>Black people are more intelligent than Indigenous peopleThat was the biggest red pill I got today.
>>18590411No, they are the tallest and darkest people in the world.
>>18590572Imagine being dommed by humanoid preying mantis like far right.
>>18590153You can't just post a screenshot from an excel sheet and pretend it's settled. At least post where you got those from.
>>18590153Amerindians get more credit because they built temples of stone but Africans don't get enough credit. They had iron, cities, and trade networks even though they lived in what's basically hell on Earth. The fact that there were organized city states in the freaking Congo and Amazon is pretty cool. But yeah since they built with mud nothing survives except some buildings in Ife and the Great wall of ghana and great zimbabwe
>>18590168>>18590171Back to your crayons.
Great Leap Forward had a death rate of 25.4:1000, putting it barely above India at the time in excess deaths.China's death rate BEFORE Mao though was estimated to be around 49:1000.Mao lowered Death Rates down to 10.8:1000. Also lowered Child Mortality from functionally 3/10 kids to 0.5/10 kids.Also the idea Dikotter had access to Chinese archival information lmao, China isn't as stupid as Gorbachevs USSR, it doesn't let Anti-Communist activists access to their archives.The actual Chinese archival information released put the death rate of the Great Leap Forward at 25.4:1000. Which does not count to 45 million deaths. If you want to calculate deaths likely caused by the GLF, it's 7.2 million, you do this from subtracting China's average death rate under Mao (10.8:1000) from 25.4:1000.7.2 million is of course a big number, but again, not out of the norm for developing countries at the time if you actually look at the wider statistical numbers. The reason it's so big is because China's population is so insanely massive. If a country has a excess mortality rate of 500:1000 but only has 10000 people, then that is only 5000 deaths, despite actually being a more terribly run country.Death counts of 45 million+ are not actually deaths, but statistical trickery where the actual claim is based on projected growth rates. The claim is actually 45 million more people would exist (projected forward), if the GLF didn't happen, not that it killed 45 million people.
>>18589222>Japanese MaoKek
>>18589212Some day someone will write the Black Book of Capitalism looking at birth rates in modern world, and oh man, it will look grave.
Communism killed trillions, it was real in my mind.
>>18589210do not pretend death rate is the only problem with insane ideas like this.do not expect us to believe any of those numbers.do not stop until you are back to leftypol.mao was a madman, but the chinese deserved him.
>>18589279China has 1.0 TFR lol fertility is dropping everywhere
God is not an object that you'll find in the universe.God is the Source of every object you believe is real.It is like ornaments made of gold and gold.Gold is the substance, the ornaments/objects are made out of gold.God is EVERYWHERE. Omnipresent.
>>18589206>it has to be pantheism because>>18589260Grok or ChatGPT?
>>18589133So indistinguishable from nature.
>>18589133Have fun burning.
>>18589133>God is EVERYWHERE. OmnipresentIn his knowledge, yup.
>>18589470>Youre just regurgitating something you read online.Nice projection, dumbass.>Obviously the jewish interpretation is gonna be wrong...Definitely not as wrong as whatever christcuck retardation you found on Tiktok.>So, which one is more probable... Moses lifting up YHWH so everyone could see it or Moses making an idol of the snake from the garden?>Lets go to another example: why does the bible say that elijah was fed by ravens when the root of the word points towards arabs?Don't care, off topic.>Are you happy now?Yes, I'm happy knowing that I'm definitely not the most retarded person ITT.>>18589474Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
If the Aztecs, Mayans, etc. were never conquered or christianized, how developed would they be today? Which country would they resemble more, Japan or India?
The largest material barrier to development in Mesoamerica is the lack of consistent resources, most importantly water. The "bust cycles" and "mystery" of Mayan "disappearance" are all related to the simple fact Mesoamerica had rather inconsistent access to fresh water and this led to deurbanization when necessary. In wet conditions this would make urbanization very easy (build next to cenote), in dry conditions it would destroy all urban development made. Anons in thread are arguing over whether Aztecs were in some sort of crisis but even if Aztecs made tributary of the entire region + North America, they would hit this deurbanization wall eventually. I do believe Aztecs were different enough to survive this as a political entity, but the material reality would still affect them. If not the Spaniards, someone would challenge their political structure and find many allies against the Aztecs. I would be interested in learning more about what this sort of crisis this could entail since a 50-year cycle is really crazy even for pre-Columbian MesoamericaRegardless, no amount of "earlier contact" or "later contact" or any other althistory play would really change the problems that made Mesoamerica the way it was. Mesoamerica had effectively been locked in this scenario for thousands of years and likely would not have changed in any meaningful way up to present, they did have very advanced water infrastructure, but even in modern times this region faces severe water-security issues. Anyone thinking the Aztecs were different enough to change this are probably coping for being brown by trying to develop their own Aryan myth
>>18589781>Then explain teotihuacan and all the other pre aztec ruinsCities sometimes get abandoned if shit goes south for them and nobody feels they're worth resettlement. Like i said in that post, when Teotihuacan got abandoned the people didn't revert into cavemen, they immediately moved to other cities or founded new ones.If you're asking why there's seemingly so many of them, it's a matter of survivorship bias. As explained in >>18585959, if a place was inhabited when the Spanish came around, it was likely to be rebuilt into a colonial settlement, something that they obviously didn't do to ruins. It's not that there's some sort of curse that eventually makes every Mesoamerican city collapse, it's because the cities that collapsed were more likely to make it to the modern day as ruins that can serve as archaeological sites and tourist attractions. The entire metropolitan area of Mexico City famously covers what was once Tenochtitlan and dozens of other Nahua city-states. The modern mexican cities of Merida, Campeche, and Champoton were all once major postclassic Maya cities, hence the illusion that the Classic Maya had all the huge cities while the postclassic ones only built occasionally and in small scale.
>>18589791>I would be interested in learning more about what this sort of crisis this could entail since a 50-year cycle is really crazy even for pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
>>18589781>>18589792Oh and i forgot to address this >Also my point about the sacrifices wasnt that they suddenly started doing it but that they really ramped it up.Like i said, the Aztecs ramped up sacrifices, in general, because of their expansionism and the way their military and hegemony worked. Warriors captured a lot of captives because it gave them prestige and opportunities for social ascension, and the government welcomed those captives because then their sacrifice could be used for intimidation purposes and as a demonstration of power.Beyond the drought case i mentioned, i don't know of any archaeological evidence of Mesoamerican societies ramping up sacrifices in times of crisis.
>>18589791The geography of the Maya lowlands and the Mexican altiplano couldn't be more different. The Maya lowlands are a huge karstic block with no rivers and heavy rainfall and poor shallow soil. Central Mexico has rich deep soil and consistent rainfall. Also postclassic nahuas had aqueducts and irrigation, they weren't just dependent on rainfall. Two very different situations. I don't think the Aztecs had a fresh water or drought problem. The Mayans definitely did though. The Aztec empire was like 200 years old when Cortes landed
>Come up against European line infantry and artillery>Just rapidly build elaborate trench systems, hidden tunnels with secret firing holes, and flax walls that can bounce off the cannonballs and musketballs.>force line infantry to have to come into attack and take huge casualties, if the seige goes on too long, just escape from a secret tunnel and build another fort overnight in the next field. >Europeans "NOOOOO YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT".Unironically, how did a bunch of cavemen come up with the Gunfighter Pa when the Europeans didn't think of anything like it?
You know the Musket Wars weren't maoris vs redcoats, right?
Historical implications of germanix being the most raped, servile, zogged, vaccinated and trooned cattle in existence?
>ixseething latinx detected
>>18590594>3% identify as transgender, gender-fluid, or nonbinaryAnd 95% of that 3% identify as the latter two... So it's really just the number of teenage girls with dyed hair who are going to grow out of that when they get laid.
Greco-Romans believed in the power of boy pussy (18+) and it drove them to forge Empires and liberate cute twinks trapped in barbarous foreign lands without gyms, baths and infatuated Patricians to dote on them. The Ottomans and Mongols too took male lovers and absolutely pounded 'bus across the world.Why did western civilization abandon such a source of strength?
>>18587325Ascendant civilizations put a lot of value in masculine virtues, so it makes sense that men will prefer a vessel with those features. A woman is physically attractive, but a young man is physically AND mentally attractive. It comes from men being sexual selectors vs women.
You have to realize that none of the excuses the ancients gave were in good faith and all just various ways of trying to find a semantic loophole to say "I'm not gay". Basically it goes like this: More or less every culture that has ever existed has viewed Homosexuality as gross at best and deserving of death at worst. But something that is also pretty much universally true about cultures is that men at a certain level of the social hierarchy/level of wealth are not subject to the law in the way the hoi polloi are. And like all groups of humans, statistically some of them will be gay. And these rich men, gay or straight, be they Athenian statesmen, Japanese Daimyo, or Victorian Gentleman, know that they can use their position to coerce an underage person of their preferred gender into sex. The straight ones don't have to worry much, they just tell that teenage maid she's fired and out on the streets if she refuses to fuck them and that's that. The gay ones had to put in a little more work of course. Since being gay wasn't really socially accepted you had to at least create a bullshit idealogical framework about "mentorship" or "wakashudo" or some other excuse for why you were keeping a little boy in your bedroom. But they were just that, excuses. It was that a rich guy wanted to fuck a person and that person couldn't say no and he was too privileged to be punished. All the philosophical babble was just a way for society to try and pretend these people weren't flagrantly breaking the rules and no one was stopping them.
>>18587453Absolutely based and true>>18587433>Soggy biscuitDear god my sides
>>18587433British boarding school culture is really something else, man...
>>18590567Because it was by design an abuse factory designed to churn out psychopaths to run the empire and those too broken to resist them. The cruelty and misery were the point and actively encouraged. Fucked up doesn't even begin to describe it.
Thinking of getting into reading history. Is it true i should start with the greeks?
OP, i am a generic armchair history nerd. These are the things that would have made me look less like a jackass in history discussion. (emphasis on less)Always ask these questions about a historical person>Who was employing or funding them?>Who was their influence?>What was their motivation?For a well off Aristocrat figure>What would they tell you was their biggest stress?For historical terms, never ever take it at face value and ask who came up with the term and the reason>Who coined the term "Bronze Age" and why>Who coined the term "Middle Ages" and why>Who called it "Protestant Work Ethic" and whyComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Tbh you have to start in the neolithic revolution and then sumeria>egypt>greece/olmec>maya>aztec-incaOtherwise you wont really understand primordial things like why society is structured that way, the birth of castes, and the importance of power/control management.
You should start with a generalist world history source and then read more specialized books and sources on different regions and time periods.That being said, even the best generalist world history overviews gloss over the Precolumbian Americas a lot, so whatever generalist stuff you read, also read "1491" by Charles Mann which is a intro overview on the Precolumbian Americas
Start with Marx/Engels so you learn materialist analysis.https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1850/peasant-war-germany/index.htmGood overview of a historical war, from a Marxist lens. Then learn history and understand holistically, why things actually happen instead of just a clash of egos like Liberals view history.
As with all these threads my genuine, honest, unironic, sincere recommendation is one of those children's "Complete History of the World" A6 sized books. They're written for people who don't know anything about the subject, clearly explain what is happening without getting bogged down and lays things out in a basic timeline. From there pick up a general pop history book from the shelves of your local book shop based on what stuck out as most interesting and go from there.
Why is the west gynocentric?
>>18590532What do you mean non-entities? Imagine your wife cheating on you and giving birth to a bastard child who you are legally forced to raised and have him inherit your wealth after your death? This law is applied in my shitty muslim country, two years ago a man committed suicide after finding out that his 3 daughters were not his, he was forced to be their father despite DNA tests saying otherwise, srsly islam is the worst
>>18590535Legally the reason that child is yours is because the wife has. She cannot have children without a man and unless you can verifiably prove infidelity.But I guess I can comprehend your struggle, muslim incel.
>>18589854The real answer is nuns and convents in western Christianity created an institution for families to offload old maids who would otherwise be a financial drain. That means there wasn't as much pressure for families to marry off daughters ASAP like in most other cultures and they could hold out for better marriage deals, which meant that western women were married off older and closer in age to their husbands. This reduced the clear power imbalances of marriages with wider age gaps, and laid a fertile ground for feminism to develop once technology and economic development led to women leaving the home and entering the workplace. Also liberalism.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_European_marriage_pattern
>>18590554You are a cuck if you think thats normal, but you are a christcuck so i think its in your blood>>18590559I think feminism has to do with western men being guillible, imagine being dominated by women to this point, i heard that in usa women get half of your assets after divorce, i fail to believe you guys descend from the vikings and romans, americans surely descend from celtic cucks but idk about the rest of the west
>>18590562Explanation is not an endorsement, my browncel friend.That said you are right that Islam (or hell, traditionally patriarchal religious systems) is not a good path. It's also not gynocentric.
Why does this term cause so much insecurity? It's true and has nothing to do with enlightenment Why does this term cause so much insecurity? Its true and has nothing to do with prejudice from the "Enlightenment."The ancient Roman Empire came to control much of Europe, and all this greatness went beyond territorial control and military capacity; they were global leaders in the intellectual and cultural domains. When Rome fell, a vacuum formed on the European continent and stupidity took hold, all Roman trade networks disintegrated, knowledge was forgotten and dumbed down, and literacy rates plummeted brutally, and high culture died.Denying the decline is confirmation bias! This period in Europe was characterized by a marked economic, cultural, and intellectual decline, when compared to the grandeur of the Roman Empire... damn
>>18588639>>18588639They did though.The stationarii fell somewhere between civil servants and the military proper.Insofar as they allowed Romans to administrate, and the stationarii did just that, Romans remained in that role.In retaining the cursus publicus (absolutely crucial to Roman administrative functions) as an institution, they retained those remaining ethic Romans too.That includes the stationarii, as they were a necessary arm of the administration.Think about it like this.Speaking Latin would have been a necessary part of their duties, because they were dealing with a Latin speaking general population.Virtually every Ostrogoth qualified for that position did not speak Latin. So they would have had to cooperate with the Romans in that capacity in particular.It's literally a special case. Anything else would have been totally unworkable.
>>18584210holy shit man but do you have serious attention and reading comprehension issues.
>>18589905>Virtually every Ostrogoth qualified for that position did not speak LatinWhy would you think that, that's a weird idea
Presumably because people often think of things like "standard of living" and "technological advancement", both of which significantly improved after the roman empire ended. Things like "cultural decline" are extremely subjective, I personally think gothic cathedrals are more beautiful than almost all roman architecture (not that it was really their fault, the western romans were just not as technologically advanced as their successors)
>>18590550I'm becoming less sure about what you'd call cultural decline, to be honest. A lot of Roman writing reads to us as quite modern, especially since modern translations and histories try to frame them as almost current events/political reporting. But these were not modern people. Human sacrifice was pretty fucking common across the ancient world, and while the Romans were quite happy to orientalise or barbarise such practices, they were massive hypocrites. As well as the occasional actual human sacrifice; gladiatorial games, crucifixions and throwing people into arenas to be torn apart by lions weren't exactly civilised. In that context you can begin to understand why Christianity took off. People were living in a sea of brutality, especially in cities.
What race were nubians before they mixed with Arabs?
>>18590573Their skin color ranged from darker than the Egyptians to black as the ace of spades if you take the art literally.
what do you think of the beatnik subculture that came before the hippies?
>>18588554>>18588674So that's Kerouac AND Pound who were friends with Ginsberg. What was it about Ginsberg that attracted so many Jew-haters? And why were they even friends with him? Especially Pound.
>>18590478Ginsburg was extremely smart and charming in his prime before he became radioactive over NAMBLA.Kerouac and co. didn't care about square middle class shit like age of consent, so Ginsburg being a diddler wouldn't have bothered them when they were all young and too high to tell which way was up.
>>18590501But Ginsberg was Jewy as hell. Why would people like Kerouac and Pound be friends with him?
>>18589014>had serious mommy issues, living with her on and off throughout his adult life and dying drunk in their househow all trve catholics should live and die 2bh
>Even faggier, but at least they didn't get their hands on LSD-ACK
If you really think about it, the Turtle Ship isn't much of a naval innovation. It's just a single row galley so a lot less complex and powerful than the Greek triremes.
>>18588642Hideoyoshi should have used mind control to invite Shimazu Yoshihiro to the initial push and replace Wakisaka with Konichi. Wakisaka can enter as a reserve. I think those three showed merit at sea. Despite how much he shit the bed, Wakisaka was able to let go of his ego and reflect critically after Hansando. They need to abandon the concentrated force altogether. few lost ships are enough to completely slow the whole unit. They also need to understand that the Koreans rely wholy on cavalry doctrines at sea and there are apparent shortfalls.
>>18587732What even is this lie, we all know that China can produce their own Chinese style cannons and did learn to make Folangji cannons - they have a shit ton of firearms. Koreans can make their own cannons too, albeit not ass great as Chinese or Europeans'.
>>18586717>>18588725I know Hideyoshi want the supply his force in peninsula three river.
>>18588049Yes, materials and production prioritization. Teppo is different because many skilled Japanese blacksmiths who could turn out swords could also turn out teppo. And there's a whole system in place to acquire and recycle iron.A lot of the cannons at that time were bronze. Japanese bell makers did have the skills to make bronze cannon but it was not prioritized.Simply put there was a massive supply of cannon coming out of Indonesia at that time.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetbang>De Barros and Faria e Sousa mention that with the fall of Malacca (1511), Albuquerque captured 3,000 out of 8,000 artillery.All those thousands of cannons that Malacca had were purchased from manufactories in Java.
>>18588783Why would you ay that it wouldn't be as great?
Is there any solid evidence that Ashkenazi are actually descended from Levantine jews?
>>18586144It may be bullshit, but Muslims pretty much all believe it.
>>18585049The fact that the stereotypical '''Jewish features''' just happen to fall in line with typical Levantine features doesn't mean anything to you?
>>18588209It's the other way around: Italians have a large Levantine maternal genetic heritage, hence the overlap with the Jews. The Romans killed hundreds of thousand of Jewish and Samaritan males, while their women were enslaved and sold around for the price of a donkey.>Y-chromosome admixture proportions to the current SSI genetic pool indeed confirm an high paternal contribution from the South-Eastern Mediterranean populations, and particularly from the Balkan Peninsula (∼60%), whereas about 25% of SSI Y-chromosomes can be traced back to North-Western European group. Analogously, although the present-day SSI mtDNA genetic pool is largely shared with the other South-Eastern European populations of the Mediterranean Basin (respectively Balkan and Italian Peninsulas), a remarkable proportion of maternal ancestry (especially if compared with its paternal counterpart) derives from the Levant.>In fact, whereas the different continental and within continental contributions to the current SSI genetic pool appeared to be more equally distributed on the maternal side (despite a noteworthy contribution of Levantine females), the paternal counterpart appeared to be clearly affected by South-Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Balkan, males.
>>18588908They don't get American pitybux to use for PR.
>>18589354So in that sopranos scene when the Jewish guy asked where are the Romans now, Tony could have give him a mirror and said that he was a empire rape baby?
Well? When does life begin? At a conveniently arbitrary point point beyond conception?
>>18589724>Gangrape is a matter of legality, not ethics.Yes, and?You suddenly start *liking* being gangraped if it gets decriminalized, moron? No.Does *you* not liking it imply that all humans are equal and that any such activity must on principle cease *because* of *your* empathy? Again, no.Does "not-liking it" suddenly make it a question of ethics? Again, no.Any civility in behavior is still a "mutually-assured destruction" thing. A question of whether you are strong enough not to be fucked with. And that's about it.*If* (and that's a big if) you are a *useful*, *valuable*, *productive* group member, your group can put up just enough resistance, that any perpetrator would think twice and will seek an easier, more vulnerable target. The weak/useless/helpless (aka, lacking any safety network), on the other hand, suffer, have suffered and will suffer. Such is life.
>>18589882>atheist cope excusesSuch is life without morality. You will clap and cheer when your offspring gets gangraped because legality allows for it! Cumbayah!
>>18590508People don't do things that are illegal, christcuck
>>18589778>doesn’t understand how birth control works>reeeeees about sexFuck all are you sort retarded.
>>18590508>Such is life without morality.>>18588689>Whereas theologians and clerics preached sparing their lives>in the early Middle Ages <...> infanticide, "was practiced on a gigantic scale with absolute impunityIn other words, nothing of value gets lost. Just christcucks helplessly angrily reee-ing nearby, unable to comprehend that it is the environment that shapes morality, not some changeless decrees from a book of jewish fables.
