/his/ - History

>>26158

>meme history

is this an actual term

and am I supposed to read it with the intonations of those fucking "it's just a theory…… A GAYM THEORY"

>>26160

>is this an actual term

Not yet

>>26160

But mat's a nice guy.

>>26158

Yeah, I remember now the story I read somewhere (and apparently decided to trust and remember) was that the author got the story from Marco Polo while he was in jail, and later added other stories to it, as if they were told and acted out by Polo.

Basically material he already had at the time from other sources and he wove it in with the original Marco Polo accounts.

He gave accurate description of Mongolia before other Europeans could go and confirm it though, so he must have done some traveling.

>>21850

I wonder how the Romans and the Chinese would have seen each other.

Then again, the chance of them actually making contact was rather low given the buffer of Parthians/Sassanids/whathaveyou that always happened to be between them.

Based Saint of Discordianism

>>20372

Anyone know of a biography that's worth a read?

In the past crazy people were and celebrated I guess.

>>26106

Can you really blame them? There weren't that many things to entertain themselves with.

>>26106

Take a look at modern society. If anything, we worship even more crazy people.

Also, if you like about ascended con artists, look up the Captain von Köpenick. The imposture that guy pulled off was to daring that the King of Prussia just had a laugh at it and pardoned the guy, after which he regularly worked as an actor in plays that, oh the surprise, told his stoy.

>>23054

Muh nigga

>>22871

yes it is, some of course are better than others.

have a few from the same time frame of the east coast of the U.S. and there are pretty bad. Simply not enough travel time charted there as the Asian coast.

>>26039

Im subscribed, and since they are short videos that come out once a week its not hard to follow.

Pretty good show, like I said in another thread its unbiased as these things get.

Check their other channel. They're doing a series on China.

>>26057

In the last video they finished implying that the boxer rebellion was a big deal and hard to put down, and they outright said that modern china has surpassed the combat capability of "the west" with their current hardware.

Both of these are really far fetched statements, even for a show centered around China and its best moments.

Until that point they were doing okay though, but I dislike how they skipped the mongol story of China and Kublai.

is the china show as good as the great war?

>>26058

sounds like fiddy cent

>>25946

IIRC, Trotsky had an exemplary of Lenin testament, and he even showed it to other people to brag, but he never pulled it out during the party meetings.

Later on, an american journalist found out about it and made an article on the subject, and Stalin ordered Trotsky to write a counterarticle saying that such a piece of documentation did not exist, and that if it existed, it was a forgery. Trotsky was a complete idiot, and at that time, he burned his only advantage over Stalin.

People seriously believe that a man who thought that using poison gas on non whites was perfectly ethical was the main reason that multiculturalism became a thing? Top kek.

>>25950

didn't know this anon, cheers

>>25991

I learned this listening the the radio emissions Henri Guillemin made about the three main russian revolutionaries, Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky. It's very interesting, as Guillemein is more interested in the story of tha man rather than the system he lives in, and I learned a lot about these three charachters. It's in french unfortunately.

Lenin had good intentions and was, overall a good person. His life is truly very sad, considering the fact he truly believed in his ideals, only to see, on his deathbed, that he has been wrong all along.

Stalin was a psychopath, but he seems to have truly love a handful of people in his life.

Trotsky was an insufferable faggot.

A civcraft /his/ town would be pretty cool

I would rather not do civcraft but if someones willing to host a /his/ server or pay for hosting I'd join.

And then there was one Idea on /minecraft/ where we would go to a Normie Server and build a faction/town full of 8channers or something.

>>25275

That's not a bad plan, I'd be up for this.

Also intcraft is shit.

>>25856

hmm, maybe later today I'll find a server we can do this on.

IGN is i_am_the_lamb just to let you know

also, lets not do it on those one servers that have alot of people because then it's just shitty in the fact there's nothing that hasn't already been discovered.

A server with around 6-18 people Normally is the best number of people.

>>25826

he is the singer of this band, your comment reminded me of this song.

>>25955

that looks shooped af

>>25828

>He recruited tall soldiers from the armies of other European countries. Foreign rulers like the Emperor of Austria, Russian Tsar Peter the Great and even the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire sent tall soldiers to him in order to encourage friendly relations. Several soldiers were given by Tsar Peter I as a gift in return for the famous Amber Room.[4]

>If the man was not interested in joining the regiment, the king resorted to forced recruitment and kidnapping—his agents kidnapped tall priests, monks, innkeepers, etc., from all over Europe

>You will never march shoulder to shoulder with giants across Europe, of all backgrounds, shades, and religions, united by loyalty to the iron eagle and lording it over manlets

>>25644

That's only because a gigantic ape would be something you haven't seen before. For early humans it'd be just another part of life, and wouldn't be any more important for oral storytelling than any other strange creature they run into daily

>>25943

>history is not really cyclical

>proceeds to explain how history is cyclical

Go to bed samurai, you're drunk.

>>25952

>it's cyclical if it follows an uphill-downhill pattern

>>25952

Go read Spengler.

>>25958

Yes, a repeating pattern of events is a cycle.

One could call the day-night cycle and the seasonal cycle an "uphill-downhill pattern" for example, what's your point? >>25882 wasn't talking about one civilization, but about history as a whole.

>>25963

I have no time for that at the moment, but reading about him on Wikipedia:

>…Spengler's idea of Culture is, he claims, justifiable through the existence of recurrent patterns of development and decline across the thousand years of each Culture's active lifetime.

>Modern social scientists from different fields have introduced cycle theories to predict civilizational collapses in approaches that apply contemporary methods that update the approach of Spengler…

etc.

Summarizing his theory in three words is impossible, but "history is cyclical" would be a good attempt it seems.

>>25971

A coil goes around in circles, but it's not a cycle, it's a spiral.

>>25724

What the fuck is that?

>>25724

multiple families but very impressive indeed

>>25727

>The Stowe Armorial coat of arms is the centrepiece of the Gothic Library at Stowe [1]. The Library was commissioned by George Nugent-Temple-Grenville, 1st Marquess of Buckingham (See Viscount Cobham [2]), and built to a design by Sir John Soane [3] between 1805 and 1807. The armorial is a 1.4m diameter heraldic painting of the 719 quarterings of the Temple, Nugent, Brydges, Chandos and Grenville families, including ten variations of the English Royal arms, the arms of Spencer, De Clare, Valence, Mowbray, Mortimer and De Grey. The painting is signed and dated P. Sonard 1806. [1]

>The Grenville Diptych was produced for Richard Temple-Grenville, Marquess of Chandos the son of the first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos between 1822 and 1839. The diptych shows 719 quarterings of the family which include, among others, ten variations of the English Royal arms, the arms of Spencer, De Clare, Valence, Mowbray, Mortimer, and De Grey, among others.

Basically, some Marquess wanted to have an armorial showing more or less all lineages he descends from.

>>25732

so basically an autistic /his/torian from the 19th century

>>25849

as /int(l)/ would say, he was KC-tier

>>24522

Not like a british army ever invaded Germany, unless you count accompanying Russia and USA an invasion.

>>24574

> "If the British Army landed in Europe, I'd get the Belgian police to arrest them."

…his quote wasn't about the invasion of Germany, but rather the threat of Britain landing their army in Belgium. Which they did and they performed outstandingly well, causing the massacre of thousands of Germans that is still remembered today.

http://mentalfloss.com/article/59593/wwi-centennial-apocalypse-ypres

also, yes I do count the invasion with Russia and the US…because they did invade Germany…twice…are you disabled

"I hate Krauts who disagree with me, but I hate other countries even more."

>>25812

>Indo-European language simply spread as an idea, another commodity, much like the first domesticated livestock

And what would be the advantages of Indo-European over the pre-existing languages?

Also there is genetic evidence for the Indo-European migrations, so no, PIE wasn't just a meme.

>>25814

There may not have been any inherent advantage to the language itself. It may just have been the language of the clearly dominant culture that began moving into regions already inhabited by a native population, not unlike many other migrations in later history.

>>25817

>It may just have been the language of the clearly dominant culture that began moving into regions already inhabited by a native population, not unlike many other migrations in later history.

Ah, I thought you meant to say that language spread alone, without a real migration.

>>25599

Well I suppose after reading on Wikipedia it is somewhat possible, Given how the spear points were very similar and the Clovis points have yet to be found in Siberia or Alaska, and the oldest ones are found on the east coast, though radio carbon dating isn't as precise as people say so who fucking knows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis

>>25824

also just found this on wikipedia

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/ff/Haplogroup_R_%28Y-DNA%29.PNG/350px-Haplogroup_R_%28Y-DNA%29.PNG

>you will never be a christian european prince like wilhelm of albania

>>20433

At the rate the game is going, there may very well be a Muslim Prince on the Albanian throne….

Game is still a thing. Islamists aren't in power anymore (haven't been for a while and now they're dead as a political force) but the country is still highly unstable, with leftists, liberals, conservatives, and an (half-hearted) attempt at creating a fascist movement all mixed together in a blender.

>>20396

I wish I had the autism and dedication to do this sort of things.