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Plebs are obsessed with empires.
Level up and start being interested in ideologies, mythologies, languages and in larger terms, cultures.
I agree… I’m obsessed with certain native tribes cultures. It’s probably because our culture sucks and we are unconsciously searching for a better way
I wouldn’t say I agree 100% with McKenna, but he was a genius.
Terence McKenna Explains his Most Fundamental Concept “The Archaic Revival”
I won’t start writing my own version, I’d end up hitting the char limit. But I used to enjoy listening to him a lot. Still do sometimes.
Edit listening to this clip note that this is like a taped speech from the 90’s and McKenna is literally discussing memes. Back then it was just the scientific concept, not the cultural thing internet knows it as. But still. It’s around 10min
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Thank goodness I’m too old to give a incan shit about this.
i got the martians. it’s a future empire, does that still count?
Do the Etruscans count?
Sumerians. Cuneiform. Suck it everyone who came after.
Homer? Try the Epic of Gilgamesh, you posers!
Allow me to once again recommend The Fall of Civilizations Podcast. It’s excellent.
Team Etruscans ftw mother fuckers!
The Nobunaga and Tokugawa Shogunates.
And I’m not even a weeb. I only like, like, 6 animes. 😌
Is one of them Intrigue in the Bakumatsu?
Did you count pokemon?
Is one of them Boku no Pico? 😉
now great, what will google think of me 🙄
That’s how it starts
Ancient Egypt checking in.
If I pick the same country every time I play Civ, can I test out of this course?
I got the Sea Peoples.
Napoleonic France 😍
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I’m glad I got included as the orange speech bubble.
Today is Chicome Coatl (7 Snake) in the Tonalpohualli. Party on nerds.
I got the Grateful Dead as a freshman in uni and have stuck with that.
I think they’re just supposed to be interests, not religions.
Caliphates still count.
(Source, btw.)
Unfortunately, quite a few guys end up obsessed with that one.
Does it even count as an empire? He had what, 5-6 years occupying parts of Europe?
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I would say yes, just a very short-lived one. I’d struggle to come up with a definition of an empire that excluded Nazi Germany short of just arbitrarily imposing a minimum required lifespan. It was definitely a large, powerful, expansionist state that conquered other areas in order to subjugate them for the benefit of a metropole. The Reichskommisariats were basically intended as colonial administrations, not to mention client states like Slovakia
Does Napoleon and his realm count as empire for you? Or Alexander the Great?
parts of Europe
Quite big parts
What’s the significance of the numbers?
What numbers, all I see is the years
Do science fiction empires count? Because I got imperium of man
Yes, but unfortunately the credits won’t transfer out.
Sweet. Terran Empire it is. Everyone gets a goatee! I’m not a guy though so it may not count :(
Goatee and/ or Shiny clothes
All enjoyers of history are welcome at the Department 🙏
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Unofficial ruling:
Yes, they count.
if so, and we also include mangas, I am a one piece historian (and also a member of library of ohara)
(i accidentally wrote magas instead of mangas, but i am still leaving it here in brackets, because someone actually made a joke of it which gave me a slight chuckle, so do not want to ruin that)
also include magas
History is today!
sorry it was meant to be mangas
