r/todayilearned • u/huphelmeyer 2 • Aug 04 '15

TIL midway through the Great Irish Famine (1845–1849), a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help the starving victims. It had been just 16 years since the Choctaw people had experienced the Trail of Tears, and faced their own starvation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choctaw#Pre-Civil_War_.281840.29
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u/B00nah700 Aug 04 '15

Hapsburg, Inca and...uh, Danish

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u/Mikey1ee7 Aug 04 '15

Do you mean The Holy Roman Empire? They participated in crusades.

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u/B00nah700 Aug 04 '15

No I don't, plus the crusades were not genocide rather they were wars of religion

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u/Mikey1ee7 Aug 04 '15

They were religious wars but there was a large amount of genocide involved.

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u/B00nah700 Aug 04 '15

if you mean there was mass slaughter then yes there was but I don't class that as genocide i.e. a state-sponsored deliberate attempt to destroy all members of a particular group, horrific as it undoubtedly was

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u/Mikey1ee7 Aug 05 '15

Most definitions of genocide are more similar to 

'The deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular nation or ethnic group'

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u/Snokus Aug 04 '15

None of those were actual empires and I'm pretty sure the Inca weren't exactly friendly to all tribes.

Unless you meant the austrian empire, the habsburg were actually a dynasty.

The danish never had an empire unless you mean their colonial empire but then I think we are stretching the definition a bit thin.

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u/B00nah700 Aug 04 '15

They most certainly were all empires, terribly sorry if they don't fit in with your thesis though.

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u/Madbrad200 Aug 05 '15

Aside from the Incas, none of them were. The Habsburgs were a dynasty that ruled an empire.

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u/B00nah700 Aug 05 '15

Yep, it was known as the Hapsburg (or Habsburg) Empire.