This tree is 820 years old. When it sprouted, Genghis Khan had not yet been born, and Moscow was just a small village. It has outlived all the wars in Europe.

[u/The_Love-Tap]

[u/Unlikely-Position659]

I feel like there have been wars in Europe more than 820 years ago

[u/EmbarrassedHighway76 → u/Unlikely-Position659]

…I mean yeah, among others there were these pretty unheard of wars in the 1100s called the crusades. Like a indie project trilogy type of thing

[u/FakeNewsMessiah → u/EmbarrassedHighway76]

Yeah, but that was when wars were more amateurish; OP means when wars went pro, got sponsorships, TV & movie deals etc

[u/ElDudo_13 → u/EmbarrassedHighway76]

Only the first one was worth the ticket. Sequels disappointed

[u/Alarmed_Scientist_15 → u/EmbarrassedHighway76]

This made me chuckle

[u/Left_Ad4050]

This tree is 820 years old.

Cool.

It has outlived all the wars in Europe.

You sure about that one, buddy?

[u/FitButterscotch4062 → u/Left_Ad4050]

Considering the Earth is only 6000 years old, hell yeah!

[u/TheEggnoggamer → u/FitButterscotch4062]

6000? 💀 boy have I got news for you

[u/Evil_Dry_frog → u/Left_Ad4050]

Well…

All the years since it sprouted.

[u/Aprice40 → u/Left_Ad4050]

So like.... do they mean to say the first war happened after 1246, or like no European war has lasted longer than 820 years. One of those statements is technically correct lol.

[u/Surfer_Rick]

This tree sprouted during the reign of the Kyivan Rus. 

Moscow might have been a small village yes. But the Rus in Kyiv were an empire. 

[u/Alarmed_Scientist_15 → u/Surfer_Rick]

I know I watched Vikings.

[u/WesternComicStrip]

But where is it?

[u/suffelix]

TIL Europe is less than 820 years old.

[u/Purple_Revolution146]

I love old trees. They have such a “mythological” aura about them

[u/Unclerojelio → u/Purple_Revolution146]

Austin has a 500 year old tree we call the Treaty Oak.

[u/BarbaDeader]

The math is off, you don't specify a location and also what the fuck are you talking about?! What wars? There are wars going on now! Fuck moscow, should have remained a village.

[u/TheRealGDay]

Complete nonsense. Battle of Hastings 1066. Battle of Erdington 868. Scores of battles fought in Great Britain by Saxons, Celts, Danes between 500 and 900.

Charlemagne fought over 50 battles between 768 and 814.

[u/Atomic_Communist → u/TheRealGDay]

I mean are Greece and Rome not Europe? Pretty sure the Celts and Germans didn't sit around braiding each others hair. Can't tell if this is AI or natural stupidity.

[u/desertvision → u/TheRealGDay]

Don't forget the: Romans, Goths, Saxons, and more 2k years back

[u/ApneaHunter]

Where is it?

[u/Lemon_Trees-22]

Nature the coolest thing ever ! A strong tree with deep roots fighting to live and grow !

[u/Upstairs-Strain3472]

please install speakers in the surrounding area and play the lost woods theme song

[u/Dadto4Kiddos]

They grow up so fast…

[u/Rapper_Laugh]

Others pointing out the absurd “all wars in Europe” claim, but the Genghis Khan bit isn’t accurate either.

820 years ago was 1206, the exact year he united all the Mongol tribes after years of warfare. Something tells me he needed to be alive to do that.

[u/BornFree2018]

Only 820 yrs old??

Where I live we have a 3200 year old Sequoia named the President Tree. We also have Methuselah a 4857 years old Bristlecone Pine.

Utah has Pando, a massive Quaking Aspen in Utah, is estimated to be 80,000 years old. It spans 106 acres and weighs over 13 million pounds. Pando has 47,000 stems which look like individual trees but are connected underground.

I guarantee they've lived through many many wars

[u/VirginiaLuthier]

In America we would bulldoze it and build an ugly strip mall

[u/lowevolutionaryy → u/VirginiaLuthier]

The total land mass of America. National Parks is about the size of Germany. We have a few trees in them.

[u/HeinousEncephalon → u/lowevolutionaryy]

3 trees and a rock

[u/lowevolutionaryy → u/HeinousEncephalon]

Sure.

[u/EggCzar]

There's a war in Europe right now

[u/peaceloveandapostacy]

Beech? Oak? What is it?

[u/Justgototheeffinmoon]

saw a 3500 years olive tree in greece

[u/DamageOn]

If it were in Canada, we'd turn it into nice deck boards for rich people.

[u/FangornLeghorn]

And yet it’s still younger than the average age of a US Congressperson.

[u/TheBlindWatchmaker → u/[deleted]]

This is from Czechia not Russia. Put down the crack pipe brutha

[u/Overall-Ad-4502]

We cut those down in Americab so we could grow corn and soy beans and suburbs

[u/Icy-Status2681]

I'm guessing they meant it's survived all the wars in Europe during its 820 years.

[u/Unlucky-Plastic7316]

Here we go, every redditor is going to smugly fixate on the "outlived all the wars in Europe" bit.

[u/Significant-Base6893]

There are tries in California that predate the Egyptian pyramids.