Israel/Palestine/Judea/Caanan aside, has there ever been another country occupied so many times? Greeks, Romans (and then Byzantines), Moors, Ottoman Turks, British, even the Israelis had a go during the Suez Crisis.
What is the appeal of Egypt anyway? I know it's in a part of the world where East meets West, but is that really why it's so well fought over?
It's one of the first and iconic civilizations.
It's just exotic.. Egypt is like a whore
>>565863
The Nile river valley
>>565863
>Suez crisis
Which they lost. Isnotreal is the most overhyped country in history
I just finished pic related to get a very low level understanding of general Greek history. Where should I go from here? Just whatever interests me or is there a good next step to take if I want to know more about Greece?
Play Europa Barbarorum, Rome: Total Realism or Haegemonia.
I learned alot about ancient Greece from those games.
>>565828
Next step:
WE WUZ FEELOSOFERS 'N SHIT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalizing_period
>>565828
Check out VDH's "The Western Way of War".
And you might want to also look at "The Greek Myths", by Robert Graves
Neither of them are a systematic Greek history, but both give a lot of insight into a lot of Greek day to day life and social organization.
americuck who just graduated high school here
i was never taught about the japanese concentration camps/slavery in the U.S. can /his/ enlighten me?
>>565811
There were no concentration camps in the US. We did relocate Japanese to camps, but they were not slaves, or kept in squalor. I'm not saying it was a good thing, but if the Holocaust is a 10 on a 1 to 10 scale of warcrimes, this was like a 2.
>>565859
I see. Well I that's enough info for me, thanks. If anyone has anything else to add though i'd be glad to read it
>>565859
That's what concentration camps are. They are camps for concentrating people.
Can someone explain the Sunni/ Shia split, with a focus on modern geo-politics. Which countries subscribe to which branch of the religion, and which branch is moderate/extreme
>>565657
The original reason for the Sunni/Shia split is almost as stupid as the Orthodox/Catholic split, and has about as much relevance for modern politics.
Irrespective of branches, the religion is more extremist in the theocracies and more moderate in the secular states. Like, duh.
Have a map.
>>565695
>Israel neutral in the middle of this clusterfuck.
Alright who are the Jews going to be siding with /pol/ tells me the Saudis but I want a second opinion
Tell me about this country
>>565629
I know several Latvians and they're all weird
must be something in the water
of many sadness
and dark
and no potato
Look up Livonian order
>England hasn't been ruled from a foreign city since the 5th century
Can any other nation claim such a prestigious accolade?
Good thing you didn't write "England hasn't been ruled by a foreign monarch."
>>565564
>What is the Glorious Revolution
The "Evul Catholic Paddy" made you prep the Dutch Bull out of fear and name your cuckening "Glorious"
>>565564
Thailand, perhaps? I'm not sure since I haven't really studied Thai history, but their independence made them pretty much the Ethiopia of SE Asia during the late 19th and early 20th century. I gues you could say they were ruled by Tokyo as a puppet during WW2 but they were still a sovereign state.
Nepal also I guess, although very much influenced by the Brits they still had control over their own country
A bit more of a /tg/ subject, but given myths are considered an aspect of history I thought I'd ask:
Let's say in some improbable event, King Arthur made his return. Would his claim to the crown of England still be recognized or would he have to accept needing to marry into the current dynasty?
What about other countries and past rulers?
I know in the US, George Washington couldn't run for presidency again since he served two terms of four years. (Even if he predated the term limit laws)
Sorry if this is a dumb question but I was discussing King Arthur earlier and this question popped up. Plus, I've heard some laws and governments prepare for just as strange circumstances, even if they date back centuries.
>>565497
Past monarchs returning to life would most likely be dead last in the line of succession. Titles are passed down to descendants and only in the case there are no direct descendants does it go up a generation and search for descendants again, then if there are no direct descendants it goes up again etc.
Of course since King Arthur is not from the same dynasty he could argue the newcomers usurped the throne with warfare or intrigue and he could launch a reconquest, I suppose.
>>565497
King Arthur is not a historical figure and thus he has no claim to the throne.
>>565516
>Following King Arthur into a conquest to reinstate his realm
>What a time it would be to be alive
Is God able of killing himself?
>>564905
He sort of did allow himself to be nailed on a stick.
So yes. he can apparently.
>>564911
That was his son.
>>564917
And himself!
Is there any specific reason as to why Americans feared/hated communism so much during the 20th century or was it just the result of the general assumption that it was the antithesis of democracy?
Why would you not?
Also, America has always had extremely powerful business interests that used fear of communism as a way to discredit the left wing in general.
Because Communism is a godless ideology.
It's pure atheistic, nihilistic savagery.
Socialism is a cancer that poisons the mind.
>>564887
>all of history has no nukes
>now the other dipole has nukes
>nuclear holocaust diverted by a single individual on 3 separate occasions, one defying orders
>mass propoganda, indoctrination, drills, fearmongering, allegorical UFO movies, etc.
Why the fuck are you asking why people were scared
"War without fire is like sausage without mustard."
"Dude, let's just kill our prisoners of war"
"You love your comrade so much in war. When you see your quarrel is just and your blood is fighting well, tears rise to your eyes. A great sweet feeling of love and pity fills your heart on seeing your friend so valiantly exposing his body to execute and accomplish the command of our Creator. And then you prepare to go and live or die with him and for love not to abandon him. And out of that there arises such delectation, that he who has not tasted it is not fit to say what a delight is. Do you think that a man who does that fears death? Not at all: for he feels strengthened, he is so elated he does not know where he is. Truly he is afraid of nothing."
>>564821
They had to because there was no way they could keep control of that many prisoners. And if they let them go or ransomed them, they just would've had to fight another battle against the same people. In killing them, Henry basically broke the back of any military resistance that france would be able to put up against him
>you're majoring in history?
>that's great cause I heard they're just opening up a new history factory down the street hahahahaha
t-thanks dad
Is your dad a 17th century duke? No? Then how is this related?
>>564563
>Follow your heart
>Just be yourself
>Live your dreams
> You did WHAT? How's that going to pay the bills?!
Two questions /his/.
How do you think the charactetisrtics of modern society effect human evolutionary change?
What sort of pressures does modern society put on populations and what sort of people/genes come on top in an evolutionary sense?
Also a more specific question, how do you think the bulshevik revolution and Stalinist purges effected the russian gene pool?
>evolution
is this bait?
Evolutionism has been debunked.
Get the fuck out with your outdated monkey religion.
How was Abyssinia able to resist total conquest by the Ottoman empire?
Op probably knows this but something about Muhammad and his companions taking refuge under the Ethiopian Church and thereafter declaring them exempt from attacks.
https://youtu.be/d3c6p5awTIg
>>565256
Didn't stop the Ottomans from making several invasions against it during the 15th-18th centuries.
>>565319
That's Turks for you.
>country as big as Germany with half as many people
>nothing worthwhile came ever out of it
what went wrong?
>>564217
Saved Europe
Copernicus
JPII
Christianity
Some fag computer nerd helped crack the Enigma, the single most important breakthrough that won WW2
What is the correct translation of the word "arsenokoitai" used in 1 Corinthians 6 and 1 Timothy 1?
In the last couple of hundred years this has often been translated as "homosexuals" for bigotted cultural reasons.
However it is a word that appears to have been initially made up by Paul that is not used in many other ancient sources and does not have a clear meaning.
It clearly cannot mean "homosexuals" in general as it is referring to men and therefore cannot be referring to lesbians.
It has been translated previously as masturbators and other possible translations are pimps, male prostitutes, male of male rapists or paedophile.
The latter would certainly make sense as the Greeks did not define people as homosexual or heterosexual as we do today but certainly pedastry and the rape of boy slaves was widespread.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/homarsen.htm
>>564182
>in general as it is referring to men and therefore cannot be referring to lesbians.
Check again.
Romans 1:26-27
"...This is why God has given them up to degrading passions; so that their women exchange natural sexual relations for unnatural; and likewise the men, giving up natural relations with the opposite sex, burn with passion for one another, men committing shameful acts with other men and receiving in their own persons the penalty appropriate to their perversion."
Now, logically speaking...what sexual action involves two some chromosomal couples?
Oxford dictionary's, Homosexuality:
Syllabification: ho·mo·sex·u·al·i·ty
Pronunciation: /ˌhōməˌsekSHəˈwalədē/
"Sexual attraction to people of one’s own sex."
WE WUZ CHRYST
>>564360
*same
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