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It's really quite bizarre how the meme reputation is France is super terrible at war and Germany is amazingly good, when the reality is that France has won far more major wars than Germany.

That is a silly meme take considering that historically, they won a great victory over the overextended and overrated Germans.

That's basically assuming that a loss at the Marne would have resulted in a quick WWI victory for Germany, which is by no means assured. It would have been a huge blow to France, possibly knocked it out of the war entirely, but there's every probability that the remaining Entente powers would...

The thing about the Mongols is that their reputation for brutality was substantially exaggerated by their own contrivance as an intentional measure of psychological warfare. Mongol troops were extremely disciplined and would not sack or loot a city at all if it surrendered once its field armies...

I think your history prof had a point -- quite literally every government in that era was responsible for mass killings, the Mongols at least accomplished things on top of all the killing and looting, and they actually held to rather more consistent rules of war than just about any other major...

Actual history is more complicated than simplistic first principles, as directly illustrated by the fact that supposedly "gold not fiat" Roman coins were absolutely infamous for being a de facto fiat currency because the Roman government constantly debased them. The value of a denarius was...

Certain types of goldsmith would. No one else would, and they absolutely would not accept it in exchange for goods or services.

No, it absolutely is still fiat currency. If you took a kruggerand to Ancient Rome, they would recognize that it is a strange foreign coin of unknown size and purity, and would not accept it except at a business that specialized in converting currency and could assay it.

Gold has a certain intrinsic durability in terms of shininess, but said durability does not give it the slightest inherent value. It is simply a convenient token of exchange.

I have to point out that "the end result of the various Euro Royal lines" is basically the worst possible case for incest, representing the result of hundreds of years of repeatedly inbreeding a small, homogenous population which was also shielded from most natural selection. And even then, only...

Ha, history says otherwise. The "deal" is we will hassle you as much as we please, we will help ourselves to the best of the literal fruits of all your labor, and if you don't like it, we'll murder you and your entire family. Protection? Ha.

"Bug chasing" is not a US specific thing.

Which, as I said, makes him a pioneering figure in modern surgery, not in developing germ theory per se. In my opinion, it's important to give historical figures the right credit.

Lister is widely considered the "father of modern surgery", but it's not really accurate to say he contributed to the development of germ theory. What he did was pioneer the adoption of sterile surgical techniques for infection control.

What prominent role, pray tell? The key figures in germ theory were Pasteur and Koch.

That's true, but there is little de facto difference between, "Sociocultural groups divided by rival religious faiths" and "sociocultural groups divided by ethnicity".

I don't think you're recalling correctly, since I literally looked up and cited the official federal government policy pages. A three year requirement is mentioned in several unofficial sources, but not any official or up-to-date-ones. As far as I can tell, three years was the peacetime...

Not automatically, however. At least one year of honorable peacetime service in the Armed Forces makes you eligible to apply for expedited naturalization with several criteria waived, but you still have to pass the English and civics test requirements, as well as the five year "good moral...

Excuse me? Asian cultures as a whole have "frequently" built genocide camps "more efficient" than the Nazi gas chambers? Care to provide actual evidence for this extraordinary claim?

The funny thing about Socrates is we know very little about him other than the fictionalized depictions in the writings of Plato. Socrates himself is an enigmatic figure who left behind no writings at all. In other words, Socrates is entirely fanfiction.