Watched Lord of the Rings again and love the Rohirric charges. So /his/ what is the greatest cavalry charge of all time and which Western power maintained the most formidable Calvary?
>>407875
John Sobieski III and his charge at Vienna is the largest in recorded history
>>407915
>western power
The deathride during the Frannco Prussian war. Duh
How to prove that 95% of all Christians are heretics: ask them to explain the trinity.
What is there to explain?
Three persons, one essence. Like three persons, one soul. It's that simple.
>>407517
People thinking that 'their' understanding is adequate.
No one knows the trinity without being heretical.
As crazy as it sounds doctrine is most likely heresy.
Just a bunch of people who think they know and cant comprehend the complex idea that is the nature of the trinity and instead rely on arbitrary man made definitions to understand something which they know they cant.
All in all.
95% are just blowing smoke.
Its the uneducated who un-ironically understand God far better.
Can we get a catalog of depictions of the ancient leaders, teachers and others, done by their contemporaries?
To start off ... Alexander the Great, done in the 4th C BC by Lysippus
Seuthes III, a Thracian king
Bust of Julius Caesar, only one we still have that's was made while he was alive.
In my honest opinion, this guy was pretty straight up despite all of the Nazi shit. I spent 20 minutes reading a detailed bio on him and he's probably one of the most philosophical and intelligent people I've ever read about. He's not like that little fucking rat Heinrich Himmler or that shit lipped fuckhead Adolf Hitler, Göring adopted anti-semetism to keep his place and stay on the Reichs good side.
>>406656
The nazi's got it right when they discovered that jew were promoting the end of western society
But they murdered millions of innocent jews that had nothing to do with it instead of imprisoning a select powerful few.
Hitler > Goring > Goebbels > Heydrich >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Himmler
So, he wasn't even doing this for an ideology, just his own personal gain. Is that not worse?
>tfw you realise world war one actually happened
>battle of the somme
>tfw it all happened for nothing
>the war to end all wars
>an even bigger one happens so soon after that there are people who served in both
Can someone explain ''Independent agencies of the United States government'' to me?
>More specifically, the term may be used to describe agencies that, while constitutionally part of the executive branch, are independent of presidential control, usually because the president's power to dismiss the agency head or a member is limited.
How does this work? The relationship between the CIA and the US government? I find this really interesting.
The CIA is really powerful is all. It went from being the President's hand abroad to being the hand around America's own throat. It's an organization tasked with doing the most illegal and/or evil shit the US is capable of. It has a lot of power.
>>406090
Tell me more
>>406078
What's more interesting is the American taxpayer has zero input or control over the CIA despite paying for everything that isn't funded by counterfeit currency
The CIA is basically an oozing black tumor that has convinced us that it's responsible for keeping us healthy
>Liberates the country from Nazis
>Manages to not get dominated by USSR
>Manages to not get dominated by Yugoslavia, a powerhouse just next door
>Modernizes the country essentially stuck in medieval times prior
>Promotes equal rights
>Builds an extensive ready to use defense network
Did he really do anything wrong?
[bunker building intensifies]
>>404981
The baitiest bait in bait town.
All memes aside he was one of the least terrible dictators of the 20th century
Why is the European colonization of Africa portrayed as something destructive and bad?
Some ignorant people think that Europeans underdeveloped, in fact the colonization of Africa is the brightest era in African history
>If you think I'm wrong try to debate me
>>404520
Belgian colonization of the Congo led to up to 10 million deaths. The tribes and small indigenous kingdoms never could have cause that amount of bloodshed.
>>404530
Nothing of value was lost
Now fetch my tea matumbo
Anyone here studying history in college? How do you approach studying for an exam. Do you learn off whole essays or just key points?
Structure is most important to essays, and the most basic aspect of any argument, be it an internet debate or college essay, is a structure system called SEC.
Statement - Your point, summed up
Evidence - The evidence backing up your point
Conclusion - Repeating your statement in light of the evidence
For example
>Statement
The Vikings were a Norse medieval people who raided much of Europe
>Evidence
We know this because of many historical recordings of such events, such as X and X, as well as X and the X, and archeological evidence such as X
>Conclusion
Therefore, the Vikings came from Scandinavia, and raided much of Europe.
You would of course flesh these out into large paragraphs. You should have several making up your entire essay. In fact the structure of the Essay as well should be the same. Start your essay with a paragraph statement, then have all your SECs, then conclude at the end, making the essay like an Oreo with Oreos within it.
And yes, you need to learn all the key points, not an essay, if you know the points you can write the essay.
>>403760
Wow, notOP but thanks.
>>403760
Yeah thanks man
Why is Sunni Islam so awful?
>Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī (Arabic: صحيح البخاري), is one of the Kutub al-Sittah (six major hadith collections) of Sunni Islam.
>Whoever keeps a dog, one Qirat of the reward of his good deeds is deducted daily, unless the dog is used for guarding a farm or cattle.
— Bukhari Vol. 3, #515
>Prayer is annulled by a dog, a donkey and a woman (if they pass in front of the praying people).
— Bukhari Vol. 1, #490
>Angels (of Mercy) do not enter a house wherein there is a dog or a picture of a living creature (a human being or an animal).
— Bukhari Vol. 4, #448
>Al Quaeda
Sunni
>ISIS
Sunni
>Wahabbi
Sunni
>Saudi Arabia
>Sunni
Turkey
>Sunni
Army of Conquest
>Sunni
Barzani
>Sunni
But
>Iran
Shia
>Iraq (new government)
Shia
>Assad
Shia
>Hezbollah
Shia
>Houthis
Shia
Sunni Islam is the canaille variant. That's why they don't believe in hereditary rule
>>402985
Like in Saudi Arabia?
>>402985
C'est la canaille, eh bien j'en suis !
...Seriously, is that an expression in english ?
What are your thoughts on the potential healing of the Great Schism, /his/?
>>401830
Protestants on literal suicide watch tbqh
I think it's quite possible, given the flexibility of Pope Francis.
Extensive mutual articles of faith will be written up, and the Pope will be given his special authority over what's covered by his Patriarchate, and First Among Equals with the rest, along with being required to call Ecumenical Councils. The Catholic Church will keep the filioque, but it will be laid out very explicitly that it doesn't mean what it says.
A bunch of people on both sides of the aisle are going to get assblasted, I guarantee you. And many Protestants are going to say it's the Beast...Seventh Day Adventists, for instance, are already predicting it as the great sign of evil.
>>401880
>he Pope will be given his special authority over what's covered by his Patriarchate
That is, far more authority than other Patriarchs have over their jurisdiction, which is in most ways merely equal to that of every other bishop in it.
50's appreciation thread
What made this decade the best in modern America?
Did America help returning GIs with buying homes and cars and shit?
>>390651
The fact that everything was controlled by white males who could project their own self-satisfaction onto everyone?
Can we have a thread on the most intimidating/scary/ghoulish helms, helmets and facemasks in history?
Stechhelm is obligatory...
And so is samurai helmet, meant to look like a demon. Anyone else?
Conversely...
were shieldmaidens a real thing?
>>389571
No.
If you have enough strong,able men to do the job, you aren't going to need a woman
maybe in cases of necessity but come on
Female warrior thread?
>>Sikelgaita frequently accompanied Robert on his conquests. She conducted the siege of Trani (1080) while Robert moved against Taranto. Although at first she tried to persuade him not to attack the Byzantine Empire, she nevertheless brought troops and accompanied him on his campaign against them. At the Battle of Dyrrhachium in 1081 she was on the field in full armour, rallying her and Robert's troops when they were initially repulsed by the Byzantine army and were in danger of losing cohesion. As a middle-aged woman with a large family, it is unlikely that she was a combatant although obviously close to the action, probably in a sort of command post.[2] According to the Byzantine historian Anna Comnena, she was "like another Pallas, if not a second Athena,"
Do we have any idea of what medieval Baghdad would have looked like?
Any artistic reconstructions?
No, but here have a mycenae.
>>385436
More or less like todays (square yellow buildings)
These people didnt evolve a lot since Middle Age
At its center was the 'Round City', or a round walled central district with a palace and mosque, surrounded by suburbs. The city changed a lot over time, and now it's mostly buried under modern Baghdad, but there are a few buildings left from the late Caliphate. It's important to keep in mind that there were two different periods of florescence in Baghdad, first under the early Abbasids (750-950) and then after the decline of the Seljuks to the Mongol conquest (1160-1260 AD). What survives today is from the latter period and later.
Pic related is a restored 'palace' (probably actually a madrasah) from about 1200 AD.
![enver-hoxha-portrait[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/EKwpXxs.jpg "enver-hoxha-portrait[1]")
