"Briefly experienced the Basques" is the BEST DESCRIPTION EVER. Not only is it hilarious on its own, it is also hilariously appropriate. Bless.
For compiling your awesome stories for history, do not overlook Horrible Histories. They have all the really good stories plus absurdly catchy songs about the Tudors being terrible, terrible people. They're very England-focused, understandably since they're a BBC show/series of books, but they're still very worth a watch/listen/read.
* This is very Eurocentric, saying that if European civilization had disappeared during the Dark Ages, the whole human race would have had to start again from caveman level... ;P
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Muslim Spain was still alive and well then, buddy. And that's actually in Europe. What about the Chinese, or the Incan and Mayan civilizations, or the proto-Ottoman Empire, or... maybe India? I can't recall if they were a cohesive civilization or just sort of hanging out. I mean, really.
The Romans ruined everything, it's all their fault.
I know about Gordon at Khartoum! It's a rather depressing story, actually, more about idiocy than chivalry but then some might argue that the two terms are interchangable.
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For compiling your awesome stories for history, do not overlook Horrible Histories. They have all the really good stories plus absurdly catchy songs about the Tudors being terrible, terrible people. They're very England-focused, understandably since they're a BBC show/series of books, but they're still very worth a watch/listen/read.
* This is very Eurocentric, saying that if European civilization had disappeared during the Dark Ages, the whole human race would have had to start again from caveman level... ;P
HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Muslim Spain was still alive and well then, buddy. And that's actually in Europe. What about the Chinese, or the Incan and Mayan civilizations, or the proto-Ottoman Empire, or... maybe India? I can't recall if they were a cohesive civilization or just sort of hanging out. I mean, really.
The Romans ruined everything, it's all their fault.
I know about Gordon at Khartoum! It's a rather depressing story, actually, more about idiocy than chivalry but then some might argue that the two terms are interchangable.