some john locke

everything else in very small quantities

honestly, it's kind of like today

in a sense

though replace the bible with some random social media bullshit or maybe the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy lol

people like james madison, benjamin franklin, alexander hamilton, and james madison were one out of a thousand

You have any book recommendations on European history?

Or should I just get a textbook for something like that?

I have a good recommendation of a "textbook"

Patrick O'Brien's World History Atlas

Alright fellas, what should we set this week's topic for?

Whatever you want

Should we follow a podcast or book?

Alright, because we are Amfirst, we'll do the American Revolutionary War as our very first topic.

The war was between American Rebels, and the British Empire lasting from Apr 19, 1775 – Sep 3, 1783, get to chatting fellas!

Do you think it was more miraculous that America won its independence, or was it inevitable?

Horatio Gates - big gay, or giga faggot?

@Deleted User Don't know enough about the fellow.

Seems like a queer from what little I'm reading of him.

If you looked at the political climate of the time period with the age of enlightenment it wasn't too amazing

But the if it weren't for the Seven Years War it would not have happened

But I mean militarily, do you think it was any amount of difficult or unlikely?

I hold the personal belief that we were very, very fortunate.

Militarily I'd say it was pretty miraculous

yeah which battle was the turning point? Trenton?

I'm not too well versed in specific battle of the revolution. I know quite a few from the civil war,

but I need to brush up on my revolutionary history.

Thankfully we have the History-Server™

I'll read up

But im clocking out fellas

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I'm not sure of the revolution was inevitable--I think that if the British were more open about sharing representation with the United States and allowing more free trade, then the colonies would have eventually fallen in line

The UK gov't was a lot more liberal than, let's say the Spanish gov't

Though if the UK didn't budge in the long-term, the American Revolution would have happened again

If not during the 1770s, then during the Napoleonic Wars

Also, has anyone heard of a hypothesis that the founders also took influence from Pre-Norman England?

and it could have been far more brutal

Washington almost died about 3 times in the Revolutionary War

HH VIN

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