How and why did Christianity destroy scientific progress?
>>3806798You're bad at shitposting. Go lurk on /tv/ or /r9k/ for a year before you try posting again, fuckface.
>>3812028 People act like the library of Alexander was where all human knowledge was stored and that through its destruction everybody had to reset. Bullshit. It was a place of learning and knowledge, sure, but it was hardly a unique institution. The only reason retards believe this library of Alexandria nonsense is from a cracked article back in 2007 that said we'd be exploring the stars had it not been for the library's destruction. Complete ahistorical nonsense.
>>3812114>>3812105damage control
>>3812028>Library of Alexandria that place has been burned down more times than your mom, anyone who conquered alexandria burned it at some point, some more than once, it burned during riots or caught fire during fighting or it got burned down just by decree, and thats not counting the occasions it just went up by accident(which isnt suprising considering it was a massive papirus pire lit by oil lamps, whats suprising is that the city authorities didnt just tear the whole place down as a proven firehazard)some people seem to think romans were some shining example of progressive rattional proto-scientism of some sort, they routinely burned whole works and whole libraries, other than the usual suspects like philosophers and poets they especially had a thing against alchemical and botanical work, but anything could get a work condemned and the author sent to the salt mines, the empire had its own lists of banned books and authors long before christians got arround to ban anything let alone burn it
>>3810394yes
>but in the end it doesn't even matter
Based Ottomans enslaving the inferior races.
Protective, omnipotent, scary and very territorial. The monotheistic God is modelled on a harem-keeping alpha male.
>>3812878Harambe was the real Jesus.
Hey guys. /pol/ insists that academia is full of Marxists but I never encountered that in my history department. The only Marxist history texts I've read were written in the 70s.I'm pretty interested in Marxist analysis, especially when applied to historical research. Who are the prominent Marxist historians or political scientists writing these days? Have any major peer reviewed Marxist texts been published in the past 10 years?
>Who are the prominent Marxist historians or political scientists writing these days?Since you all know them, why don't you namedrop some? I'm just as interested as OP here. All I know are some post-structuralist Neo-Marxist philosophers, not historians or political scientists.
>>3812749H McQueen
>>3810115>i don't know what the fuck i'm talking about but it sounds silly and all my idiot friends will back me uplel darweens uncle is a munkey heheheh
>>3812776>ausfailian almost as old as chomchom
>>3812798And?
>I've traced my ancestry to Charlemagne, the Capet Dynasty, Gabrielle D'Estrees, and Irish Kings>realize my family peaked 800 years agoDysgenics is real my friends.
>>3811605Charlemagne fucked so many women in medieval times, I know at least one other girl who's related to him too. He's like the Genghis Khan of western Europe
>>3811605>>I've traced my ancestry to Charlemagne, the Capet Dynasty, Gabrielle D'Estrees, and Irish Kingswow, you and every single other person with 56+% white dna
>>3811605Going back that far in history every European is related to him unless you're some inbred fucker out in Finland or something. Get your fucking life together OP.
>>3811605WE WUZ KANGS
>>3811605Sorry but you WUZN'T KANG, John
Why did westerners kill Lumbumba?
>>3808006good way of putting it
>>3807827>wants to be independent>not on my watch - said the land of freedom
Misinformation, on both sides
>>3810858
>black people are dumb and can't rule themse->*let me nationalize my country's resources and try to develop infrastructure and education">*BANG*>-lves
Not sure if this is the correct board but is it plausable for either a Scot to have served at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg or a Russian to have gone to Scotland and anglocised his name? Found this document in my great grandmothers possesions.
>>3812811There were plenty of Scottish people in the Russian empire. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Russians
Found a daughter born in St Petersburg.
Did the Mayans and Aztecs know about the Incas and vice versa?
>>3812393>Why the spaniards decided to use mainly native sailors?This is easy to answer, it's because Spain had a small population that was already stretched incredibly thin as it was, they simply had no other choice. I'm sure then natives did a good job, but had they had access to more people, I'm sure teh Spanish would have preferred to use Spanish (or Basque) sailors instead.
>>3812122Wow, what a MORON.
>>3804325>>3804621>>3804507>>3804640Actually, the Guayabo site IS Chibcha and its very similar in design and architecture to what is found in other Chibcha sites in Panamá and Colombia. The reason why you will find in some places that Guayabo is not Chibcha in origin or even Mesoamerican its because the Interamerican region (Costa Rica - Panamá - Colombia - North of Ecuador) was always dismissed as simply part of the sphere of influence of Mesoamerica and Interamerica. Then again, until 2300 years ago, both of what is today Panamá and Costa Rica was inhabited by Nahualt people, thats around the time the Chibchas from Colombia started moving north and conquered the area. When the Spaniards arrived the Maleku and Huetares of Costa Rica, the biggest and most stable Chibcha settlements on the North, were almost done with the Chorotega, the Southernmost Mesoamerican settlement/peoples.Regarding the Incans and Aztecs knowing about each other, I know they were aware, but Im not sure how much they knew about the other. The Chibchas had trade routes with the Andinoamerican region and even with the Caribbean islands. We know they knew a lot of each other and there was constant contact. On the other hand, the Chibchas knew nothing of the Mesoamerican region, they barely knew there was a big kingdom on the North the Chorotegas had to pay tribute to, but thats it.Besides all of that, of course the Mayas and Aztecs knew about each other, all of Mesoamerica was connected. From the Nicoya peninsula to the North of Mexico it was the same socio-economic world. Every kingdom, tribe, town or whatever was aware of the rest of the Mesoamerican world.
They had no way to cross the panama canal, so no
>>3806192>not realizing Columbia has been at war for 60 yearsJUST
Who is the Tommy Wiseau of history?
>>3801610I did not hit her, i did not hit her, i did notOh hey nick
>>3802512the Spanish inquisition
>>3801686Elagabalus
>>3801882I have Germans.
>>3801956This may sound badass to us today, as if he was supposed to survive, but this story was actually exaggerated propaganda against him.This was supposed to make him sound demonic, inhuman, and to make the common people fear him like some sort of witch, which it moreover did and add on to the countless propaganda against him.
>Be me, German immigrant>Civil War starts>Want to prove my loyalty and appreciation to the US>Join Union army while Anglo's are rioting against the draft.>Germans help keep border states from joining the CSA because we hate slavery>After the war start a farm in the middle of nowhere because I love honest work and don't want to be a city parasite. >I'm an old man now with a large family. We are Americans but keep our traditions alive. >In 1917 the US joins the war in Europe because (((bankers))) wanted their loans paid back.>Suddenly we are treated with suspicion and hate. It seems this is the reward for helping to preserve the Union
>>3811611Why are you posting some mulatto guy
>>3805424What happened in those comunities in the north where people were all germans?Did the government send people to check or what?
>>3811664That was only recent German immigrants.
>>3805424>be you, 28/32 Anglo-American>30 or 40 years ago English heritage became uncool>parents start larping as whatever minimal white non-English ancestors you had>be yet another anglo moaning about anglos on a karenni backstrap weaving newsletter
>>3812767lol German heritage is not considered cool in America, thanks to (((Hollywood))). No one who is primarily Anglo would LARP as a German. If anything it would be the other way around
>Poland refused to negotiate on Danzig and started killing ethnic Germans in the Polish corridor>Stalin was placing his armies on the border with Germany into forward attack positions rather than defensive positions and was making increasingly hubristic demands of Germany>Jews were a dangerous international fifth column with a history of stabbing Germany in the back and had announced they wanted to eliminate the German race through breeding them out Hitler literally and unironically did nothing wrong
>>3812086Ja Man, poles also attacked muh radio station
>Hitler did noting rong
>>3812086>Stalin was placing his armies on the border with Germany into forward attack positions rather than defensive positions and was making increasingly hubristic demands of Germany>*walks into Russia like nobody's there and captures 3 million soldiers with their pants down.* June 21 1941 high command begs Stalin to mobilize, they are screaming that war is tomorrow, guy does nothing until 3AM next day at which point is way too fucking late to prepare defense against 4 million autismos who just started crossing border. Stalin is so thrown off he doesn't speak to anyone for 10 days and hides himself in his country dacha in Kuntsevo until Molotov, Koganovich and Voenkov came there - at which point he thought they are gonna arrest him and kill him and he thrown his fucking hands up when they came inside. They beg him to come back to Moscow and speak to people, which he does at July 3rd 1941, 11 fucking days into the invasion.
>>3812355I agree, he lost, that's the only thing he did wrong.
>>3812086Never forget the octodecillion Germans murdered by 209 Poles working out of a post office while the ethnic German Danzig police were powerless to stop them
& Humanities question:Why do 70% of American girls go to liberal arts college for either english or psychology with minors in either art or sign language?
>>3812325Did you pull that statistic out of your ass
>>3812325Meme answer: Because women are fucking dumbReal answer: Because they're indoctrinated by the media
Real answer: Because women are fucking dumbEqually valid Meme answer: Because they're indoctrinated by the media
>>3812325>Why do 70% of American girls go to liberal arts college for either english or psychology with minors in either art or sign language?they dont
>>3812325Because they're women and they're supposed to do sensitive shit. Do you want to wear an apron around the house and have some feminist cunt stick you with the babies while she goes out to lose wars and build crappy bridges?>>3812335Stop making fun of women for filling their natural roles. They aren't dumb. Be a man.
People who lives would make great movies.
Cortez, Pizarro, or de Soto. 16th century Europeans fighting against complex native American societies in an unprecedented clash of civilizations never before seen in history. There's just so much possibility for an epic narrative in these stories of conquest, but nobody seems to give a shit and would rather make the hundredth Victorian period piece.
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>>3808475Huh, I didn't know that.
>>3804030mmmm make a thread about him and tell us the story anon
>>3804577was that his real name wtf is like being named Amerik of America
After the capture of Orel, the German General Jodl reported to Hitler: “We have finally and without any exaggeration won the war!” Hitler allowed his press secretary, Otto Dietrich, to release a statement: “For all military purposes Soviet Russia is done with.”
we are hitting smug levels that shouldn't even be possible
Imagine if a nation were invade US and proclaim the ultimate victory after capturing Gary, Indiana.
>>3810314More like Pittsburg or Detroit
Imagine is a nation were to invade Iraq and proclaim the ultimate victory after removing Saddam.
>>3812369OH NO NO NO
Why is buddhism so appealing to atheists,secularists and normies?
>>3804153>they hear
I liked Buddhism because it was what my liberal parents acted like Christianity was. Now that I've listened to most of Alan Watts I just don't give a fuck about religion anymore and follow politics ironically.
>>3812006could u elaborate?
>>3812080The way liberal Christians talk about Christianity you'd think it's Buddhism. The way conservative Christians talk about Christianity you'd think it was Islam. In reality it's in a boring middle ground where it's not really restrictive enough to justify the moralizing of the right, but it's also doesn't have the wishy-washy yet somehow intellectually justifiable vibe the upper-middle-class Christians want.Buddhism was attractive because (the way Watts described it) it was actually a cohesive metaphysics that had no conflicts with science and helped me gain insight into my own psychology as well as society's.
>>3804153>A better question is: Why do Western fedoras have such an incorrect understanding of buddhism to begin with?That's not a hard question; it's a foreign religion.
