Historically Hardcore

FleeterHelms · 3 months

Obligatory "Got with" = "tortured and raped" comment.

smartalco · 3 months

Here's the set of them.

nukeforyou · 3 months

That would explain my love of spears, axes, and fire.

Someguywithaquestion · 3 months

Fun fact, the vast majority of Europeans are related to Charlemagne.

Link

bibimbab111 · 3 months

As a former history major I just realized now what a great subject this would've made for a senior thesis.

DerKuchenMeister · 3 months

Dan Carlin's HARDCORE HISTORY

Zelcron · 3 months

There are a few more, and, while awesome, they aren't really from the Smithsonian.

Melchoir · 3 months

Anyone seeking more info might also check here:

title	comnts	points	age	/r/
Historically Hardcore	2^coms	7^pts	16^hrs	pics
The Smithsonian tells it like it is.	77^coms	709^pts	10^mos	pics
Oh Smithsonian how I love you so...	3^coms	51^pts	1^yr	funny
Genghis Khan	32^coms	580^pts	6^mos	funny

source: karmadecay

MAJORpaiynne · 3 months

I'm Irish so I don't think that applies to me

LeGarretteBong · 3 months

I, a red-headed jew, am related to Genghis Khan but didn't know it until about ten years ago. Imagine my surprise when walking into my extended family reunion...

powerpuffgirl · 3 months

I wouldn't call rape hardcore.

Soljah · 3 months

how many times must I see this reposted?

mxmm · 3 months

I know this is pedantic and perhaps this is misguided, but is there anything that cites the 0.5% chance? I feel like if he has millions of surviving descendants, he would almost immediately have the [almost] the entire world as his descendant. I would think this would especially be true in today's internationally oriented world. Even if this 0.5% figure is true, wouldn't it expand extremely quickly over the next 100 years or so?

cl3v3rus3rname · 3 months

Yeah, if you live in Mongolia.

katycat55 · 3 months

.5% ? that's huge.

TheDudeAmI · 3 months

Dan Carlin did an awesome podcast about Ghengis Khan. Highly recommended.

bue_row_krat · 3 months

Fuck genghis khan, murderer and rapist just like Mohammed and Tamerlane.

Grimlock69 · 3 months

Bret micheals also has a pet clothing line... Your argument is invalid

M0b1u5 · 3 months

In fact, the probability is more than 70%.

My family tree goes back solidly to 937AD. If you look at the number of ancestors you have by the time you get back to 1000AD, that number is about 12 times the population of the planet.

Pretty much all it takes is one asian, and one black man to travel 1000 years ago - and you're related to them directly.

Certainly all humans are descended from a group of no more than about 200 people approximately 100,000 years ago. And the intertwining on the human line has been going on since then.

I would guess that there are no humans alive today who could claim an ancestor that no other human had.

DumbMuscle · 3 months

I'm half Polish, with my grandmother's family from far enough west of Poland that the Mongols got that far. My chances are considerably higher!

Plus the other side of my family is from Yorkshire, so I'm probably a fusion of Mongol and Viking!

toodrunktofuck · 3 months

Do they have even one yota of self respect?

sefert · 3 months

Hard core history with Dan carlin is covering Kahn now. Highly recommended podcast.

PushTheLittleDaisies · 3 months

He raped and impregnated terrified women all over eurasia, that's so totally hardcore, bro.

[deleted] · 3 months

Then again, we all share a common ancestor, so we're all related

IHeartPallets · 3 months

-" You're related to Genghis Kahn? Thats so cool, how?" -"Well you see a long time ago, one of my ancestors was, um... raped"

slash178 · 3 months

What agency? This is great.

beerbitches · 3 months

I wanna know how many women ghengis was with!!

internetguy789 · 3 months

Does any one have the whole set ?

MAGNUM777 · 3 months

being Chinese, this percentage is probably significantly higher for me

load_up_on_hummus · 3 months

So can someone calculate a rough estimate of how many people khan had sex with?

JerryMau5 · 3 months

So ummm, im mongolian

Spiro_Agnew · 3 months

NEWT GINGRICH CHEATED ON THREE OF HIS EX WIVES

REPUBLICAN HARDCORE

GrandmasterPotato · 3 months

Read that as 50%

facetothedawn · 3 months

If by "got with" they mean rape - then yes

IcyNudibranch · 3 months

Same with Ramses II of Egypt, though I'd presume that percentage is much, much smaller.

DrDreampop · 3 months

Bret Michaels has a pretty good flavor of Snapple. And it's only 10 calories! I don't think Genghis Khan can top that.

Ragnalypse · 3 months

Smithonian reposting reddit content? Come on, they can't be that desperate.

spoleto · 3 months

Right now on Bret Michaels Wikipedia page, it has him born as Bret Michaels McPooPoo. I had never heard of him before this post, so I can only ASSUME it's a joke...

happy_jihad · 3 months

Technically, everybody is related to everyone else. We are all cousins.

Stillwatch · 3 months

Fuck yea! Uncle Ghengis....

JonathanWarner · 3 months

Wouldn't ethnicity play a role in my likelihood of being related to him? Surely in Asia the chances are significantly higher.

Nucking-Futs · 3 months

But if you arent asian, that number drops significantly.

thratty · 3 months

All these Historically Hardcore images are really cool, but there were only a few of them. How many times could they possibly be reposted?

audacious1 · 3 months

he also reversed global warming

senoritabrandita · 3 months

So approximately 35 million people alive today are his descendants. I like the maths.

rice_bowl · 3 months

There is a 100% chance that I have seen this posted here at least 3 times.

malefizer · 3 months

I have two parents wo have two parents, makes 4 ancestors in the 2nd generation if Mr. Khan lived around 33 generation before me the people in this generation I would be related to are 2³³⁼ 8.5 m people. which where not there. ;-P

Zorbotron · 3 months

Assuming an average of 25 years per generation we are roughly 32 generations removed from Ghengis Khan. Shouldn't the probability we are related to ANYONE from that era be pretty high?

nick041 · 3 months

They should just say Brett Michael's is a douchebag.

YouListening · 3 months

No, no, no. There is a .5% chance that you have a direct male lineage to Ghengis Khan.

sydneygamer · 3 months

7% if you live in South East Asia (notice that that is not 0.7, it's 7).

[deleted] · 3 months

This is some seriously good advertising for learning and stuff. And it's so true, real history is awesome.

[deleted] · 3 months

HAHAHAHA don't forget Bret Michaels now makes dog clothing BWAHAHAHAHAHA what a fuckin sellout.

Zeike · 3 months

This just in from science:

Unless you're from another planet, there's a 100% chance you're related to Genghis Khan.

Pwoshi · 3 months

Just for the record, if my math isn't wrong, that should be 350,000,000 people. A large majority of which are living in Asia.

Rasta_Man69 · 3 months

The statement of Ghengis Khan is false.. it was propaganda. Im not getting into it with more details because if i argued every point on the internet id have a full head of gray.

mullownium · 3 months

No, not just related. There's a 0.5% chance you're a fucking descendant of his.

theheartofgold · 3 months

I loved that episode of Radiolab.

Creag · 3 months

This is ridiculous the farther back you go the more likely you are related to the individual. Also Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3sTzLXtojo

CuntLover69 · 3 months

To be fair, Genghis Khan also killed a lot of men as well. Pretty easy to spread the seed when you destroy the competition. One of history's greatest pimps indeed.

dja0794 · 3 months

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turchx · 3 months

NOW HOLD ON HERE. This is incorrect in two ways:

1) Genghis Khan raped women (pointed out by FleeterHelms)

and

2) There's a 100% chance we're related to Genghis Khan as with all other living things as we all originated from a single organism---NOW HOLD ON---if that sounds too out of the way for you and absurd, then what about Ghengis Khan's parents, siblings, cousins etc. and their individual offspring, certainly the more accurate thing to say is that there's a .5% chance you're descended from him

Tratix · 3 months

i have a friend who's last name is Kahn. is it safe to say he's one of Genghis' descendants ?

TacoSalad33 · 3 months

Well I guess it is accurate. I am actually related to him, through marriage though.

If I remember correctly my grand uncle who was the head historian of Connecticut before he passed away, he said I am related through blood to a French Princess who was forced into marriage to him at a young age. I still love History!

zwisbeats · 3 months

Got with=raped

Ihateyourdick · 3 months

Look at that time, I've got a LOT of raping to do.

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