History of The World Game

[the duck]

In their troops in italy and the netherlands which created inflation

 

[headbut]

not what i was after Duck

 

[Pr2cv]

Their Navy

 

[mando1463]

They engaged in pointless wars across europe and couldn't sustain their military forces and effectively bankrupted themselves in the mid to late 1500's

 

[headbut]

no to all. may have worded badly.More something they did with the colonies, to do with a plant

 

[mando1463]

Ok I will have a stab in the dark
Is it something along the lines of closure tobacco industry and thus the loss of the revenue it produced

 

[headbut]

No Mando , not tobacco , this plant produces something we eat

 

[Ramjet]

Corn

 

[headbut]

hello RR ,not corn

 

[headbut]

More to do with an ingredient of something we love

 

[headbut]

Corn

first 2 letters are correct

 

[Ramjet]

Hey HB
Coffee

 

[headbut]

Hey RR no wrong one

 

[Ramjet]

Cocoa ?

 

[headbut]

Yep cocoa . The Spanish put all there energy into planting cocoa trees in there colonies, thinking they would have a monopoly in the west , but as seeds became available , other countries began to plant them therefore no longer needing Spain to supply.

 

[Ramjet]

Couldn't find that HB? Only got it from you're hints.

What is the meaning of "Eppur si muove" and it's significance ?

 

[headbut]

I saw a doco about it a couple of years ago

 

[mando1463]

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564 1642), who, according to legend, muttered the phrase eppur si muove, meaning "And yet it does move", after being forced to recant, in front of the Inquisition, his belief that the earth moved around the sun.

 

[Ramjet]

Correct Mando. How dare he challenge the church's belief that the Earth was the centre of the universe.
And yet it moves.

Your question...

 

[mando1463]

Which country has the world's oldest flag and when and how did they aquire it?