Recent comments made by Snoop Dogg claiming he liked to watch HBO‘s hit program Game of Thrones for historic purposes were heavily criticized. However in this TED-Ed short above, we come to find that much of George R.R. Martin’s framework were in fact drawn from historic battles. Beginning around 1377, medieval England harbored a power struggle between two noble families which spanned generations and Alex Gendler illustarted how the real-life epic Wars of the Roses served as the crux for the conflict between the fictional characters in Game of Thrones. Source: HIGHSNOBIETY