The video charts the bloody, complicated feuding between two prominent royal houses – that of York, represented by a white rose, and Lancaster, represented by a red one (to this day, the historic counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire in northern England are associated with those colours). George RR Martin, the author of the bestselling fantasy novels that inspired the television show, says that though his tale of medieval intrigue and war draws from a range of historical sources, it clings “closest” to England’s 15th-century Wars of the Roses, a series of dynastic civil wars that lasted three decades. A new video by TED-Ed, the education initiative of the ideas-driven nonprofit, situates the story of HBO’s hit series Game of Thrones in its proper historical frame.
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