mikro´s big history quizz

we have a winner ! congrats

Next question.

then shouldn't it be fuckfingers?

any new questions Mikro??

alright, here´s a new question:
what has the disappearance of yew trees in europe during the late middleages to do with the slow disappearance of the knights as an important military unit?

the knights hid behind the trees.

templar knights!

yeah, and so the military leaders ordered to cut them off...
no, not really

Well... Yew trees were used to produce the famous english long bows, supposed to send arrows through best knights armors. In fact, the yew longbow was practice enough to send over 12 arrows per minute, to distance till 200 meters. They killed horses rather than knights. But a knight without his horse can hardly move, and is easily killed.

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Well... Yew trees were used to produce the famous english long bows, supposed to send arrows through best knights armors. In fact, the yew longbow was practice enough to send over 12 arrows per minute, to distance till 200 meters. They killed horses rather than knights. But a knight without his horse can hardly move, and is easily killed.

thats why i prefer cal. 50 , stops everything

lots of knowledge of the past in this thread, very nice

jean got the point!

next question is about german history:
how many revolutions has germany seen yet? and when were they?

That's kind of hard to answer without more information. What do you consider as the date when Germany was officially "Germany?" Germany has been known as many things, been a part of many various republics and such. Without a clear definition I'll answer as best I can. I'll just go after the fall of the Holy Roman Empire (basically "germany" by a different name) to Napoleon and his subsequent fall.

In 1848 there was a revolution in the German states that accomplished nothing because the Prussian king refused to recognize it.

In 1918 the "second German revolution" broke out, establishing the Weimar Republic.

I don't consider Hitler's rise to power as a revolution. It was really just a seizing of power.

A lot of people consider the fall of the Berlin Wall and subsequent reunification of germany as a revolution, so I'll toss that out in 1989.

If you want more specific than that, give me a date earlier than the founding of the Holy Roman Empire, although that will date back to well before 900 A.D.

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That's kind of hard to answer without more information. What do you consider as the date when Germany was officially "Germany?" Germany has been known as many things, been a part of many various republics and such. Without a clear definition I'll answer as best I can. I'll just go after the fall of the Holy Roman Empire (basically "germany" by a different name) to Napoleon and his subsequent fall.

In 1848 there was a revolution in the German states that accomplished nothing because the Prussian king refused to recognize it.

In 1918 the "second German revolution" broke out, establishing the Weimar Republic.

I don't consider Hitler's rise to power as a revolution. It was really just a seizing of power.

A lot of people consider the fall of the Berlin Wall and subsequent reunification of germany as a revolution, so I'll toss that out in 1989.

If you want more specific than that, give me a date earlier than the founding of the Holy Roman Empire, although that will date back to well before 900 A.D.

you got it!
those were the three i was thinking about. sorry for being so unspecific in the question, i just thought of the territory which is known as "german".
next question soon...

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jean got the point!

next question is about german history:
how many revolutions has germany seen yet? and when were they?

didn't think nintendo were releasing it till next year!!

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jean got the point!

next question is about german history:
how many revolutions has germany seen yet? and when were they?

didn't think nintendo were releasing it till next year!!
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i dont get it...?

The next gen nintendo console is called the "revolution."

ok, now it makes sense