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Suggestion survey: April (Theme: DISCOVERY)

🕑 Added 2018-04-26 01:00:59 +0000 UTC

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saltking

How about the Space Race between the US and the Soviet Union?

Richard Fejdasz

The Cossacks going east into Siberia would be cool.

William Warren

Probably no eskimo supernatural monsters though haha

William Warren

Now that the Terror series has come to the United Kingdom, I suggested Franklin's lost expedition, a tale of technology versus the elements, a tragic and cautionary tale of being overly ambitious

NeoKingGhidorah

I want more American history, so I suggested Lewis and Clark.

Rossum

Thanks. I went with Ignaz Semmelweis, a tragic figure who needs more celebration.

Hayden Tuff

I submitted Vinland the first European settlement in north America

Will Struthers

Captain Cook charting the Pacific! Nearly getting shipwrecked on the Great Barrier Reef, forcing his crew to swear oaths not to let anyone know of their discoveries, mapping NEW ZEALAND (I'm not biased) and a whole lot more. And whether you love him or you hate him, everyone in the Pacific knows about him. Would be amazing to see a series on him :D

Extra History

The "do you have any notes about your topic" field on the survey would be a GREAT place to demonstrate how an otherwise unrelated topic could be part of the theme. Get creative!

Extra History

Topics that seem completely unrelated might be skipped over during the selection phase. That said, don't overthink your suggestions; we're not looking for only examples of physical land exploration as that is just one interpretation of the theme.

Extra History

It only applies to folks who submitted an idea in the first hour or so before we went back and retroactively made the change. You haven't missed anything yet!

Joël Quenneville

I suggested the travels of Ibn Battuta. He showed up in last week's episode on Mali and a quick wiki search shows he travelled extensively, reaching as far east as China and Indonesia and west to Spain and Mali. I'd love to learn more about the rest of his travels!

GooGhoul

Ming treasure voyages, for a what could've been scenario. Imagine if the Chinese had kept exploring and visited Oceania or come across America

Rossum

The VOC would be a terrific subject.

Rossum

I’ve already submitted an idea, but haven’t gotten the email about the change yet.

Christina Maria Jessen

The settlement of Polynesia. Discovery and exploration has a tendency towards biasing us towards "proper", white explorers, but they're not the only ones discovering new land and new ways of living to adapt to that land. The sheer magnitude of the task of finding islands in the Pacific to settle and then actually figuring out how to make use of the resources of the new island without any metal tools has to be one of the most impressive feats of exploration and discovery in human history.

themunck

Oh, I missed the discovery theme....bleh. That's the problem of making the same suggestion every time....does EC have a cutoff date? I'd like to see a series on the Luna project. >.

themunck

Margrete I. Medival Europe's greatest diplomat and statecrafter, who united 3 rival kingdoms. She lets us explore the life of her father, who inherited a worthless crown to a kingdom that existed only on paper and died leaving his daughter a great power in Northern Europe, as well as the benefits and drawbacks of elective monarchy, and she lets us draw parallels with Charles XII or Catherine the Great, while also letting us talk about the Hansa, a trade guild that could take on kingdoms and win. Finally, her son became a literal pirate king!

Amund Løchen

How about the norse discovery of America and the subsequent attempts at colonization?

Stylion

Anyone interested in the Age of Arctic Exploration? The tales of ships getting stuck in Ice, searching for illusive sea-routes, setting up colonies along the way, only to have to abandon them to the harsh cold and weather again, people litterally deciding they'd rather try to walk back to Belgium from the South Pole than stay one minute longer aboard their stranded ship, crews going crazy, scurvy around every corner, and yet - the magnificent beauty of the Ice, the invaluable meteorological, geo-magnetical and geological surveys, the discovery of so many new elements of the planet and the heroes welcome at the end of every expedition that made it back...

Brian Rose

Not sure what does and does not fit the theme of "discovery" -- does this mean we're pretty much limited to explorers or scientific / mathematical / technological progress? For example, would things like the Conquistadors of the Dutch East India Co qualify, even though it would be a stretch to call them "explorers"? If so, what about "pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica", since it kind of relates to the former? Or what about colonialism in general? Coming to think of it, we might be sticking strictly with the "progress" idea, since much of what we think of as "exploration" arguably isn't "discovery" at all.

Brian Rose

Just saw the "Discovery" caveat; that's most of my suggestions out.

General Luigi

If the theme is "discovery," does that mean suggestions without the "discovery" theme are no longer eligible?

Private

I am suggesting Amerigo Vespucci because even though the American continents are named after him, he is gets far less recognition than Columbus.

Hugh Mccabe

My suggestion for the "Discovery" theme was Marie and Pierre Curie for their discovery of Polonium and Radium.

Alan Haskayne

I suggested the VOC, or Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie. One of the colonial companies set up by the Dutch government to handle Asian colonial ventures. I thought it fit the theme well enough, and a company that had its own army, navy, and semi sovereign territory probably deserved it own little episode series on this show.

Jose Beltran Escavy

My suggestion for the “Discovery” theme is “Livingstone and Stanley”: the missionary who ended up missing in Africa, and the journalist who famously found him. One of the biggest dramas of the 19th century, chock-full of discovery and adventure, in the frame of the “Scramble for Africa”.

SpoonofEvil

I suggested Christopher Columbus for the Discovery theme, mainly because his character and deeds have been warped so much by myths and popular culture that not a lot of people realize he largely bungled his way through the whole expedition and he was kind of a huge jerk, to put things lightly.

Matteo Cina

Mine is on the Risorgimento. Far more interesting that German unification and much less known about

Max Berner

I'm always up for a slave rebellion!

Max Berner

My suggestion is the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Very important, yet not really discussed in classrooms that much at all today.

Brian Rose

Things I'm choosing between - the Chu-Han Contention, the Investiture Controversy, pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica, the Haitian Revolution, the Fall of Poland (1789 to ?) or something on late 19th Century American politics (the Gilded Age in general, the rise of Jim Crow, etc).

Rossum

My suggestion was the Dreyfus Affair; story that cries out for the EC treatment. It has villains, heroes,subterfuge, drama, society tearing itself apart and impacts and echoes that continue on to the present.

Steve Jackson

My suggestion is Nader Shah: Unifier of Persia, restorer of Safavids, Breaker of Ottomans, Russians and Mughals! Usurper of Persia, destroyer of Safavids and the mad tyrant of Persia. From anarchy to imperium, Nader Shah clawed his way to power only to fall to his own madness.