Halp anyone..?
I had a ridiculous idea to make an info page of every single Hetalia-character, containing the basic info such as name, age, relatives, personality, history, strenghts and weaknesses. So far, I've managed to make one of Estonia, and I've done some process with Finland, too. What I'd appreciate is that I'd get some help from you guys, since I'm
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uhmm, there's a typo in the Russian: Ya tebya lyublyu* (not tabya)
Uhm.. I can add a little more, too~ (I like showing off mah knowledge, so I dunt mind >D)
I say he likes collecting tulips because it's not only the national flower of Turkey but also because of the Tulip Period (1718-1730), in which nobles would collect tulips as tulips represent wealth, prestige, etc. This eventually led to florists raising the prices of flowers.
Taken from Wikipedia:
Anti-tulip Rebellion
Tulip prices began to rise in the last decades of the seventeenth century and peaked in 1726-1727 before state intervention. This reflected the demand for the inflated value of the rare bulbs and escalating demands for flowers in the elite’s palaces and gardens.
Tulip mania demonstrated the state's power to regulate the economy by increasing the prices for bulbs. Courtiers at the time forwarded a petition to denounce the practice of flower sellers, whom they perceived to be taking advantage of the elite by raising the prices of the bulbs. This led to the process of issuing inventories of flowers and price lists to the judge of Istanbul for enforcement.
Another random fact: The Ottoman Empire often didn't recognize that Poland wasn't a country for 123 years. In meetings with foreign ambassadors, the Turkish representatives would often ask questions like "When are the Polish envoys going to arrive?" (which, of course, annoyed the Prussians, Russians, Austrians, etc. a lot x3)
More randomness:
Chinese: ni hao = hello, wo ai ni = I love you, xiong mao = panda
Korea: was called the Hermit Kingdom for a long time, since like Japan, they closed their ports and only traded a little with China and Japan. They took Chinese ideas and often made them what's believed to be better. For example, the Chinese invented porcelain, and the Koreans turned it into celadon. They also created their own alphabet, hangul, as a way of becoming more individual and less like China (even today they have a holiday called Hangul Day, to celebrate the creation of their alphabet)
Japan and Greece of course have great foreign relations, but also develop very alike at first. Greece is mountainous and has many islands, just like Japan. Greece's mountainous terrain leads to city-states, while Japan's mountainous terrain leads to Japan being very disconnected, probably just as much as Greece. Also, Japan's feudal system is very similar to Europe's feudal system in medieval times. A few differences: knights were to practice chivalry, and so respectful to women, while in Japan the women were expected to be just as hard-working and brave as the men. Also, the church would stress how suicide is a sin, while the Japanese have always committed seppuku (or harakiri) in order to be honorable.
Also, Japan's class system went like this:
Emperor
Shogun
Daimyou
peasants
merchants
However, the shogun actually had more power than the Emperor. And like China, merchants are at the bottom of society because Confucius taught that merchants benefit off the money of others. (the opposite of the Middle East, where merchants were respected as Muhammad was a merchant)
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"Turkey was the only country in the world that opposed and never acknowledged
the partitions of Poland. Allegedly (I'm not sure if it's true or just a legend) Turkish
sultans, during those 123 years (1795-1918), during their annual meetings with foreign
diplomats asked "Did the envoys from Lechistan arrive?", driving the Prussian, Austrian
and Russian diplomats mad"
Someone else wrote that, but I think they did a much better job explaining. xD
Lechistan = an affectionate Turkish word for Poland
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How do you know all these stuff?
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I know either from school, or, honestly, Hetalia fandom. x'D ('cause I love both Turkey's kyara and history)
... in fact I probably learn most of my history from fandom. xDDD
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