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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 2117098" data-attributes="member: 1328">Yup. Here in Europe, you have medieval castles (ruined or preserved) everywhere. You have medieval churches, cathedrals, and monasteries. You have people living in houses that were built in the middle age. You have countless museums displaying our heritage from the Middle Age, and you have innumerable tales and legends from the Middle Age that are still associated to cities.A few sights from Montpellier:<a href="http://www.maretmanu.org/homepage/photos_montp/celleneuve/celleneuve5.jpg" target="_blank">Celleneuve</a><a href="http://www.maretmanu.org/homepage/photo_full.php?img=photos_montp/vue_globale/montpellier-1.jpg&titre=Vue+de+Montpellier+centre.&description=Vue+panoramique+de+Montpellier+centre.+On+y+voit+de+gauche+%E0+droite%3A+le+Corum%2C+le+toit+de+l%27ancienne+chapelle+des+petites+soeurs+des+pauvres%2C+le+Polygone%2C+le+batiment+%26quot%3Bles+%E9chelles+de+la+ville%26quot%3B%2C+l%27ancien+couvent+des+ursulines%2C+l%27%E9glise+notre+dame+des+tables%2C+la+pr%E9fecture%2C+le+coll%E8ge+de+la+rue+Louis+Blanc%2C+le+clocher+de+l%27%E9glise+St+Anne.&size=7153x448%2C%26nbsp%3B568%26nbsp%3BKo.&width=$photo_width" target="_blank">Panoramic view of Montpellier's uptown. You'll notice, here and there, medieval and renaissance buildings. (As well as a few ugly "modern" warts. Yeeouch.)</a>The city of Tarascon is associated to the Tarasque.<img src="http://www.provence-taxi-tourisme.com/Chateaux/Pages/ImagesChateaux/Tarascon.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />The city of Lusignan, to the fey Melusine.There's, of course, the <a href="http://digilander.libero.it/spaziweb/cartoline-chiese/F%20Normandia-Mont%20Saint%20Michel.JPG" target="_blank">Mont St. Michel</a>.Hey, just look at this site.<a href="http://www.guild.cz/mojeskola/hi/fougeres.php" target="_blank">http://www.guild.cz/mojeskola/hi/fougeres.php</a>Don't worry, I don't understand any word of it either. But just look at the pictures for Aigues Mortes, Avignon, Carcassonne, Fougère, Foix, Montségur, Chinon, Gaillard... Heck, look at them all. They're not all in France, but they're all in Europe.Nearby from me, the city of <a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=sommi%C3%A8res" target="_blank">Sommières</a> organize a medieval celebration every year. (Attracts LARPers like wasps to sugar, let me tell you.)Displays of Europe's medieval (<a href="http://images.google.com/images?q=pont+du+gard" target="_blank">or older!</a>) past are everywhere in Europe. Everybody there knows what a medieval castle really looks like, because everyone has seen several of them. Wonder why French wines are so often named "Chateau <Something>" or "Domaine de <Somewhere>" ? If you look at where exactly the vine grows, is harvested, etc., you'll have your answer as you find castles and manors.It's obvious you won't find traces of Europe's medieval past in Canada or Latin America. (Except for a few things that may have been imported by wealthy excentrics or museums.) It's also obvious that, as Turjan said, you'll learn about Arizona's past in Arizonian schools, China's past in Chinese schools, and Europe's past in European schools. I can tell you that in my school, I learned nothing about China's past, and only rough and vague things about the Americas' past (mostly, discovery, invasion, conquest, plunder, emancipation, wars, etc. -- the interactions with "our own" past).That's why I said you, Nisarg, would have an unreliable vision of what medieval Europe was. And you proved you had, because you said the people of Khorvaire looked, lived, and acted medieval. This irrefutably proves you are wrong.</blockquote>

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