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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: elax420]
#19097136 - 11/06/13 07:22 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Day 32:
The Romans teach Attila the Hun:
As an attempt to foster a peace between the Huns and the Romans noble children of each civilization were swapped to learn of one another cultures. One of these noble children was none other the Attila the Hun, who would later go one to invade the Eastern Roman Empire. In 418, 12 year old Attila was taken in by the Roman Court and shown the life of a Roman noble.

The Romans had hoped that after exposing Attila to their culture, he would integrate it into the Huns tribal lifestyle. Instead he dumped his time into studying their greatly complex political system as well as military maneuvers. But this swap was only temporary, so he later returned to his people, the Huns.
In 434, Attila as well as his older brother Blenda, are both named the leaders of the Huns. Now in control, Attila used his knowledge of Roman politics against the Roman by making a peace treaty with that was highly advantageous for the Huns.

Striving for more a more absolute control, Attila murdered his brother Blenda becoming sole ruler of the Huns in 445. At this point Attila decided to set is focus on invading the East Roman Empire. Once again using what they had thought against them, Attila uses his knowledge of Roman warfare to outmaneuver the Romans. Attila won victory after victory against the Romans, conquering more and more territory.

It was not until the Roman general Flavius assumed control that Attila began to lose battles to the Roman. As he starts to lose more battles against the Romans Attila turns his sights to the Germanic tribes North of the Roman Empire. Ironically, Flavius the Roman general that outmatched Attila was also a part of this noble child swapping that Attila was too. When spending time with the Huns, Flavius learned strategies he implemented against the Huns, just has Attila has done with them.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: SARAtonin]
#19097142 - 11/06/13 07:23 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Now if only the Romans could get along with the Greeks - oh how things would be different.
Also: Espionage! 
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The Byzantine Empire (Constantinople/Eastern Roman empire) lasted for nearly 1000 years longer than the western empire 
I think the Great Schism was ultimately what killed the roman empire (if you count the byzantines as “rome”)
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: elax420]
#19097427 - 11/06/13 08:07 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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I loooooooooove Roman history, thank you Sara!
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Yeah Rome is badass.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: dontknow]
#19099987 - 11/07/13 11:26 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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On this day in 1942 British bombers attacked Genoa, setting the central part of the city on fire and killing or wounding scores. The bombers returned the following day and added even more destruction to the cauldron.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: Enlil]
#19100010 - 11/07/13 11:32 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Enlil said: I evacuated my bowels on this day in 2013.

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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: mpd]
#19100051 - 11/07/13 11:38 AM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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mpd said: On this day in 1942 British bombers attacked Genoa, setting the central part of the city on fire and killing or wounding scores. The bombers returned the following day and added even more destruction to the cauldron.
How fun
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: Constantine]
#19101462 - 11/07/13 03:59 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Constantine said:
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mpd said: On this day in 1942 British bombers attacked Genoa, setting the central part of the city on fire and killing or wounding scores. The bombers returned the following day and added even more destruction to the cauldron.
How fun
About as much fun as it would be to have Huns invading your land or residing in the village of the "blood countess"
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: Repertoire89] 1
#19120318 - 11/11/13 12:24 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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On this day in 1941 Hitler and Himmler authorize study of the final solution for the Jewish question.
Genocide became the only option.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: mpd]
#19120390 - 11/11/13 12:39 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Cant get enough of this thread! Good job Sara!
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: TheGreenArrow]
#19122592 - 11/11/13 07:13 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Sorry guys, I promised myself I would not let what happend last week end happen again. But it did, Lilith and I decided to take advantage of the good weather and go backpacking over the weekend. Seeing as this is probably one of out last chances before winter is fully here.
Day 33:
Final Exits: Emperor Qin Shi Huang-di:
Weather you love if of hate him, there is no emperor Qin Shi Huang-di was instrumental to the success of a unified China. As I'm sure many of you already know from movies such as Hero, or House of Flying Daggers, for the longest time China was extremely fragmented. One of the first Emperors to envision and make steps towards a unified China, Qin and his generals worked furiously conquered and uniting a shattered nation. He also constructed the Great Wall of China, abolished feudalism (centuries before Europe,) standardized weights, law, language, and measurements. The Emperor also changed the Capital city to Xian and forced all nobles to move to Xian, all these changes naturally angered many.

In 210 B.C.E. as he was traveling through Eastern China, Qin Shi Huang-di the Emperor of a united China died. Hopping to prevent civil war for as long as possible, Li Si, the Emperors prime minister decided to keep it a secrete. During the two months journey back to Xian, Li Si every morning pretended to enter the Emperors wagon and pretend to consult his corpse. As the smell of the decomposing Emperor worsened, Li Si ordered that wagons of fish be located directly before and after the Emperors wagon. When the two month journey had reached it's end, and they were back at Xian Li Si was forced to give up his facade. Just as he predicted as soon as he announced that the Emperor was dead fighting broke out and China was one again fractured. Within only four years Qin's dynasty had completely collapsed.

700,000 workers were sent from all over China to construct the Emperors burial place, a 20-square-mile underground palace. This underground tomb and manufactured rivers of mercury, considered to be an elixir of life my the Emperor. The ceiling was meticulously made to look like the stars of the sky, but all we rare and precious gem stones such as emeralds and rubies Also buried with the emperor were there famous terracotta army. This army of ultra-realistic terracotta sculptures consisted of over 8000 solders, 670 horses, and 130 chariots. And I say ultra-realistic because evidence leads us to believe each and every sculpture was modeled after a different person. As is the custom with many important peoples burials that don't wan't their tombs to be looted, everyone involved ,including the higher ups, was killed. This same thing was done at the burial of Attila the Hun, who the pervious fact of the day was about, so that no one knows his bodies whereabouts. And for ages no one did know where Qin Shi Huang-di was buried, this 20 mile underground palace was not discovered until 1974 by a farmer. Although discovered, the actual underground palace has never been excavated by order of the Chinese government. But the terracotta army had been mostly excavated due to the fact it was buried a slightly different location then the rest.

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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: SARAtonin]
#19122607 - 11/11/13 07:16 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Weather you love if of hate him, there is no emperor Qin Shi Huang-di was instrumental to the success of a unified China.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: volcomstoner]
#19122862 - 11/11/13 07:57 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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volcomstoner said:
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Weather [Whether] you love if [him] of [or] hate him, there is no [question] emperor Qin Shi Huang-di was instrumental to the success of a unified China.


Thanks for another interesting fact. The more I learn about the east the more interested I become
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: dontknow] 2
#19126653 - 11/12/13 02:19 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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On this day in 1944 29 British Lancaster bombers attack and sink the Tirpitz - the German battleship that is the twin sister of the infamous Bismarck. At 42,900 tons displacement, the battleship was one of the biggest in the world and thought to be invulnerable to sustained attacks.
The Germans guessed wrong on that one!
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: mpd]
#19127157 - 11/12/13 04:02 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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They guessed wrong on a lot of things. That's what happens when you have an egomaniacal nutcase over-ruling professionals.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: zappaisgod]
#19127603 - 11/12/13 05:25 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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too bad the nazis couldn't hire Steve Jobs i'm sure he would have whipped them into shape
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: g00ru]
#19127776 - 11/12/13 05:55 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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He wouldn't have wasted the national energy.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: zappaisgod]
#19131648 - 11/13/13 02:56 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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On this day in 1942 the British 8th Army captured the key city of Tobruk. Tobruk had a strange fate, being captured, recaptured, and captured again in the fighting between the British 8th Army and the German Africa Corps. Oil supplies were in play back then so the fighting over who would get to exploit them was indeed savage with no quarter offered or given.
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Re: Saras Fun History Fact of the Day. [Re: mpd]
#19132948 - 11/13/13 07:40 PM (10 years, 2 months ago) |
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Day 34:
The Opium Wars:
Todays topic of discussion is near and dear to my heart, opium! In the early 1800s, China was completely closed off to foreigners, leaving it completely self-sufficient. The very little contact China made with the outside world was to export silk and tea to western countries. As good as this may sound, China had a problem, a great number of their citizens were opium addicts.
India, which the British had recently colonized, provided the English with fields of opium-bearing poppies. The British began providing China with a very ready supply of opium smuggled in their merchant ships. Due to the British smuggling in illicit opium, China had 12 million habitual opium users by the mid 1830s.

In 1839, the Chinese government imposed ever harsher penalties for smoking or selling opium. They hoped that this would help counter the opium epidemic their people were experiencing, however true to their nature the British completely ignored the Chinese government and continued smuggling in opium.
Everything changed when China seized and destroyed 20,000 chests of British opium. This totals up to an estimated 2.66 million pounds of opium destroyed, or 1.4 kg for the rest of the world. At this point China closed its borders to trade of all kinds, fighting broke out soon after starting the First Opium War. But by 1842 the Royal Navy sailed up the Yangtze River and forced the Chinese to sign the Treaty of Nanking. This treaty gave sovereign control of Hong Kong to the British to be used as a trade hub, among many terms highly favorable to the British.

But as you would expect, with even more trade access through Hong Kong, opium continued to be an issue from the Chinese. This leads to the Second Opium War in 1856 only 14 years later. But this time the French, long time enemies of England, decide to fight alongside the British. China suffers yet another defeat to their technologically superior enemies. In 1860, at the Convention of Peking China agrees to legalize the importation of opium.

Related Facts: China falls behind
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11/11/13 Final Exits: Emperor Qin Shi Huang-di
Edited by SARAtonin (12/08/13 02:34 PM)
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