Ask Me History Questions

[thoodleoo]

tag yourself: ancient greek literature

the iliad

probably an aries

mad about everything

will kick anyone’s ass, even their own

the odyssey

bisexual with a poor sense of direction

just wants to go home

cries about dogs

herodotus’s histories

bullshits every assignment they ever turn in

has a fun fact for everything

probably doesn’t even know if they’re telling the truth any more

the peloponnesian war

nobody knows what they’re talking about ever

makes everything about politics

cynical about everything

lucian’s a true history

only communicates via memes

somehow turns out new fic every week

never passes up a chance for a dick joke

the poetry of sappho

into the gaysthetic

has 50 crushes at once

constantly complains about not having a gf

the idylls of theocritus

is just here to have a good time

wants to save the bees

wears flower crowns whenever possible

[winterhalters]

history meme (french edition)  →  8 moments (5/8) The Disaster of Agincourt

“[Comments] suggest that in France chilvary was something to be confined to a significant extent to story books, courts and tournaments. Great wars had coloured the Middle Ages blood-red; the Hundred Years War, the Crusades, bitter civil conflicts across Europe, all had scarred the landscape of chilvary with an unttractive and utilitarian tint of pragmatism. Since the disastrous edeats at Crécy, Poitiers and elsewhere the French had managed to protect their country by avoiding pitched battles. The catastrophe at Agincourt was reversion to old, outdated tactics which the French thought that they had left behind them. Now Brabant, Alençon, and other great men were all dead, some struck down during the course of the battle and others slaughtered in cold blood.” –   W. B. Bartlett, Agincourt. 

[rhv]

seduce me with ur history knowledge 

[simaraknows]

vikings made their woman handle the finances because they thought math is witchcraft

[danray002-deactivated20241205]

During a military campaign, Vlad the Impaler, the basis for Dracula, once pulled his troops out of a major engagement in a valley at dusk so that the sun was in their enemies’ eyes. Once they were over the hill, they set loose a bunch of rabid bats who flew away from the sun (towards the enemy) and attacked them, leading to significant infection in their ranks, and Vlad’s eventual victory. Because of how the bats appeared from where Vlad’s soldiers appeared to be at dusk, myth stated that the soldiers turned into bats at night, which is where the “Dracula can change into a bat” thing came from.

[lapisbitch]

raphael, the renaissance painter, literally fucked himself to death

[sirl33te]

during the Ottoman Empire, the Sultan Ibrahim I had 280 of his concubines drowned in the ocean after ONE of them slept with another man.

[verysadskeleton]

The earths carbon levels fell by 700 million tons because Genghis Khan killed so many people

[stitch-n-time]

King James (the one known for revising the Bible) liked to watch women give birth. That’s where the “tradition” of women laying on their backs to give birth comes from.

Previous to that it was common for women to have chairs with holes in them and straw underneath, so they could sit on this special chair and let gravity help with the birthing process.

[kanthia]

Spicy foods were thought to increase libido and cause children to masturbate. To prevent kids from touching themselves at night, a man named Kellogg invented the blandest combination of cereals, marketed it at kids, and called it Corn Flakes

[spockyykins]

At the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War, a small group of Union soldiers had run out of ammo against a large group of the Confederate Army. In a panic, the Union soldiers sprinted at them, screaming, with only bayonets drawn. The entire Confederate Army that was present turned and ran away in fear, not knowing that they had literally no ammunition.

[obaewankenope]

When the Roman Emperor Caligula went to invade Britain he stood on the coast of Gaul with his army and suddenly declared war on Neptune, God of the Sea. He had his men collect sea shells from the shore as “spoils from the Ocean”.

Oh and he appointed his horse to the senate.

[nat-20s]

During the Austro-Prussian war of 1868, Liechtenstein sent over an army of 80 people, but ended up coming back with 81 people because they befriended a guy on the other side.

[aphony-cree]

People refused to send art and sculptures to be displayed at the Chicago World’s Fair because of Chicago’s history with fire. They had to fireproof the Fine Arts building to get people to agree to loan them their art. A year after the fair closed most of the grounds were destroyed by fire but the Fine Arts building survived. It’s now the Museum of Science and Industry.

[naphula]

The carbon emissions thing from Ghenghis Khan is not the whole story. He also planted trees wherever he conquered land because he liked trees and thought they were important. He conquered enough to make an impact on the global climate.

[givemeunicorns]

Radu III, brother of Vlad III( Vlad the Impaler)  nearly killed Mehmed II, the future Sultan of the Ottoman’s, after Mehmed invited him up to his chambers. Radu, seemingly unaware that the offer was sexual in nature, was startled when Mehmed embraced and then tried to kiss him. Radu stabbed the prince in the leg, then ran and hid in a tree. They later became lovers, and maintained a relationship for the rest of their lives

[queerstorian]

Just googled the last one because holy shit that’s magnificent and seemed to good to be true, but not only did it actually happen, but I also learned that radu was known as “radu the beautiful”

[afewreelthoughts]

fun date idea: stab him in the leg

[gotinstarblog-deactivated201512]

[half-black-phillip]

I’m so mad because this worked

[britney2007spears]

help me roger

[telanu]

Reblogging myself because

Originally posted by gifs-for-the-masses

[luthienebonyx]

Reblogging myself because… what was that? Five minutes?

O_O

[riskpig]

………my friend has made me curious

[maryburgers]

help me roger

[maryburgers]

Update: after I reblogged this someone messaged me offering me tickets to the sold out Hausu screening with a Q&A and autograph session with the director

[zombbeans]

These never work for me, but here’s to trying.

[strangenewclassrooms]

I don’t believe in these things

But last time I reblogged one ten/fifteen minutes later I got a call offering me a job

But I reblogged it because I was waiting on hearing back from the job. So there you go.

Roger is cute.

[sugared-violets]

Eh Roger is cute I might as well

[secondlina]

That fish is so happy it makes me happy.

[cinnappo]

Reblogging myself because I reblogged this yesterday and got promoted today!

[aquarius--hoe]

Wtf all this energy is bound to make something good happen -_-

[bearfacelie]

Come on Roger

[thephantomofthelibrary]

17 October 1660

Following the restoration of the monarchy, the regicides who signed the death warrant of Charles I are hung, drawn and quartered for treason. This is just the beginning of the repression faced by protestant dissenters in England and Wales. 

[katiemcgrath]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife — Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

[thephantomofthelibrary]

14 October 1066

The Battle of Hastings

William Duke of Normandy defeated Harold Godwinson at the Battle of Hastings to become king of England. The battle was long and bloody. The Anglo-Saxons led by King Harold Godwinson had held their ground well. They had the upper hand on the high ground and protected themselves using a shield wall. The shield wall did not falter to the Norman attacks. However, a feigned retreated from the Normans caused the Saxons to break their ranks and in doing break the shield wall. It was the breaking of the shield wall that lost them the battle. 

[histxric-archive-deactivated202]

Today, the 14th of October, is the 951st anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. Arguably, the outcome of this battle, in which William the Conqueror defeated King Harold, changed the course of English history forever.

[gotgifsandmusings]

I will say with this entire dialogue re-surging, it does boggle my mind that people take Robert’s “love” for Lyanna is taken at face-value. It’s made clear he didn’t know her particularly well or have any particular interest in knowing her.

I’ve always held the view that there’s maybe just maybe a small piece of him that suspected Lyanna went willingly with Rhaegar (ignoring, for now, those power dynamics because I’m not saying R+L was free of issues), but he couldn’t take that blow to his ego. So, you know, better to slaughter Rhaegar as “justice” and then fantasize about it every night after that than actually reflect or learn anything.

And then of course, she became this like, idealized center of sexual obsession for him. Blame never having her as the reason you can’t be happy, sure.

I guess there’s a tragedy to that, but it reeks of entitlement and of course that hypocritical Westerosi chivalry everyone worships.

[poor-cromwell]

I really don’t understand how people don’t realize this. At the very least, Ned’s PoV makes it VERY clear that Robert loved the idea of Lyanna and that Lyanna, far from being his perfect little lady love was in fact deeply weary about marrying him. And through Cersei’s PoV we see that this weariness was completely justified.

I mean, we’re not even talking subtext here, we’re talking actual text.

[thoodleoo]

tag yourself: famous late republican roman politicians

julius caesar

has referred to themself in the third person on multiple occasions

greedy bisexual

good ideas, bad personality

voted most likely to succeed

mark antony

lovable idiot

actual human disaster

doesn’t want to do work, just wants to party/make out with someone

has never had a good idea in their life

brutus

kind of a shady bitch

needs better friends

easily peer-pressured

pompey

loves the country

gets really cranky if they don’t get their way

loved by everyone even when they’re being a little shit

crassus

rich bitch

would sell your soul for one (1) dollar

“philanthropy? what’s that?”

cato the younger

posts on conservative forums

is a millennial but complains about millennials

won’t stop talking about their famous ancestors

cicero

salty and proud

has never shut up once in their life

vagueblogs about everyone and has sent screenshots of every conversation they’ve had to their friends

smug as shit

clodius pulcher

career dumbass

sexy and knows it

does the right thing for the wrong reason

petty af

[vsingers-archive]

candy discourse, reblog w/ your opinions on

• candy corn • licorice • peanut butter + chocolate • mint + chocolate • sour candies

[toxic-swan]

get to know me meme: [13/?] otps ♡ ↳ anne shirley and gilbert blythe (anne of green gables)

“i don’t want diamond sunbursts or marble halls. i just want you.”

[terpsikeraunos]

ancient greek word of the day: ὀμβροχαρής (ombrocharēs), delighting in rain

[interretialia]

Optime! Versio Latina: imbrigaudus (imber + gaudere + -us).

[peremadeleine]

inspired by this, and by the innumerable “medieval” Pinterest boards I’ve seen in the past 24 hours that are full of things distinctly non-medieval/definitely Renaissance. Because we all know that the medieval period bled straight into the Victorian era!

The European “Middle Ages” or medieval period doesn’t necessarily end on a certain date, and its end is dated differently throughout Europe (in the Mediterranean–particularly in Italy–and Germany and the Low Countries, the Renaissance began earlier, and differently, than elsewhere; in England, 1485 is generally regarded as the specific end of the medieval period and the beginning of the early modern period). However, the fifteenth century is usually seen as the transitional century across the continent, being the latter half of the “late Middle Ages,” and the year 1500 likewise marks the beginning of the early modern period in general.

tl;dr, while “medieval” does not refer to a hard-and-fast set of dates, it most definitely does NOT refer to anything that remotely resembles Renaissance fashions or art–nothing from movies like Elizabeth or Shakespeare in Love, nothing Tudor-era, nothing from The Borgias, nothing with ruffs or French hoods or anything associated with the sixteenth century (or beyond). 

[madem0iselle]

THANK YOU!!!

[good-queen-bess]

Random Thoughts #14

My favourite thing about Elizabeth I was that time when she said “fuck the patriarchy” without actually saying anything (*cough* *cough* her whole life *cough* *cough*).

[mysharona1987]

Career goals: Repressed Victorian governess who stumbles across a mansion’s dark secret.

[femaleshits]