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Plant Fact I Learned from a History Book #1:

Broccoli and mustard are related to each other. How? They're both in the cabbage family. Is broccoli the only cabbage plant I like? Maybe. This plant family is honestly huge. So huge that I almost thought that this was misinformation until I dug further into the genuses on Wikipedia. Guess how I learned this? Woad. Don't know what woad is? Look it up. It's very cool.

Well, I now know a few things about the Trung sisters. That was the entire reason I wanted to read this. Unfortunately, Vietnam was conquered by China and they died :( But they did put up a good fight and won their independence for two years at least.

ON PAGES 71-72 THERE IS AN EXACT QUOTE FROM TRANSLATED NUBIAN HIEROGLYPHS. EXPLAIN TO ME HOW IT'S AN UNTRANSLATED LANGUAGE WHEN YOU LITERALLY QUOTE FROM IT. I looked up the source for the wrong info and it's a supposedly reliable textbook from 2004. Press X to Doubt.

This book claims that the Meroitic language hasn't been translated yet. Is this author living in 1908? It was fully translated in 1909. Now I'm questioning all the other facts in here. How can I trust this author to have other correct information when there's one glaringly obvious mistake that gets repeated TWICE???

The author has clearly never had a cat, or had a friend or family member with a cat. Cats on catnip don't turn aggressive. They get high. And why was that the metaphor???????? I wish to be as far away from the inside of this author's brain as possible. I think we would not get along.

I'm learning, but at what cost?

"OMG, you guys are so cute!"

Said no one in Ancient Greece ever. I wish this book actually took things seriously. War isn't a joke, even if it was 2000 years ago. Why is this book treating history like a silly little thing to know facts about, rather than relating it to how it affects modern day? Sure, kids might find this fun to read, but it's not actually going to help them understand why we study history.

I am getting very sick of the narrative voice talking directly at the reader in such an informal way. I wouldn't mind it so much if it wasn't constantly saying the most cringey things. I'm usually fine with being talked to directly in a book. But this just sounds like a kid wrote it.

Just got to the puns. WHAT IS THIS????? I just wanted to read some history...

Whoever designed the cover should be fired. Ugliest cover I've seen in a while. Secondly, stop saying "slay" constantly. It's used completely wrong, and even if it had been done right, it still would be completely cringey for a kids nonfiction book.