/his/ - History

>>31003

PTSD isn't about how gruesome the actual combat is. It has a lot more to do with whether the combatant actually feels responsible for killing the enemy. Read "On Killing" for more on this.

Consider then, the typical phalanx, where only the frontline is actually killing, with the bulk of the formation basically serving as a structural reinforcement…90% of your unit isn't actually responsible for killing, and as such, no one is getting PTSD save for those 10 guys up front, all of whom are up there because they fucking enjoy that shit.

>>36121

How about considering something which isn't the phalanx; it's very easy to say what you're saying when you look at no other type of military fighting. What about the Saxons against the Normans? The Crusaders against the Fatimids?

You should check out the book Warrior Ethos by Steven Pressfield; it's very related to this topic.

>>31011

You don't have to be in combat to get PTSD. you just need to go through some form of traumatic stress. Though I could see how people who received blast-force tbi would be more likely to get PTSD than those who suffered blunt-force tbi.

>Which means ancient warriors wouldn't get anywhere near the modern PTSD levels, as their would be purely psychological.

as opposed to the modern PTSD which is physiological(tbi) and psychological?

>>33498

Well, that has little to do with what we actually know. Pikemen were specifically trained to fight other pike squares, "wrestling" included.

Pike SQUARES are not just lines of pikemen.

>>33495

I doubt your ancestors hated their existence. What they lived through may seem harsh by toady's standards, but for them it was normal, and they probably weren't all that bothered by it. I'm sure they still found happiness in their lives, even if it was only because they didn't know how good life can be.

This may not be the best example, but I know quite a few people from war-torn countries, with very little access to medical treatment, and from what they've told me, people there view life pretty much the same way we do. They just accept the things they can't change, no matter how awful they are, and move on. I guess when hardships are common to you, they don't seem as severe as they would to someone who rarely experiences them.

Some bloke named Archie Duke shot an ostrich 'cause he was hungry.

>>36138

I thought Great War was very immature, honestly, I don't understand why people rated the channel in this board

>>36138

May I also recommend C&Rsenal if you want to learn about WWI firearms.

>>36138

That just means they recommend each other videos at times, i think it was only once, that's all.

Dank religion.

>>36065

>not in Avestan

get that DESIGNATED shit outta here

>>36045

>Every Christian follows Atenism without knowing.

fixed

>allowance of incest

>dualism

>strict-jew-esque priest system

>modern

>>36142

>>strict-jew-esque priest system

I think jews got that from Zoroasterians

>>36064

>>36069

http://stephenbax.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Voynich-a-provisional-partial-decoding-BAX.pdf

It's freely available on the author's website.Though some statements are bizarre (the guy links "Khorasani-kutki to kaur, and says Mongolian is a Turkic language - is the latter true? he's a professor in linguistics) the main argument is convincing.

But if it really is a herbarium written in a script specifically created for a natural language, isn't it weird this is the only example?

>>36103

>But if it really is a herbarium written in a script specifically created for a natural language, isn't it weird this is the only example?

Hmm. We have hardly any inscriptions in Gargarean script (7 archeological short inscription and a palimpsest, along with a medieval Armenian transliteration manual) too.

>>36108

Early medieval sources mention a writing system used by Slavs prior to Christianization, and there's also an etymological clue for this as Slavic languages have a common word for writing, despite having diverged prior to introduction of preserved writing systems.

>>36117

Interesting, but it wouldn't really make sense here seeing how the Voynich Manuscript has been dated to ~16th century (at least if I remember correctly).

>>35981

no, he means the poo in the loo pajeet one

>>36017

I think he was referring to the guy's second question.

>>36026

fuck you're right

>>29595

>Given the situation in the rest of Europe a pragmatic man (Stalin) would not have invaded the USSR in 1941

I disagree with that. From Hitler's (or even most people's) perspective war between the Soviet Union and Germany was inevitable. Communist agitation had been happening throughout Europe for years (and whether the USSR was in practice communist is irrelevant, as they declared themselves to be communist; add in other reasons discussed above), and Stalin had done a massive land-grab with little justification in Finland, the Baltics, and elsewhere. From the perspective of Germany I don't doubt that they saw war as totally unavoidable, making a pre-emptive strike the strategically sensible move. Add in the fact that the Red Army had been vastly weakened but was slowly recovering to the point of eclipsing the Wehrmacht and invasion in 1941 seems pretty sensible for me. It was a gamble of the most risky kind, to be sure, but it was a gamble the Germans were more or less forced into taking.

I think there's also some merit to the belief that it wasn't starting a two-front war from the point of the Germans. By 1941 the Germans had no enemies on the continent and were not actively fighting anyone attempting to invade them. The only open front was North Africa, and I'm sure the Germans had assumed that Italy was capable enough to manage that front on their own with minimal German aid.

>>29624

>>>/leftypol/

This ain't the board for that shit.

>>29640

If Hitler had waited until 1942 the Red Army would probably have both eclipsed the Wehrmacht and been staffed with competent officers sooner, making defeat for the Germans before 1945 more or less inevitable.

>>29695

>>29766

Maybe Canaris wasn't as much of a traitor then. But treason rests in the intentions, not the results.

>>29760

>If you can persuade the Japs to hold off on Pearl Harbour

Perhaps by that point formalizing an alliance with the Chinese would have been a more sensible option.

>>29790

>delaying invading the USSR.

To be honest I think a more effective strategy would have been finding out a way to knock them out even faster, but I'm not sure that would have been possible. I suppose it depends how reliant the USSR was on central authorities — that is, whether cutting off the head would have rendered them a non-threat. I'm not sure this would have been possible.

Certainly the USSR would have been far easier to defeat without its food, raw materials, factories, clothes, engines, fuel, etc. but knocking them out is a tall order. Given its vastness I don't think knocking out its industry is a viable tactic. A more sensible one I think would have been spurring the anti-Soviet sentiment prevalent throughout Eastern Europe. In other words, I think the only way Germany wins WWII when the USSR exists is more manpower. If they got nationalists from Eastern Europe — most especially anti-Soviets within the USSR itself, perhaps wooing the military (if that's even possible post-purge) — I think defeating them mPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>36126

>Perhaps by that point formalizing an alliance with the Chinese would have been a more sensible option.

Very difficult to do this when we consider how different the ideologies between China and Germany was, this would have also had pissed off Japan to no end, though that might not have been a problem to be fair.

> If they got nationalists from Eastern Europe — most especially anti-Soviets within the USSR itself, perhaps wooing the military (if that's even possible post-purge) — I think defeating them may have been possible.

They did try this but they treated the Russian people like shit during the invasion so many actually fought with the USSR rather than the Nazis. Some did fight with the Nazis though.>Perhaps by that point formalizing an alliance with the Chinese would have been a more sensible option.

https://8ch.net/v/res/8666430.html

>>>/v/8666430

frazetta and bewbs

>>36084

I don't especially see how this is relevant honestly. Good chuckle though.

>>35843

the state of "human nature" is relative

>>36113

wew

>>36092

The grammar will fuck your shit up

>>36088

It requires a lot of practice to learn the forms and ways in which they are used, especially when it comes to the subjunctive and the ways in which it is used. Vocabulary isn't too bad since you apparently know English.

>>35991

and this is why the eskimo are the masterrace

>>36014

>>36015

actually the tallest people would be dinka, nuer or maasai — if you look at pre-industrial height, the dutch only got this tall recently due to modern diet

balkans is very divided though, montenegrins are tall as fuck while the neighbouring albanians are short

>>35991

Conclusion is fine, but the theory isn't.

>>36079

>vice

>>36081

If you don't want to watch Vice garbage, fine.

Just go look up Wim Hof the Iceman. He has dozens of world records and climbed Mount Everest in his shorts. Those are the things you need to know, not whatever Vice inserts into it.

>>33740

>>33719

I agree, when I wrote that I was drinking some rum with pepsi and afterwards went to watch some animu

>>33746

also ID changed

>>33740

I like this version of choosing which of the two denomination.

>>33740

The questions wasn't about "whiteness", but culture.

>>33640

Details are mostly irrelevant.

The salient point is that runaway Vikings and local Slavs each had what the other needed, and they were getting along fairly well most of the time.

The other salient point is that eventually there was Olga, who decided that this mucking around leads nowhere and inviting Greek preachers is the best move right now (and guessed it right).

For a long while, the rest follows from this.

Not gonna make a new thread but does anyone have the pic of the Crossbow gun hybrid that was presented to the King of spain?

I had it on my old computer but it broke and I need it for research purposes, tried google and it's just hogwash.

>>31998

>But taking out enemy soldiers through their shields and armor- duh. An arrow or javelin couldn't do that.

Javelin could, just at a spitting range.

A stone could too. It's not as convenient to cut for lithobolos, and a catapult is not as easy to aim, thus of less use against moving targets.

And again, matter of range.

There's not only infantry, but cavalry - and chariots, too. It's a good idea to start hitting them as soon as possible, preferably with something that got better range than their bows.

>>36071

I wonder how many antique bricks were shat by soldiers who realized that the enemy was pointing one of those crossbows-on-steroids on them.

>>36072

A surviving soldier isn't a good soldier, a surviving soldier is one that has seen his buddies to the left and right of him impaled by giant metal bolts.

>>36051

They fought and had been away from home for years and even followed the orders of a government, that they had not voted in, to continue fighting and only when they knew all hope was lost, that they were going to be stranded in Russia, did they secure their safe passage back to Europe. I don't understand how this is not bravery, members of the Legion who did get back safely even went to fight on the Western Front, which is pretty damn brave considering that they'd done enough. I understand that you're pissed about given away the White leaders but these guys had no chance of success and basically leeched off the power of the Legion; many Czech's were asked to help take or defend cities with the Whites as the Whites did not have the moral or man-power.

>>36051

I get what you mean, but at the same time it's important to understand that at that point they were fighting a loosing battle in a foreign country's civil war and the world didn't have a lot of experience with communism then, so for them it wasn't as clear cut who's the good guys and who's the bad guys as it is for us. Backstabing is rarely honorable, but before judging someone, you should at least try to understand how they might have seen things.

>>36055

This pretty much, also the White Army was a mess at this time due to several coups of leaderships in the space of only two or three years. Also, even if the Whites did miraculously win, it is unlikely that Russia would have ended up any better than it did under Stalin as many White leaders simply wanted Military Dictatorships by the end of the war.

>>36058

They'd have to be really bad to get anywhere near Joe's high score, tho. Juntas don't usually try to redefine the basis of economics and butt into private lives less than crazy marxists.

>>36070

Not necessarily, say if the White armies coordinated an attack and actually took out the Reds then the Whites would have fought each other for supremacy and fuck that would have taken a long time. Considering how the majority of the empire was not looking for a military dictatorship (see Ukraine, peasants claiming land, Greens etc) it would have been difficult to get people to really rally around them if they weren't promising leftist values. Even after the war had ended and one of them managed to actually consolidate his power, you're still looking at the problems that Stalin faced concerning the peasantry and shitty economy. It's difficult to judge but they probably would have made decisions that, while not similar, would have a tremendous human cost in order to give Russia a kick start into the twentieth century.

>>36044

All you need to do is look at how many points you ignored to see how you are wrong and delusional. Now yes, please leave.

>>36036

Why the ban?

>>36046

You seem to be a subversive element. You've never responded to me here >>35979 and I don't see why you're telling people to leave.

>>36054

I haven't responded because I've been in London this weekend and, to be honest, I feel like it's getting nowhere. One of us says "Germany threatened Britain" while the other says "Germany didn't threaten Britain" and it's just the repetition of the same points. Neither of us is going to change our minds because there's too little to know and much more to interpret. I've said all I have wanted to say and I just hope that my interpretation has influenced more people than yours, honestly.

And I told him to leave because he himself said that he was going to leave, if he left then at least that means he is true to his word rather than waiting long enough to get himself banned.

>>36046

Still didn't explain anything and no one bothered to look at the pictures I posted.

>>35808

Good luck dude, i don't know much about that but i hope you found what you need, sounds interesting.

Is there any game or other media that mixes the age of exploration with fantasy? like your usual medieval setting but with exploration, exploring the rest of the world and its mithology?

I'm no professional historian either, but I'll try to answer your questions as best as I can

1. I don't know enough about this topic to give a reliable answer, but from what I can tell, the most basic forms of castles originalyl were little more than fortified manors of the resident lord. With increasing threats (attackers evolving from small raiding bands to proper armies), these residences underwent more and more fortification until the first motte-and-bailey castles popped up, that is, castles which had one large tower atop situated on raised earthworks (the motte) and an a courtyard that was surrounded by palisades/stone walls or a ditch (the bailey).

From my understanding (but again, I recommend looking up other sources), the bailey effectively grew larger and larger, so that the motte/keep which previously was the dominant part of the castle became less prominent. Presumably, the thick walls around and the increasing size of the bailey(s) eventually led to domestic structures being moved there from the keep, whereas the latter increasingly became a purely defensive structures to which the inhabitants could flee if the bailey itself had been breached.

Of course, the closer you were to dangers such as hostile tribes, the less resources you typically had at hand, and the less resources you have, the less you can afford to build a fortified bailey large enough to hold great halls and the like. To this end, the keep presumably retained it's role as a "fortified home" in many border regions.

2. Again, I don't really know to much about this, but one thing that came to my mind was that churches often were built from relatively robust materials (read: stone), which would have allowed them to serve as a form of emergency shelter. Some communities also built "refuge castles", that is, castle-like structures with more-or less fortified walls around them that were not permanently settled but became sanctuaries in times of war.

That being said, life as a peasant in border regions was not very nice. Just look how the Vikings could show up with their boats, pillage and rape thPost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>35924

>Medieval jobs

Don't forget your coopers anon, imagine how awful middle ages life would be if there were no barrels, meaning no easy transportation of alcohol meaning the masses in the city had no 'clean' drinks and had to depend on the questionable water.

>>36049

this thread gets made like once every three months and the answer is no.

>>36053

Thank you for your input, representative of the whole of /his/! Also, this thread does not come up every three months, just by looking through the catalogue you can see that it's been just under five months, at least, that a thread similar to this has been created. The reason why I created a new one is because the last one did seem promising and I did have a little chuckle looking through the few replies to the post.