>Tsar Nicholas II's son Alexei has haemophilia which is kept as a state secret>Rasputin was employed by the Royal Family due to him instructing them to stop giving Alexei aspirin on a whim, lending credence to his shaman image>The secret cult of Rasputin's influence on the royal family combined with Nicholas' preocupation with his ailing sons health contribute dramatically to disatisfaction of russia's people and catalyses the Bolshevik Revolution>Bolsheviks reform to the communist party after seizing power>Directly leads to the outbreak of war between Germany and Russia due to hitler's hatred of communist ideology>This leads to the creation of Israel post-WW II, to this day israel is constantly at war and the primary driver of america joining the iraq war and the ongoing iran war>Communist Russia also leads to the korean war, leading to the formation of N. Korea and S. Korea who are still technically at war, introduces ongoing instability to east asia to this day>Communism fuels the chinese revolution, Mao's Great Leap forward kills an estimated 30 - 50 million, sows the seeds for china to become the modern world power and inevitable WW-III instigator when it invades taiwan which somehow became the worlds leading semi-conducter manufacturer and Amwrica intervenes>North Korea and China's communist formation leads to the vietnam war>Also Fidel Castro, leading to the cold war, the closest humanity has come to nuclear extinction yet>And this is why, despite VWD being 50 - 100 times the more common bleeding disorder, most people only really know haemophilia>Also this one sick kid from 100 years ago literally butterfly effected the modern worlds existencei think i finally understand the appeal of history now.also, what are some other examples of tiny, almost irrelevant details having insanely out of proportion effects dowm the line ?
Napoleon dismantling the Holy Roman Empire leading to a century of Germany humiliation and identity crisis (the 'German Question') which eventually lead to World War 1 and 2. the US becoming a superpower and Germany experiencing another century of humiliation and identity crisis
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