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11-23-2007, 06:20 AM
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| it's really pathetic how little history i know...
i never knew.... (until recently, anyhow) (or maybe i forgot those facts since i last played age of empires ii, but now i can look up the history i learned from Age of empires ii on wikipedia, and i never done that until now).
tibet wasn't a part of china until emperor kangxi of the qing dynasty established a protectorate over it in the 1700s
britain actually controlled 40% of france at one point in the hundred's year war
japan tried to invade the british colony of india during wwii even as it was losing the war
some turkish tribe defeated the tang dynasty in 751 or something
the dynasty of korea (whatever its name) continued on to rule in name even though it was stuck on an island during the mongol invasion
the emperor of the Khwarezm empire hid on an island after his empire fell to the mongols - the mongols sent assassins after him when he was on the island
northwestern china was part of china during the tang dynasty, but then it became abandoned to others during the ming dynasty. it's now part of china again, although it's dominated by turkish tribes
apparently the western borders of the ming dynasty only stretched as far as the western borders of the han dynasty (the tang dynasty apparently lost it)
oh and the jin dynasty was established by jurchens, who invaded from the manchurian region.
oh and when hideyoshi invaded korea he did hold most of korea including its capitals. but then the koreans and chinese established naval supremacy, which forced the japanese to withdraw. hm
oh and this looks plain weird Fugu Plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia | 
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11-23-2007, 06:23 AM
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blahhhhhhhhh
awesome though, i just realized - i could wikipedia up all of the age of empires ii hero units i never heard of before Random Map Scripting Guide Age of Empires ® II: The Conquerors Expansion Geraldine Ferraro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Geraldine Ferraro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Amazon.com: War and Change in World Politics: Books: Robert Gilpin
Amazon.com: War and Change in World Politics: Books: Robert Gilpin Samarkand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Samarkand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Political science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Political science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of basic political science topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
List of basic political science topics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Category:Political science terms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Category:Political science terms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Political psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Political psychology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Complex adaptive system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Complex adaptive system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Khwarezm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Khwarezm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Kunya Urgench - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kunya Urgench - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Image:Premongol.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Image:Premongol.png - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Search - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Search - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia it's really pathetic how little history i know...
it's really pathetic how little history i know... - College Discussion Kelzang Gyatso, 7th Dalai Lama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kelzang Gyatso, 7th Dalai Lama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Soviet invasion of Poland (1939) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fugu Plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fugu Plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Manchukuo Imperial Guards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Manchukuo Imperial Guards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Category:Maps of the world showing history - Wikimedia Commons
Category:Maps of the world showing history - Wikimedia Commons Fugu Plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fugu Plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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11-23-2007, 10:09 AM
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If it makes you feel any better, 99% of the population doesn't know any of that.
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11-23-2007, 10:15 AM
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probably even more than that.. I forgot everything from ap us history
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11-23-2007, 12:18 PM
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I only knew these:
"britain actually controlled 40% of france at one point in the hundred's year war
japan tried to invade the british colony of india during wwii even as it was losing the war"
(Although, I didn't know that Britain controlled 40% of France... I only knew that they controlled a large amount of its territory).
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11-23-2007, 12:39 PM
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I just wikipediaed InquilineKea awesome name!!!!!!!!!!!!
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11-23-2007, 02:20 PM
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i didn't know that the age of empires existed
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11-23-2007, 10:07 PM
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also interesting History of Siberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Siberia wasn't even part of Russia until the 1700s/1800s. The Russians were merely an Eastern European ethnic group - Siberia was home to other ethnic groups before Russia.
Same with manchuria (although the manchus from that region ultimately conquered china)
WOW
Russian conquest of Siberia Russian conquest of Siberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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11-23-2007, 10:15 PM
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You're like a fat kid in a candy shop.
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11-23-2007, 10:18 PM
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or as 50 cents says:
You love wikipedia like a fat kid loves cake!
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11-23-2007, 10:45 PM
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| Demographics of Siberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Indigenous peoples of Siberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Siberia Khanate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Siberian Tatars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Tatars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Turkic peoples - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mongoloid race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Epicanthal fold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vladivostok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Siberian Tiger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Asiatic Black Bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Siberia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia List of ethnic groups - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vietnamese people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zhao Tuo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
== Nanyue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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this is something that i've never been exposed to, in schools or in prep guides. (ethnic groups and the diversity thereof).
it's entirely possible that there could have been another ethnic group (out of the many) that could have taken over a particular country (seems like most countries had various ethnic groups). one must wonder... why one rather than another?
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11-24-2007, 12:28 AM
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o_O It'll never matter..
lol...dude...GET OUT MORE OFTEN!!
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