Who are the most incompetent leaders in history who somehow end up being hailed as great.
I don't think there is a better example than Richard the Lionheart.
>Hated England
>Hated English people
>Couldn't even speak English
>Didn't even live in England
>Spent all his time sucking at crusading and bankrupting the country
>Tried to literally sell England to the highest bidder so he could continue sucking at crusading
>heralded somehow in the annuals of history as the greatest English monarch.
Almost all Thai Kings have "The Great" in their title.
>>584924
Gr̈ofaz
I'll start with this faggot and his creation, Autism: The Ideology.
>>584001
Quit blaming us for you'r failures, non-autistics.
>>584001
who is he, why is he bad, what's so autistic about his ideology.
>>585587
he spent most of his life trying to justify the French Revolution in a "scientific" way
Salvage ethnography/anthropology/pictures of shit you wouldn't think there'd be pictures of
Videos and artifacts welcome as well. I find looking at pictures like these gives a sense of truth and grit that no recreation, movie, or reenactment can achieve.
Tribal stuff can count also, but don't overdo it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BzqwOBneC4&list=WL&index=40
They don't necessarily have to be ooga boogas
Chainmail was used in the caucuses until fairly recently. who would have thought?
How did people in ancient times, middle ages and renaissance managed to not throw up or get PTSD? Melee combat was way more gruesome than in the movies as the bones show (pic related is from Battle of Towton) and I imagine seeing that sort of shit would take some toll on soldiers psyche.
>>581982
They did.
They probably all had PTSD.
They were also probably abused as children according to our definition of child abuse.
They were harder, brutal people because you had to be hard and brutal to live. We've since been able to live a softer, gentler life.
So far.
Civilization can collapse again, after all.
>>582004
This.
Soldiers were much tougher given the brutal nature of how wars were fought back then. I'm sure they had their share of stress, but the mentality was you either man up fast or die faster.
There were no pussies back then, life was hard.
Can we have a thread on Buddhism?
Ask questions, discuss historical Buddhism, talk practice and meditation with others, and whatever else you want to do.
Theravadin here.
Will post relevant pics in the meantime.
Post national songs from history. Bonus points for non-official anthems.
>>594582
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deEFNbWQKtQ
>former swiss national anthem
>catchy tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zikcHnimsxk
The sound of German butthurt
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WgskbClWZ68
ebin
Any one else interested in Pre-Indo-European swag. What I find interesting is the Pre-Aryan Indian culture of Harappa and various cultures in Prehistoric Europe have both worshiped Mother Goddesses
Crete: Eteocretan
Cyprus: Eteocypriot
Aegean: Lemnian
Anatolia: Hattic
Armenia: Urartian
Sicily: Sicanian and Elymian
Italy: Etruscan, Rhaetic, Camunic
Iberia: Aquitanian, Tartessian, Iberian
Persia: Elamite
India: Indus Valley language?
Sri Lanka: Vedda language?
>>593193
>Any one else interested in Pre-Indo-European swag.
1. DEFINE "PREINDOEUROPEAN SWAG".
2. YOU INTENDED TO TYPE A QUESTION, SO THE GRAMMATICALLY CORRECT SIGN AT THE END WOULD BE AN "INTERROGATION SIGN", NOT A PERIOD.
>What I find interesting is the Pre-Aryan Indian culture of Harappa...
1. "INDOEUROPEAN", AND "ARYAN", ARE NOT MUTUALLY SYNONYMOUS; THE FORMER IS A LINGUONYM, THE LATTER IS A SOCIOCULTURAL TERM, AND/OR A RACIONYM.
2. THE HARAPPAN SETTLEMENT, AS THE WHOLE OF THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION, WAS ARYAN; THE INDICATIONS OF THERE HAVING BEEN AN INCHOATE "'GODDESS' CULT" ARE PROBABLY DUE TO THE NONARYAN REMNANTS FROM BEFORE THE ARYANS CAME AND ESTABLISHED THEMSELVES IN THAT ZONE —ARYANS USED TO INTEGRATE INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS WHEREVER THEY SETTLED, RATHER THAN EXTERMINATING, ENSLAVING, OR EXPELLING, THEM.
>What I find interesting is the Pre-Aryan Indian culture of Harappa and various cultures in Prehistoric Europe have both worshiped Mother Goddesses
WHY IS THAT PARTICULARLY INTERESTING FOR YOU?
PIE theory doesn't explain all of the relevant history, desu. Its main focus point is language, even then it takes you historically to a point and still leaves you with many questions about other cultural influences and exchanges that happened, but are not mentioned by the theory.
Sumerian and Egyptian specifically, plus the Indo-Aryan origin itself came about after AIT/AMT which suggests a further origin in Central-Asia, or the Ancient Near East.
How was the Pacific War unique among all theaters of WW2? Obviously the largest Naval battles in history but in terms of ground combat.
well facing a fanatical enemy often fighting to the last man on relatively small islands springs to mind as rather unique
the eastern front certainly saw its share of fanaticism and brutality but by and large without the terrible constraints of geography and suicial tendencies
>>589639
Imagine being dumped in a place where the local environment itself wants to kill you, assuming you survive the trip unto it from the landing craft. Now add people with guns who want to kill you, and won't stop until they're dead.
>>589639
It's unique in that the final battles were the bloodiest and fought against seasoned, sometimes elite, troops. Opposed to "mopping up" battles deep inside Germany against child soldiers and the elderly.
Peleliu, Iwo Jima, Okinawa were all at the end of the war, but also the toughest of the campaign.
How would society today be different (more or less advanced/progressed) if the Middle Ages just... never happened? Nearly a thousand years of history just gone.
>>596641
We'd be nearly a thousand years set back?
Smoking cyber-weed on the moonbase with my 3d-printed waifu.
>>596658
I'm saying it would still be 2016 though.
When was Germany closest to winning against the USSR? Close enough to have had a good chance?
Moscow.
And even then it was with so much of their momentum spent that they didn't have a chance.
The Axis intelligence was a horrible failure. They didn't know what they were walking into. They thought the USSR a far easier target than it had become. It learnt from preceding wars.
>>594389
Before they launched their attack.
Germany could have won, but it couldn't have won with the goals they set for themselves.
October 1941
August 1942
Although some historians say they lost their chance as early as Kiev/Smolensk.
>2016 AD
>not a Protestant
What's your excuse?
None, which is why I'm not Protestant
>being a protestant but not being a lutheran
>>592170
Because I don't partake in any of your Paulianity nonsense.
I realized as a West African(Liberia) I don't know so much about West African history. I've read Kwame Nkrumah: the Father of African Nationalism, but I'd like more. Looking for a book, a series of books, or just multiple books not in series, that show a picture of Africa in pre-colonial times(as much as possible), colonial times, and modern times.
Writing on witchcraft and its interaction with Christianity also welcome.
Thanks
Oh and I'm not looking for any New-Age writing where the natives are elevated by the weird racist sentiment of the 'noble savage'.
bump
does anyone here know any books on west african history?
>>596269
Sorry. Sadly, I can only help with East Africa :(
>>596280
Honestly I'd like some recommendations on that too. And it'll probably help the thread get going.
Why despite the terrible conditions and fanaticism of the soviets during WW2 did the wermacht commit very few atrocities overall. Was their some political reason for this? or was it the rigid and disciplined nature of the germans that prevented them from engaging in one of the more barbaric sides of war
>>596112
>Why despite the terrible conditions and fanaticism of the soviets during WW2 did the wermacht commit very few atrocities overall.
It was simple:
They committed atrocities, and then they lied about them.
That made things super easy.
Because of the Nazi attitude of superiority, they believed they were above raping and pillaging. If they were caught doing anything without orders they were executed. The Soviets didn't really have that kind of policy except for cowardice. Doesn't change the fact that they're fucking Nazis though.
>>596118
This too.
Why are Jews always getting so butthurt about Bible translations? You see some of the same sentiments in Christians, but it's usually the Jewish theologians who are of the opinion that you can't really understand the Bible unless you read it in the original, and are often citing zillions of verses that are "mistranslated" over minutae of grammar that nobody who isn't autistic gives a shit about.
I mean, just why? Isn't there more to religion than nit-picking?
All religion is pointless nitpicking.
>>595737
Because retarded Christians unironically think the OT backs up the claims of Jesus' validity as Messiah, and as God.
>>595737
I personally share this. I'm thinking of learning hebrew and greek just so I can understand the bible.
what does "Aryan" mean in the context of nazi germany?
Depends on how the H-dawg was feeling that particular day.
>>595707
go on
>>595699
It was a cool word that evoked ancient intrinsic superiority.
