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47be61 No.22144[Reply]

i was playing the new viking dlc for warband and i realised that i knew jack shit about frisian history, could someone enlighten me? biggest source of info was >pic related, does anyone know anything about redbâd and aldgilli?

47be61 No.22181

>>22144

or greate pier maybe?




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9c0f17 No.12636[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

Post cool stuff! Pictured is Theodore Roosevelt in his office, 1900.
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a1a7cd No.22108

>>12674

more like plagiarizing pseudo scientist einstein


a1a7cd No.22109

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>>16102

>>22053

don't be a smartass about it. nothing was preventing the united states from taking things in and out of the camps. and you all look over the fact that they were all homeless after this because on the way to the camps, all of their possessions were forfeit, all their wealth and property were gone.

>>16125

these camps are not maximum security prisons. most of them are surrounded by a 3 foot fence that anyone could easily climb and leave

>>16310

and this is what actually happened.

>>18045

every country had camps. you're saying that germans had no right to put their prisoners in camps and you overlook every other country that isn't axis

pic related is the camps the americans held in europe. they have control of the whole land and don't bother to do anything but set up a fence and keep armed guards outside while the germans actually had buildings. you can shut up and stop claiming moral superiority


47b0df No.22140

>>22109

Nice work m8


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d2e03f No.22180

>>16137

Thank you Tasr Alexander II




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170d82 No.18409[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

RIP 40's-70's Americana
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3f39df No.19209

>>19138

Surely it's better than today's SJW ridden shithole.


db4fb7 No.19340

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

>>18951

Indeed.

>>19209

It is, but we're not allowed to think that.


052e20 No.19864

>Tfw you'll never be a filipino american in the seventies and befriend a kung fu loving black kid and romance a shy but intelligent seventies librarian.

>Tfw you'll never experience the magic of seeing man land on the moon for the first time in all of human history

Why?


d770d5 No.22156

America died in the 70s.


6c32ed No.22159

>>22156

America died in 1957




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de1793 No.20331[Reply]

>tfw feudal borders trigger your autism

Why do people have to have land on the other side of the kingdom

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7cbb44 No.22124

>>21075

It's Královec not some jewish "berg" and it was named after Czech King


8e3db2 No.22125

>>22021

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


d41a57 No.22130

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>>20334

>Prussia actually had territory inside Switzerland

Fucking hell


55da5f No.22150

>>22021

I feel so dirty now. Time to reinstall EU3 and absorb one French minor after another.


f13ef6 No.22154

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>>20334

>mfw forming the HRE in EU3

God it feels so good every goddamn time.




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1d475a No.19869[Reply]

Most important/influential person in the 20th century?

Pic related: Gavrilo Princip, the guy who killed Archduke Ferdinand

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27828c No.21087

>>21086

well, Lenin killed Kulaks during the Red Terror but I guess the New Economic Policy to temporarily help the peasants and to have the support of peasants. Stalin then decided that rapid industrialisation was the key to success, so the destruction of the Kulaks and the general oppression of the peasant class meant that the working class population grew. However, this meant importation of grain by Stalin but it was an overall success


27828c No.21088

>>21073

British were not so worried about rapid industrialisation of the Germans, it was more the fact that Belgium and its ports were being threatened. Also, the Germans started the war because of the threat from Russia and France, they wanted to strike first rather than be wiped out. They didn't really have much choice


714d1b No.22111

If we're going down the route of "x wouldnt have even come along if not for y" then you might as well say Bismark.


c160de No.22141

>>21073

the only reason his plans failed was becouse he dieded


c160de No.22142

>>22111

well you are kind of right, woud be interresting to see the world without him




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951de6 No.22132[Reply]

I've always liked Prussia and want to learn more about it. Any decent books or documentaries? Frederick the Great and the Enigma of Prussia was a good documentary on BBC which initially spurred my interest.

I'm especially keen on seeing photographs from Eastern Prussia, they don't seem to be very easy to find.



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204b64 No.21206[Reply]

Someone on another board said that America liked communism and the reason for this is that they didn't destroy Russia right after ww2.

Is there any truth to what he is saying or is he a faggot?

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4bf10a No.21338

>>21335

Their nationalism for the history of success scorched earth brought them is always there, but they had ambition under communism, and the party definitely wanted to make some further moves in Europe. They had over 6 million riflemen and Europe was in shambles, if not for nukes they could've just walked into Europe and named every country a communist vassal.


4bf10a No.21339

>>21338

>>21210

Also like this anon says, we only had enough nukes to level a few of their cities, their army easily could've just tanked their nation getting destroyed, marched into Europe and sought quarters with countries they helped liberate from Germany.


e455db No.21361

Ehh, they didn't like communism but the big industrial boom that America was going through in the 1930's was very similar to Russia's during the Five Year Plans; working conditions were quite shit and both countries were just really quite similar. I don't think this was a reason to not go to war though.


c1da51 No.22046

>The Usa and the SU werent friendly, and they were just politically different, but with a similar ideology.

http://www.radixjournal.com/journal/2015/6/4/our-kind-of-enemy


aef844 No.22110

US Gov hated commies and other leftists enough to deport a bunch of them in the 20s




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db7249 No.21861[Reply]

Was there any city that rose at the same time as Rome declined?

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f9006d No.21913

>>21870

>teotihuacan

>nignogs

Actual ningnogs would have wished of even achieving half of what the proud mesoamerican people ever did.

ROMA AETERNAM EST


7074bb No.21921

>>21913

*AETERNA


33f477 No.21925

Well yeah. Constantinople is the best example of this. I don't know shit bout asians during that time though.


334e6a No.22013

>>21913

this,

Don't put the meso americans on the same level as nignogs, nignogs were in the stone age, mesos were in the stone age and built shit even the Romans would have found difficult while in the fucking stone age, now don't get started on the fucking inca.


000000 No.22107

baghdad




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d5bd37 No.22081[Reply]

I was wondering if any litfags here wanted to romanticize some historical events as a community project.

We could do it here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11-oelA5lY5lrTm4HLY652S4-hzGz9Oagz8C5BOD-LTg/edit?usp=sharing

Some things we could cover:

>100 years war

>war of the roses

>Vespasian and the Flavius dynasty in Rome, sort of like the lannisters

ba888f No.22104

So you want to dramatize some historical conflict then, but with a focus on multiple PoVs of different warring households and factions?

GoT is already just fantasy War of the Roses so you wouldn't get something unique there. Just the same but without dragons and ice zombies.




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18ba51 No.20431[Reply][Last 50 Posts]

…which was great unless you were a slave, or a woman.

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814af0 No.22007

>>22004

I've always had a problem with this channel going beyond even the obvious bias and haphazard use of personal belief and prejudice with both primary and secondary source reading. I wouldn't have minded so much if he was any other politically opinionated talking head, but in claiming to be a trained historian the channel ends up pandering to his audience that funds him believing he speaks with authority others don't have - especially if said others hold a contrary political opinion.

I held out for a while, but gave up altogether after his Assassin's Creed video where he just loses it and decided to surround himself with the echo chamber he's cultivated by then.

He's become an insufferable, unfunny cunt, too, just not one that pretended to have a sense of humor like Green in the first place.

Now the only channel I'm still subscribed to even vaguely history related is Matt Easton's ScholaGladatoria for the purity of his focus and intent, and an attitude that doesn't immediately sour the atmosphere if we were in a room together casually drinking like Green's juvenile act or RCH and lindybeige's passive aggressiveness.

>>21993

Something about his voice sounds awkward or even autistic, but he doesn't seem so bad. Thanks, I'll give him a shot this week.


09fd76 No.22096

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>>20457

>yes, I am a soldier of Christ


aa1842 No.22099

>>21395

>Take identity politics to the trash

>Assimilate to my culture

>Identify as marxist

>Assimilate to marxism

Yeah fuck off m8


7164fd No.22102

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>>20457

>(yes, I am a soldier of Christ)


9a7050 No.22122

>>22096

>what is context

>what are jokes

>not reading the thread

>>22102

>same as above

>mrw

backtoreddit.jpg

Great funposting everyone!




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f7f8e4 No.22056[Reply]

Hey /his/, thought id share a story today. I work at a non profit organization that helps highschoolers prepare for university life. We cover everything from application essays and personal finances to dress etiquettes and social problems. This one kid thats going to 12th this august and I spoke for about two hours yesterday about his life plan and its gotten me thinking; He said that he wants to go deep into History at uni, and that he feels that the study of history has stagnated into meaningless dates and events for people to spit out at an exam and forget about it and and endless cycle of history major-to-history professor academic life. He said that he wants to try to bring History into the same light as say, engineering and international relations, things that have a lot of hold in today's world. He feels that a lot of the people that run things mess things up because they dont have the proper context (he explained to me about how the current Middle East debacle traces its roots to the end of WWI). He also thinks that History can be a highly useful tool in most scientific areas as well as the international scene, in which history can bring in background, depth, and understanding to complex global problems. He also thinks that its time to revamp the current educational system into a more interactive medium and wishes to make a historical videogame based around the expansion of the pre-columbian incas. Although he says its only a pet project and not his main focus.

What do you guys think about his line of thought? I share this here because ive seen a lot of good discussions and i dont know jack about history. I really want to help this kid out into getting to the university of his choosing as well as helping him develop his ideas. Any thoughts on this?

As they say; pic not related

61c49a No.22066

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>>22056

Not many history majors ever make it to professorship and instead take their degrees into international studies, law school, or a teaching degree. If he believes history at university - at least by Sophomore year - is just memorization of dates and names on the path to tenure, then warn him about the realities of the current market for history majors.

There are already many history majors and minors who go into international relations who do have a grasp of their region of study's history. Solutions aren't so easy to come by to problems, and many times just having a grasp of history is not nearly enough to navigate equally if not more important aspects of international politics like personal connections, economics, sociology, or media.

Revamping current education is an equally imposing beast that he'll realistically have very little influence over unless he enters politics and devotes himself to a path in state and federal education policy.

Lots of us here are interested in making our own /his/ vidya of course, but even for a hobby game development requires completely different discipline in programming and digital art that he'd have very little time for with both a history major and any of the above dreams he's mentioned.

If he's trying to be an activist, then he wouldn't be going very deep into history at uni level and should instead focus on getting into a college and a major that will help in networking and politics/media. Uni level history is more about research and interpretation, very passive actions in general but well suited to a field like law or sometimes consulting. It sounds to me like he wants to be a History minor, and major in something else.


f7f8e4 No.22100

>>22066

Hey anon, i dint go to any history classes at uni, and any people i know that did are unavailable, sadly. Its just a topic that not a lot of kids i work with want to learn. Could you perhaps enlighten me on the subject?

He also dosent want to be an activist, i talked to him about your points, and hes polished his ideas to working with people in other academic areas in order to provide context to those areas that need it (Ex: The economic history of Costa Rica during the Federal Republic of Central America)


71cb21 No.22101

>>22100

Well, it's been a while but from what I remember the freshmen courses are generally just continuation of high school where everyone reads from a textbook and memorizes facts for a test. But by 3000 and 4000 level courses you start doing courses that break away from this and start going into history as an academic discipline: understanding source bias, writing papers, reading lots of primary and secondary sources, presentation and discussion on select topics, and research for your senior thesis.

I'm only speaking from a US perspective of course, I can't speak for how history is taught elsewhere.

It sounds like he wants to be something of a sociologist instead of historian or archivist, but at this point he should meet a few teachers from different departments like history, teaching, sociology and so on to get a better grasp of what he wants to do with whatever degree he'll work toward.

I'd also wait for some more input from other anons here since I'm myself a CS major but I've taken enough history courses on my own time and interest outside of that over the years and read enough books and primary texts to consider throwing a minor in History on top. I can't tell him exactly how graduate life will be for history, I'm just reiterating a few points I've heard from friends in the department and a few historians young and old I follow online.




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e68376 No.22074[Reply]

What was the significance of Polonius' name in the play Hamlet? It derives from Poland but what does the comparison say about his character? As the play is set in the early 1600s in Denmark, how strong was Poland at the time and what was it's diplomatic relation like with Denmark at the time?

3b774e No.22086

Wiki says it might be related to 'De optimo senatore' written by a Polish thinker and published around the time into English.




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160fec No.21419[Reply]

What were some atrocities/war crimes committed by Alexander the Great's army?

I know of one city, can't remember the name, after it was taken the entire garrison was crucified and all the women and children sold into slavery. They were Phoenicians I think.

Was rape common as well? I would assume it was but there's no way to know really as it was so long ago.

Also how would you guys compare atrocities/war crimes back then by the Greek/Roman/Macedonian armies to armies in more recent conflicts like WW2?

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1e9006 No.21570

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Δεν υπάρχει έγκλημα όταν αφαιρείτε κεμπάπ


160fec No.21897

Bump


000000 No.21905

>atrocities/war crimes

I got a time machine. I brought back Alexander the Great to ask him your question.

He didn't know what atrocities and war crimes were.


1daff2 No.21907

>>21905

No. The Greeks were a free thinking, civilized people, and there are condemnations of Alexander's actions dating to the era following his death.


1ef79f No.22051

>>21436

>alexander

>fellow greeks

REMOVE MACEDONIAN




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0462be No.22005[Reply]

When I see some dumb shit on tumblr about "white people not knowing how to bathe, and africans teaching them" how can I post with proof that that's all bullshit? Seriously, African Nationalists (among White Nationalists in my opinion) are the fucking worst, but worse in a way where they cry "MUH RACISM" when criticized.

2fd245 No.22008

They don't know what the fuck they're talking about and don't know shit about their own culture, because MUH SLAVERY can't still stop you from learning what your ancestors did.


b356ad No.22009

Why even engage in the first place? The internet has nurtured countless webrings and echo chambers that whatever you post, no matter the level of scrutiny or even diplomatic civility, will be drowned out by next week.


753913 No.22010

zs


7593e8 No.26735

Don't go to tumblr. Seriously why would you go there? I only have gone a couple of times to search porn gifs.




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5bba1b No.20648[Reply]

>Europeans never practiced concubinage

>Europeans never practiced sex slavery

>Europeans never practiced female genital mutilation

>Europeans never made women cover up

>Europeans never stoned women to death for adultery

While women in Asian, African and Middle Eastern countries today are having their clits removed at birth, getting acid thrown in their faces and are forced to wear giant sheets over their bodies, European women hundreds of years ago were leading armies into battle.

So I ask you /his. Why can't non Europeans into treating the torch bearers of their respective races with basic respect and dignity?

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106007 No.21936

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>>21181

Bitch, I should dunk you in the village pond. Malleus Maleficarum was a shitty book nobody even read until witch hunts had already gotten popular.

The pope issued that bull to shut Kramer up as far as I can remember, basically Kramer (Sprenger was actually appended to Kramer's shitty book to give it some pope cred iirc) had a murderboner for women and wanted everyone else to persecute them as well.

The inquisitions (all of them, in fact - Spanish, Italian et al) actually DRASTICALLY REDUCED witch hunting, because of their sensible, centralised and highly regulated nature.

Whereas in decentralised areas (local councils, clergies) the rates of execution were much higher due to crabby women falling over eachother to deliver righteous witchcraft-accusation putdowns on their neighbours, to the detriment of all.

Source: a shitty degree only applicable in highly specific situations like right now.


104324 No.21940

>>21936

Any sources to back this up? Specifically

>The inquisitions (all of them, in fact - Spanish, Italian et al) actually DRASTICALLY REDUCED witch hunting, because of their sensible, centralised and highly regulated nature.

And when did the Church stop deeming witchcraft a satanic fantasy of crazy peasants?

I like this news a lot, Catholic Church is best church, Luther-Antichrist a shit


601d71 No.21970

>>21940

The book title is something like "witchcraft in early modern europe" by A. Pickering - part of british AS level history (so not actually a degree, oy vey). It's got a lot of interesting collated information (and a lot of teeth-grinding bullshit as well - entire chapters on feminist revisionist history…)

I'm not sure if it's a recent development, but it was an integral part of the course, IMO - What I took away from it (ie my personal interpretation of witchhunting) was that centralization and beaurocracy were the top reasons for the reduction in witchcraft over time.

I can't link actual web sources to you because witchcraft is such a saturated subject that literally every result for the search I tried turned up such quality sites as "gendercide.com" :/.


66743a No.21998

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>>21936

>dat filename


7a655e No.22001

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>>20986

>with the exception of like Japan

>>>/jp/

And while you're at it, read up on Unit 731.




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