History: What Came First? #1

Not as brilliant as the first person to make a liger. It's pretty much like my favorite animal.

Exactly what I was about to write. Saves a dozen Googles.

Shakespeare is studied more to be fair.

'Cross-national/ cultural' comparisons are harder, I think?

I think that, past a certain point, it's hard for people to contextualize the past. Most people have encountered at least a little Shakespeare and Dickens, even if only through parody or reference, and can probably tell just by looking at the speech and costuming that Shakespeare is much older than Dickens. (Consider the standard interpretations of Romeo & Juliet and A Christmas Carol, for example). The Bible and Quran are so old that most people can't meaningfully distinguish based on context clues which is older. They're both more a thousand years old. Most people can't discern between the fashion and language of 100 AD vs. 700 AD.

Same here! Some of the questions I found were so obvious that I thought they might be tricks, but luckily I didn't fall for them.

It makes sense. Insects are capable of existing without flowers, but most flowers can't function without insects. Flowers couldn't evolve if there were no insects already present.

They definitely lived close to one another, but in terms of their place in jazz history, they're ages apart.

According to a literalist interpretation of Genesis 1 . . .

Flowers are plants but not all plants are flowers, anyway.

yeah and light came before the sun, moon, and stars. Maybe not a reliable source of information.

On the geological time scale, flowers are relatively new. I believe the first ones didn't appear until the early cretaceous period.

Can’t decide what’s more moronic; thinking plants aren’t alive or thinking all plants have flowers.

Easy - Quantum Mechanics. Sliced bread (in a package) wasn't invented until the late 1920's. Einstein wrote his four famous papers in 1905, which formed the foundation for general relativity, Brownian motion, quantum mechanics, and mass-energy equivalence. By 1924, quantum mechanics had been pretty well formalized into the set of ideas we still use to define it today (although, like any branch of science, it's grown quite a bit since then).

So?

Fantastic. Are you also going to dispute the existence of the bronze and iron ages? Peddle that trash elsewhere

That would be a cool item on a quiz about creation myths, would love to see it!

Yeah, what’s with the hip looking princess type lady on the thumbnail?

Not really. There's no reason to specify that you mean Louis Armstrong came before Miles Davis from a natality perspective or that the Middle Ages came before the Renaissance from a historical perspective. There's no "perspective" in which flowering plants appeared before insects. From a temporal perspective, from which the word "before" takes its meaning.

I guess most people guess Jurassic just cuz it's the main one everyone hears about from the movies