What's the most interesting period of history, /his/?
the stone age
>>443734
Next thursday
>>443734
Basically any period that follows the disintegration of a large empire (Diadochi, Mongol khanates, post Napoleonic Europe)
Why were the Jews kicked out of Spain?
>>443710
>filename ends with 88
>>443716
I have 14 filenames that end with 88
Isnt obvious? Are you retarded?
What's a good book about the history of cannabis? Not just since prohibition began, I want to read about the whole history of the plant, from antiquity through modernity. Books focusing on the history of hemp are fine, too.
Drug history thread, I guess.
Interesting topic. Bumping.
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B005G37SDI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1
Looks interesting as fuck.
Did the Assassins really chew hashish?
Most people don't know that Mexico is the only country in North America to have a monarchy. Mexico became independent from Spain as the Mexican Empire. From 1821 to 1823 it was ruled by Augustine I of Iturbide. It was overthrown by Santa Anna. The monarchy was reinstated from 1863 to 1867 by Maximilian I of Habsburg. It was overthrown by Benito Juarez. Do you think Mexico wouldn't be the so ducked up as it is today if it had maintained a similar system of government as Japan, England and other countries?
>>443409
>Most people don't know that Mexico is the only country in North America to have a monarchy.
Most people do know that Canada is a constitutional Monarchy.
>>443409
ESTABAMOS EMPERADORES Y MIERDA,
Canadia has the British monarchy but not it's own.
Chill out bro
I'll attack the Rebs when I'm good and ready
Dude, if you don't hurry up we'll miss a golden opportunity to crush the rebellion
Ayyyy lmao
George is a pussy
Ummm Lincoln, you promised emancipation?
What does /his/ think of the IRA?
Butthurt paddy fags who need to chill the fuck out
which IRA
>>443178
Bit biased cause my family was heavily involved.
But they had very legitimate reasons early on, they were completely right to fight for the establishment of the republic.
For me it only becomes mucky with the issue of violence around northern ireland.
However it has to be said that many of those involved where from northern ireland, and were actively being oppressed. Violence can be expected of the alienated and oppressed.
But it is hard to say that all of the violence in regards to northern ireland as justifiable as the violence employed to create the republic in the first place.
Most certainly freedom fighters.
So which one would you put on your tombstone then /his/?
Atheist here, but I would have the eagle as it best represents myself, and my beliefs, and the county I love.
>>442949
>being an atheist and wanting to be buried
what a fucking waste of space, just get cremated.
Also it is hilarious that you feel too intelligent for religion yet still fall into basic traps like nationalism.
Go ahead and put a fedora on it instead, it'll be less cringy.
>>442954
This. I'd get cremated to avoid all the horrible corpse worship.
Ali is loved by the Shi'a, the Alawites, the Druze and the Sufi. He is respected by not as loved,arguably, by the Sunni. Yet none of the Mohamed's Sunni successors have a cult following in other Islamic sects.
Why?
>>442889
Because Ali was correct and the others were usurpers.
Shi'ism is a political position.
The Alawites and the Druze aren't Muslim. Look at their beliefs rather than the "Islamic theme" they "syncretised" with their beliefs, and you'll see what I'm talking about.
>>443004
How was he correct, when he was properly voted incorrect?
Why does Hell exist?
I mean if we were created by a loving God and for making a mistake we are condemned to an eternity of torture then what the actual fuck.
Note: Christians can't claim there isn't a Hell because according to the Apostle's Creed and Christian tradition Jesus actually went there to free souls, and Muslims can't claim there isn't a Hell either because the Quran is full of vivid descriptions of it.
http://www.compellingtruth.org/
You'll find all your answers here.
>>442803
*nihilistic post that discards everything said in the op*
>>442803
Because then where will the people that bullied Christians go?
I'm into war and the strategies that have been used in those wars. Should I just grab random history books or do you guys know any specific, good literature on this topic?
Please no Sun Tzu The Art of War.
>>442545
If you're into World War 2 there are literally billions of books written by and about the german tank commanders. Almost all of them use primary (and thus obviously biased) sources.
Try Erich von Mansteins "Lost Victories". Although beware, he holds on to the now disputed theory that "had Hitler just left the generals to it, the germans would would have won".
>>442545
Forgot this, sorry;
Furthermore the Byzantines wrote a number of military manuals on the subject. These are all situational of course and deal exclusively with how to fight the enemies of the Byzantines and nothing more. The most famous is the Strategikon by some dude named Maurice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_military_manuals
Also,
Machiavelli wrote a book called the Art of War which I haven't read. It supposedly deals with the specific situation in Italy during his lifetime.
>>442545
>I'm into war
So, start fighting with yourself. And try killing him.
>Zizek in his talk on state with varoufakis
>"We *sniff* maasht tayk eeeen de reffyoojeesh, and so on and so on, but they must be told that they tolerate gays, Jews, right of women, and so on and so on"
>see picrelated
>>442452
littrered
>>442452
>people celebrate banning gay rights
Pathetic.
>>442475
Pederast BTFO
I just received my dna test back from ancestry, is there a way I can use this to discover my ydna?
>>442356
we're all related, cousin.
btw why haven't you called?
>>442356
Are you a male? It should've come with the Y-dna haplogroup results
>>443726
Women are subhuman, kek
Why is the US so 'weird' when it comes to coming out as an atheist?
It's literally a non-issue in the rest of the developed world, but in the US they seem to have a genuine prejudice against it, similar to homophobia. They have conventions, support group,s and what they refer to as 'civil-rights' actives pertaining Atheist rights.
Why is this?
I'm not an atheist btw, just curious about this.
>>442137
Things go weird in America.
>>442137
>USA
>developed world
>implying
They are not convinced of their lack of belief.
If they were, they wouldn't spend hours on literature, videos and the internet looking for the lack of an answer.
What do you think of the 80s?
How come the best movies and music came from that period?
Back when gangs looked like this
>>442044
it had lots of aesthetic
It's impossible to have a full understanding of history. Most people only have a passing understanding of a few things related to their nation's history. Even expert historians usually just specialize in a certain area of history.
In this thread, describe an area or even in history that you barely know anything about to the best of your ability, and an "expert" /his/torian will elaborate on it with a reply.
Good thread start.
>>441983
>describe an area or even in history that you barely know anything about to the best of your ability
A positive view of the Confederacy persisted in the US (compare to, say, Nazis in Germany) because a lot of people don't mind racism and still relate to their cause to this day.
>>441983
>a full understanding of history
The problem is there are always two sides to history, you'll never truly have a full understanding since people tend to fall to bias and sources are almost always biased
I know a good deal about the Middle Ages but fuck all about Antiquity
