The Fate of a Womanizer. Cartoon mocking the assassination of Ito Hirobumi, the first Prime Minister of Japan. Ito was a self-admitted womanizer—he once said that a man has no morals beneath his belly button—and in this cartoon, his shadow forms 女, the Japanese word for woman. (Japan, 1909)4yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
Welcome to my 85% Native American, 100% welfare, more populated than Japan, Mayan socialist utopia! (End of HPM Native American campaign as Yucatan, 1936)4yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/paradoxplaza
As many as a million South Koreans are on the streets right now, calling for the President to resign. One dot in there is me.8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/pics
An abandoned watchtower from the Han dynasty (which existed at the same time as the Roman empire) at Dunhuang, the eastern end of the Silk Road. [2561x1704]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/AbandonedPorn
18th-century Chinese drawing of a Swiss mercenary and his wife. The accompanying description goes: The barbarians of the European region of Helvetia. This country is a vassal of the Kingdom of Germany. The people are loyal and righteous; they always pay their debts... [1214x1473]6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Life-size nude statue of Wang Kon, king of medieval Korea from 918 to 943. The two-centimeter penis symbolizes the king's mastery of the virtue of chastity. Sculpted in 951, it was buried in 1428 after Wang's dynasty was overthrown and rediscovered by North Korean workers in 1993. [527x800]5yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
1871: The American Indian takes his place on the world stage. (#10 as Yucatan, which has Maya primary culture)4yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/victoria2
Three eastern Indonesians from the Dutch colonial era, late 19th century. [620x700]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Where the fuck is Mehmed? I can't start a siege with no Mehmed, even if I have 8,999 other men!6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
Population map of ancient China, per an empire-wide census made in 2 AD [4505x4516]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
2012 South Korean presidential election results. Red is the more conservative candidate (and winner) Park Geun-hye, green is more liberal Moon Jae-in [640x1136]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
We, the undersigned, native Hawaiian women, citizens and residents of the District of Kona [...] earnestly protest against the annexation of the said Hawaiian Islands to the said United States. A 1897 petition by native Hawaiians against the US annexation of their kingdom. [1932x3150]7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Extremely detailed sketch from an eighteenth-century Tibetan anatomy textbook for students in medical schools, featuring a picture of the proportions of the human body, the locations of major bones and the kidneys, and the shape of the tongue and teeth. [695x828]6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
[OC] Map of Native American etymologies for horse. There were no horses in the Americas before the colonists arrived. Native Americans quickly developed new words for this strange animal, often associating them with dogs, their one other domestic animal before contact with Europe.5yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
North America in 1835, showing de facto control rather than de jure (blank areas are beyond effective state control) [900x590]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
I imagine this is how you antagonize characters (Actual eleventh-century Arab poem about Zoroastrians; Shall I lampoon a Zoroastrian who, if I told him to fuck his mother openly, would not eschew it as a sin?)5yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/CrusaderKings
TIL the Umayyad sultan in 769 was blond IRL and his heir was a redhead6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/CrusaderKings
Global reaction to the death of Fidel Castro, leader of the Cuban Revolution [1426x788] [OC] [Source and explanation in comments]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
The ledger shows that I'm the only existing nation on Earth, but the World Conqueror achievement didn't pop up. Is this a bug?6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
Songs for Tezcatlipoca now fill the streets of Paris, and the gods are fed with human hearts in the palace of the Popes. Sunset Invasion run completed in 1787 without save-scumming once. Super proud.6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
1871: The American Indian takes his place on the world stage, with the New World's most iconic flag. (#10 as Yucatan, which has Maya primary culture)4yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/paradoxplaza
NATIVE AMERICAИS. BEWARE OF FOREIGИ IИFLUEИCE. [Anti-immigration Know Nothing movement flag, c. 1850]5yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
[2000x2964] [OC] 'The Court of Kayumars,' one of the greatest masterpieces of Persian art. Painted c. 1522.7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Unsurprisingly, the 5 happiest countries in the world according to North Korean media (including Iran and North Korea) are entirely different from the UN's list of happiest countries in the world. [1424x1272] [OC]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
AI Korea has TAKEN the Mandate of Heaven from Ming, in 1477, without any sort of Mingsplosion6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
[540x1280] 14th-century Chinese Manichean painting depicting Jesus Christ meditating with a cross in his hand.7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The curlfin sole (Pleuronichthys decurrens) can change its color and is a master of camouflage. It can even imitate the patterns on a chessboard.8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/interestingasfuck
Guys, I... I got outsmarted by AI. 45,000 troops stuck in shitty Russian province for all eternity.6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
The simplified family tree of the Korean clan I belong to, involving several hundreds of people over the clan's twenty most recent generations (generations 23-43). Made by my grandfather, 1980s. [OC] [2448x3263]6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
[OC] 18th-century Indian carving of British soldiers in a brothel [2592x1936]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
My very first game of Vic2 after fifty years. How did I do? How can I do better?5yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/victoria2
It's happening. AI Korea is about to take the Mandate of Heaven from Ming... in 1472.6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
Let us appoint a local noble instead, said Poland. A hundred years later, Poland and Lithuania have both become Great Powers on their own. The plot thickens.7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
(Anti-Christian comic, 1891 China) “How the Westerners bow down to their Pig.” The rotting pig has “Jesus” written on it; in Chinese, the words for “pig” (zhu) and “Lord” (zhu) are very similar in pronunciation.6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
A Korean woman wearing a hijab-like veil to guard her chastity. Korea, 1904 [564x760]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Red and Yellow, Black and White: The four seas named after basic color terms in English [OC] [1424x900]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
Head of a woman without a face, made by the ancient Cycladic civilization. Around 2500 BC, Greece. [1930x2925]6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The Sublime State, or the Ottoman Empire, in the year 1683 just before its defeat at the gates of Vienna [3596x2582]7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
This is all you get with Zheng He, apparently. You should be able to interact with him more. Zheng He did conquer Sri Lanka after all...7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/CrusaderKings
This 8-year-old is so insignificant that I can just execute him without incurring tyranny. For some reason this makes me sad.7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/CrusaderKings
What happens IRL when you're an unreformed pagan and your neighbors, who all have different religions, all send missionaries to convert your ass7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/CrusaderKings
Arya has finally forgotten Ned and the Starks and now identifies a member of a random Braavosi noble family (or: how did these two Braavosi characters manage to adopt Arya?)5yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/CK2GameOfthrones
I don't have the skills to make one of those fancy post-campaign maps, but I'm still proud of my first full Ironman run as Hindustan. Hindustan and the World Around It, November 11, 18206yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
Kebab from the Arabian Sea to the North Sea: One last picture of OP AI Ottomans before Cradle of Civilization nerfs them badly6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
Made a ridiculous challenge I don't think even Florryworry could pull off. Become a great power as this Inuit-culture custom nation OPM horde in the middle of Ming with this idea set.6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
A Javanese shadow puppet depicting a Dutch soldier during the Java War (1825-1830), an immense popular rebellion against Dutch imperialism. 19th century. [800x800]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
“There is Certainly a Moses for Every Pharaoh.” Poster from the Iranian Revolution, 1979, showing Ayatollah Khomeini (as Moses) vanquishing the Shah (as Pharaoh).4yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/PropagandaPosters
The shock bonus that hordes have can be OP deep into mid-game. 36,000 Mongols stackwiping 39,891 Chinese in 1653, colorized.6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
I've conquered all of Ireland but the Pale in 8 years, but how do I get around to beating England and recovering Dublin? (England is allied to Scotland and Portugal)6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
Omar Ibn Said (1770~1864), Islamic scholar who became a slave in North Carolina, around 1855 [1868x2284]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
The First Partition of Poland occurred in 1754, when the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (once one of the Great Powers of Europe) was divided between Russia, Prussia, and... Bohemia.6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
A statue of the war god Ku, 'the seizer of land,' made of rare feathers and dog teeth. Ancient Hawai'i. [1,800x2,400]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
The distribution of the Algic languages, a Native American language family spreading from California to New England [702x643]7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
Ottoman picture of the known world printed around 1730, depicting everything from the island of California to an extremely accurate Australia [767x489]7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
Catholics win the League War, but there are literally only two Catholics in the entire HRE6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
Alim Khan, a Central Asian monarch, in the city of Bukhara in 1911 [3307x2859]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Today we present the second greatest champion of the Protestant League, just after England... that is... the GREAT HORDE!!!6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
My President, we... we have restored the Mongol empire! (Gold Rush --> Great Khan run, my first Very Hard achievement!)6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
My very first Vicky game ever after 50 years, how did I do? How can I do better? (Wallachia and Moldavia are puppets, Romania, Hejaz and Najd are sphered)5yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/paradoxplaza
Colonization happens too fast in this game. Most of North America should not be owned by Europeans in the 1640s.7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
Flag of the Peaceful Southern Kingdom, a Chinese Islamic rebel state in the 19th century8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/vexillology
Socrates contemplates before his pupils: a painting from a 13th-century Persian manuscript. [561x664]7yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
Learning a language is a lot more fun with a marker and a whiteboard6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/languagelearning
Question: Would my geopolitical interests be served by supporting Commonwealth's independence here?6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
Empress Wu of Song China, wearing a crown decorated with nine dragons. 12th century. [720x900]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/ArtefactPorn
[RNG loves AND hates me] A long fifteen years, no doubt... But still worth it for sure.6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
A group of Ainu people (the natives of northern Japan) in traditional dress in 1902 [893x529]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
I saved a bird that couldn’t fly properly, but what species is it? (South Korea)6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/whatsthisbird
The year is 1717. AI Egypt not only exists, but is Coptic (even though kebab is #1 GP). What's going on?6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
I'm at 2100~ development in 1589. Can I get my first world conquest from here? (Playing on the Russia patch before the Ottoman nerfs, Persia is my vassal, my allies are Commonwealth, Bohemia, and Tunis)6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
Is your country's central government dominated by a single ethnicity? The Ethnic Power Relations dataset from UCLA shows how central power is distributed in a country between different ethnicities/races/religions [1425x744] [OC]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
Hunger Map of Europe, published in the New York Times in December 1918 [697x601]8yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/MapPorn
On a scale of 1 to 10, how difficult will a WC be from here? (~6000-dev Ottomans with about twelve decades to go)6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
Playing Prussia, accidentally got a super-Aragon (one that controls all of Iberia) into PU. What do I do now?6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
How easy will a world conquest be from here? (Crimea is my march, Hungary my vassal)6yr ⋅ Lithide ⋅ r/eu4
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