How did taxes and tribute get collected in the past? How often were they collected, by who, and how? Were there treasure fleets and caravans that shipped tons of gold between vassal and liege?
The government/central body or whatever would set a general tax rate for a region. Then compeeting tax collectors (think of them almost as private enterprises) would bid on how MUCH tax they could get out of that region. The state went with the collector that thought it could collect the most tax.
After that, the tax collector would try to squeeze even more taxes out of the assigned region and keep all the surplus for himself as profit.
Medieval taxation system is a mess because medieval society had a bunch of separate institutions that would takes taxes: the local liege, the kingdom, the church, the corporations, and so on. And of course it's different by country.
Still, the main idea is that only local taxes were permanent, while the king levied (is that the word? not english, sorry) a tax only occasionally, to pay for a war or a new castle or something like that. In fact, it was a way for the crown to repay a debt: the creditor would...
How do you think he felt in his jail cell, knowing that he caused WW1 and death of millions all over Europe?
I doubt he really cared about the consequences of his actions. His history is filled with a miss-guided sense of pride and he had a massive inferiority complex. He was rejected from joining the military because the major found him too small and weak.
Proud that he's unleashed the forces that will liberate his nation and his fellow Slavs from the Habsburg yoke
how come traditionally Catholic countries/empires (Spain, Poortugal, etc) in history have comparatively shit colonies compared to Protestant ones?
Because 95% of all the "Protestant" colonies you are referring to happen to be originally British and got all the pleasant habitable lanlater ds (America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa)
I think the Larne gun-running was a dangerous precedent. It introduced the gun to Irish politics and it was used to circumvent democracy because a bunch of Orangemen were paranoid of having devolution.
I know quite a bit of English who are indifferent to Northern Ireland and think Orangemen cause too much trouble than they're worth.
Northern Ireland is a mess. Maybe after this generation dies off in 50 years, the younger ones will try to put the past behind them and look to the future.
So /his/ are you a descendant of any historical figure?, do you know any good websites to research genealogy?
Please help me. I am looking for the animated .gif where Stalin pulls down the hand of a saluting officer in order to shake it. I have the Putin version.
Opinions on Sankara? Is he one of the few examples of a relatively succesful dictatorship in Africa, or does it only show that politics is all about balancing between interests groups?
I don't know much about him, I know he was loved and that he's kinda trending with anti-euro, 'sovranists' european confusionists.
I wouldn't say that his whole government could be used as an example of anti-western governments done right, as he was killed in a coup and frequently tortured political opponents, but it 's still damn interesting to take into consideration that he was able to create a food surplus and basically revitalized the economy of Burkina Faso while declining foreign aid. But as is probably inherent to dictatorships; he lost control.
Obviously I'm not fond of how he suppressed voting and trade unions, but I guess he's worthy of respect in how he tried to bring Burkina Faso out of feudalism and poverty while taking a stance against the French colonialists - who were probably behind his death.
I've been trying to read up on Muslim beliefs and sects but they confuse hell out of me. All that Imam succession stuff and which ones are recognized by whom and what the actual differences in their belief systems are.
Sunni= believe that the faith should not worship a single bloodline descendant of Mohammed. major regions are Iraq and historically all Muslim areas west of Iraq. do not pray directly to mecca, although do face mecca when praying.
Shiite= worship bloodline of Mohammed. area of Iran to pakistan (although Afghanistan is a distinct mess). pray directly to mecca. Surprisingly legitimately more tolerant of other religions provided Jizya is paid. This is the sect that actually allows lying for the sake of advancing...
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As you can see the thing opens in half for housing a bottle. I don't know what kind of bottle there was in there if any.
no. They originate from Ismaili heretics that were devoted to the Mad Caliph Al-Hakim. Now they like to pretend that they are a legitimate faith separate from Islam but in reality function like a closed ethnic community.
Maybe, but they're going extinct quickly, just like all other religious minorities in the middle east.
As far as I know they are doing okay for themselves as many are in Lebanon and a fair number are keked in Israel
Did he put the USA on the road to civil war? Did he create democracy or ruin it? What do you think of him?
Jackson honestly believed it was his God-given duty to protect the interests of the common American; for this reason he was and continues to be considered insane by the Beltway.
If you don't accept Spinoza's arguments as sound, why would you defend his method or insist on the consistency of his system and the soundness of his arguments? I often see people saying things like 'Spinoza was the greatest genius of the early modern era, BTFO religion, revealed the true nature of Deus sive Natura...what's that? His definitions are flawed, his method is confusing, and his logic isn't sound by modern standards? Ah, you're right, but all the same, Spinoza's system is correct.'
soundness and consistency are memes that the rationalist has formalized in order to realize his puerile fantasy of a framework wherein he can use soundness and consistency, since he cannot find it in natural language in his desperate attempt to reach some objectivity in order to avoid any choice at all which scares him to death.
read spinoza and stop worrying about consistency and soundness, as if those concepts are found in natural languages. soundness is nothing but ''I like it'' and unsound...
Are you the same idiot who doesn't understand the definitions of rationalism and empiricism in every thread?
It's hard to do that and care what he thinks when he literally this ks his system is logically correct and bases all of his claims off of geometric proofs while claiming his conclusions are co sostwnt with his definitions and axioms.
He certainly halted the decline of the Byzzies for a time but ultimately he made it way too dependent on "capable" Komnenos rulers. Once an incapable one came along it was all ogre.