You get teleported Iceland in the 900s. Your goal is to make it the greatest, and most wealthiest land known.
You also have access to Greenland and Vinland colonies
How will you proceed?
You can bring anything in the space of an average family house.
>be excited because lol I'm a god now
>remember that I don't actually know how to build steam engines or Haber process fertilizer
>request large numbers of icelandic QTs for sex related purposes
>invent the hot air balloon just because
>invent the boom so that ships aren't totally dependent on trade winds
>inform my hosts that there's all sorts of valuable shit in Mexico just waiting to be raided
>hope that the information diffuses to someone that matters in time for the Scandinavians to beat the Spanish there
Oh, and I'd bring a bunch of fedora tier atheism with all of my technomagic just to see Europe tear itself apart.
>>394785
Make Iceland know for fucking awesome medical knowledge.
I know nothing about penicillin, but at least I know germs exist. That's a pretty good start.
Is he the most influential figure in storytelling?
Or would that go to somebody like Homer?
Shakespeare gave the English language hundreds of new words. Homer couldn't even think of a single fucking word to describe the concept of "red."
The top 3 are definitely Shakespeare, Homer, and the guys who wrote the Bible.
>>394454
>tfw if Shakey P hadn't existed we'd have no chocolate Hobnobs
Memes aside though, I do wonder how his audience received things like this. Obviously the form of language would have been easier then, but it must have still been a little confusing. Then again, they were incredibly popular at the time so who knows.
Why has eastern European been so behind western Europe for the past 600 years?
Large serf population under constant eastern invasion
Late to industrialize
Communism
define eastern europe
>>394342
East of modern Germany/Balkans
so how did he get away with not even talking about AIDS until 4 years later, literally thousands of Americans were dying and he said nothing
>>394121
Because they were all gay.
>>394121
>gays fucking each other to death
Perhaps they should have been a bit more careful.
There wasn't a huge amount of public sympathy, so there was no need to talk about it, no political brownie points to be won.
/CTD General/
>charts
>timelines
>diagrams
Post CTDs.
please contribute
would it be weird if i carried this graph with me?
>Rub' al Khali a.k.a. "The Empty Quarter"
>largest contiguous sand desert in the world
>literally 650,000 square km (250,000 sq mi) of uninterrupted sand dunes
>dunes are up to 250 metres (820 ft) in height
>desertification has increased over time
>trade caravans crossed what is now impassable wasteland as recently as 300 AD
>traces of camel tracks, unidentifiable on the ground, still appear in satellite images
This has me itching to know what kind of archaeological goodies could be hiding here. Could rumored lost cities really be covered by centuries of sand? How do we fund digs in the region?
>>391728
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_of_the_Sands
>>391728
>>traces of camel tracks, unidentifiable on the ground, still appear in satellite images
Got a pic? sounds interesting
>>391744
Perhaps not obvious to untrained eyes like ours.
>>391741
Bothers me that the most televangelists section of that sucks is poorly formatted and mostly unsourced.
Why didn't Stalin and Hitler just team up? Together, they would have both been unstoppable.
>>391585
Because Hitler literally thought that Bolshevism was an international Jewish plot?
>>391585
They did. It was absolutely essential for the success of the Polish, French and first Finnish campaigns.
they did and they broke it off
also they were polar opposites politically
>The Great Leap Forward
can someone tell me what the hell Mao was thinking with this idea. Even on paper you could see how braindead retarded this idea was
Maybe retarded to gweilo, but the only magnificence gweilo knows is his own stupidity.
He was trying to modernize China in a short period of time, instead of letting the modernization happen naturally.
>>391445
>With no personal knowledge of metallurgy, Mao encouraged the establishment of small backyard steel furnaces in every commune and in each urban neighborhood. Mao was shown an example of a backyard furnace in Hefei, Anhui in September 1958 by provincial first secretary Zeng Xisheng.[20] The unit was claimed to be manufacturing high quality steel.[20]
>Huge efforts on the part of peasants and other workers were made to produce steel out of scrap metal. To fuel the furnaces the local environment was denuded of trees and wood taken from the doors and furniture of peasants' houses. Pots, pans, and other metal artifacts were requisitioned to supply the "scrap" for the furnaces so that the wildly optimistic production targets could be met. Many of the male agricultural workers were diverted from the harvest to help the iron production as were the workers at many factories, schools and even hospitals.
>Although the output consisted of low quality lumps of pig iron which was of negligible economic worth, Mao had a deep distrust of intellectuals who could have pointed this out, and placed his faith in the power of the mass mobilization of the peasants.
ITT the stupidest shit you've heard in a History or Humanities class, can be from either student or teacher
I'll start with a double whammy:
>Dadaism was directly responsible for the rise of Hitler
>A heterosexual and cissexual man or woman who does not conform to gender stereotypes can be classed as "LGBTQ" or "Queer" under queer theory, even though they're straight/cis, i.e. a guy who isn't into sports is "queer" and so is a woman who doesn't wear makeup
>>390308
>Dadaism was directly responsible for the rise of Hitler
Did that person ever elaborate?
>>390322
i've heard a similar theory, that he got rejected from art school due to not being in on the dadaism bandwagon, sparking the path of his career as a dissident turned politician turned dictator, meaning dadaism is implicated in nazi germany
>>390308
>Homosexuality was not condemned by Christianity until the 13th century
Remember this was the preferred weapon of the Samurai. The Japanese loved these weapons, their artisans got real good at making them and they mastered their usage.
>>387664
I'm surprised they didn't innovate them in any way but I guess they never had to once the feudal system was for the most Part quelled and the warrior class became symbolic.
>>387664
Only in later sengoku, people tend to forget they only used guns in war for 70 years, and only in the later time used in a massive way, meanwhile the true weapons of the samurai was the bow and they cute ponies than they copied from the Eishi.
>>387695
During most of the Tokugawa period there was no real internal or external threats to Japan so they stuck with what worked. In the 19th century when the Europeans began to pose a threat to Japan again they did upgrade very quickly, even before Commadore Perry.
Why does everyone shit on psychology? The field seems extremely interesting, you get to interact with a range of people rather than autists and computer screeba, and the job prospects at accreditation (usually postgraduate) level are even better than engineering in some places. Looking on seek I can see multiple jobs a day listed in my state of about 4 million people.
So, why do people act as if studying it is a death sentence?
A lot if is pseudoscience.
Oversaturate job market from what I've heard. But if it's false where you live, go ahead.
Not that psychology is strictly /his/. I think social sciences ought to be allowed on /his/.
>>387234
I don't see how any of the clinical psychologies can be seen as pseudoscience
>2015
>believing in atheism without evidence.
>>386812
>you need evidence for disbelief
>Not being raised in a christian household
>Get belittled for not believing in an all powerful maker from the start as if the human mind was wired to be abrahamic
Christians: Why would a benevolent deity condemn someone to eternal suffering simply for being mistaken? Not being Christian is not done out of malevolent or apathy; it is done because the person does not see sufficient evidence to believe that Christianity is truth. Most non-Christians would honor and love God and Jesus if they learned that God and Jesus are real and are benevolent. Being factually mistaken is not a crime. A benevolent deity would not condemn someone for being factually mistaken. If God is real, then good atheists and good Pagans get to go to heaven.
>If God is real, then good atheists and good Pagans get to go to heaven.
This is ultimately the reason why I cannot take any religion seriously. Not because of the idea of "good" pagans/atheists going to hell, just the entire idea in general.
The concept of sin is always changing - the concept of what is "good" and "evil" is always changing. In medieval times things like torture, beating your wife, rape, child abuse, and many other things were not only normal but encouraged. The types of people we would see as evil today (ie, Hitler) a person from 600 years ago would find as nothing more than a particularly harsh but competent and fair ruler and not consider them evil at all - especially since he killed all those damn dirty Jews.
Why is it that God always adheres to the morality of the culture and time-period of where his 'true religion' emerged from?
the 'crime' is doing nothing about your sinful nature. your belief in satan and his deception is not being mistaken, it is being led by the enemy
>>385817
>Why is it that God always adheres to the morality of the culture and time-period of where his 'true religion' emerged from?
Hmm, I wonder... Oh, right, it's obviously because God waited until a society and culture had morality down perfectly then he went to that perfect, chosen society to become their god!
Embarassing/weird/fucked up things from history and from people
For example "xy emperor liked to fuck dogs in the ass"
You get the idea
You have to remember that a lot of this stuff would be propaganda. Apparently Catherine from Russia fucked horses
>>367350
>reminder that this is what the french entered the first world war in
>>367373
Rasputin from Russia was hung like a horse.
>Britain is with Europe, but not of Europe
What did he mean by that?
>>399690
He means that he came out of his mom's ass instead of the customary opening in the vagina.
>>399690
Britain sides with Europe in matters where it is mutually beneficial, but does not consider itself a member of the same group as the continentals.
That he wants britain to be able to meddle in the affairs of europe but not the opposite.
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