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Around the time of Julius Caesar Rome had a population of a million people, it was one of several prominant urban centers with hundreds of thousand of people in the Roman Republic/Empire. This was achieved by complex infrastructure to supply Rome with food, water and keep it clean. Rome had apartment buildings, factories and a wide variety of specialization of labor. You would find a few urban centers meeting the size of Rome here and there afterwards (Chang'an, Baghdad, Kaifeng and eventually Tokyo) elsewhere
After the collapse of the Roman Empire the dozens of...
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Put your strawman away. Nobody says the Dark Ages never happened, just that it doesn't encompass the entirety of the millenium that is the middle ages. It also needs to be acknowledged that they were largely restricted to Europe; China and elsewhere didn't give a shit about it beyond maybe "damn, where'd that trade go?", and even then there was still the ERE
>>426553
You must be really ignorant.
>You only had a Western European city of similar population to ancient Rome in London in 1800.
That lie, triggered me; There is Cordoba in the middle ages that shadowed Damascus as the capital of the mankind
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Can someone give me a historical analysis of why post-war Detroit failed so spectacularly? Like the social, economic, political, etc. reasons why things got as bad as they did? Was the start of the decline the 1967 riots or did it begin earlier/later?
Basically what went wrong?
Here's some footage of the 1967 riots:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlQRfIzI4FA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrFoNG-X8F8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbABGhefGQE
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>>415130
In what sense though? Demographics can't be the only factor.
>>415107
>blacks in first video so eloquent they make #blacklivesmatter look like retards
what the fuck happened in public discourse?
I literally don't know any black people IRL who speak as well as any of these ghetto dwelling individuals in the fucking 60's.
what the fuck.
>>415107
After WWII the US auto industry was in a good position. It got through the war not only unscathed, but strengthened through war production. All of it's rivals were devastated by war, bankrupt or could be bought out (Canada). As such it could dominate through sheer bulk of product. Even so it's leadership still focused on the US market and what would appeal/be profitable there: big cars with big powerful engines that needed to be replaced every four years on average. This also meant that they would keep WWII era equipment in service for a long time as they saw no need to upgrade
But then Germany and Japan recovered and began building their own cars using the most modern technology to produce them in quantity. They were smaller than US cars but had their own advantages (fuel economy, reliability, light weight and similar). They beat US cars in their home markets and made inroads elsewhere, including the US market. The higher ups thought that Americans for a combination of standing preferences and nationalism would keep buying US cars.
Then there were oil shortages and Americans flocked to buy Japanese and German cars. The bubble burst and sales of US cars fell like a brick during the late 70s and 80s, this did nothing for the reputation of US cars btw.
Currently in Shanghai.
The Chinese Governments (the regionals and national) are heavily promoting Esperanto Week.
They've begun teaching it to children.
Are there any benefits of replacing World Language (Esperanto) with English?
Isn't English easier to maintain than introducing a brand new language?
>>413153
My guess is that their interest in Esperanto, especially for youth, is that learning Esperanto supposedly makes learning Indo-European languages easier in the long run. I don't think they're actually aiming to replace anything.
That said, Esperanto was popular amongst Spanish Anarcho-Syndicalists and even printed fliers in it, and iirc, Mao privately considered Esperanto as a state language but gave that up for simply advancing literacy and writing reform.
>>413173
We should avoid teaching Esperanto in the West.
China can easily use it as a tool against us.
>>413198
Not going to happen. Banning a language would be unconstitutional.
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What the hell was his problem?
>>428869
Isolation from class praxes, same as the Weather Underground.
>>428891
In English, please.
>>428869
Cocaine induced schizo-psycopath is tendencies. He was a psycopath no doubt, but all the Coke binges in the final days induced delirium and psychosis, along with bolstering his psycopathy
How many peoples or cultures or whatever you want to call them made claim to either being Rome or Rome's successor?
>>428187
Ottomans
HRE
Byzantines
Tsardom Russia
>>428187
Napoleon claimed to be the heir of Caesar, I believe
>>428259
source? sounds interesting. i knew he was obsessed with rome
Hello, what books you read
For me, today, had nothing to do
-Euclid's Elements
-J.S. Mill's Principles of Political Economy
-Homer's Iliad
-Plato's Republic
-Darwin's Origin of Species
Discuss/post what you read.
Currently reading the Guns of August, and that's pretty much it really.
>>428110
Do you mean read/reading today, or lately, or in general?
What were some of the major impacts Islam had on the rest of the world when it arose from the year 600 to 1450?
Algebra
>>428053
Apart from the fact that it slaughtered and raped its' way across Europe while forcing non-Muslims to pay a special tax when conquered?
Nothin' much really.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cmqwbZa6_w
People's Republic of China = Solid Snake
Republic of China = Liquid Snake
Sun Yat-Sen/Sun Yixian/Sun Wen = Big Boss/Naked Snake
Would this analogy be correct?
>>427735
A WEAPON TO SURPASS METAL GEAR
are you saying the peoples republic of china fought for love on the battlefield?
>>427820
Did he really though?
Was the French Revolution a positive or negative event (on France, on Europe, on liberty)?
>>427636
It was the worst thing that ever happened.
The ever memorable and blessed revolution, which swept a thousand years of villainy away in one swift tidal wave of blood — one: a settlement of that hoary debt in the proportion of half a drop of blood for each hogshead of it that had been pressed by slow tortures out of that people in the weary stretch of ten centuries of wrong and shame and misery the like of which was not to be mated but in hell.
There were two Reigns of Terror, if we would but remember it and consider it: the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere...
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The greatest event in the history of civilization.
The Maya: Where the fuck do I start?
They seem like an alien culture, and considering I have a fondness for "imperial peak" of ancient cultures (Rome, Han Dynasty etc) I want to learn more.
What are some good titles to reccomend?
MesoAmerica general I suppose
>>427559
>Mayan Political Science
https://mega.nz/#!0UBimRTT!1vFFGOCJzlSq65dfmRBMlbAehuWhvSDZWgfOFiW6lo4
>>427559
Did you know it was because of their Mayan ancestors that those Los Angelean mexicans were able to pass their AP Calcoolus exams with 4s and 5s?
I have a paper to do for uni on a topic about prisoners in early modern Europe.
I can chose any theme and approach I want. But I have to use some published primary sources.
I was thinking about writing the paper on prisoners during the Thirty Years' War.
If you have better ideas, feel free to recommend.
Can someone help me find the literature and sources?
Define early modern.
There will be quite a lot of info on English Civil War POWs. Most were housed in churches and cathedrals, giving them opportunity to smash up surviving medieval effigies ano paintings
Hey /his/ how exactly had Napoleon especially on the geopolitical sense changed Europe and the modern world
>>424459
Not here to do your homework, lad, m8, senpai, cunt
>>424461
Lmao the school I went to didn't cover this and I'm pretty interested in it that's why I asked
>>424459
france was in ruins when he rose to power so it was just a matter of time until a civil war breaked out and needless to say it would probably rage for years without ever reaching any kind of consensus among all the parts, throwing france to a even worse place and possible making them just another fail state
this was avoided when this guy rose to power; not only he was finally able to bring peace and cohesion to its people (mending the wounds caused by reign of terror, accepting freedom of religion once again and...
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/his/
How did vikings look like?
How big they actually were?
>>424052
>How did vikings look like?
Pale skinned, light complexions, generally tall as most Northern Europeans are compared to Celtic and other Indo-Europeans in Europe.
>How big they actually were?
Probably the same size and height in general as their Germanic predecessors like the Goths, Vandals, and so on that fought the Romans centuries before.
>>424052
According to the middle eastern explorere Ahmad Ibn Fadlan they were "As tall as Date trees"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmad_ibn_Fadlan
>The Rūs appear as traders who set up shop on the river banks nearby the Bolğar camp. They are described as having bodies tall as (date) palm-trees, with blond hair and ruddy skin. They are tattooed from "fingernails to neck" with dark blue or dark green "tree patterns" and other "figures" and that all...
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Vikings were manlets
Orthodox Jew, AMA. I'm not *extremely* knowledgeable, but I know more than the average Jew posting on anonymous Chinese message boards. They tend to believe all sorts of weird things that are alien to Jewish tradition. Like Zionism
>>422287
Why don't you accept Jesus Christ?
>>422290
Even if Christianity was true (Which it isn't, and Im able to prove it) beyond a shadow of a doubt), there is no way to know if any of it is true because its all based on hearsay from at most a handful of witnesses. We can't even know for a fact if Jesus even said anything that he did in the NT for that reason.
When you are ready for the truth, you should listen to the lectures of Rabbi Toviah Singer, on youtube.
>>422302
No
Who was the most badass muslim warrior that existed?
>>421797
Who's was that black general in the rashidun caliphate that roasted the Abyssinian king on the battlefield.
>>421797
Who's was that black general in the rashidun caliphate that roasted the Abyssinian king on the battlefield?
