seduce me with ur history knowledge
vikings made their woman handle the finances because they thought math is witchcraft
During a military campaign, Vlad the Impaler, the basis for Dracula, once pulled his troops out of a major engagement in a valley at dusk so that the sun was in their enemies’ eyes. Once they were over the hill, they set loose a bunch of rabid bats who flew away from the sun (towards the enemy) and attacked them, leading to significant infection in their ranks, and Vlad’s eventual victory. Because of how the bats appeared from where Vlad’s soldiers appeared to be at dusk, myth stated that the soldiers turned into bats at night, which is where the “Dracula can change into a bat” thing came from.
the roman emperor Gaius made his favorite horse a senator.
“Things I must you tell a lot of, believe it you hardly can, but hear tomorrow it already will you, be well in the meantime. Oh my ass burns like fire! what on earth is the meaning of this!—maybe muck wants to come out?” -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, in a letter to his cousin Marianne
The Romans would add lead to their wine because they thought it tasted better, historians believe that this caused a rise in the amount of mentally disabled babies, possibly including Gaius and some other emperors
why y’all saying “Gaius” like it means shit though
it’d be like “president John” or “James” or “George”
(Source: rhv, via adelindschade)
