onion-souls:

adamantinetower:

onion-souls:

tilthat:

TIL that to decide who would become the monarch of the Persian Empire (44% of world population), six nobles decided on a test. They were to gather outside the palace, mounted on their horses at sunrise, and the man whose horse neighed first in recognition of the rising sun would become king.

via ift.tt

Hippocracy

Okay but the source for this is fucking Herodotus and that man is dubious as hell when it comes to the customs of anyone not Greek so like

TIL probably something false herodotus put in his book because he heard it from some guy and that was his entire fkn methodology.

Herodotus was that aunt that forwards literally any email or Facebook post

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