What events would you say undeniably changed human civilization overall, from past to present?
It's a broad question, but one I can't stop thinking about.
>>459343
The belief of Jesus Christ and Christianity.
That is afterall the main belief wether you believe it happened really or not, which changed the whole of human civilization.
>>459343
W A R S
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>>459355
Wars has existed since the beginning of everything. OP means an actual world event.
Sure: I would say WW2 would have been a changer: it got people to migrate to England, Australia, America and if it wasn't for WW2, inventions and people today would not exist.
Feudalism and liberalism aren't substantially different. Manorialism was a social safety net arrangement precisely identical to the welfare state minus some cosmetic differences.
The idea that feudalism was lords mercilessly exploiting serfs in exchange for nothing, rather than a slightly different version of the liberal state, is based on biased accounts from anti feudal historians.
>>459134
Every time I come here and see threads like this I double - triple check that I did not write /lit/ instead of /his/ in the url bar LMAO.
>>459142
Name 1 substantial difference between liberalism and feudalism.
>>459155
Never studied political philosophies.
I would like to but my opinions would be subjective and on w/e I have picked up from remote sources.
>>458979
No. Takes a strong negative tone.
>>458979
Yes. Takes a strong negative tone.
>>458979
Possibly. Takes a strong negative tone.
The Peloponnesian War.
Was it the first war fought for no good reason at all?
There was good reason.
>>458900
Athena was too strong and Sparta was afraid? That's a good one, yeah.
>>458918
Yes it is.
Why did the ottoman empire vassalise the crimean khanate and get into countless wars with the poles and russians for them ?
>>458475
Khanate mostly did raid for slaves and shit. Ottomans were empire, they didnt need another reason.
>>458475
Crimean Tatars are basically Turks who speak a funny Turkish.
>be Lithuanian
>want to destroy Golden Horde once and for all
>fail once at battle of Vorksla
>Hate them even more
>Some decades later manage to create Crimean Khanate by putting Lithuanian Tatar on the throne
>"This will just do"
>Not a century passes by and Crimeans start raiding you and getting you into wars with Turks
Why has the base of support for communist movements and revolutions historically been illiterate/uneducated peasants and unskilled laborers? Is communism dependent on the ignorance and stupidity of the masses to succeed?
Upper and middle classes very rarely support radical political movements on a large scale because they're invested in the current system.
>>458454
>communism preaches the death of the upper class in favour of the lower class
>why do members of the upper class not support it?
>why do members of the lower class support it?
Also, plenty of educated people were marxist back in the day. Today almost none are.
>>458454
>Why has the base of support for communist movements and revolutions historically been illiterate/uneducated peasants and unskilled laborers?
These are the people communism seeks to help.
>Is communism dependent on the ignorance and stupidity of the masses to succeed?
That and people who know what they're doing at the helm, which is what the Pseudo-Marxists of today think they'll be when in reality they'll be one of the first to be torn apart.
I'll start
The Nine Tribes of the Sea Peoples
Gifting Smallpox Blankets
>>457545
Goddamned Germanics stealin' our jobs.
>>457545
Another Succession War.
Hello /his/,
I have recently found myself infatuated with the practice of foot-binding in China. I find the painfulness of the initial procedures a major turn-off, but the aesthetics of the final product amazingly attractive. Oddly, I am not even disgusted by photography of the unwrapped lotus feet.
This practice pervaded life for women in China for so long, yet there is no real agreement on why the practice started. I have read at least three different versions of the origin of foot binding in China in studying the custom.
Am I the only one who finds this tradition beautiful, despite being excrutiatingly painful and extremely inconvenient?
What other historical and out-dated beautification practices are your favorites /his/?
>>457485
I find it disgusting. But whatever floats your boat.
>>457489
Do you have an odd, out-dated historical standard for beauty that you find attractive?
>>Ohaguro?
>>Massive French powdered wigs?
>>Corsets?
If I took that off, would you die?
Why did they want people to confess? Couldn't they just light their asses? As if it made the slightest difference.
Engels fucking beard man
Because unlike Lenin, Stalin was very conscious of taking the moral high ground. The Soviet Union is the freest, most humanitarian country on earth, so when you liquidate people it's only because of their crimes as proved in a fair trial.
Needed a staple of legitimacy m8.
What was the true intention of the crusades?
Did the Templars find some relic?
Do you like cute girls?
>What was the true intention of the crusades?
Liberating the holy land from savage barbarians worshiping a false God
>Did the Templars find some relic?
Doubtful
>Do you like cute girls?
Yes.
They were started by the Templars who were looking for the Apple of Eden.
>>457022
>Cannibalism during the siege of Ma'arra
>Peter the Hermit ruining everything
>Pointless murder, rape and looting of the European countryside because the entire thing was so unorganized
>Muh holy war
>he thinks the bible is a valid source for historical discussion
>genesis is a metaphor
>original sin isn't
>>457014
>he thinks original sin isn't a metaphor for the fracturing of the original divine unity into subject and object
Top pleb
>>457014
>genesis is a metaphor
It isn't.
Does languages get better and more effective as time goes and they evolve?
language evolves according to situations. For exampe in U.S. it's shaped so that people don't commit thought-crimes
Not necessarily, remember that evolution /= improvement, evolution = change.
>>456738
This, you can see for example the changes in American English and Brazilian Portuguese, in some way using simpler grammatical structures so that immigrants could have a easy time.
So /his/torians who are your friends from the past?
>Not choosing Jesus for all of them except crazy and edgy
>>456465
>implying he wasnt crazy and edgy
>>456465
> Implying Jesus wasn't edgy as fuck
He's basically a classical era Linkin Park.
>Thomas Jefferson's bedroom
why would he ruin a perfectly good hallway like this?
>>456235
Jefferson is a fucking troll
>>456235
He was autistic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrospective_diagnoses_of_autism#List_of_individuals
>>456235
A literal autist.
Who the fuck are these people?
Why do they live here?
Where did they come from?
Why do they write weird?
Discuss
It's an archipellago whose population remained isolated from the rest of the world until the Europeans came in. Nothing special.
>>456132
why is it independent tho?
>>459053
because it isn't a colony.
it's not a colony because they said "fuck off we're free" in the 40s/50s when the british dismantled their empire after WW2.
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