Is imperialism strictly a white thing?
We had the choice to not sack Muslims out of revenge during the Crusades but we still did, and we still reacted to the decline of the scholastic Golden Age by going to fucking America.
How would history have been different if we had stuck with the more modest option during the Middle Ages?
>>540179
>Is imperialism strictly a white thing?
>>540179
What is the Ottoman Empire?
What is the Mongol Empire?
What are the various SA Empires?
You get my point? Imperialism is not an exclusively white thing
>>540179
Humanity doesnt make collective choices on direction. The crusades were privately funded endeavors. The church and local Kingdoms independently raised the capital and men to wage the crusades, and as such when the money ran out, so did the fervor to fight such a war. Propaganda could only substitute for gold and silver for so long, before the desire to lose ones life in a foreign land for literally nothing was less appealing than ceding a rotten hell-hole in the desert.
There was a simultaneous existence of domestic feudalism, and mercenary warfare during the middle ages.
After ravenously consuming folklore & mythology I noticed some weird patterns.
All over the world people seem to share taboos over names. Mayan people never called the jaguar by its true name, various European cultures used codewords for the Bear, and even people like the Zulu never called the leopard a leopard in Zulu under most circumstances.
Another thing I notice is that people were very apprehensive about giving out their real names to strangers, many using "public" names and "true" names.
Why is that?
Also, why did cultures worldwide try to seclude girls in the dark when they had their first periods?
Why did completely unrelated people feel the need to sacrifice animals, plants, and even people to supernatural beings? Even christians believe that death and blood were needed to save mankind. So often you see gods dying and being resurrected for the greater good.
Read The Hero With 1000 Faces by Joseph Campbell.
>>540295
I wasn't very fond of it
>>540145
clearly because there are esoteric elements to things we think are mundane, OP. magical principles, if you will.
Mods are asleep, post absolute madmen
The Orthodox Diogenes
>born a serf
>goes around shoplifting and giving to poor
>walks around wearing nothing but chains
>rebukes Czar
>canonized
Why do the lower classes always fight among themselves instead of joining together?
Why is there this crab in a barrel mentality rather than everyone banding together to accomplish something?
Why do you assume they have common interests?
What is the fall
>>539895
"Classes" are relative
Can someone please explain to me how the Q source theory is more viable than the account given by Papias of Hierapolis? The synoptic Gospels cover a lot of the same territory, but...they don't do it verbatim, they do it in different styles, and except for Luke (which was the only Gospel not written by one of Christ's direct disciples), in very Hebraic syntax and style, which evinces a translation (Harold Bloom criticized the literary merit of the Gospels precisely because they read like they are written in the style and syntax of Hebrew or Aramaic, which he finds unsuitable to Greek). Then there is the this idea that the Gospel of John came from a wildly different sect than the rest of the Gospels, when the truth is simply that the Gospel of John was the Gospel that was only for full Christians (even today, before saying the Nicene Creed, which takes the place of the traditional Christian confession formula stating Jesus Christ is God, the Orthodox Church says "guard the doors!", which was something started to give the alarm in case Pharisees were coming by, and this is also the time when catechumens, that is, Christians who were not fully initiated, had to depart).
The biggest mark against Papias' account is---the Gospels give indications that the Temple of Jerusalem will be destroyed (now that Christ's Body replaces it), so historians beg the question and say they must have been composed after the Destruction of the Temple, since actually predicting it is out of the question.
>Can someone please explain to me why my religion is bullshit
>>539911
I'm just talking about theory of the origin of the Gospels, not their validity.
>>539995
written by the flavian historians, now you can stop your ceasar worship
Hello friends. Just wanted to know your thoughts on Dan Carlin and the Hardcore History podcast.
>>539302
also any good history related podcasts you would recommend?
Why does Dan Carlin always have an edgy "hardcore" look on his face?
>>539302
It serves two excellent purposes: firstly, to offer an accessible digest of historical consensus on major historical events, and secondly, to provide a hate-totem for desperately insecure history students (and presumably the occasional autodidact).
>>539376
He probably thinks he'd look stupid smiling.
Opinions on this book? I don't know much about the Mongols, but the conclusions drawn seem pretty far-fetched and unsubstantiated.
>>538881
I read this, there was some ok stuff in here but theres a shit ton of revisionist history about Genghis Khan not killing that many people.
I mean, all of those contemporary chroniclers tearing their hair out because of witnessing hundreds of thousands massacred across different continents and cultures must of all been making it up right?
>>538891
While the Mongols killed a lot of people, medieval chroniclers are known to exaggerate death tolls either to make the side they support seem more bad ass or to make the side they don't support seem more evil.
Most deaths caused by the Mongols were probably caused by their destruction of infrastructure, not simply their slaughtering people with swords
>>538881
>dude the mongols are so cool XD
Garbage.
Don't you find it odd that atheists say "God doesn't exist," when the God they say doesn't exist was determined by a man who was in the trough of an intellectual wave created by war, famine, and death, and who is almost universally deemed as the worst philosopher of European history? Almost all, save the modern Protestant devotees who back Ockham as being on par with Thomas Aquinas. Fools.
So yes, atheists, good job. You have successfully swatted a theological fly. Congratulations.
Diagoras of Melos wasn't as bad as all that
>>538806
He didn't even try to disprove god, he just said there was none. Just like atheists. Such pristine thinkers.
Allah exists.
God (YHVH, the Lord) doesn't.
Checkmate, Christian scum.
>humans are only driven by fear and greed
what are the best arguments for and against, /his?
Sex
>>538622
fear of letting bloodline end?
What's the fallacy or whatever called when someone you're arguing says "just google it, it's fact"
>>538585
common knxwledge fallacy
it's not a fallacy, it's you being butthurt by being exposed as lacking in knowledge
>>538602
the moon landing never happened, just google it, it's a fact
So you want to learn about the First World War? I have some helpful links for you.
First, an introductory video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbwH1ZBnYds
There's a YouTube channel, The Great War, which is going through the First World War every week as it happened 100 years ago. That means the show won't end until 2018. The show does a decent job at introducing some material, but like most YouTube shows, each episode lasts only a few minutes and skims over content. Just my opinion, but I feel like the show pads itself with too much focus on battles, could use a little diversity in the topics:
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheGreatWar
I recommend watching the show, but only for an easygoing introduction into the various topics of WW1. Whenever the show introduces a new concept, such as the Schlieffen-Plan, I recommend using this website:
http://www.firstworldwar.com
The above website is an extensive database of all things WW1.
If you prefer a book, I personally like "The First World War" by John Keegan, though I'm sure there's better books out there.
WW1 has been the basis for a lot of great movies. "All Quiet on the Western Front" shows the extreme nationalism of European countries as well as the horrors of trench warfare. "Lawrence of Arabia" is an epic following the titular character on his quest to lead the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire.
Here's a guide to WW1 films.
These things are a must read unless you wish to repeat faggot tier memery about WW1 and its aftermath:
Sally Marks
The Myths of Reparations
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4545835?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Holger H. Herwig
Clio Deceived: Patriotic Self-Censorship in Germany after the Great War
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/buzzmat/DH%20articles/HerwigClioDeceived.pdf
>>538498
>the 10/10 show that is anzacs stuck down there in "others"
bah humbug
Hey /his/torians. I got to wondering the other day about which Native American tribe I would want to be in if I had to chose, but my knowledge of Native American history is quite limited. What would you guys say was the "best" tribe to live in between the 1700s and 1800s and why? I'm asking in terms of cool culture/traditions, strength, resources, etc.
shameless bump
>>537954
Iroquis, I liked them in Civ V and in EU4. If including South America, probably the Caribs or Muiscas
What's with africans and their love of fachions/machetes?
>>537881
Jungles and thick foliage.
Why did Europeans love Axes?
>>537881
well you can't find a better tool for chopping through the jungle like through a bunch of tutsis.
ITT: Best settlements that ever existed.
I'll start: Alexandria
>>537838
The queen of cities, Constantineople
New York is pretty good, gotta admit.
>>538043
Mein negger
>consciousness creates reality!
Give me your best rejoinder.
>>537783
Total bullshit
>>537783
The best rejoinder is a silent, incredulous stare.
the term "observer" is analogical in quantum physics talk, it doesn't mean that literally looking at things messes them up, it means that introducing new forces to a system messes them up. On the quantum level things are so small that the light produced by e.g. a microscope is enough to push a particle in one way or another so you can never have a completely accurate measurement. Not because of any weird consciousness magic but because on that scale there is no such thing as a negligible amount of force.
