Yo /his/ what are some battles in history which are just like whoa dude, like major upsets where one side should of clearly won but ultimately lost? Im fascinated when you see old ways of fighting just completely outdone by the advancement of technology those times you just see the most horrific casualties and battles and losses for both sides. And how they change tactics to make it more fair at all levels. Pic related.
Is Gettysburg really related to what you seek? A numerically superior Union force held good ground and the main assault of the Confederates was not particularly well organized. Does not sound like an upset to me, or a scenario where the losing side should have clearly won.
>>419390
WW2 Germany
>>419390
Cannae is a pretty classic example. They should have been able to arm that mass of legionaries with canoe paddles and bludgeoned the Carthaginians into submission, but nope. Out strategy'd.
And the casualties were something special, too. Like that many people weren't killed that quickly in battle again until like WW1.
All the more astounding that those hook-nosed bastards came back and won in the end, the absolute madmen.
Time to play a game.
>Find a clever image for your choices.
>Discuss
Don't be too mad if you disagree with another's choices. Explain yourself.
And my entry to kick off the game:
>>419191
>Terra cotta army
>1-501 AD
nigga the terra cotta army was built over 200 years before christ.
>>419188
>Greece
>Greece
>Greece (499 - 190) Rome (190 - 1)
>Rome
>ERE
>couldnt say
>couldnt say
>British Empire
>United States
what did you think of it?
Really fucking generic, guess its a reasonable primer
>>419083
This.
Soundtrack was good.
Anyone else /deist/ here?
Nope, Occam's razor
>>419195
The easiest explanation for the universe and its complexity is God.
>>420597
>the easiest explanation for a complex yet accessible thing is another, even more complex thing we know nothing about
What do you guys think about the Black Paintings by Francisco de Goya? I thought they were pretty interesting desu. This is my favorite
this reminds me about berserk
saw an exhibition with a heap of the Disasters of War prints a couple of years ago, they were really evocative, full of energy, striking images.
Do you have any meaningful commentary?
Or do you just think they're pretty pictures that are
>interesting
?
Was there really any reason for you to post other than to say 'this is my favorite meme painting, I like it'?
>and then he said morality is just a social construct
>He hasn't looked up Stirner on wikipedia, hit ctrl+f "spo" and read the sentences that looked relevant
Haha stay deluded, sheeple
>Humans are inherently good!
>>417950
>humans are inherently evil
How does this make you feel /his/?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTXRDtYzYc
>>417726
Obviously theyd be much happier ripping each others hearts out with shards of glass.
Oh time to beat each other off to how angry we are
>>417726
Popping a semi at some of these Feather q.t's
Otherwise they're 100% right.
>"If the Nazis had won, we'd all be speaking German right now."
>>417710
but we are
>tfw not realising english is a sub-variant of germanic.
>>417754
German, not Germanic, you spastic.
>"napoleon is pretty much french hitler"
Between 800bce and 500bce the Greeks develop hoplite tactics based around tight formations of spear and shield armed infantry. Hoplite tactics proves to be really effective against the forces and soldiers of the Persian Empire and so the Greeks were able to repulse the Persian assaults. The Persians never got around to adopting these tactics on their own barring a few Hellanics in eastern Anatolia or adjusting their tactics and gear to deal with them. Hoplite tactics would continue to be incrementally refined over the next 150 years by the greeks and latter the macedonians. Eventually with a force composed of Hoplites the Alexander of Macedon and his infantry managed to defeat the armies of the Achaemenid Empire and get the locals to exchange a Persian ruler for a Macedonian one and his greek/macedonian generals after everything fell apart after his death.
>>417672
Which is of course, why say, Xenophon's troops stuck around and conquered the entire Persian Empire instead of trying to make a run for it back to Greece and fighting (usually but not always sucessfully) their way back to the black sea coast.
I mean, that Hoplite advantage was all they needed ,right?
I don't see your point. Nobody intelligent disregards the fact that Alexander inherited a unique state and a unique army from his father and that his accomplishments are due primarily to what he was working with. This seems like a strawman.
What are you on about?
Why is there something instead of nothing?
>>417664
It is in the nature of "something" to exist.
"Something" not existing is a logical contradiction.
Because we are here to ask thus. If the conditions were not right for things to exist, we would not. If the conditions are right -and they are- we do, and so we ask.
>>417664
Why do you assume there is a reason?
ITT: We talk about the greatest empire in history.
>ottomans
The ottoman empire never had those borders.
>>417608
>le nostalgic cockroach
You will be purged soon.
Hey, /his/, can you guys help me come up with a list of the 100 most significant figures in history?
I'm trying to make a study guide for my high school academic team, since we've got districts coming up in the next couple of months.
>>417320
Include Hitler
>>417320
Hitler, probably.
Hitler, Stalin and Jesus
Accept it /his/. Accept it.
>>417059
Accept what? That someone made a picture? I mean, that's hardly controversial.
That the guy who preached to "turn the other cheek" and not be violent and later went on to whipping people?
No thanks m8 sounds like a scam to be quiet honest my family man.
So, how long did humans keep their African features once they started leaving Africa? Did they always have them until "recently", or did they always have those features we know of today?
Pic related, ancient Israeli woman about 70,000 years old.
>implying
>>416451
Oh come on, it's not even like that anon. I was just curious.
Looks more Finnish than African desu
Does God hate Africa?
>>416346
Does God hate 99% of all humanity born before the 20th century?
>>416346
>implying there is a god
But no, what happened in Africa is the extreme of what happened in Germany after WW1, there was no after thought for what would happen after decolonization.
>>416346
If God were real, he wouldn't have had humanity evolve in Africa.
![historical[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/vuzUUEw.jpg "historical[1]")
