Does /his/ think the Gracchi brothers were in the right?
>>580557
The Gracchi did literally nothing wrong.
>>580560
I agree. I'm asking because /his/ is filled with Optimates-boos and I wanna see their reasoning.
>>580557
Greatest philanthropists in the ancient world. Similar to Gandhi and mlk, but better
>I'm a girl btw: the monarch
>>580472
>Look, I hate Catholics as much as anybody, but don't you guys think Protestantism is just as bad?
>Normies should all just die desu senpai
>>580472
>tfw you will never have a son
>tfw my wives are worthless
I have a question. Let's all think and philosophize.
We know there's a group of people who own everything.
Leave emotions aside, leave everything you believe in aside.
Why would a group of people want all the power in the world? What is the reason? What do they know that alot of us dont?
Even if you believe in evolution it doesnt make sense, the strongest survive. But we're humans. We have everything we need to survive?
Maybe there is no reason and they just do it. But i doubt it. It's stupid to think they're idiots. They have knowledge, alot of it. Or else they wouln't be doing what they do and be so good at it.
I just want to know.
Give me ideas you imbeciles.
>>580476
>give me ideas
THE ANSWER IS WITHIN YOURSELF
There is literally nothing wrong with the Great Man Theory.
>>580258
I have never heard of that theory,could you please explain it to me.
>>580263
Important men are what makes history go.
It's fallen out of fashion because the theory doesn't contextualize those important men.
>>580263
Theory of history that views the actions of exceptional individuals as the most influential driving force upon history, relegating economic, social, and political forces to a secondary role.
Critics generally respond that most 'great men' are in fact the products of their environments, and therefore merely another manifestation of social and economic forces.
Those critics are faggots.
I need book recommendations, /his/. Don't go easy on me, I'm ready. Can you do it?
> I can read Spanish at a proficient level
> The target is an in-depth exploration of the history of the country, including post-Peron politics and the rise of Kirchnerism
> Even though Argentina gets my attention, I'm interested in South America in general when learning about San Martin and his campaigns for independence
> Falklands/Malvinas war gets special attention
>>579956
these
politics and policy in contemporary argentina:
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756223/obo-9780199756223-0064.xml?rskey=z0nEqJ&result=3&q=argentina#firstMatch
Argentina in the Era of Mass Immigration
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0163.xml?rskey=z0nEqJ&result=5&q=argentina#firstMatch
Perón and Peronism
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0041.xml?rskey=z0nEqJ&result=8&q=argentina#firstMatch
Juan Manuel de Rosas
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199766581/obo-9780199766581-0069.xml?rskey=z0nEqJ&result=20&q=argentina#firstMatch
>>580660
Thanks anon. The site isn't mobile friendly so I'll check those links as soon as I can.
Books about independence wars led by San Martin are still missing if I'm not mistaken, but I'll try to find them there too when I get a chance.
Anyone has specific book recommendations?
>>579956
sup
>men like this are long gone
>there was nobody to replace them with
It's over. The human spirit is broken.
So what exactly would they do today? I don't get it. The world had to run out of frontiers and adventures at some point. It was inevitable.
>>580428
We haven't run out of frontiers. Everyday, we anons push and explore new lands of terrible shitposting, bizzare fetishes, and shitty memes.
>>580436
It's as they say. Born too late to explore the earth, born too early to explore the stars, born just in time to browse dank memes
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2011/08/07/why_did_japan_surrender/?page=full
>“Hasegawa has changed my mind,” says Richard Rhodes, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Making of the Atomic Bomb.” “The Japanese decision to surrender was not driven by the two bombings.”
>Americans, then and today, have tended to assume that Japan’s leaders were simply blinded by their own fanaticism, forcing a catastrophic showdown for no reason other than their refusal to acknowledge defeat. This was, after all, a nation that trained its young men to fly their planes, freighted with explosives, into the side of American naval vessels.
>But Hasegawa and other historians have shown that Japan’s leaders were in fact quite savvy, well aware of their difficult position, and holding out for strategic reasons. Their concern was not so much whether to end the conflict, but how to end it while holding onto territory, avoiding war crimes trials, and preserving the imperial system. The Japanese could still inflict heavy casualties on any invader, and they hoped to convince the Soviet Union, still neutral in the Asian theater, to mediate a settlement with the Americans. Stalin, they calculated, might negotiate more favorable terms in exchange for territory in Asia. It was a long shot, but it made strategic sense.
>Very late the next night, however, something happened that did change the plan. The Soviet Union declared war and launched a broad surprise attack on Japanese forces in Manchuria. In that instant, Japan’s strategy was ruined. Stalin would not be extracting concessions from the Americans. And the approaching Red Army brought new concerns: The military position was more dire, and it was hard to imagine occupying communists allowing Japan’s traditional imperial system to continue. Better to surrender to Washington than to Moscow.
>By the morning of Aug. 9, the Japanese Supreme War Council was meeting to discuss the terms of surrender.
American dicking is less painful than Soviet dicking.
>yfw america didn't beat the nazis or the japs
>>579766
So, what if the US didn't invade at all and just starve and incinerate them? Like just keeping up there bombing campaigns, their naval blockade, and use their freshly baked atomic bombs and chemical weapons in between? How is the Japanese leadership not fanatical if not surrendering means the complete destruction of their nation and the death of untold millions?
This subject came up in a /co/ thread and it was thought better to be brought here since it's history related.
>Does the laws of the Old Testament apply to those who follow Jesus Christ, and is homosexuality still considered a sin within the new covenant of Jesus Christ?
Well /his/? What say you about the new covenant of Jesus Christ and the differences of the laws from old and new?
Jesus kept the old testament laws, why shouldn't Christians who aspire to be like Christ do likewise?
>>579757
Would be better to rephrase that in terms of historical development.
>>579783
In Acts, the Apostles decreed that Gentiles didn't have to follow the old laws.
>But concerning the Gentiles who believe, we have written our decision that they should observe no such thing, except that they should keep themselves from food offered to idols, from blood, from strangled things, and from sexual immorality.
What was China's Golden Era?
Qin Shi Huang Reporting In
Three Kingdoms, Tang Dynasy, Qin Dynasty.
Worst eras were basically everything after Yuan.
>>579835
>Ming
>Worse than Yuan
Tang Dynasty during the reign of Li Shimin, most of Chinese historians agreed with that.
Post the absolute worst historical figures from human history. Bonus points if they are NOT from the mid 20th century.
I'll get this thread started off with Lavrentiy Beria
>He attended the Yalta Conference with Stalin, who introduced him to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt as "our Himmler".
>After the war, he organized the communist takeover of the state institutions of Central and Eastern Europe.
>In 1924 he led the repression of a Georgian nationalist uprising, after which up to 10,000 people were executed. For this display of "Bolshevik ruthlessness," Beria was appointed head of the "secret-political division" of the Transcaucasian OGPU and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.
>When Stalin's purge of the Communist Party and government began in 1934 after the assassination of Leningrad party boss Sergei Kirov (1 December 1934), Beria ran the purges in Transcaucasia. He used the opportunity to settle many old scores
These fuckers.
It was all down hill for the west after this.
![Katyn_-_decision_of_massacre_p1[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/HBtpPTy.jpg "Katyn - decision of massacre p1[1]")
more on Beria
>On 5 March 1940, after the Gestapo–NKVD Third Conference was held in Zakopane, Beria sent a note (no. 794/B) to Stalin in which he stated that the Polish prisoners of war kept at camps and prisons in western Belarus and Ukraine were enemies of the Soviet Union, and recommended their execution. Most of them were military officers, but there were also intelligentsia, doctors, and priests and others for a total of over 22,000. With Stalin's approval, Beria's NKVD executed them in what became known as the Katyn massacre.
pic related is said note to Stalin
Leopold II checking in.
Who was the best leader of the 1st crusade and why is it Bohemond?
>Mfw Stephen of blois runs away during the winter but his wife bitches him into joining the crusade of 1101 aka the bitch crusade to make up for it.
Daily reminder that the Byzantines pretty much deserved everything bad that happened to them, dishonest craven allies who used the crusaders like pawns then turn tail and abandon them at their finest hour. Did a single greek even participate in the crusade? Alexios sent like 1500 soldiers with the crusaders and they were in the rear guarding his guides and never actually participated in battles.
I hope everyone on /his/ understands knows that the 4th crusaders literally did nothing wrong, the Byzantines are just horrible at keeping their promises and keep getting backhanded by karma.
>>579583
Byzantines were cool, but I'm a Veniceboo
>>579583
>why is it Bohemond?
You mean the guy who risked the entire first Crusade at Antioch just so he could get his way and acquire some land?
>>579597
Who routed the muslim armies and had all his shit together?
Who took Antioch?
Who said "fuck that shit" when the Emperor strongarmed everyone else into a bitch oath?
Yeah thats right, Bohemond.
All truth is objective
The Ottomans should have invaded Italy and conquered Rome
>All truth is objective
>An undeniable fact
Isn't this a bit circular my friend? You say the truth is objective, which means it is composed of facts. You say it is an undeniable fact that the truth is composed of facts. One cannot deny the truth.
Why is the truth objective? Because it is composed of facts. Why can't we deny facts? Because it is the truth. Why is it the truth? Because the truth is composed of facts. And so on.
>>579516
>fact
Sounds like a definition.
"Jewry is the principle of destruction. It is what is destructive in the overturning of the completion of metaphysics--i.e., of Hegel's metaphysics by Marx."
--Heidegger, Anmerkungen I, 29 (from the "Black Notebooks")
How can you say this guy's not racist?
Judaism isn't a race
>o-oh no mommy!!! w-wacism!!!
Pussy faggot
>>579289
Jewry is an ethnoreligious identity which forms its own distinguishable genetic cluster that does not necessitate direct adherence to Jewish religion.
Robespierre did nothing wrong.
>>579035
No mercy should be shown for counter-revolutionaries and traitors.
He did nothing wrong.
Just picked this up for 3 quid. Is this decent or a piece of shit?
Also, what the fuck happened in the War of the Roses?
>>578972
England had low stability and the king had no heir
so lots of rebel units started appearing all over the country and would take over all the land until the king gives into their demands
Looks poppy
>>578984
For 80 years straight?
![lavrentiy-beria_3-t[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MNRC64e.jpg "lavrentiy-beria 3-t[1]")
