History Memes

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49166787

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/noncrediblediplomacy/p/2100658/austro-hungary-speed-running-dissolution-by-starting-ww1

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/63045082

Rabbit hole: https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2022/12/the-insane-story-of-the-kamikaze-porn-star-and-the-scandal-that-rocked-japan/

You know it to be true

Bayeux Go! Thou art Harold. Go forth and win thine battle. Jump your way to victory, avoiding arrows…

Genghis Khan once sent a caravan of Mongol merchants to trade with the neighbouring Khwarezmian empire, amid growing tensions between the two. When the caravan reached the city of Otrar, the governor there seized all of the merchandise and put the merchants to death under suspicion that they were spies.