Why were child soldiers used? Physically, children are completely useless for the war.
Desperation and indoctrination
>>486052
cannon fodder
Why are woman soldiers used?
Why am i not seeing the Mozarts and Bethovens, the Spinonaz and Descartes, the Einstens and Newtons, The Hemingways and Goethes of today?
Wait about twenty years and you'll see.
>>481718
Because you're a retard
>>481718
>Why am i not seeing the Mozarts and Bethovens, the Spinonaz and Descartes, the Einstens and Newtons, The Hemingways and Goethes of today?
2 5 y e a r r u l e
If my fathers grandfather was a Berber from Algier, but since 3 generations we are living in Germany and his son and grandson only had children with European women. Am I considered European?
>>479687
Well, since Hermione is now a negress, I suppose so.
>>479693
the Harry Potter one?
depends... if you have a german name, speak german at home, watch german tv, eat german food and stopped being muslim then yes you're european
otherwise you will always stay a foreigner
Why do revolutions always end with tyranny replaced by tyranny?
That's not how the french revolution ended
>>471538
For every one that ended up fucking up I can name one that did the opposite, or at least didn't replace a tyrant with another. The one in my country included.
>>471538
>He fell for the tyranny meme
Oh boy
Why wasn'y European colonialism as successful in Africa or Asia as it was in the Americas and Australia?
>>484650
They liked to treat people there worse, and didn't send as many colonists, just kinda showed up and went "Yeah, this is ours."
Also the people there for the most part were still aligned with their countries, not having a separate identity, unifying them. Some did, like south Africa.
Also this is a little /pol/, but native Americans in North America were pretty based and wise, not as retarded as other natives.
>>484650
Are you not aware of the shithole that is South America?
>>484710
Upperlated Boast
Reminder that Da Vinci was an Arab.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1571851/Leonardo-Da-Vinci-may-have-been-an-Arab.html
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/apr/12/art.italy
Any interesting facts like this that most people don't know?
ALHAMDULILAH WE WER PHILOSOPHERS AND SCIENTISTS N SHIT, TAKE THAT KUFAR
>>484411
>facts
>english press
Pick one and one only.
>>484459
http://www.stilearte.it/leonardo-darabia/
Why are the Nordic countries so peaceful, compared to other superficially similar countries, such as the UK and the US?
>>484245
Well, as long as you don't live in Malmo
is a sample of only a couple of decades really relevant in the context of european history
>>484245
Nobody living there may prevent them from raising an effective army.
>that time spaniards assassinated the leader of one of the greatest cities in history, starved its population to death, razed it until nothing but its foundations was left, drained its sacred waters, and then built a crap european style city on top of it
>>484065
Actually Montezuma was killed by his own people
>>484065
They didn't assassinate Montezuma, he technically became their vassal when they entered Tenochtitlan. He was killed by other Aztecs who rebelled against him and the Spaniards
Shouldn't have resisted the conversion to Christianity.
[spoiler]Do spoilers work here?[/spoiler]
Is there such a thing as European Latin national character? If so, what are its cultural, social and political traits?
why should shared but very distant roots of language mean anything culturally, socially or politically
>>483695
Best food in Europe.
>>483695
Yes but Romania should definitely not be included
Seeing how kings enjoyed being bastards (have illegitimate children), was there a point in history when one of those children became the monarch of the kingdom?
Like, let's say the heir dies out and king leaves no more children, but let's also say the king's siblings and everyone else related to his family are also dead, can the throne go to an illegitimate child or will the kingdom search for a monarch outside of it's borders?
>>483683
As always, depends.
William, duke of Normandy, and later conqueror of England, was not called "the Bastard" just for the hatred of butthurted people but cause he was an illegitimate son of his father.
Henry, count of Trastamara rose agaisnt his half brother, the king Peter, and after a series of wars in the context of the HYW, defeated him and take the throne for himself, fathering a new line.
Henry V was a bastard?
>>483730
Alright, interesting. Anywhere I can read up more on this? Apparently just found out that the King of Scotland, James VI also became the King of England simultaneously, so does this mean that monarchs generally preferred to just find a foreign ruler instead of let an illegitimate one rule the state?
What single person killed the most people themselves? Not generals or rulers who ordered killings but went and killed people themselves.
My searching came up with Luis Garavito the most confirmed victims for a serial killer in modern day and Catherine Monvoisin who confessed to up to 2,500 murders.
>>483609
>Garavito's victims were poor children, peasant children, or street children between the ages of 8 and 16
>After gaining their trust, he took the children for a walk and when they got tired, he would molest and rape them, cut their throats, and usually dismembered their bodies
>He admitted to the rape, torture and murder of 147 young boys
>Most corpses showed signs of prolonged torture
>prolonged torture
Jesus fucking christ, bump
>>483609
Probably Hans-Ulrich Rudel.
>Confirmed kills of 519 tanks, 1 battleship, 1 cruiser, 1 destroyer, 70 landing craft, 800 other vehicles, 150 artillery pieces, 4 armored trains, a whole shitload of bridges, and 9 -planes.
>>483609
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_serial_killers_by_number_of_victims
>Pedro López
>Possible victimes: 300–350+
>Whereabouts: Unknown
The cops over there make people disappear all the time yet they let a guy like this go free?
Would /his/ like to learn some Akkadian?
>>483595
yes
>>483595
Yes please.
>>483595
yes
Is it possible for poor people to be atheists or nihilistic?
Yes. Look at me.
Why shouldn't it be?
dumb frogposter
Thoughts on the Sea Peoples, /his/?
For those of you who don't know, the Sea Peoples were a collection of tribes during the late Bronze Age whose piracy and general vandalism greatly weakened Egypt and probably destroyed Mycenae and Troy.
According to the Egyptian records, there were several tribes of these marauders; the Denyen (Danaoi of Greek legend or the Biblical tribe of Dan), Ekwesh (possibly Achaeans, refugees from Mycenae), Lukkah (Lycians), Peleset (Biblical Philistines), Shekelesh and Sherden (Sicilians and Sardinians), Teresh (Etruscans, same root as Tyrrhenian), Tjeker (likely Cretan in origin) and the Weshesh (unknown, lots of theories circulate- my first thought was a relation to Walhaz, the root of Welsh, Welscher, Wallachia, etc., but the Celts that Walhaz come from don't exist yet and that's probably too far anyways).
I've always thought the theory that the Sea Peoples included Sicilians, Sardinians and Etruscans among their ranks was pretty cool. I also read somewhere that the Odyssey is a possibly a half-mythological half-remembered tale of a mercenary that fought with Sea Peoples.
>>483032
I love the sea-peoples, I always like to use them as an example of how entire civilizations and societies get destroyed by something they likely didnt expect.
>>483616
Sea-people weren't responsible for the collapse of Myceanae
>Thoughts on the Sea Peoples, /his/?
White people ruing everything. Again.
>yfw if Napoleon had attacked at Maloyaroslavets and pushed through on the southern road, he would probably never have been knocked from power
That pic is really sad
Even if he did, he would have still been thrown away. His fate was sealed when he decided the blocus and went against the banque de france interests.
>>482913
How so?
