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1->"''I say we start the American Revolution -- a hundred and fifty years ahead of schedule!''"
2-->-- '''Michael Stearns''', ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo''
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4->Easy-peasy I'm sure. Just describe this technology that you don't understand to people who don't understand it and bam! Instant industrial revolution, why didn't anyone else think of that?
5-->--[[http://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/27604v/historical_whatif_post_show_just_how_easy_it/ BreaksFull]], [[Website/{{Reddit}} /r/BadHistory]]
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7->''"You give them breech-loading guns now, they'll have atomic weapons by the seventeenth century. They'll have the capability to destroy their own planet before they're civilised enough to handle it!"''
8-->-- '''The Doctor''', ''Series/DoctorWho'', "The Time Warrior"
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10->''I have divulged metallurgy and tactics beyond your day; no man may threaten your rule.''
11-->-- '''Van Kleiss to [[UsefulNotes/RomanEmpire Emperor Septimus Severus]]''', ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex''
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13->''"Here's where the game could have been somewhat [[EdutainmentGame educational]]... but instead, it's a joke! For example, for UsefulNotes/JuliusCaesar, you're supposed to give him salad dressing, hur hur hur! For UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, you're supposed to give him a compact disc. Yeah. Let's not change history, by the way. [...] For UsefulNotes/JesseJames, an Uzi. You're going to give Jesse James a fucking Uzi?! You're going to give a notorious outlaw a more contemporary weapon! Yeah, just help him out! Might as well give, I don't know, [[UsefulNotes/VladTheImpaler Vlad Tepes]] an atom bomb?"''

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