Ken Burns is in your future

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By winning, you meantaking copious amounts of drugs?

TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)

Summer of Blood: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381

This looks fucking amazing, thank you for the recommendation!

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When I’m a billionaire (and no longer temporarily embarrassed), I’m going to fund so much tasteless art. And by art I mean mostly pornography. But I’ll hire the best advisors to make sure it’s a classy positive influence on society.

Lemminary

I’m the war on drugs guy and I… what was I talking about? Man, those brownies were strong! *strolls off*

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I don’t think he knows about the second galactic civil war, PIp

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I’m in the same boat but during the Sumerian reign. Fall of civilization did an excellent video on it “8. The Sumerians - Fall of the First Cities”.

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I like that he’s very open about the fact that he’s not an expert/professional historian. He walks the line between storytelling and rigor pretty well for a pop historian. My favorite episode is the one about the Memnonite (edit: Anabaptist) rebellion that ended with corpses being left up for centuries.

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The UK trying to section off an Indian reserve as a buffer state after the French and Indian War was 100% a cause of the Revolution. Also the UK trying to step in and say “no, you are not allowed to purchase all of Kentucky from one random person.”

Funny how that’s never talked about in K-12 history. Or even undergrad. It’s all about those nasty taxes (after spending how much on troops to kill Indians who kinda had every reason to be pissed off?)

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Don’t you dare close your eyes.

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It can be very valuable and interesting to study the surrounding context of a war. Military history with battles and kill counts and discussions of tactics is something I find boring af, but there are endless discussions to be had about how the causes of the American Civil War can be traced back to before even the Revolution and tracing the repercussions of the war all the way up through to current politics.

Think about how the Taiping Rebellion, which killed more than 20 million people, would have affected day to day life in 19th century China - which weakened China and rendered it more vulnerable to European powers. Think the Opium Wars. Think about how Hong Kong was just returned to China in 1999 - and all of the complexities that entailed.

Or how the World Wars depopulated Russia. You had a generation dead or traumatized. Russian alcoholism is usually treated as a joke - trauma can have intergenerational changes in genetic expression.

Wars also make excellent chronological signposts. I’ garbage at dates, but usually wars segment significant social/economic/cultural/blah/blah/blah changes that they help me keep events organized in my head.

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The best class I took in college was an intercession course about the Vietnam War. We had to read an entire book pretty much every day, which was great prep for grad school.

I basically learned that the entire war was completely unjustified, it was horrific and brutal on both sides in ways that aren’t talked about, but that ultimately the United States had absolutely no business interfering. Vietnam had spent years under French colonial control, which they overthrew under their own power. They had already asserted a desire to rule themselves.

Tonkin was also a genuine false flag, which just isn’t acknowledged? We manufactured the cause for an extremely unpopular war. So many young man died or were disabled because of something that was pointless.

That class was first that really got me to question the patriotic narrative I was taught about American history in high school.

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the century of war between Berwick-upon-tweed and Russia

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Republic or Empire?

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It’s a fascinating war

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Sweet! I got Star Wars!

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Ah… remember when England decided they owned an island that was located inside the territorial waters of another country?

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The Great Emu War would like a word.

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For reference:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

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You will have to be a lot more specific when talking about the British Empire…

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Pretty sure they made a video game series about that.