World History in a Nutshell

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Incitatus is the name of Caligula's horse, who he had talked about making consul

Genghis Khan conquered like 90% of Asia, plus the Middle East and a good bit of Eastern Europe

Until he lost to Caesar, Pompey was spending his whole career trotting around the Mediterranean and beating all of Rome's enemies into submission

Vikings. At Lindisfarne they just raided the place, but they came back to England to take their land and burn their crops and steal their horses. The state they created became known as the Danelaw

Ivan IV "The Terrible" got super paranoid about Novgorod wanting to leave the Tsardom because it was too successful so he burnt it down

Rasputin had many admirers and there were rumors that he was the lover of the Russian Queen (Tsarina)

Jan Matthys, after taking over the town of Munster via coverting everyone into radical anabaptists and kicking out the Catholics, found himself surrounded by a Catholic army. He stepped out of the city without any armor to single-handedly attack said army, believing God was on his side. It did not end well for him.

John Horse went to Washington to request a change to the way Indian territory in Oklahoma was being run, but was repeatedly shot down.