Currently reading: Muir's Historical Atlas, Medieval and Modern, Eleventh Printing 1968 (first printing 1911)
Summary:
1. There is too much History. Stop doing History.
2. History is usually Done using pointy objects.
3. Sooner or later someone will Do History back to You, and it will Hurt
Two thousand and eighteen counts of Grievous Bodily History, Grand Theft Mediterranean, and Possession of the Central Asian Spice Trade with Intent to Distribute
Guys, guys. GUYS. In the 1100s there was not only an entire COUNTY OF CHAMPAGNE but also A KINGDOM OF RUM let's get the time machine started
uh I mean also there's a few Crusades, but
whoops the Kingdom of Rum is now the Sultanate of Rum, was just gonna ask how the Second Crusade went, guess that answers that
oh THAT'S how we got a Croatia, oh ew, also, yeah, um, let's skip the mid-1990s
the Amirate of Amirite
the Empire of the Mongol Il-Khans, who were *sick*
and by 1250, no more Croatia, because Hungary got hungry