Canadian History TV doesnt know History

[MarkG]

http://www.historytelevision.ca/quiz...andertheGreat/

and a quiz for the History TV editors

[Paul Hanson]

I can't be bothered to check the link, but I'll bet it has something to do with Macedonians.

[Kontiki]

Ok, I'll bite. How does this thread title connect to the Alexander the Great quiz?

[KrazyHorse]

MarkG, just because the most successful Greek in history wasn't actually Greek doesn't mean you should get your panties in a bunch.

[Giovanni Wine]

I've got 23/25

I mistook the very first one (voted Greek)
and the one about Pindar (voted Sophocles)

Saluti

[loinburger]

I got the first question correct. Woot!

[MarkG]

ok, who voted Ontarians?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Kontiki
Ok, I'll bite. How does this thread title connect to the Alexander the Great quiz?

well, the quiz has two historically wrong questions....

[Buck Birdseed]

Well the Macedonians are obviously not greeks, says here they're seen by real greeks as barbarians.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
says here they're seen by real greeks as barbarians.

just because it's called "history tv", it doesnt mean they know what they're talking about

if a future historian took a single piece of text in mind he could characterize lots of americans as unpatriotic and traitors

[Gangerolf]

they're often referred to as macedonian greeks. doesn't that make them greek?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Frogger
MarkG, just because the most successful Greek in history wasn't actually Greek doesn't mean you should get your panties in a bunch.

get your facts straight! the most succesfull Greek in history is our current prime minister

[Buck Birdseed]

Nah. They're a genetically slavic people basically analogous to today's Macedonians, who borrowed greek culture and language and created cruder, simpler copies. Kinda like a cargo cult.

[Dauphin]

I'd bet that 99% of Poly posters wouldn't recognise the current Greek PM's name.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by MarkG
get your facts straight! the most succesfull Greek in history is our current prime minister

Who, Ljubco Georgievski?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Buck Birdseed
Nah. They're a genetically slavic people

in the same manner that you are genetically capable to write fantasy?

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Big Crunch
I'd bet that 99% of Poly posters wouldn't recognise the current Greek PM's name.

you mean you dont know the current President of the EU?

[Buck Birdseed]

Unlike greeks macedonians have straight, black hair and really bushy eyebrows. Fact!

[Kontiki]

Originally posted by MarkG
well, the quiz has two historically wrong questions....

Well, I couldn't be bothered to do the whole quiz, but I'll assume the biggest problem you have is with calling AtG a Macedonian and not Greek. Trouble is, that's true. During the time of AtG, there was no "Greece" as it's known today. If you wanted to make your poll in the slightest bit accurate, you would have to ask what nationality people living in what is called Ontario today were 200 years ago. The answer then would likely be British or Native Indian.

[Imran Siddiqui]

It's just that Greeks want to take credit for the exploits of someone who isn't Greek. Kinda like France with Napoleon.

[KrazyHorse]

Except that at least Corsica was part of France.

[Sava]

Who would win a flat our war between Canada and Greece?

[KrazyHorse]

Duh? We're 3 times their size, and are a First World nation.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Frogger: Well yeah, but doesn't mean Napoleon was anymore than a Italian that spoke French... and it is amazing he was actually good at war with that background .

[Gangerolf]

canada, cause the greeks are busy arresting plane spotters and gamers

[Sava]

yeah, but I think the greeks would be able to defend their country from invasion via guerilla warfare

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Frogger: Well yeah, but doesn't mean Napoleon was anymore than a Italian that spoke French... and it is amazing he was actually good at war with that background .

Just demonstrating that while Napoleon could present at least a semi-convincing case for being French, and took over France in an internal revolution, Alexander had to conquer the greeks.

[MarkG]

Originally posted by Kontiki
During the time of AtG, there was no "Greece" as it's known today.

political separations of ancient greece (e.g. the autonomous greek city-states) should not be confused with the cultural unity of the ancient greek people (language, customs, religion, etc etc)

If you wanted to make your poll in the slightest bit accurate

my poll was an atempt to joke on History TV, not to be something accurate.... last time i checked there was never an "Ontarian" nationality....

[Boris Godunov]

Man, how sad to have one's sense of national pride hinge on one person who died 2300 years ago who isn't even of the same nationality.

[KrazyHorse]