Attack on Titan - Characters React, Battle, quiz and outright silliness

The earth and world wars

Screen Message: Of course some of you wonder how the world fully looks like. How the world around you is shaped. If you don't, then you're not to blame. You're still in the year 850 after all.

Eren: so... the whole world?

Levi: of course.

Armin: wooow! Eren, our dream will become true!

*planet Earth shown on screen*

Everyone: WHOOOOOOOOOAAAAAA!!

Eren: What the hell?!

Screen Message: this is planet earth. The place where all of you exist. You're probably wondering why is it round. Well that's because this is it's actual form. Humans see it flat because they are so small in size.

Eren: what are the blue stuff?

Screen Message: the blue stuff you see on planet earth is the oceans and seas. Those are the ones Armin fantasizes about.

*Everyone looks at Armin*

*flat labeled earth map is shown*

Screen Message: As you can see now, the world is flat. This is a flat map of the world that is easier to use than a globe. If you look closely at anything, you can see labels on them. These are the names of everything, well according to the humans of the future that is.

*arrow with "you are here" text appears on Germany.*

Screen Message: This arrow shows you your location on the map. You are located in Germany. Germany is a country formed in the 18th of January, 1871. I won't go into detail as to why it was formed and how, but I will explain the stuff that it was involved in.

Erwin: so this explains the history of the world from the perspective of a person in the future?

Screen Message: Yes, commander Erwin. I am from the year 2017.

Everyone: *gasps in shock*

Screen Message: Now I will begin explaining something called... war.

Screen Message: If titans do not exist in your world, humans would split into different ethnic, religious groups and tribes and fight each other for claiming land and resources. That's something natural. Us humans fight a lot. And as you can see in the world map, the world is split into 196 countries as of may 14th 2017. Taiwan is not considered an official country by many, which would bring the count down to 195 countries. Although Taiwan operates as an independent country, many countries (including the U.S.) do not officially recognize it as one. But let's just say it is for now. I'll explain stuff about Germany later.

Screen Message: I went off topic a little there. But I need to explain war. War happens when two different groups of humans, whether it be tribes, alliances, empires or countries, fight each other for resources or land domination. Or maybe because of major historical and political events that affect the whole country or tribe or whatever. Imagine two wall districts fighting each other but on a much larger scale. This is war. The Germany part comes later.

Eren: ...

Everyone: ...

Screen Message: If two countries fought each other, it is called a war. But what if an alliance between countries was formed and it fought with another alliance? That's where World War I comes in.

Eren: World War I?

Screen Message: World War I, also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars (even though it ended nothing), was a global war originating in Europe *Europe gets highlighted in red* that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918. More than 70 million military personnel, including 60 million Europeans, were mobilised in one of the largest wars in history. Over nine million combatants and seven million civilians died as a result of the war.