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[-] FavouriteShapes@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

That is a profoundly easy distinction, perhaps the easiest historical state distinction EVER.

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Instructions unclear, they said

"It's the same difference between Han and Qing Dynasties, they were a different ethnicity and administration too, but why do we consider China to historically be one country that splits and unifies again instead of a new nation each time? Ottomans called themselves Rome too, does academic nuance only extend to Europe? Why do we neglect eastern history? In this essay, I will...."

[-] peteypete420@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago
[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 102 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Girl if you don't know the difference between the Ottoman and the Byzantine empires just know that you instruction is seriously lacking.

EDIT: education for instruction

[-] burgermeister@sh.itjust.works 35 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

One kicked their feet up all day,the other was really Byzzy all the time.

[-] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 21 points 2 days ago

Lots of bad educational systems out there.

And you know what tbh a lot of it has to do with bad teachers. I had horrible history teachers, like many others. I remember hearing about the Byzantine empire, holy Roman empire, Ottoman empire in middle school... But it never really meant shit to me other than some names and dates to memorize, which I forgot a year later.

But I've played video games like Civ and Crusader Kings and heroes of iron where I start reading nation/empire descriptions, start googling and reading Wikipedia, start reading on random shit like WW1 no man's land and I'm fascinated by all the craziness in history. The Ottoman Empire was fucking massive and had sultans, and it wasn't even that fucking long ago!

I was taught so much in history classes that I didn't really understand until I developed an interest in them, like the Punic wars. This stuff is fascinating and it's taught so horribly.

[-] FluidBeef@quokk.au 3 points 2 days ago

I heard the Ottomans were sick, man!

[-] velma@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

But I’ve played video games like Civ and Crusader Kings and heroes of iron where I start reading nation/empire descriptions, start googling and reading Wikipedia, start reading on random shit like WW1 no man’s land and I’m fascinated by all the craziness in history. The Ottoman Empire was fucking massive and had sultans, and it wasn’t even that fucking long ago!

These games inspired a lot of history lessons for me as well. Sometimes there's bad teachers and gaps in learning for all of us.

[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 1 points 2 days ago

I agree with you. Education systems play a big role in wether people are educated or not and everything can't be blame on individual but we should accept it as normal and say such things as OOP.

[-] dudinax@programming.dev 13 points 2 days ago

Chelsea Handler had on this very stoned and very bored long-haired rocker who was kind of grunting replies to her questions.

She went on talking about Nicragua for some reason, then said "It turns out Nicaragua is right next to Honduras. Did you know that?"

Rocker: Yeah, sure.

Handler, genuinely surprised: Huh? Why do you know that?

Rocker: Because I was educated in England.

It was noel fielding (goth comedian), and he was replying to Handler asking how he knew Nicaragua existed.

It was a pretty funny bit. Stoned, I couldn't say, but I think he's just like that.

[-] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

So was I, and the exact location of Nicaragua and Honduras did not come up.

[-] FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Sure but it's more fun to just make fun of Civ V players

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago
[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 days ago

If you're not helping me carve up France for the glory of Orthodox HRE, what are we even doing?

[-] Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 days ago

If she already knows that info, aren't they then very compatible because she must also be a map video game addict?

[-] tetris11@feddit.uk 15 points 2 days ago

That's why I only date Venetians

[-] VoteNixon2016 6 points 2 days ago

I only swipe right if our marriage means that my great-great-grandchild can potentially inherit the Holy Roman Empire

[-] plyth@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

You like chins?

[-] reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net 3 points 2 days ago

Only people on the Sumerian king list

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago

Gurl, you better up your game and help the bro bring glorious tengriism to the entire west of yurop!

[-] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

girls if he knows the difference between the present tense and the future tense just know you are the side hoe to his Wordle addiction

[-] Sharkticon@lemmy.zip 8 points 2 days ago

... I mean yeah.

[-] inari@piefed.zip 5 points 2 days ago

What's even similar about those two?

[-] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Ottomans tried calling themselves Rome at some point.

Also about two months ago, I read an old French essay from 1800s where author says something along the lines of "even the emperor of constantinople fell weak with the passage of time," and I went MAD trying to figure out if they mean the sick man of europe or the dead.

[-] SmoothOperator@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Geographically based around modern day Türkiye?

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Istanbul was once Constantinople

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 3 points 23 hours ago

That's nobody's business but the Turks.

Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks

[-] PRIMEcavitationfetishist@quokk.au 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

She's dry and so transactional realpolitik and everyone gets a turn, most of them really into genocide?

this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
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