Best Documentary? (Ancient Black Ops)

Well I've recently found a series on youtube that I had watched on Netflix about to 2 years ago, and the reason I'm so exited about it is because it is a documentary/blockbuster. In other words its a documentary that was made for people with short attention spans (like me).

They have 9 episodes on youtube I think (if you have Netflix I highly suggest checking out if there are more).

The videos are about historic highly trained soldiers around the globe. The cover some main ones, like Spartans, ninjas, and samurais. They will usually give you some basics about there training, and then they will tell you about a major achievement that, that certain special forces accomplished in there time.

Umm... ya anyways this isn't a very long blog but it just a suggestion for a short TV series (each episode is 40 minutes long). But just so you know, if your one of those people who doesn't really like fast pace kinda shooty shows (theres not gun fighting or anything its just the way its wrote) its probably not your thing. Check it out to make sure that its for you though, don't take my word for it.


Have a great day.

And THANK YOU FOR READING!

Croatia

So I'm going to tell you guys about some of my time in Croatia.

Well at the moment I am staying in a house thats in the middle of the town, in fact my window is right on the street. The town is really close to the sea but luckily its not touristy at all, even though there are towns only a couple minutes drive away that are super touristy.
Another thing that is nice is that I can walk to the small grocery stores within minutes,  which really helps for cooking, because it won't matter if I need anything.

So anyways, I'm volunteering in the town and so far I have been working with 3 donkeys, but I also just finished weeding a massive patch grass that even though there is a massive working group were I'm staying all of them are working on the office, so my mom and me were the only ones working in it. So it took us a week 2 hours a day which is quite a lot of work if you think about it. We are taking a couple days of working in that field (because we still need to refine some of the rows because we just took the main group of weeds out.) and are have been working in the bosses house, and know we're going up to his other house up north.

Anyways this is a short blog thats not very interesting, so have a great day.

My Home Schooling Subjects

So right now I am in Croatia and I am going to tell you about my subjects that I do in school. 

Also for those that don't know I have been traveling Europe for about a year with my mom. Along the way I have been to Luxembourg, France three separate times, Ireland, Belgium, and all of the UK except for Northern Ireland.

Well for social studies I have been studying Yugoslavia and Genghis Khan, Yugoslavia because Croatia was a post communist country, and Genghis Khan because why not. There is quite a lot that I didn't know, like world war one was started by one assassination of a guy trying to help people. I explained more about it in my last blog. 

When I was in Canada I did 6 piano lessons with the teacher I had before I started traveling, I also helped my grandparents with their cows (it was calving season). One of my mom’s friends also taught me about a bit of woodworking.

For math my mom is teaching me Trigonometry at the moment.

Luckily in the area of Croatia that we are in people speak Italian also, so know I am trying to learn it. It is a lot easier than learning Croatian would be, also I have six years of all French immersion schooling (did all my subjects is French), which helps because there are some similarities. So I am working on a small book that takes you through all the grammar and things you need to know for basic Italian.

Have also been learning some agucultural information, because we are volunteering on a group farm.

Yugoslavia

Well today I thought I would talk a little bit about Yugoslavia, seem a little random to you? Well not to me since I am traveling here at the moment. Its quite interesting because there are a lot of new countries, like Croatia (where I am now) wasn't official until 1991, this is not something I was suspecting. I usually consider Canada really new and didn't really think there was a newer one. Of course there have been Croatians from the 19th century, so in that view point its not a new country. Also it has history that is hundreds of years old, where as Canada (even though we've had people around a long time they lived a nomad life style, so they didn't leave much history) does not. The only reason Croatia didn't become a separate country sooner is because the rule they were under wouldn't allow them.


So here is a chart I made about to big powers that controlled now Yugoslavia.

	Ottomans	Hapsburgs
When?	1299-1922	Countries and provinces that were ruled by the junior Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg between 1521 and 1780 and then by the successor branch of Habsburg-Lorraine until 1918.
Who were the rulers?	First monarch Osman I (c. 1299–1323/4) Last monarch Mehmed VI (1918–1922) There were 36 sultans.	The Hasburg Family
Who were the citizens?	The political and geographical entity governed by the Muslim Ottoman Turks. Their empire was centered in present-day Turkey, and extended its influence into south eastern Europe as well as the Middle East.	Christians.
What religions?	They were mainly Islamic, but there were also Christians and Jews.	Christian, kinda the same answer for both questions.
What languages?	Turkish	The recognition of the Hungarian nation was an important step for the Habsburg empire, and yet it belies the much more complex diversity of the Imperial territory. A 1910 census found that 23% of the empire’s citizens spoke German as a mother-tongue, 20% Hungarian, 13% Czech, 10% Polish, 8% Ruthenian (Ukrainian), 6% Romanian, 5% Croat, 4% Slovak, 4% Serbian, 2% Slovene, 2% Italian, and 5% another of the languages which the survey asked about, including Bulgarian, Bunjevac (a Štokavian dialect of Croatian), and Romani[1][2] (N.B. the percentages do not add up to 100% due to rounding). This sample of languages contains representatives from many different language groups: Germanic (German), Uralic (Hungarian), Slavic (Bulgarian, Bunjevac, Czech, Slovak, Slovene, Ruthenian, Polish, Serbo-Croatian), Romance (Romanian, Italian) and Indo-Aryan (Romani).
What former or current countries?	It reached its greatest extent in 1590, when the empire comprised central Hungary, the Balkan Peninsula, Anatolia, Mespotamia, Syria and Palestine, western Arabia, Egypt, and lands in the Caucasus and western Iran. In Europe, Transylvania, Walachia, Moldavia, and the Crimea were tributary principalities, while in North Africa, Tripoli, Tunis, and Algiers were semiautonomous provinces. Between 1603 and 1606, the Ottomans lost the lands in Iran and the Caucasus that had been ceded to them in 1590. In 1669, however, they took control of Crete. By 1450, the Ottoman Empire was a regional power, comprising western and northern Anatolia and much of the Balkan Peninsula. Mehmed II (ruled 1451–1481) expanded and consolidated Ottoman rule in this region. His conquest of Constantinople in 1453 finally extinguished the Byzantine Empire. In the Balkans, he annexed Serbia between 1455 and 1458, Bosnia in 1463, and, in 1466, defeated George Kastriote (Scanderbeg) in central Albania. In 1460 he removed the last two Byzantine rulers of the Peloponnese, and in 1461 conquered Trebizond, the last independent Greek city.	The Hereditary Lands, which covered most of the modern states of Austria and Slovenia, as well as territories in northeastern Italy and (before 1797) southwestern Germany. To these were added in 1779 the Inn Quarter of Bavaria; and in 1803 the Bishoprics of Trent and Brixen. The Napoleonic Wars caused disruptions where many parts of the Hereditary lands were lost, but all these, along with the former Archbishopric of Salzburg, which had previously been temporarily annexed between 1805 and 1809, were recovered at the peace in 1815, with the exception of the Vorlande.

Your still here... damn I thought I scarred you away with the chart, oh well I guess I will have to tell you more. 

Well I will tell you the thing that kinda started the reason for Yugoslavia. Well it all started with royals, and this is a very ironic story if I might add. Well anyways it started with the Hapsburg family which was ruling Yugoslavia at the time.

I should probably also tell you that this is in 1914 and can probably be blamed for starting in motion WW1. So anyways back to the story (secret history lesson), well the funny part (not that I think WW1 is funny) is that is was started by a guy trying to do good. Prince Ferdinand.

You see his dad passed over the throne and this here dude (also know as Prince Ferdinand) was thinking beyond his time. So this here royal dudez dude (moms like "YARROW ITS PRINCE FERDINAND, HE HAS A NAME") was going to make it more like a democracy, because at the time it was still on the king, queen sort of "90% of you don't want this? Well I don't care I'm the KING/QUEEN" but then there was a group (I'm assuming that they were not educated) of teens who decided they would assassinate this guy even though he was helping there country. So then he got assassinated and then his second in command decided to attack the country, even though the assassins said no country hired them, and then through a series of events started by this WW1 happened. All because I man was trying to do good and uneducated people killed him.

Thank you for reading and have a great day.