Why didn't anything worthwhile happen here? Why weren't there any empires that rival Rome, Persia, or Han China? Why is there a lack of historical records for such a large continent?
>inb4 muh sandcastles
>inb4 muh trade
>inb4 muh ethiopia
>inb4 muh evil whitey
The Sahara is pretty big.
What the Sahara didn't block off, the jungles usually did.
You're talking about similar levels of geographical isolation to Australia or the New World.
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Once the thread 404's, the exact same thing will happen. And again, and again, and again until this board finally implodes, or far less likely, we get some competent moderation.
>>1372688
Not really
What caused the Islamic civilization to stagnate? What went wrong?
>>1367866
after some centuries, the people they conquer end up converting to Islam to avoid paying taxes/to advance socially/ to eliminate debts/or to avoid being persecuted by the fanatic ruler every islamic nation eventually gets.
Islamic golden age is what happens in the first centuries of an islamic conquest when most of the conquered population hasnt converted to Islam yet.
>>1367907
i thought they still pay some jizyah tax or shit?
>>1367917
they stop paying it when they convert to Islam.
I am not a racist. I really think that without Islam, the middle east and north africa would be at least as well off as Southern Europe.
For me it is a South Korea/North Korea situation, it is their culture that fucks them, not their race.
Lebanese christians and Armenians do very well in wester countries and they are middle eastern. The wealthiest man in the work half of the time Carlos Slim (a lebanese christian) of Mexico.
Is anyone else completely baffled by humanity?
In many western nations,it is literally required that you go to school and learn skills... in order to repay the "debt" you "owe" to society for merely existing.
Humans keep forcing other humans into the world with no reason other than for them to commit the same atrocity themselves, creating a cycle without finality or reason.
Humans spout nonsense such as "everyone is special and has value", yet everyone knows that to be false.
You could go on and on listing acts that exhibit the collective insanity of humanity.
Isn't it just absurd?
>>1378767
>In many western nations,it is literally required that you go to school and learn skills... in order to repay the "debt" you "owe" to society for merely existing.
Statistically if you go to school you'll live a happier life. It isn't because you "owe" anyone. You can be a hobo when you get out of school If you want, but they are gonna make damn sure you at least can read and write.
>>1378767
Or, you know, maybe you could just not care. Take instead of giving. Inflict misery upon others. Indulge in whatever debauchery you like. Be free.
Yes everything is absurd in this world, but absurdity is just a human construct and emotion with no meaning in itself.
Nihilism is depressing please help
How would the political landscape of Europe change in the event of France winning the Franco-Prussian war?
Germany would have come into existence one way or another
>>1381472
No WW1
No WW2
No collapse of the European empires
No lefties able to use Hitler as a scapegoat
Communism never becomes a thing
Democracy becomes less popular considering we now have a Bonaparte leading France and no WW1 to destroy the old empires
Best of all, France gets its sexy Rhineland borders
>>1382018
You mean the Rhine becomes the border ?
Doubtful. France wasn't that expansionnist at the time.
Maybe Saarland and Luxembourg, but the whole left bank is too full of Germans.
And communism was already a thing then. If republicans don't get into power, maybe communists will become the leading anti-monarchist force and take over Europe at the next crisis.
And war might still happen. Germany won't unite then, but they'll keep trying, and then they'll want a rematch.
Did Native Americans really believe Whitey were gods or is just Eurocentristic bullshit?
>I tell you Cortes, We wuz gods and shit
The spiritual Tradition and High culture of the Mesoamerican people were founded by Phoenician colonizers and scholars who claimed to be High Priests, Philospher Kings and divine Scions of Atlantis.
>>1381225
Tenochtitlan is a display of this Atlantean style theology as a basis for Aztec cultural expression and state craft.
I'm not an expert, but since they had horses, guns, ships, and shining armor, it would make sense to see them that way, from a Mesoamerican perspective.
>Abolish Capital punishment as one of the first orders of business
>Start executing people when it looks like your government is about to fall apart
Honestly, is there anything more hypocritical than radical leftists who somehow manage to take over a government?
fucc the clergy
>>1380460
Yep, unarmed and non-violent priests are really dangerous to your new social order
Tyrants and monarchs are evil. The people must overthrow and replace them with a "benign" dictator to ensure liberty for all. Once the tyrants are gone, Rei will be my gf and everyone will be friends again ^_^
What could go wrong? (oh, and just a warning, if you disagree with me I will start hyperventilating, cry, and then pretend to be a character from one of my animes, maybe Asuka. SO IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NICE TO SAY DON'T SAY IT, OKAY?)
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If body armor could stop musket balls why did everyone stop using it for so long?
because it's cheaper to throw barely trained men in to a line and have them shoot and then replace them with more men when they died.
>>1380194
/thread
>>1380182
But could it really?
The answer is no.
Japanese katana is historically came from Korean sword.
>Haidong Gumdo is original style of ken jitsu
>Yudo is original style of judo.
>Guhapdo is original style of iaido
>geomdo is original style of ken do
>Hapkido is original style of aikido
>And
>Tang Soo Do is original style of Japanese karate (not a ryukyu karate)
Gongkwon Yusul is Korean jiujitsu.
Why japs tell a lie of katana? It's nothing but a copy of ancient Korean sword
When japan were mass of Jomon barbarian people, ancient Korean ”yayoi”people came to japan and they made katana for japan and Jomon japs copied that tecnique of makeing katana from Korea
And Bushido is copy of Korean Buddhism zen and Chinese philosophiy
See?
Why jap steal culture of Korea like katana?
>>1380124
It's a common sense of the world that jap culture is full copy of ancient Korea and all massive fake
>>1380130
This
>>1380132
Thank you mate
Anyone got the pic with the refutation of Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel"?
FYI, the refutations are bullshit that misrepresent the arguments put forth in the book and ignore the evidence Diamond gives to back them up.
>>1379736
>butthurt
>>1379697
We're hitting levels of Howard Zinn that shouldn't even be possible.
What went wrong?
Were they right to rebel?
>>1378691
>Were they right to rebel?
Yes.
Absolutely not
Shower of fucking gowls. Ruined this country. We would have gotten peaceful (and united) independence if we had just fucking waited.
Based, but not edgy. Pragmatic, but not compromised. Hard, but not cruel.
Lee Kuan Yew was pretty much perfect. Is it even possible to disagree?
little bit of nepotism, certainly used office to further himself
other than that totally B A S E D
>>1371396
hard to argue with the results desu
Not perfect. No politician can be perfect, it's anathema.
But seems like he was an exceptional politician of the late 20th century going by the little I know of him.
>tfw reading kant and berkely latley
>tfw realized god exists
>he has to exist
anons this feeling is amazing
>>1370387
Aquinas removed all doubt from me
Excellent work OP. Now the next step is to understand that God was fully incarnate in the person of Jesus, and accept him as your Lord.
>>1370387
Confirmation bias from reading Kant, you've blown my mind- his philosophy is tripe, re-read it
Has there ever been an equivalent of NEETs in human history?
Are buddhist monks essentially NEETs?
It seems to me that NEETs are the only true counter culture today.
They reject almost all aspects of mainstream ideology.
All they need to do is adopt religion.
If you were a NEET in ancient times you were homeless, rich, or dead. If NEETs lived like Diogenes in an authentic rejection of consumerism then I would have some respect. That's often not the case though, they are usually the worst consumers of all. Buying video games, anime figurines, and weird Japanese sex toys with their parents money. They're lazy and afraid and have doting parents, that's all.
Diogenes.
There's nothing counter-cultural about hedonism and consumerism.
>>1369825
Being a monk is actually a job. They have to help do various jobs to keep their monastery up and running. I would consider it a sort of education/employment/training, so they're definitely not NEETs.
Does anyone else sexually fantasies about historical people/senarios?
My most common fantasy is about being a middle-ranking officer in various historical settings (last time was napoleonic era) and finding a chance to ruthlessly bugger a barely legal teenage private who joined for adventure and to become a man only for me to ruin him, i think he was our drummer-boy.
TLDR: Any of the rest of you lot have a historical fetish/fantasy? I'd love to hear them. be as specific as you like.
>>1364121
I hace a fantasy where I'm inna Belgian Congo Free State, exploring when i come accross an untouched tribe and they worship me as some kind of divine entity because im white. They offer me their women to deflower, and sex ensues
I'm glad to know I'm not alone in this particular sort of autism.
>Roman legionary seducing a devout Judean girl
>American indian abducting European settler girls
>French Republican soldier ravishing nuns during the dechristianization of France
>French noblewoman prior to the revolution with a harem of peasant girls
>Red Army soldier having his way with German girls during the last months of WWII
In more recent events, I also had a sexual fantasy about the Columbine massacre once.
If eternalism is true, does that mean the universe has already ended?
It has always ended then
>>1381215
If eternalism is true, does that means my consciousness will never go away and I will continuously experience my (awful) life over and over away?
>>1381266
*again
Fuck
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