Why do people support monarchism?
>>18627361Unfree isn’t a legal category in medieval Europe.If you mean “serf” most people weren’t serfs, at least MY people weren’t serfs.Serfdom isn’t apart of monarchy.>manors were unfreeOpposite. Manorial system created the midwits and professionals who worked on manors by choice.This also isn’t apart of monarchy.From google’s AI> At its peak during the 13th-century Middle Ages, roughly 40% of England's population consisted of unfree serfs (commonly called villeins). This percentage shifted over time, dropping to roughly 30% to 35% in the late 11th century and gradually declining before disappearing entirely in England by the 17th century.>monarchies are bureaucraticWhere was the bureaucracy in Scotland?How many departments did the king of Norway have?Bureaucracy isn’t apart of monarchy.You can have monarchy without bureaucracy.>ChinaComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>18627671>pretending not to understand again.Yes, I can see you doing that. Need I write in smaller words? Put down the CK3 and come back to reality buddy.
>>18627772>The definition of monarchy is Saudi Arabia and can never be different>why do you keep claiming I’m stupid/bad faithPlease stop wasting my time. I tried to explain where you went wrong. You continually spurn my efforts like a petulant child.Leftism lost. It’s a 19th century spook. Sorry you had to find out in a thread about monarchism, ironic.
Its for the same reason we still have cobblestone paths and gothic cathedrals around; its all a big museum to draw tourists in
>>18624617>anyone who says they'd rather live in some authoritarian shithole over a western democracy is a liar who should put their money where their mouth is.Dubai aint too bad. Russia will become another giant brothel once the war is over and tensions simmer down
They seem way too psychopatic to have lasted so long through such a large area. Their elite soldiers were slaves born in a different religion who were taken as children away from their families and raised in an alien enviornment? Their sultans had to kill their siblings to get to the throne? And they had mostly non-turkish blood? I know they let some Christians into high positions and needed them to be rich to get money from the taxes and they had arrangements with local aristocracy and clergy in the Balkans and many of them pimped their daughters and sons for a career in the Imperial admnistration or harem. But didn't they feel pride? Religion was supposed to be an important part of life, so how come they would let their children leave and be raised as muslim enforcers of turks? How come there were not more Skanderbergs and Draculas? How did it last so long? Did the people that served under the Ottomans hate each other so much that they could never make a proper resistance movement to get rid of this empire of psychopaths?At least the colonial empires had a bigger technology gap between the rulers and the people oppressed, which explains some things. And those empires only truly lasted as an empire like that for less than 200 years.
>>18626793Short answer: You are an idiot.
>>18627460It fell apart because of Britbongs.Not only are Britbongs incapable of maintaining an Empire, they are also experts at exporting it.
>>18627138Their wouldn't be a turkish leopold because roaches were getting slaughtered by balkangypsie converts in their own empire (celali rebellion)
Most jannissaries were lowborn peasants. They probably enjoyed palace life, it was as good as it got and they had no other point of reference. On the other hand, Vlad was the son of a King
>>18626793 It lasted precisely from assimilating locals into to the elite apparatus, this is why people like ataturk, and the three pashas likely weren't even turkish genetically.Colonial empires fell due to moralfagging and intra European conflict like WW2.
When was the point when the chinese went from being barbaric savages to being close to par with the west?
>>18628294Sorry you staked your argument on an IPO
>>18616458>third world shit holes were always shitholes now stop blaming European colonists>third world shitholes were suddenly advanced wakanda civilizations until le commies came aroundClassic.
>>18628335>>18628287Aren't you the same schizo that got banned for derailing a thread with off-topic posts about Iran?
>China is so much richer and more successful than the west!>…but I never ever ever ever would illegally immigrate there!
>>18628438Is not that I don't want to is that they completely shut their borders to immigration
The richest person ever was a WHITE man. Richer than Genghis Khan and Mansa Musa put together. Augustus had a net worth of 8 trillion dollars. He owned all of Egypt and turned Rome from a city of brick to a city of marble.
>>18628280>t. retard who doesn't know the difference between solid assets and liquidity
>>18628283>>18628280Julius Caesar was debtmaxxing so his adopted son could be Elon.
I'm so tired of this christian nonsense. Now that /f/ is dead we need a /f/aith board, or /rel/igion and spirituality. Or hell, just banish them all to /x/. At least half the threads on this board are proselytizing boomers or people larping as such. It's tedious.
Why were the greeks never able to form real states despite a tradition of democracy? In Rome they formed an empire with extremely efficient bureaucracy to ensure public works were built, taxes were collected, and a large professional army. In the same period, the warring states and later Han dynasty China was similarly well organized.Why is it that the Greeks, from the city states to later the diadochi sucessors, so dogshit when compared to Rome and China?
>>18626969you fucker, fuck you, fuck you faggot for wasting my time with your bullshit. You started saying the demes were older than Cleisthenes and only formally organized the tribes and now you say there were only four tribes.Cleisthenes made 139 demes that comprised ten new tribes, Aristotle specifically says he did this to racemix the population and break the bonds of the old tribes.You did it you got me to seethe, congratulations. Such a waste of time to use this board, there is no point being here. You go back and forth with someone for multiple posts and they refuse to tell you the obvious answer you could have looked up in two seconds on google.
>>18627122yeah I was going to say the same thing, the stuff about Rome getting squadwiped and conjuring up new legions out of the blue was not real. There was Cannae, but it was 9 years after Cannae that they had sufficient numbers to beat Hasdrubal at Metaurus
>>18626676Because they were fundamentally more aristocratic and elitist and culturally weren't used to, or able to, absorb losses and keep fighting, accept that anyone outside of a very narrow wealthy class had ANY value as a person, intellectual l, or combatant, or generally do anything needed to build a lasting polity bigger than a single city. Romans could see you as an equal. And equal with the potential to BE Roman, even. They had entire ethnicities who essentially paid their taxes in soldiers. They had gallic senators, ect. Essentially Rome was somewhat meritocratic and could integrate people into their society. The greeks were basically haplogroup autistic by comparison.
>>18626824Byzantineboos should get the fucking rope. The greeks were as roman as the western barbarians and the likes of the holy roman empire, but you don't see people wanting to call them "romans" just because they called themselves "franks" (a roman construction, btw) and/or "latins". You also don't see people calling the Italians "ROMANS" although the Milanese, the florentines, the aquileans, all the communes were roman originally and preserved many of the institutions and culture of the civitas. As did cities like Augsburg, or Utrecht. And these cities had massive influence on the politics of the time and almost all of them were of roman foundation all over Europe. You don't see faggots saying the Umayyads being fucking roman despite basing their entire empire on the roman levant and inhering the roman state on that region, even keeping the dioceses up and running. The greeks are roman until the 1400s, then by the time you get to the Ottomans suddenly constantiple doesn't have a shred of romanness anymore. Fuck you and your terminology. Greeks are greeks because they are greeks, and that doesn't stop them of being roman at the same time, or that arbitrary institutional history determines who gets to call themselves roman as if we are trying to determine who is the next Emperor int he 21th century. This attempt against western prejudice just reinforces the "dark ages" on the west.
>>18628004>the Milanese, the florentines, the aquileans, all the communes were roman originally and preserved many of the institutions and culture of the civitas.They didn't actually. The Italian communes appeared in the 10th century in the forms they would take for later. There is no continuity between the Roman city and the Italian commune other than the city itself, no institutions survived. The city councils outlasted the empire by maybe a decade, only in Rome it survived thanks to the Senate, and they became defunct in the 7th century. >You don't see faggots saying the Umayyads being fucking roman despite basing their entire empire on the roman levant and inhering the roman state on that region, even keeping the dioceses up and running.They didn't, what are you talking about? The Umayyads dissolved most Roman institutions and replaced it was an ad hoc form of governance even in Syria. Much of the Levant was given to tribes to rule for themselves. The law courts and administration ceased to exist.
I am interested in the Neolithic period of Europe (Yamnaya and Corded Ware culture in particular)Which books can you recommend to me?Is there someone here who works in that field? What is your work like?
>>18628252briefly, the first CWC were R1b-L15, which was found in Yamnaya, Archaeologist Piotr Włodarczak divides Corded Ware in SE Poland into 4 phases. Phase I - CWC-X: 3000-2900 BCE "Pre-Corded" phase with the earliest kurgans. Only 2 sites are known: Hubinek and Średnia. Phase II: 2800-2600 BCE* The beginning of classic Corded Ware. - Phase III: 2600-2550 BCE* Arrival of people from the Middle Dnieper + appearance of Catacombnaya culture traits. Since the oldest samples of the Corded Ware Culture from Bohemia were predominantly R1b-L151, Phase I of the CWC-X was also likely dominated by R1b-L151, not R1a-M417. The Yamnaya people migrated to Lesser Poland (Małopolska) and founded the Horizon X transitional culture of the Corded Ware culture, which eventually evolved into Horizon, earliest examples of the CWC Ware culture rich in R-L151 also including the markers R-U106 and R-P312, spread westward and then developing the branch Bell Beaker.
>>18628281>>18628237Did the people of the CWC speak any language of PIE or Or are non-PIE languages already diversified?
Is it appropriate to hypothesize that the parts of Yamnaya that would go to form Afanasievo, the Balkan languages (including Greek), and the Armenians split off and briefly formed a unified speaking area or dialect together before going on to migrate to their respective lands?
>>18628284If you accept the new classifications as "PIA" or "LPIE," we could say that the people who gave rise to the Proto-Anatolians spoke an early dialect, or as I've seen authors refer to it, "classical/nuclear PIE," and Yamnaya LPIE, as well as CWC. But these classifications only caused confusion and don't help at all, absolutely not. considering that Yamnaya and Corded Ware The Corded Ware and Yamnaya share very large "pieces" of IBD 15-25 cM reflecting a recent common ancestor, this 20 cM "piece" breaks down in approximately 5 generations, i.e.the common ancestor between the Yamnaya and Corded Ware lived only 6 to 10 generations ago, that is, 200-300 years. This is a ridiculously short period of time, so I believe both spoke PIE dialects. Obviously, we can perhaps consider cultures like MDC and Fatyanovo (directly derived from CWC), which are considered possible candidates for Indo-Slavic. So,the branching of dialects, it could be already occurring at the end of the CWC period, consolidating languages of peoples like Abashevo, which would be pre-proto-Indo-Iranian, and in the west, after the SGC culture gave rise to Bell Beaker, the "pre-proto-Italic Celtic" stage.This proves that the Yamnaya are the direct source of the steppe ancestry in Corded Ware. It was a recent migration, not an ancient mixture, also supported by archaeology>>18628237We’ll never know for sure what language the Battle Axe culture spoke. They were predominantly R1a and ranged from Norway to Finland. I doubt they spoke pre-Proto-Germanic, since PPG likely only emerged in the Nordic Bronze Age, after influence from Bell Beakers and related continental groups (such as Unetic). They may have spoken extinct IE languages.
>>18627461>>18627496>>18627583>>18627607Where did this guy go? He got quiet for some reason.
The banner on the left reads 打倒党内最大的一小撮走资派, meaning "Down with the Handful of Capitalist Roaders within the Communist Party!"The banner on the right reads 百事可乐, meaning "Pepsi Cola".
>>18628346...but you literally CAN'T own a home in China. home ownership simply is not a thing in China, it's all leased from the government
>>18628355What happens when you don't pay taxes on your property? Even after the mortgage is paid off? Every example you retards try to bring up just further illustrates how badly you have been raped by Jewish American oligarchs.
>>18628346Doesn’t matter, the fact that ANY billionaires exist at all and that foreign capitalists can operate in China is a problem
>>18628334Left has way more aura ngl
>>18628383>What happens when you don't pay taxes on your property?Well in theory the government will place a lien on your home which limits your ability to sell or refinance but if you think it's anything comparable to just not owning a home then you might be retarded. Property taxes are for all intents and purposes not even real expenses anyways, they're annual to bi-annual and are nothing, it's also generally easy to get tax relief for your property depending on your financial situation. You can't own a home in China anon, sorry but that's just the facts
What was the point of the American civil war?
>>18628328Most useless war to ever exist
>>18628322Slave owners gained a foothold in southern politics as slavery became outlawed in Northern States as the practice limited economic growth where the country was more industrialized. Southern Slave Owners seceded from the union in an attempt to protect their own interest as slavery represented their livelihood
>>18628322Well a bunch of southerners were afraid their incestuous rape based social order was going to need to change, so they attacked federal troops to try and preserve their right to own people (who they ended up related to from raping).
>>18628322Round 2 of the English Civil War
Old Albert shouldn't retreat.https://www.westerntheatercivilwar.com/post/the-battle-of-bowling-green
How do Abrahamists justify the fact that the Pharoah had no free will when he chased after Moses and the Israelites? God directly stepped in and mind controlled him so that he ordered the Egyptians to follow the Israelites into the parted seas, where they drowned. This sounds like a pretty evil thing for an all loving god to do.
>>18624425>This sounds like a pretty evil thing for an all loving god to do.There is something you have to understand about the God of Hebrews in the Old Testament. HE is a jealous God. HIS entire point in the story of Exodus is to show not only to the Hebrews, but to the Egyptians that HE is mighty. This is how Jews in Israel, and the entirety of the Orthodox Jewish community worldwide, understand the story. So for proper Jews there is no contradiction. An all loving God is a Christian development, so Christians have to come up with copes to deal with the contradiction.
>>18628185>>18628194The jewish supremacist cult suits you lil bro. Please don't comment our religion if you're completely illiterate about it, or have a middling intellect that struggles at understanding our othrodox thought.Read from our scholars, Instead of chatgpt. Here's some good resources to explore Islam, i pulled using your ai girlfriend.>Hassanein's Free Will and Theodicy in Islamic Thought.>al-Ashqar's Divine Will and Predestination>Mutahhari's Man and His Destiny
>>18628231Are you a Muslim?No Muslim has ever been able to explain to me: why believe in Islam specifically over Judaism if you want unitarian monotheism, Mormonism if you want a final prophet or just Seventh Day Adventism if you want a recent one, or Hinduism if you want artistic scared books? Why do you believe that Islam, specifically, is correct?
>>18624425God intends for many people to go to hell. No, there is nothing you can do about it.
>>18628430This, the Bible is quite clear as to why God hardened pharaohs heart. So he could publically destroy him and everyone would know he is top dog. This is also His plan why he lets faggy little retards blaspheme him on an anime pornography website.
When will China install a pro-market socialist regime in North Korea? It would give their own system legitmacy by making their puppet state prosperous.
>>18628137>north korea copers whine for decades that north korea is only poor because of UN sanctions against them>sanctions are withdrawn>as everyone suspected north korean economy continues to... wait... it's actually growing at an alarming rate? well well well looks like the immortal science of kimilsungism-kimjongilism was right againhttps://youtu.be/PgRn2WpoPIk&t=194
>>18628050The status quo in North Korea is agreeable to China. It functions as an effective buffer between China and South Korea and that is satisfactory for Chinese security policy.
>>18628402If China tried to end North Korea militarily they would get their asses handed to them.The Chinese military is a bunch of unmotivated overqualified college students who couldn't get a job in their field after a decade of going through the gaokao/college complex, so begrudgingly had to fall back on the military as a source of income.The North Koreans have been taught from birth that there would come a day when Koreans would be slaughtered in the streets as their grandparents were and that they were the last line of defense against that happening again.
Make me wish Dixieland get independent
Reminder : it was a war crime. Only Americans seriously think it was justified.
>>18627360>Wow China must be thankful and totally not chasing American deaths by giving targeting data to America’s enemies!>Well played liberal American!America can more than easily handle China lol and what we do with China is none of your third world business
>>18627493It's pretty easy to understand that militarily, Japan was defeated and could no longer threaten the US. Politically, they didn't want an unconditional surrender, and you do realise that most of the time countries very rarely surrender without conditions, it's not hard actually to understand the distinction.
>>18627514>America can more than easily handle ChinaAmerica has just been defeated by Iran.
>>18628433Iran isn't even a real war because there's no boots on the ground, you retards said so yourselves
>>18628440Keep coping.
when will america acknowledge and apologize for this crime against innocent civilians?
>>18626649>>18627284You shouldn't read the bible if you want historical accuracy, or writing that reflects intellectual honesty in part of the authors. Babylon has a rich history, especially it's capitol city, and it was the center of philosophy and astrology between every developed nation surrounding it at its peak. The way the bible describes it doesn't reflect what archeology demonstrates about the people who lived there. Abrahamists want to demonize the history of Babylon because for example the Codes of Hammurabi show that you don't need belief in Judeo-Christianity to develop a system of morality. and that's bad for the business of selling biblical programming.
>>18626645>Jews nuke Japan>Aim at the most Christian part of the nationwhat did they mean by this?
>>18626645This is predicted on if Japan would have surrendered or not. If the United States had been forced to invade the Japanese home islands, the losses would have been colossal. It’s possible more American soldiers would have died than Japanese civilians were killed in the atomic bombing. The Japanese losses would have been much, much greater. So if you think Japan needed to be nuked to force a surrender? Bombs saved several million lives. If you think they would have surrendered anyway? Yah, it was pretty shitty. I’m not sure I think it’s any different than just firebombing a city, but destroying a city when the other side was going to surrender is shitty.
>>18627933you just did bombing for human experiment idiot
>>18628399Okay, but that does literally nothing to prove your point. Truman could have spent all day wearing a pink tutu and it wouldn’t mean shit. Did the bombs drive Japan to surrender? Were they going to surrender anyway? Or would it have continued to hope that by inflicting maximum attrition, they could force certain concessions? If you can’t grasp that this has precious little to do with Truman being a dick then you’re in no position to call someone else an idiot.
We're now on Day #33 of my daily US states threads in honor of the 250th anniversary of the country.North Carolina joined as the 12th state on 11/21/1789. The name Carolina is a Latin feminization of the word Charles, for whom King Charles II of England is the namesake of the Carolinas. The state has a population of 11.2 Million and is 53.8k square miles in size. Its capital is Raleigh and its largest city is Charlotte. Two presidents (Polk, Johnson) are from here. We know North Carolina has been occupied since at least 10k years ago by the Hardaway Site. The Spanish attempted to settle North Carolina in 1567 but all were killed by next year. The English then tried twice in the 1580's but both failed. The second attempt, Roanoke, famously disappeared. It would not be until 1663 when the Carolina charter would be granted to the English. The majority arriving were indentured servants, with a fluid line between them and enslaved Africans that gradually shifted towards the latter. North Carolina was the first state to instruct its delegates to vote for independence. The Battle of King's Mountain was a major American victory and resulted in the death of English Major Patrick Ferguson. Cotton and tobacco became core to the state's economy, though the state had less enslaved than other southern states. It was the last to join the confederacy. The first Confederate to die in the war was from here. The Red Shirts and KKK proved a nuisance during the latter half of the 19th century. Racial tensions ran so high that it resulted in the 1898 Wilmington Massacre, the only successful coup in American history. Race relations have since improved.On 12/17/1903, the Wright Brothers achieved flight at Kitty Hawk, inventing the airplane. In 1959 the Research Triangle Park was established, serving as the largest research park in the country. The state has grown steadily in the past few decades, with a rising population and economy. What do you think of The Tar Heel State?
>>18627373Mostly a typical Southern state; some modern/tech/hipster communities in Charlotte surrounded by traditional hicks where there's a Baptist church on every corner and everyone's ancestor fought in the Confederate army.
North Carolina contributed more men to the Confederate army than any other state, yet had been late to secede and seem to have done so mostly because they were surrounded by seceded states on all sides and had no other option. The state escaped significant destruction in the war.
>>18627373like most of the Upper South, Jim Crow was not as severe as the Deep South and the Republican Party maintained some presence in the state. desegregation in the 60s was mostly accomplished peacefully.
only 3 posts?
Biltmore is cool as hell. I’ve been to a lot of great estates and this place is beyond even those
What can be done about the rise of AI slop history videos on Youtube?Pic related is "Fishy Frank"Not only does he use AI for his thumbnails, all the art, and seemingly for the voice over- but he seems to be letting AI write the scripts for him too.In his video "8 Prehistoric Skeletons Found With Injuries No Known Animal Could Cause" the very first example he refers to as "perfect hole skull"I'm no anthropologist, but as he describes a 300,000 year old skull with a perfectly round hole in it, it sounds pretty obvious to me that it's an example of trepanning, and yet he's describing it as if the hole must have killed the hominid and implying that something must have gone through the both sides of the skull to cause it.The specimen he's referring to is Kabwe 1 or Rhodesian man. I go to the wikipedia page for the specimen, and there is no mention of any hole. You can see on one photo that there is damage but it's nothing like the perfectly circular hole described in the video. The video also said it was on the temporal bone, and the only mention of the temporal bone on Wikipedia is lesions caused by tooth decay.It's total slop and misinformation. How can historians combat this kind of bullshit?
Brainrotted kids and 'jeets still click on them and give them millions of views. It is the same with websites. There are seemingly a million sites with AIslop along the lines of "[Your search term] and why it matters. Here is what to know."We may have to go back to the olden days of internet where you had directories which link you to trusted sites or other directories.
Accept that history will be written over again to fit current narratives.
>>18627429>We may have to go back to the olden days of internet where you had directories which link you to trusted sites or other directories.Honestly wouldn't mind that. Too many dodgy sites out there on the clear web these days even without AI. FUcking archive dot moe the site a lot of people use to archive 4chan, has malware popups
>>18628427>he doesn't use ublock origin
>>18628429I use Brave browser, still wouldn't make me feel safe accessing such sites
