Was Göring really incompetent? Is it true that he wasted Germany's resources on stupid projects later in the war?

What would be the effects if Gorbachev's reforms simply never happened?

>Wake up
>You suddenly realize that it is 1909 and you're Tsar Nicholas II

What do

Black Africa had no civiliza-

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Aksum
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_philosophy
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punt
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Empire
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dʿmt
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali_Empire
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Zimbabwe

ITT: post unsung heroes of the medieval age.

What was the deal with this guy?

Was he retarded for trying to bring back paganism? Or was his cause righteous.

How autistic was his religion compared to the prevailing Christianity at the time?

What are some aural suicide notes like Shostakovich's 8th quartet?

were the Huns seen by Rome as the horsemen of the apocalypse?

When I say inspiration I'm referring to just beautiful images like this one that show off a certain feel to the time.

Double points for 1600s-1800s early American images.

>"While I was in the boat, I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me. When I had taken her to my cabin she was naked—as was their custom. I was filled with a desire to take my pleasure with her and attempted to satisfy my desire. She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. But—to cut a long story short—I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly, and she let forth such incredible screams that you would not have believed your ears. Eventually we came to such terms, I assure you, that you would have thought that she had been brought up in a school for whores."
- Michele de Cuneo, Italian noble on Christopher Colombus's second voyage.