Alright everyone, I have noticed that in History & Humanities, there is a lack of Monarchist sympathy.
Lets find out a way this unfortunate great man could have saved not only himself but the great French Monarchy.
I believe that if Louis would have sent away Marie Antoinette and kept his financial minister Calonne, he wouldve stood a chance for a while until he would called back Turgot, the better financial minister whom was before Calonne. With the help of Turgot, he would get rid of the Taille and Gabelle taxes and would place a few taxes on the privileged nobility. With Turgot as the financial director and Calonne the internal minister, i believe France would have become the greatest country in Europe without the French Revolution ever happening, with no stupid Napoleon!
>>495970
>Lets find out a way this unfortunate great man could have saved not only himself but the great French Monarchy.
By replacing his French subjects with Prussians or English. Basically anyone less petty.
Why is this part of history so overshadowed? Many textbooks will skip over this period saying nothing happened and talk about the middle east with Islam and other stuff instead.
Very low amounts of writing/primary sources.
>>495907
PROBABLY BECAUSE IT IS ENTIRELY FABRICATED, THUS, OVERLY VAGUE, THEREFORE IT IS OFTEN MERELY CURSORILY ADDRESSED FOR SIMPLICITY.
What can you tell me about the Ainu people?
>>495839
Isn't the difference between the japs and the ainu pretty much artifical?
>>495856
No wait, confused them with another japanese minority
>>495839
Japan's Natives. Treated similarly as Canada's First Nations people. Japan has made great attempts at assimilation because "One Japan, One Race" mentality.
was the fall of the Roman Empire (in the classical incarnation) inevitable or could anything have saved it? What could have happened differently that would allow Rome to conquer the globe?
Is this possible or is it just history nerd fantasies?
Whoops, posted wrong map.
>>495695
The Roman Empire heavily relied on its (mostly germanic) auxiliaries and foederati mercenaries since their own "latin" military, the legion pretty much declined, however to these soldiers were paid with land and to able to pay your former soldiers you have to conquer foreign soil with the help of your auxiliaries and foederati which you in return have to pay as well.
The whole "payment with land" thing is pretty much a vicious circle and led to instability
When the Republic fell and the smallholding agricultural class was subsumed by the villa system, it became inevitable that it would be easier for Romans to become rich by seizing Rome than by seizing foreign lands.
Ok total history pleb here , uh how did humans keep fresh without shower gels and toothpaste , did they all smell all the time?
>>495675
They didn't, really. I mean I'm sure people bathed in the rivers and lakes, but those were pretty India-tier for most of history as is.
>>495675
Greeks for the most part cleaned themselves using olive oil, using water bath was a rare thing to the point of being a special occasion, that's for the lower class at least.
Current standards of hygiene were simply not obtainable for most of humanity, throughout most of history. Soap was expensive, running water was non-existent, and existing bodies of water were usually filthy.
hey /his/
i want to introduce myself into philosphy, recommend me some books
>>495398
in descending order
>>495398
What kind of things have you read on philosophy already? Also, what's your general reading level?
I'm not a studied man but I'd recommend the Trial and Death of Socrates, which consists of 4 books, Euthyphro, Apology, Crito and Phaedo, all written by Plato.
They're all short, easy to read and to understand, give a great introduction to Platos writings and Socratic Dialogues in general and the philosophy of their time.
Can someone explain to me why sexuality changed so much in art with modernity? Art was rife with sexuality since ancient times, but it almost invariably portrayed with humorous undertones (even religiously, phallic worship often involved comedy about the dick's size). It doesn't seem like it was until the early modern period, that sex in art started to be portrayed as something solemn. What caused this change?
Basically, the Victorians fucked it all up for everyone.
Very simplistic but that's the long and short of it.
>>495228
But the solemn depiction of sex in art seem to begin more with the early modern period, than with the Victorian Period. It's rampant by the Victorian Period, though, and sex as a humorous motif in art is almost extinct, but the transformation starts much earlier.
Many women don't like humorus of phallic do they?
Why did Pan-Arabism fail?
>>495139
Because it was a dogshit ideology from the very beginning
But in terms of geopolitics, because not a single major power was interested or will ever be interested in a single state that comprises all, or even a large part of, the Arab World.
>>495139
Because although Arab cultural is freely transmitted there is still ethnic and racial hierarchies that inhibited true solidarity across the North Africans and Middle East landscape.
Sectarianism
Despotism
Monarchism
Interventionism
If America won the war of 1812 what would the outcome be?
>>495063
Canada would already be a part of us.
>>495063
America did win the War of 1812. The British were forced to withdraw from the Ohio River Valley and end impression of American sailors, and in addition their native allies were entirely destroyed. They got nothing in return.
Let's assume you're asking "What if the American invasion of Canada had succeeded". It's honestly too much of a hypothetical to ever effectively answer, though I guarantee many people in this thread will try.
>>495105
I always thought it was an American invasion of Canada, and yes that was my question
>“Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.”
What did he mean by this?
If OP is a faggot and is shitty at everything, then he'll be happy about where he sucks dick and we'll say all the creaks in the floor and the cracks in the ceiling are "enhancing the mood" therefore it gives OP a boner saying he likes the shitty house
>>495045
>What did he mean by this?
What did he mean by this?
>>495062
That he wants the users of this image board to partake in an angry discussion about the merits of nationalism.
why has Southern Italy never flourished in warfare historically? They are known for being strong tough people. Where did they fail?
It's a mixture of a lack of communal cohesion (namely hyper individualistic mindsets), poverty and constant abuse by much more powerful, wealthier external powers.
>>495021
But why wasnt there ever even any sort of guerilla activity? It would make sense if there was at least some historcially. But there appears to have been very little
>>495029
there have been revolts and uprisings all throughout the history of Southern Italy, though.
The peasantry has never truly cared who has ruled them and never had a desire to govern themselves. And why would they? Poor farmers tied to the land, with a mindset of high suspicion.
All parties, pre-KOI, had no interest in self rule and all believed that self-rule was against their interests.
Does anyone else want to create a philosophy that views all art as disposable media that serve as nothing but entertainment?
Why am I being held hostage and told that I'm not allowed to be a part of educated society unless I spend a lot my time reading fiction (and I've read many many more books than most people and they've almost all been fiction)? There are two other things that compound my feels. One, literature has become entwined with the publishing-media-academia industrial complex. /lit/ says that every book is shit unless it's endorsed by these institutions. They are unprepared to question them, even when they publish Tao Lin's tweets (not that I'm passing judgement, but we all know what lit's opinion would be if it was a self published person trying the same thing).
Secondly, so much literature is, let's be honest, the writers feels / narcissism self indulgently packaged in to a book. If people don't care about my feels then I don't see why I should care about their feels.
>>494978
Is that the totality of your philosophical system? That art is worthless? I'm not sure philosophy is the word you're looking for. Unless you mean that as a cornerstone of a philosophy, as in "under anonism we care about things with inherent value that helps society and anything else (ie: art) has only entertainment value. Society should promote feats of engineering over that of art and museums that chronolog the development of improvements of design will replace all government funded art galleries."
That could work.
>>494994
>instantly accuse me of being someone who insults writers for not building rockets
Why do I even bother
>>494978
>Does anyone else want to create a philosophy that views all art as disposable media that serve as nothing but entertainment?
I'm probably with you anon at that point, but the rest is baffling. Care to elaborate?
your opinion on this youtube channel is the information reliable? also where can i find good tier world history documentaries
>>494884
Duck Duck Go
>>494884
my wife's son really loves this channel
>>495024
If you don't stop him he's going to grow up into a cůck
reminder that language isn't real
>>494879
reminder that deez nuts are real
reminder that language is real
>>494879
Reminder that OP's pic can be found on a FB page called Nihilist Memes
Reminder that Pepe is dead and frog-posting in general is pure cancer
Does any other empire come close to that of the ancient Finns?
>protip, none do
>>494833
>shit outside of /b/
>>494844
>being this jealous
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