09-15-2005, 12:34 AM | #21 |
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....Great in war, skimpy in names.....Fun thread! Lotesse, you post a question since you got it.
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09-15-2005, 12:40 AM | #22 |
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Nice! It just goes to show, the first thing that pops into one's head is often the right answer. Used to happen to me all the time during tests in school; you gotta learn to trust your inner voice I guess, or whatever. Anyway.
This is easy enough: What's the name of the first person to die in the American Revolutionary War?
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09-15-2005, 12:42 AM | #23 |
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crispus attucks?
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09-15-2005, 12:48 AM | #24 |
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DAMN you're fast. Ya-Vol, that's the guy. It's all yours, Shah!
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You may well be completely correct that 140 BC is when paper money was first developed in China. The date I had goes a little further back, but pretty close. Here's what I was thinking of: Around 300 BC, "paper" money was widely used in the Mediterranean Carthaginian Trading Empire. Symbols of value were stamped onto strips of leather in that empire and widely distributed. This was, I believe, the first major use of paper money. While it wasn't paper that was being used, the stamped value and overall idea behind the process was precisely the same as is used in modern cash. This is an extremely obscure piece of trivia, and I like your answer a good deal. I've just been doing so much research about Carthage that I accidentally picked this bit of information up. The book I was reading said it was "the first paper money". I wonder if anyone even before the Carthaginians used the idea, however. Our historical data is limited by what we have currently discovered.
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09-15-2005, 12:46 PM | #26 |
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Carthagian leather money - well you learn something new everyday. Good question Lief
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*hits desk with head* D'oh! I misread your question! I thought it was a given that the first 'paper' money was created in China and that the World book just gave a wrong estimation of when. So I didn't think of searching outside China. Typical... Oh, this is hilarious. Anyway, thanks for answering so soon. It was a very intriging question.
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09-15-2005, 06:23 PM | #28 |
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Lief, are you gonna give us a new question now? I, for one, am a history & trivia nut; I eagerly await the next brain-twister...
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Here's another question. Like the last one, you almost certainly would have to research to find the answer, though research might yield correct answers to this one, rather than misleading information like in my leather money question. Hopefully it doesn't yield multiple answers. Guesses are allowed for this one. Even if people don't know anything about the culture or history, they're allowed to guess. This also is very obscure, after all. Just one guess is permitted for each person. Question: When Portuguese Captain Jorge Alvares visited the port of Kagoshima Japan in 1547, what aspect of the natives' behavior utterly shocked him? Hint: If someone did in Portugal what was done in Japan, he or she would be locked up in prison, or more likely killed. It was commonplace, regular behavior in Japan, however.
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09-15-2005, 07:51 PM | #30 |
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never mind, I see he went to both china AND japan... I can't guess this one; I'll look & think some more.
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sodomy?
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I went and read a book on Japanese ancient history, because I knew nothing about the country's past. Japan is the only country I've ever done that for, so the fact that I can ask this question is just a happy fluke . What historical places and time periods fascinate you most, Lotesse?
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09-15-2005, 08:28 PM | #33 |
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Everything! All of it. I'm fairly non-committal about this, man, I just love all history, all of it. That narrows it down a little, huh!
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I'm just waiting before replying to see whether or not anyone else guesses.
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Seemed like sodomy in the stuff I found. Specifically between older men and younger boys.
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What I was thinking of was a quotation from the captain, in his writings. He expressed shock that the men and women of Japan bathed publicly in the nude. They did so on the streets, completely calmly. It shocked him.
Mine was a very vague question this time, however. I'll try to do better next time.
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I have one:
What war is this flag from?
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good one!
without googlin', i'm thinking king philip's war against the indians... but there were a couple of other one's against france too early on, i think
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The American Revolutionary war, no?
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