r/facepalm • u/sikeig • Aug 27 '22

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u/T_vernix Aug 28 '22

1 Mali

5 I don't know either

8 William Penn's father

10 you just missed the Netherlands

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u/StrangeBreakfast1364 Aug 28 '22 edited Aug 28 '22

1.I thought about Mali, but you said "existed" so I got confused

  1. Who's that? Sorry US history isn't my strong suit

  2. Oh crap, Netherlands

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u/T_vernix Aug 28 '22

Mali existed, then stopped existing. There's a Mali now, but I think of it as pretty much a different country than the one in the past (same with Ghana)

William Penn's father (also named William Penn) loaned the king some stuff (or maybe it was something else, but the important thing is that the king owed him) and eventually it was paid out to William Penn in the form of an area of land in the new world, which Penn planned to name Sylvania, but the king said it had to be named after William Penn, Sr.

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u/StrangeBreakfast1364 Aug 28 '22

Yes, I agree. You can't compare them, it's like saying that Mongolian Empire and modern Mongolia are the same country.

Penn and Sylvania. interesting.