What is your favourite royalty line?
Plantagenets or Capets
komnenos
hohenstaufen
You are send back to 500-100(for you to decide) BC, you are given no prep time, but you are granted fluent speech and understanding of the language of Koine Greek, Latin and one language of choice and you can pick what geographical location you want to be send to.
You are told that you must make a nation significantly greater, wealthier, happier or generally improved before your lifetime is up or something sufficiently bad to convince you to try your hardest will happen.
What historical, scientific, philosophical, mathematical or humanitarian knowledge can you contribute that an antique nation could actually use?
How would you convince them to listen? and so on.
I chose Ireland, because I know the bogs are good at preserving things.
I then spend my days carving rocks describing the coming of Jesus Christ in three languages (therefor preserving the pre-iron age language) and chucking them into bogs.
That should create a lot of fun in a few thousand years.
Kill the jews, pretty much no other correct answer
>>590003
Please stop posting my picture.
I want to learn about the Austrian empire.
Where do I start?
>>589951
>Austrian
Empire
More like Habsburg Empire of Assorted People Nobody Wanted
>>589963
You got something against slavs, tough guy?
I won't comment on the others but Croats were a legitimate part of Austria and our history isn't full of shitflinging.
>>589981
I got something against "Austrian" identity.
A bunch of illiterate barbarians destroyed knowledge of ancient civilizations we can never have back.
eternal altaic
It was probably shit desu
They surely did, these fucking Romans.
Was he the smartest man that ever lived during late antiquity ?
>>589832
>not chinese
Yeah so no
Probably
More like smartest man ever
Where did this king and queen ruling together meme originate? There can only be one king or queen ruling a monarchy, their spouse is the royal consort and has no political power. Can we blame Disney or does it go further back than that?
>>589726
Cause a Royal House is a House after all and in Europe traditionally the women have being in charge of the stuff of inside of the house while the man has been in charge of the stuff outside.
So following that pattern in the the Royal House makes sense, at least if your spouse does not hate you or is plainly unfit.
>>589743
Fair point but I'm talking about this thing where the king and his wife or the queen and her husband share power 50/50 in regards to the nation's matters, it's seriously bizarre.
>>589753
The rulers have counserlors, obviously their spouse will be the a very influential one.
Showing respect for ones partner is a way to stage oneself power and image.
If you have a certain example in your mind, please, tell us.
Who here has had /spiritualawakenings/?
I don't fully understand what a spiritual awakening is.
Please, go back to /x/
>>589714
holy shit those quads.
Can any one on this board explain to me why i should take interest in it because it seems like i would have to increase my knowledge of eastern countries ten fold to even come close to under standing anything on this here
Yes.
>>589700
its just night time, the east is awake. in the morning the west will wake up and shit post, then there will be plenty of talk about the knights of old or even George Washington.
>>589702
nice cause i dont know shit about Prussia
Do fictitious works of lore fit into the /his/ subcategories? I know they're not real history per se, but they do have a lot of depth and a subtlety to them that makes studying them almost like studying real history. The way I envision it, this is a place to discuss the historical happenings of fictitious worlds, while excluding discussion about gameplay or narratives. I've seen many great threads just about the history of Middle Earth for example, so perhaps the same could work here?
Anyway, at the moment I'm playing through The Elder Scrolls games, and I'm blown away by the depth and consistency of the lore found in it. However, at the moment, I only have a rudimentary understanding of it, so I'd like for more experienced TES players to fill me in on what's going on.
Pic slightly related, a great piece of fictional lore.
>>589668
Why wouldn't this belong in lit ?
Fuck off OP
>>589668
>Anyway, at the moment I'm playing through The Elder Scrolls games, and I'm blown away by the depth and consistency of the lore found in it. However, at the moment, I only have a rudimentary understanding of it, so I'd like for more experienced TES players to fill me in on what's going on.
Just read kirkbrides additional texts on the mythology and world-building, the guy really loved his setting.
And I'd argue this definitely isn't /his/, although unfortunately it doesn't fit anywhere else, so maybe the "humanities" aspect covers it.
So how much power did rulers have back then? Could they just walk into someones home and fuck their wife legally? Could they just start having sex with peasants out in public? What if they wanted you to drink their pee? What do? How degenerate were they with their power back then?
>>589557
Honestly, no one could really stop them.
But they more or less needed the support of the church to maintain their legitimacy, so if they started being flagrant degenerates in front of the peasantry the Pope might excommunicate them or something.
>>589557
>back then
Back when? And where?
Daily reminder that the Holy Roman Empire outlived its French rival by a couple of years.
>>589409
It was edstroyed by its french rivals, dumb shit
btw
>holy
>roman
>empire
>>589420
>Implying the French monarchy didn't turn out to be a failed state
>implying the republic was identical with Royal France
Try again. Try harder.
Charlemagne's realm split into two pieces and the German part survived longer. Therefore: HRE>France
>>589431
>Therefore: HRE>France
Senpai, that's pretty bad logic to live by
Ottoman Empire beats HRE by that standard
Make your argument for the worst person who's ever lived.
I say it's Lenin.
>tricked the starving, war-weary Russian people into giving him authority
>dismantled the parliament, soviets, and all other democratic institutions to hoard power for himself
>killed 8 million Ukranians, and countless others
>set left-wing ideology back by a century, by destroying it's moral high ground and allowing it to be portrayed (correctly) as evil and inhumane
>generally ruined Russia and eastern Europe, leaving them decades behind the west even today
I say OP
>>589381
I agree.
Mao, pretty much the same thing, but for East Asia
>forced massive population boom from 600 million to over 1 billion people within thirty years fucking up everything, land and resource use in asia
>destroyed ethnic national identities of peoples in asia (Tibetans, Manchus, Uyghurs, Mongols)
>destroyed Chinese civilization, culture and identity, turning them into uncloth, barbaric trash and peasants
>created a hivemind of a billion soulless chinese jews, while distancing china from russia and creating a parasitic relationship with the US we can't get out of
>chinese people devoid of feelings, emotions, happiness, empathy. like soulless communist drones
>split apart korea, caused vietnam and the entire southeast asia to fall under communism
>destroyed the environment, making half of china uninhabitable, due to smog, land degradation, etc
I was wondering, why didn't Austro-Hungary form what is modern day Germany? By the 1800's it was bigger then Prussia, and has more support in most of the German states to my opinion. What went wrong? Also general "Why didn't" thread.
>>589356
Wrong fucking picture.
Because France spent centuries constantly cockblocking Austria all the way since the first Habsburgs for exactly that reason, until Austria became too irrelevant to do anything.
Unfortunately France became so focused on cockblocking Austria that warring Austria became a French tradition, and so in the absence of any great political thinkers France sided with Prussia against Austria in the Austrian War of Succession. This gave Prussia Silesia and turned it into a major power in Germany, and a rival to French influence. Then the Seven Years War happened, and the coalition wars, and finally the German unification wars, and each time Prussia gained more power by defeating France with the support of Britain, which saw a large Prussian empire as a good thing to counter French power.
because they didn't want to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwh6078A-VU
The entire Iron Maiden discography
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREUrbGGrgM
Today's Queen Sforza's great ball,
Mice were poisoned, lanterns hung
and they paid off the singers.
I feel my jester face paling,
for I just read about loss of Smoleńsk,
but where's Smoleńsk, where's Kraków.
Message is sure, signatures and stamps,
but the queen frowns upon it.
Bills worry her much more.
I tie my fingers, lazy and tired,
because here is surely a dozen generals,
and they have a jolly good time!
If I could move the greatest of bells,
I'd bring them to the highest tone,
and ring them, ring in alarm!
But with jingles on my cap
and my bauble as an advisor,
who, oh who can I alert!
"Stańczyk!" - they cry -"Bring him to us"
Music and food had started to bore them.
They need to laugh at the fool.
I'm not a good jester for this times,
among the silk and golden tassels
find me a buyer for wisdom.
But no wisdom replaces the feelings,
that are with me this night, like all others.
No matter how loud's the music
I sit here, like a mute,
but why the jingles miserably ring.
This mad woman hungry for power,
swaps documents, ignores raports,
she carries out secret treaties!
Tell me she's wise, of a great family,
that east is to be ruled by west hand,
but I can't stand that bitch!
Why are hipsters converting to Christianity now?
>>589100
Pure Contrarianism
1. they aren't strong
2. they wanna be reactionary without imperialistic beliefs
But why not convert to Nation of Islam or some shit?
