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Post subject:  Posted: October 14th, 2006, 4:00 am |
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We didn't talk about the Persian Empire in my school either, but I chose History as a "free subject" (dunno if this is the correct translation... just means that I had 2 more hours of History per week) and there we learned a little more...
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 4:04 am |
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Lady Erana wrote: We didn't talk about the Persian Empire in my school either, but I chose History as a "free subject" (dunno if this is the correct translation... just means that I had 2 more hours of History per week) and there we learned a little more...
Probably because the sad fact is that the roman empire became the most well known, but we never had any free subjects in history, a shame _________________ 
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 4:15 am |
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Well, we learned much about the Greek History, too. The Roman Empire and Ancient Greece dominate this subject, we hardly learned about any other culture in the Antiquity. Hardly anyone has an idea who Nebukadnezar was...
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 5:44 am |
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Lady Erana wrote: Well, we learned much about the Greek History, too. The Roman Empire and Ancient Greece dominate this subject, we hardly learned about any other culture in the Antiquity. Hardly anyone has an idea who Nebukadnezar was...
Winners write history for the future generations, but luckily there are these folks called archeologists  _________________
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 6:24 am |
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Yeah, I like those guys! Once I wanted to become one of them...  Where would the world be without the archeologists?  _________________ <center>
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 7:17 am |
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I have to join this club! 
History has been my favorite subject since I first had it at school! In elementary school we did the medieval times all the time (I guess it was a project) therefore I developed a slight dislike for that age. Apart from that I´m interested in pretty much everything (conerning Europe, America, the middle east). _________________ -Even the smallest person can change the course of the future-
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 9:45 am |
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Lady Erana wrote: Hardly anyone has an idea who Nebukadnezar was... I've never seen his name spelled that way before, but google says it's correct.  Anyway, he was the King of Babylon who is believed to have built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Yesterday in history class we somehow got onto the "who discovered america?" topic, and someone said "Columbus," and the teacher accepted it as correct. What about L'Anse aux Meadows, definitive proof the the vikings were here hundreds of years before him? 
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 9:51 am |
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^ Lol! That's exactly what I'm working on right now for my final exams in half a year: Who discovered America. Of course the vikings were first, nearly 500 years before Christoph Columbus!
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 9:51 am |
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hundreds of years before columbus came, there were french fishermen fishing on the coast of north america....occationally they'd land and chop down a tree for repairs....but they never said "HEY WE'VE DISCOVERED AMERICA!" they just kinda shrugged and went on with their lives
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 9:56 am |
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^ Wow! I've never heard that story before! Very interesting!!!  _________________ <center>
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 11:09 am |
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we havent talked about the Persian Empire... well... ever. We're covering the Civil War at the mo'- My fave subject
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 11:38 am |
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Mornie utúlië wrote: hundreds of years before columbus came, there were french fishermen fishing on the coast of north america....occationally they'd land and chop down a tree for repairs....but they never said "HEY WE'VE DISCOVERED AMERICA!" they just kinda shrugged and went on with their lives
lol don`t forget the vikings
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 11:48 am |
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Ugh I can't stand when people say Columbus discovered America  . _________________ "There's an ocean between.....where I am and where I want to be" 
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 12:01 pm |
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Banana_Republic wrote: Ugh I can't stand when people say Columbus discovered America . Well... it was kinda when people only wanted to realise: "Like whoa! The world is round and not flat like a pancake!" all tough columbus did find it, but that doesn`t neccessarely mean he was the first one from the eurasian continent to go there _________________
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 12:07 pm |
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Amoniel wrote: we havent talked about the Persian Empire... well... ever. We're covering the Civil War at the mo'- My fave subject
Read about all of the pre-Muslim incarnations, they formed the greatest empire of antiquity, except maybe China.
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Post subject: Posted: October 14th, 2006, 12:16 pm |
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Mornie utúlië wrote: hundreds of years before columbus came, there were french fishermen fishing on the coast of north america....
Woah... *Googles* http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/ ... erman.html has something similar to what you are saying.
Of course everyone would like to be 'the first.' I've read theories that the Celts, Israelis, Japanese, Chinese, Africans, Poles, English, Irish, and Egyptians all discovered America first.  My vote goes to the one that there is actual evidence for...  Yay!
My personal opinion on Columbus is that he started a multi-century-long genocide. 
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