Lets talk about Southeast Asia and its history.
I mean, It has to be interesting seeing how the area is the worlds largest melting pot of culture, religion, ideology and politics from china and India, the Middle East and in the later years Europe.
>What happened there before influence from china and India came in?
>What are some notable civilizations and culture, what are some minor ones?
>How did they feel about their neighbors through history?
>What happened before the colonial era?
>What happened when the colonial era kicked in?
>How bad were the dutch really?
>Who else came to collect the spice?
>What was the Angkor Wat?
>123Fucking easy
what did he mean by this?
As a Filipoor, I can safely say that our spot is fucked up.
>>488779
>no external threats
>no real need for unity
>limited contact relatively advanced civilizations (Chinese, Japanese, Mainland SEA empires)
>numerous linguistic, cultural (and with the arrival of islamic missionaries) religious differences
No surprise that nothing really notable happened on the islands which are now referred to as the Philippines.
Beside the colonial lines established by competing nations, how were the African borders established?
For an example, why wasn't french Africa just one massive state in the middle of east African instead of some artificially made states with questionable borders?
I mean it clearly wasn't made by cultural lines, and the Belgians had no problem with doing the former, save Rwanda and Burundi.
>>488232
There were based on treaties as well.
Over the period there were a lot of close calls over fighting over land in which many cases saidl and being fought over was very awful.
>>488232
French West Africa wasn't just one massive colony, it was a federation of eight colonies. French Equatorial Africa was as well, except every colony within the federation existed as an independent colony before it's creation.
Also, this map is confusing. Why is Namibia coloured orange for Germany, but Tanzania, Togo, Rwanda, and Burundi are not? All of them were under German rule at one point. If this is going by who ruled it at the time of independence,it is still wrong because Namibia was under South African rule at the time of independence, as well as both Libya and Eritrea before it was absorbed into Ethiopia.
>>488232
Geographically speaking it would be somewhat difficult to control land masses near the Sahara or Congo (the vastness of it all is just too troublesome). Based on the map it seems Coastal regions were of some importance (think of what's on the other side of the pond). The Nile probably had something to do with it as well, but besides that I have no idea.
good question IMO
Scenario: Napoleon, following the defeat at Waterloo, escapes across the Atlantic to the United States.
What happens?
>>488193
He's arrested and given to the British
>Be Napoleon
>Survive a hundred horrific battles
>Escape to America
>Get shot
He would probably just live in a fancy house in New Orleans and then nothing would happen and he would be remembered the exact same way he is now
UK relations with US probably would not be affected, especially since the people in Britain were actually pretty sympathetic to Napoleon when he was captured and wanted him to live free
Can someone who has actually studied Nietzsche give me a quick and dirty guide to becoming Ubermensch?
read some books and figure it out for yourself
Is nietzscheposting becoming the new stirnerposting?
How does one know if they're a pseudo-intellectual or not? How does one become an intellectual?
>How does one know if they're a pseudo-intellectual or not?
Well self-identifying as a Marxist is a great indication.
Just know you're as dumb as the next guy except you're not clever enough to hide it.
>>488072
What about self identifying as a bearded Marxist?
Will Prussia ever return
>>487979
>implying Prussia ever left
>implying the German Empire wasn't just Prussia with expanded borders
>implying Wilhelm didn't hold all of the power himself and that "Prussian Constitutionalism" isn't just faux absolute monarchy
Will Assyria ever return?
I'm tired of Syria.
Will the Neo-Babylonian Empire ever return?
I've heard and seen the name come up in relation to Ancient Egypt, but was there anything culturally significant about the Nubian Kingdoms other than their interactions with the Ancient Egyptians? Also, how did the Nubians manage to rule Egypt for a time during the Middle Kingdom?
They WUZ KINGS of Egypt for a period, actually.
>>487882
Was that by military force or was that diplomatic?
>>487877
Contrary to popular belief upper Egypt and lower Nubia have a common origin.
The paintings and reliefs you see of the two in relation to one another in Egypt is highly symbolic, both share a common East African and North African stock.
Beyond that they are first and foremost both a Nile riverine culture, more than any other neighbor they are most alike.
I find people talking about that dynastic era of refutable Nubian rulers ignore the very interwoven nature of two peoples.
Oh and Beja still exist today in Sudan and until the Ottomans still worshiped the Egyptian deities.
What man has done the most to promote world peace? Effort doesn't count, only results.
>>487558
That soviet technician who ignored a false nuke warning and prevented WW3
Tolstoy?
>>487558
Big Boss
This guy just made things worse, right?
>>487248
No, but this guy did.
literally would be viewed as badly as Hitler had he lived in a more modern time.
>>487265
Nah, that would be Sulla.
Caesar was loved by the citizens because he didn't perscribe, he minimized roman citizen casualities in the war and his clemency was pretty well publicised
How far did it set us back?
1. Very little
2. Very little
All the futuristic space pyramid science used by ancient Black Kings.
>>487166
..10..15 years if we are being fairly generous I suppose?
Was the average roman soldier equipped like this? Seems like full plate would be expensive for a foot soldier. Or is this just a Hollywood meme?
Do you know what full plate is? I don't think you know what full plate is.
It never supplanted Hamata and after a while they dropped it again.
>>487146
The Roman state after Marian's reforms provided weapons and armor for every legionary, but I think chainmail was much more common than that.
Why do people continue to contend that communism has never been tried before in debates around the practicality of the ideology? Surely ubiquitous and expedient backwards slides into petty despotism is evidence enough of the instability inherent in handing power over so much to so few.
Perhaps it'd be more appropriate to say that communism has never been accomplished before? This I fear will be seen by Marxian intellectuals as the praise of what could be, rather than the admonishment of what couldn't be that it is.
>>486910
Communism has never been tried because it's IMPOSSIBLE to try that
Unless we'll have some kind of apocalypse which will destroy all civilizations, ideologies and doctrines except the communist one.
>>486910
Too purple.
No evidence.
Trite argument.
Failure to interact with major positions in the literature.
P 52% - I know you can do better, why are you producing this shit?
Communism is for people that are ignorant of economics.
>Philosophy is dead
Why did he say this? does he realize that discussing the reason philosophy is dead is in itself philosophy?
>>486834
Looking at him he's way more dead than philosophy
>>486834
Because autism inhibits abstract thinking.
>>486834
>Why did he say this?
BECAUSE FOR HIM PHILOSOPHY IS AND HAS ALWAYS BEEN "DEAD" SINCE HE IS COGNITIVELY INCAPABLE TO COMPREHEND IT.
What led to the Korean War? What was the unified Korean peninsula like before it?
What attempts have the countries made towards reunification?
>>486713
it was taken over by japan in the early 20th centuary before that it was sort of isolationsit.
the war started when the communist north wanted to reunite the country which have ruined attempts at unification indefinably until something major changes in the political climate
>>486713
>What led to the Korean War?
US incompetence.
The southern section of the korean party over selling it's organisational levels (We'll have taken Seoul before the tanks reach it).
>What was the unified Korean peninsula like before it?
Heavily industrialised in the North (to japanese levels). A japanese wage slave labour camp.
>What attempts have the countries made towards reunification?
Well the DRVN attempted to reunify Korea in a quite remarkable way in the late 40s.
>>487080
I thought the south, not the north was both more industrialized and populated.
Is /his/ Yorkist or Lancastrian?
>the eternal anglo
>>486591
idk york who gives a fuck and whats the difference
>>486669
>Why have discussion when we can just post le ebic meme replies XD
