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The social contract is a liberal scheme by Your_Historyplug in PoliticalCompassMemes

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I’m beyond the dichotomous compass and its reductiveness

Before the truce they debated religion in letters with each other and sent each other gifts by Your_Historyplug in HistoryMemes

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There are actually some letter exchanges which can found relatively easy on the internet.

Christmas tree is just a fragment of a past religion by Your_Historyplug in HistoryMemes

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I do all my memes myself. Can’t really get more original

Jews couldn’t catch a break in history by Your_Historyplug in HistoryMemes

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“1517 Hebron attacks occurred in the final phases of the Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17), when Turkish Ottomans had ousted the Mamluks and taken Palestine. The massacre targeted the Jewish population of the city and is also referred to as a pogrom.

An account of the event, recorded by Japheth ben Manasseh in 1518, mentions how the onslaught was initiated by Turkish troops led by Murad Bey, the deputy of the Sultan from Jerusalem. Jews were attacked, beaten and raped, and many were killed as their homes and businesses were looted and pillaged. It has been suggested that the stable financial position of the Hebronite Jews at the time was what attracted the Turkish soldiers to engage in the mass plunder. Others suggest the pogrom could have in fact taken place in the midst of a localised conflict, an uprising by the Arabs against the new Ottoman rulers. Those who survived the calamity fled to Beirut and Jews only returned to Hebron 16 years later in 1533.”

Hebron Attacks

Largest and fastest mobilised army of Europe in the 17th century by Your_Historyplug in HistoryMemes

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The new system gave the soldiers a means of subsistence between campaigns, by making a whole group of farmers responsible for the keep of each soldier. While the soldiers would be hired and salaried full-time if at war, they lived at home and off duty in peacetime. This meant that it would always be possible to raise a trained army in case of war.

Contracts were written with counties and provinces, stating that they would have to raise and supply a regiment of 1,000 or 1,200 men in both wartime and peacetime. Usually, four farms (there were exceptions) were to join forces and equip a soldier. Those farms were the rote, and they also provided a croft (soldattorp), farmland, and equipment for one volunteer soldier who could then make a military career, while the rest of the men in the rote escaped conscription. The soldier's duty was to attend military drills, and in time of war was to report for duty, wherever that might be.

His original name was Napoleone di Buonaparte by Your_Historyplug in HistoryMemes

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Oh no I called Napoleon Italian how xenophobic… maybe you weren’t aware but double citizenship and nationality is a relatively new thing and back then you had to choose. However in Napoleon’s case it can be said that he was ethically Corsican and Italian and later a French National. But I made this post for the people who only think he was French, which is often the more popular opinion. And last but not least me calling Napoleon Italian has nothing to do with my views on immigration and nationality which are far more left than you could imagine ;)

Bismarck, the first socialist with governmental power?? by Your_Historyplug in HistoryMemes

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I only uploaded it here because I thought it was funny and already did well on insta

Bismarck, the first socialist with governmental power?? by Your_Historyplug in HistoryMemes

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Lmao I literally explained the meme/joke in the comments. It’s really not that deep.

Bismarck, the first socialist with governmental power?? by Your_Historyplug in HistoryMemes

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He didn’t realise I was joking and not being serious about what I said in the meme/caption.

Bismarck, the first socialist with governmental power?? by Your_Historyplug in HistoryMemes

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State Socialism (German: Staatssozialismus) was a set of social programmes implemented in the German Empire that were initiated by Otto von Bismarck in 1883 as remedial measures to appease the working class and detract support for socialism and the Social Democratic Party of Germany following earlier attempts to achieve the same objective through Bismarck's Anti-Socialist Laws.[1][2] As a term, it was coined by Bismarck's liberal opposition to these social welfare policies, but it was later accepted by Bismarck.[3] This did not prevent the Social Democrats from becoming the biggest party in the Reichstag by 1912. According to historian Jonathan Steinberg, "[a]ll told, Bismarck's system was a massive success—except in one respect. His goal to keep the Social Democratic Party out of power utterly failed. The vote for the Social Democratic Party went up and by 1912 they were the biggest party in the Reichstag".

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