History!!

[Deadpoolsbrain]

Heres a new question what was the biggest Empire in History?

Population or land mass?

The mongol empire.

 

[D.C.]

Heres a new question what was the biggest (contiguous) Empire in History?

Population or land mass?

The mongol empire.

Yup the biggest contiguos empire... how about non-contiguous?

 

[Steelfists]

Heres a new question what was the biggest Empire in History?

Population or land mass?

Mongol Empire?

Whos the man who would risk his neck for his brother man?

 

[Deadpoolsbrain]

Heres a new question what was the biggest (contiguous) Empire in History?

Population or land mass?

The mongol empire.

Yup the biggest contiguos empire... how about non-contiguous?

Britain? Edit: France?

 

[D.C.]

Whos the man who would risk his neck for his brother man?

?

 

[D.C.]

Heres a new question what was the biggest (contiguous) Empire in History?

Population or land mass?

The mongol empire.

Yup the biggest contiguos empire... how about non-contiguous?

Britain?

Yup 1/4 of the world... makes me proud to be British..... sometimes.

 

[Deadpoolsbrain]

Heres a new question what was the biggest (contiguous) Empire in History?

Population or land mass?

The mongol empire.

Yup the biggest contiguos empire... how about non-contiguous?

Britain?

Yup 1/4 of the world... makes me proud to be British..... sometimes.

Yep it's all fun except when you're killing the Irish...

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

Heres a new question what was the biggest (contiguous) Empire in History?

Population or land mass?

The mongol empire.

Yup the biggest contiguos empire... how about non-contiguous?

Britain?

Yup 1/4 of the world... makes me proud to be British..... sometimes.

Just don't mention how we got and maintained that Empire...

 

[Sigel]

Who was America named after? (This is a seriously tricky question, just so your forewarned)

It named after an Italian map maker name Amerigo Vispucci(sp?), who made the first map of what was considered the "New World" and it showed the continents of North and South America. It wasn't geographically accurate in the least. He was considered the first to do it though.

 

[Deadpoolsbrain]

Who was the first F1 World Champoin?

Who was the first F1 driver to be killed at an F1 race?

No Goolgling! lol

Not sure who was the first to get killed in an F1 race, but the first driver was Guiseppe Farina?

I didn't google I asked my dad in an e-mail lol.

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

Who was America named after? (This is a seriously tricky question, just so your forewarned)

It named after an Italian map maker name Amerigo Vispucci(sp?), who made the first map of what was considered the "New World" and it showed the continents of North and South America. It wasn't geographically accurate in the least. He was considered the first to do it though.

Wrong, it was most likely named after Welsh businessman Richard Ameryk. If it were named after Vespucci it would be called Vespucciland or some other derivation

 

[Spaceman_Spiff]

Whos the man who would risk his neck for his brother man?

Shaft!

Who invented the lightbulb?

 

[historybuff]

Oh, yeah! This is fun! I like history too!

Okay, I'll rattle off a couple.

How did the Mayans view time?

What ruins is the Coliseum constructed over?

When did Denmark get a constitution?

 

[D.C.]

Yep it's all fun except when you're killing the Irish...

Yehhh ... they never let that one go. (joke)

snip

Just don't mention how we got and maintained that Empire...

Yeh theres no denying What happened to maintain the British Empire... but it's something that has always happened in the world and still goes on today... so I dont feel too bad about it.. I've excepted it as a part of life.

Back OT How did Richard the Lionheart die? and more intrestingly how did he defeat the Saracans at the seige of Jaffa with only 55 men?

 

[D.C.]

Whos the man who would risk his neck for his brother man?

Shaft!

Who invented the lightbulb?

It wasnt Edison.. i know that much

 

[Deadpoolsbrain]

Whos the man who would risk his neck for his brother man?

Shaft!

Who invented the lightbulb?

Frederick DeMoleyns or something like that.

 

[Deadpoolsbrain]

Yep it's all fun except when you're killing the Irish...

Yehhh ... they never let that one go. (joke)

snip

Just don't mention how we got and maintained that Empire...

Yeh theres no denying What happened to maintain the British Empire... but it's something that has always happened in the world and still goes on today... so I dont feel too bad about it.. I've excepted it as a part of life.

Back OT How did Richard the Lionheart die? and more intrestingly how did he defeat the Saracans at the seige of Jaffa with only 55 men?

He died of gangrene brought about from an arrow wound and didn't he give each man a flag and have them stand around behind a hill so that he scared them into surrendering (I admit I could be entirely mistaken about this).

 

[Palindromemordnilap_v1legacy]

How did the Mayans view time?

They viewed it as a circle, right? With events repeating themselves as you go round and round

Back OT How did Richard the Lionheart die? and more intrestingly how did he defeat the Saracans at the seige of Jaffa with only 55 men?

He got hit in the hand by a ballista bolt. the word got infected and killed him.
As for Jaffa...did he prop up the corpses of fallen men to make his army seem huge?

 

[Disaster Button]

How did Catherine the Great die? Iz can't remember.

EDIT: Oh, and I'd always wondered. Which was the first country or culture (In recorded history) to have a female leader?

Cleopatra in Egypt?

Just noticed I got ninja'd on that one.

 

[Sigel]

Who was America named after? (This is a seriously tricky question, just so your forewarned)

It named after an Italian map maker name Amerigo Vispucci(sp?), who made the first map of what was considered the "New World" and it showed the continents of North and South America. It wasn't geographically accurate in the least. He was considered the first to do it though.

Wrong, it was most likely named after Welsh businessman Richard Ameryk. If it were named after Vespucci it would be called Vespucciland or some other derivation

No, actually we were both wrong. Amerigo Vespucci who was an Italian explorer (my bad)who explored what we today consider the South American continent between 1497-1502 and who was the first to say it was not the West Indies. German cartographers Martin Waldseemuller and Matthias Ringmann were actually the ones who named the continent after Vespucci using the latin version of his name but the feminine form of it. In 1538, another German, Gerand Mercater, used it to name the North American continent in his map. Sorry, no Welsh involved.