is...
1) If objective morals exist then God exists.
2) Objective morals do exist.
3) Therefore God exists.
My questions are....
a) Is it true? Do objective morals exist? And can we say that 1) is true i.e. is it true that if objective morals...
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How can morality ever be objective when it deals entirely with the outcomes for subjective beings?
Oh yes, because some people are scared of answers as complicated as 'it's good for this person but not this person'.
Objective morality is a logical contradiction. And when it's presented seriously, it's always elevating one subject to the status of object, so their outcomes are considered above all others.
>>670200
Thank you.
I understood the first two lines fine but I did not understand this...
>Objective morality is a logical contradiction. And when it's presented seriously, it's always elevating one subject to the status of object, so their outcomes are considered above all others.
What do you mean by 'elevating one subject to the status if object'?
Sorry if I am being dumb.
>>670207
>What do you mean by 'elevating one subject to the status if object'?
When people say that objective morality is defined by god. They aren't saying there is objective morality, they're saying that god is the only subject that matters.
