After binge watching this show's first season I've fully realized how comfy we have it not. Seeing that almost all roofs are made of grass and that buildings have no insulation or thickness is crazy. So when did villages start to become recognizable to today's standards?
Age of Colonialism?
Age of Imperialism?
>>589029
Good bait, I almost feel bad calling it so early
>>589029
A think layer of grass would act as insulation though (trapping air), not as effective obviously.
Lack of comfy thread?
>>589046
Based mammoth bone huts from Ice age Ukraine.
Daily reminder that David Hume is the most powerful philosopher to have ever lived.
>>589002
If you think there's something wrong with metaphysics you are a self-deluded greasy neckbeard atheist that convinced himself he can bear his absurd existence by trying to "understand" what little he can by tying reality to empirical laws produced by the very same organ that can produce the said metaphysics
>>589040
Science is metasphysics. The bit of metaphysics that works.
>>589040
>If you think there's something wrong with metaphysics you are a self-deluded greasy neckbeard atheist that convinced himself he can bear his absurd existence by trying to "understand" what little he can by tying reality to empirical laws produced by the very same organ that can produce the said metaphysics
>2015
>being a retard
I'm sorry for your diagnosis.
Were the Romans justified in taking Jesus as a rebel?
>>588999
Who knows.
We don't have any decent historical sources detailing what happened.
>>589010
How do I do that?
What was the most ingenious/creative/absolutely mad successful tactical move ever made during a battle?
>>588997
Knocking down your own city wall in a siege, tying a bunch of swords and spears to your cattle and then setting their tails on fire before letting them loose on the besiegers. This was first used in 279 BC and was last used in the 30s during the Chinese civil war.
>>588997
Ukrainian Jewish Partisans.
They received word that the SS were coming to liquidiate their ghetto and did the following...
>Open the gates
>Hide in prepared positions
>Light everything in the ghetto on fire and I mean fucking everything.
>Germans are now far into the ghetto and surrounded by fucking fire on all sides.
>Resistance fighters open fire and make a bee-line for the German's vehicles.
>Succesfully steal said vehicles.
>Tear ass out of a burning ghetto while leaving the Germans there to try and escape.
The absolute fucking madmen. Sublime... Just sublime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pelusium_(525_BC)
CATS
no contest
I woke up with an intense feeling of anger toward philosophical realists so I'm making a post about it. tl;dr Realism is bullshit.
Suppose you are born in a room from which the outside world cannot be seen. Descartes' demon is clearly and visibly in the same room with you. It reacts in a predictable (though not necessarily deterministic) way to your actions but does not talk to you directly. It does not let you leave the room or study the outside world. Soon enough you learn which actions lead to which results. Although you gain mastery over the rules of the room you cannot ever know whether they are real and universal or just the arbitrary inventions of the demon.
One day another person is created by the demon. The person insists that certain actions are moral, certain things and beautiful, and that the laws of the room necessarily apply to the outside world. When pushed on how he knows these things he states that while there is no indication from within the room that a certain thing is objectively moral or beautiful there is also no way to tell whether the room's rules are objective in themselves, so if you choose to act according to the room's rules for which there is no rigorous epistemological proof then it is only consistent to accept other ideas similarly lacking in rigorous proof.
Here's the thing: you have no choice but to accept the room's rules if you want the demon to treat you well. The universe's rules might or might not match the demon's but there is, as far as anyone knows, no way to tell. While you are under the demon's mercy acting according to the demon's rules is the only way to at least perceive yourself as having reached the goals of the actions you performed. There is no other starting point for building a model by which you can navigate the world. You MUST accept the demon's rules not as absolute truth but as the only thing you have to work with. There is no similar force coercing you to accept objective aesthetics or morality!
>>588964
>Realism is bullshit
So you're asserting that reality isn't real? Or that we can't know the the true nature of the real?
>Although you gain mastery over the rules of the room you cannot ever know whether they are real and universal or just the arbitrary inventions of the demon.
so the room isn't real? Then the room does not exist.
>no indication from within the room that a certain thing is objectively moral
You can't derive morals from empirical study. See the is-ought problem.
>>588964
>predictable (though not necessarily deterministic)
LOL
OLO
LOL
>>588964
>if you want the demon to treat you well
What if I want the demon to treat me badly?
>universe's rules might or might not match the demon's
Does the demon exist outside reality? Are you saying the demon isn't real?
>coercing you to accept objective aesthetics or morality
If you need to be coerced into accepting objective morals than you wouldn't accept them anyways.
Hey /his/,
I have the feeling that not many Turks actually settled the Balkans, and that people who claim to be related to Turks, like Muslims in Bosnia, actually aren't. The thing is whenever I look up some Ottoman vizier in the Balkans, he seems to be of Serb, Greek or Albanian origin. I know that many Janissaries later went into administrative offices, and they were former Christians too. I also know that many nobles converted to Islam, and also that Njegos in his "Mountain Wreath" talks about murdering converts, but never actually about Turks.
So my question is, when the Christians drove out the Muslims at the end of the Balkan wars, did they actually drive out their own kind?
I wasn't able to find a list of viziers, but here's a list of grand viziers:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ottoman_Grand_Viziers
I am also asking this because people from Istanbul look facially similar to Balkanniggers, but not as much to Turks from Antalya (at least the once I've met). Are they actually displaced Balkanniggers?
Here's one more genetic map.
And here's a last one.
Alright, so. Say I want to study the migration and low medieval periods. Specifically the history of what is now Germany, Scandinavia and Post-Roman Britain.
How do I learn old norse or perhaps old Frankonian?
Easy Mode: Frisian.
>>588777
You go to school, and take those trips with you.
>>588777
Is that from fucking shitstone? Kill yourself
>>588783
I am. I go to a top 100 American university. We offer a raft of extinct languages.
Those aren't among them.
ITT: Frauds & Phonies
>>588716
How do you reconcile religion with secular government? Do religions not purport to offer the ultimate path to social harmony? If so, how can one be truly faithful while supporting governance that is not explicitly religious?
>>588709
That God is not present is manifest; religion is just a useful too to keep those who lack the brain power or the will to examine their lives in check. Its coexistence with secular governments is a kind of doublethink; just don't think about it too much and you have nothing to worry about
>>588728
*flips menorah*
>>588734
Let me further explain my point with an analogy. I am a gay man. For a long time I would fap to pictures of men, yet I would call myself straight in good conscience. It's not that I was trying to justify my desires to myself; it's just that I never made that mental leap because I never had a reason too. Similarly, many people live their lives full of contradictions they never notice because they have no reason to. The religious one is just one of these
What empire had the least graceful fall from grace and why is it the Spanish Empire?
Idk the Ottoman Empire fell pretty hard. Likewise the British
>>588717
US foreign policy at this point is literally "If we cant conquer it, we'll give it to spain! Those bitches probably wont even be able to contain unrest and we can swoop in later"
>>588717
>fight in two world wars
>country is exhausted
>nationalist movements happening all over the empire
>give them independence
Sounds as graceful end to Empire as you can get hope for
Basically, this is a book that claims the inconsistencies in Homer are explained due to geographical error: Homer's stories took place in the Baltic. The author relies on geography, place names, and climatology to link the geography, place names, and climate described in the Iliad and Odyssey in order to locate those events to Northern Europe during a time when there was a climactic optimatum which rendered that part of the world much warmer and fertile than it is today. Then, as the temperature once again receded, these Northerners took the very same river routes down to Greece, where they settled, and, being excellent sailors and thus geographers by extension, gave place names to the Aegean that were similar to their Baltic originals and in corresponding positions. With the Dorian invasions, these Mycenaeans were overthrown, and the coming Greek culture forgot their Northern roots.
All that's left is for archaeologists to go digging around the Baltic and validate the claims.
It sounds pretty convincing to me so far, but I really do need that archaeology. Until then, I can't be certain about it.
>>588474
Well that's an interesting take on it.
>>588567
And it's hiltlarious
>>588474
You're gonna have to elaborate more on this argument or else we've got fuckall to discuss, m8.
Can we get a Medival Margin Art thread going?
As /his/torians, we tend to write a lot. What's your favorite writing utensil?
Pic related, my current fountain pen.
Dragon Dictation to simply speak what I want to write, get a draft, then I do the rest at the computer.
>>588386
I've seen commercials for that. How well does that software actually work? Does it have problems decoding your speech if you don't speak very clearly?
Classy: Sanford Uniball Mircopoint
Regular: Pilot G2 Premium
Pencil: Ticonderoga #2 Soft
Was the Moon landing in 1969 humanity's peak and it's been downhill ever since then?
http://dieoff.org/page125.htm
>>588200
>Humanity
No, Just Amerique.
>>588242
/thread
>>588242
Yep. US peak oil occurred around the early '70s, while global peak oil could still be a few decades off.
Are there any theorists who make make decent arguments against Darwinism? I don't me le earth is 6000 years old meme, I mean people like Lev Berg
I would ask this on /sci/ but when I do they just post hentai and stuff in response. So I'm asking you guys.
>>588195
Darwinism or the modern theory of evolution?
>>588204
The theory that survival of the fittest and natural selection are the main governors of evolution.
>>588195
Not really, evolutionary theory has changed an enormous amount but his central idea of evolution by natural selection was spot on (it's not the only cause for evolution, but it is the main one).
There are certain things Darwin himself didn't know about, genes being the most important, which turn out to be incredibly complicated and aren't just the inheritence of distinct traits.
All alternative theories for evolution have been proven wrong, the most famous being the Lamarckian model. So no, I can't think of any arguments against it that gained traction in the field of biology.
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