How did Germany lose WWI if they were deep in France when the war ended?
The United States, savior of the planet, came to bring freedom and justice to its father continent.
>>578973
This, but also the long term attrition game favored the entente.
That and the British figured out how to punch through German lines at will.
>>578968
Look up "The Turnip WInter"
Their army may have been dug into France but the civil society that supported that army was in full collapse mode.
What would our world look like now if Genghis Khan never existed?
Islam expanding further North, East and West much earlier.
>>578706
Not much. Maybe gunpowder would take a long ass time to reach Europe.
>>578721
By the time of Genghis conquests the Islam had stopped expanding.
>Contemplation is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life . . . It is gratitude for life, for awareness and for being. It is is a vivid realization of the fact that life and being proceed from an invisible, transcendent, and infinitely abundant Source.
>mfw dead inside fedoralords will never get this, can only shriek "proof?" "evidence?" "proof?" like autismo-trons on the fritz ad nauseaum
>intellectual rigor means you're a dorky supernerd
This is how low religionfags have fallen
>>578560
>needing a fucking empirical study done before the big science man says it's OK to feel gratitude for the miracle of life and consciousness
Based Merton
What caused it?
Americans.
>>578479
Greed and stupidity
>>578479
A completly unhealthy economy. Uncontrolled growth, too many goods for too few buyers.
What's your favourite special forces operation?
Can be anything, from WW2 to modern day wars.
>>578291
Scaling of the cliffs at Point du Hoc
>tfw you hear that the men of the 2nd ranger battalion made a pact to not cry out if they fell so as to avoid compromising the operation.
i find this operation to be very interesting.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_raid_on_Larnaca_International_Airport
>>578291
those dudes on the left are like 5'3
What is the most successful empire that used war elephants?
>>578219
guptas or the mauryas desu
What was that one that ruled most of the world?
>>578229
Finno-Mongols
These two structures were built during roughly the same timeframe. Both were vastly wealthy nations, yet there are many examples of very complex designs in France during that time period, whereas relatively simpler structures like the Djenne mosque were fewer in number.
What is the reason for this? Lack of materials? Inspiration? I don't want the answer to be racist.
>>578193
>I don't want the answer to be racist.
bait.
Also, probably just the aesthetic sensibilities of the cultures.
>>578193
Different t areas developed at differ we rates
One issue is that if a system works for a culture they tend to keep it and not improve - eg Polynesians never developed higher level tech but were able to colonise thousands of islands, China never took gunpowder to the next level and so on
Because there was no reason for Africans to build something like thing like that.
Why are so many treaties signed in Paris?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Paris
Relevant country m8
Its the land of "b'awww let's come to an agreement"
Nice city, fuckton of hotels, in the middle of where ids habbening, close to many European capitals and Brussels and Strasbourg, can provide logistics and security, French was/is an important diplomatic language ....
Wasn't Rome technically an empire as early as after the second punic war, long before Augustus?
When will people learn that empire is just a name and nothing else
>>578094
Client kingdoms with the land owned by Romans, but not Rome. That's an important distinction, most of all for Romans themselves.
Rome was an empire at least 100 years before it was de jure an empire m9.
What does a person who isn't particularly interested in seriously studying economics need to know (or read) in order to have an informed viewpoint on economic policy?
You'd have to ignore that you aren't partially interested in it and study anyway.
>>578088
get some basic concepts and understandings of Keynesianism, Post-Keynesianism, Monetarism, neoclassical economics and Austrian School
>pull a random item from digital archives
>post
From http://publicdomain.nypl.org/pd-visualization/
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "La traversée." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1874 - 1888. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-42b2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
>Among the most original prints made in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century are those by Félix Buhot. Along with artists like Charles Jacque, Louis Monziès and Félix Bracquemond, he is credited with reviving seventeenth-century etching techniques in late nineteenth-century art. However, he was highly experimental and regularly employed technical variables and regularly combined multiple processes to produce a single print. He used traditional techniques of etching, drypoint, and aquatint along with modern methods such as photomechanical reproduction. Buhot’s most notable contribution to the history of printmaking is a device he termed "marges symphoniques" (symphonic margins). Inspired by the marginal decorations of medieval manuscripts and eighteenth-century French book illustrations, Buhot developed two types of margins, etching the first on the same plate as the central subject and printing the second, called a “false margin,” from a separate plate.
Dumping some archive.org links to some kind of interresting books. Also /r/ing an English translation of Anti-Machiavel.
>Gomme, George Laurence. 1880. Primitive Folk-Moots and open air assemblies in Britain.
London: Sampson Low, marston, Searle & Rivington.
http://archive.org/stream/cu31924030429389
Lobingier, Charles Sumner. 1909. The People's Law or Popular Participation in Law-making: from
ancient folk-moot to modern referendum; a study in the evolution of democracy and direct
legislation. New York: MacMillan company.
http://archive.org/stream/peopleslaworpop00lobigoog
>Libermann, F. 1913. The National Assembly in the Anglo-Saxon Period. Halle A.S: Max Niemeyer.
http://archive.org/stream/cu31924031473899
History of English parliament:
1773: http://archive.org/stream/parliamentaryhi05parlgoog
1765-71: http://archive.org/stream/parliamentaryhi02parlgoog
1066-1625: http://archive.org/stream/parliamentaryhi01unkngoog
>>578085
I have way more, but sadly I only have QR codes not actual links.
I think I'll post them. I just need to think about how to do it, so it's at least somewhat readable, and doesn't take too much place.
Meanwhile here's one of my favourite political philosophy books of late 17th century:
>John Wise. 1860 (4. edition). A Vindication of the Government of New England Churches
https://archive.org/stream/vindicationofgo00wise
>>578105
Fuck it, even though this thread is just me and OP, I'm sharing my links. Maybe someone will find them useful.
Who are the unsung heroes of history?
Nobody knows, because they've all been forgotten.
Moot.
Women.
Why was the French Revolution so volatile and bloody?
>>577774
Probably because it was the biggest shift in ideological societal order ever
Just like the french themselves
>>577774
It was a spectacular display of republican barbarism. Nothing out of the ordinary.
If this man had a heart attack and died 5 minutes after joining Mohammad, how would the spread of Islam have been affected?
>>577648
>silky beard
Absolutely disgusting
>>577648
Do people really have beards like this?
He couldn't have died, as he was titled the "Drawn Sword of Allah" by Muhammad.
Saifullah al-Maslul, radhiallahu 'anhu!
>religion causes all wars and if we didn't have religion the world would magically be this utopian society
Why are there people who unironically think this?
>>577474
>Why are there people who unironically think this?
No one does.
Do you want to know why you think that some people think this?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-echochambers-28537149
>>577474
Well without religious wars the world would undoubtedly be a better place.
>>577501
I've literally heard real people say this IRL, though. Have you never been to college?
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