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      • The second season of HBO's Game of Thrones was a largely accurate adaptation from its source material. True to George R. R. Martin's A Clash of Kings, season 2 featured the escalating war between the Starks and the Lannisters, as well as Stannis Baratheon's attack on King's Landing and the distant adventures of the remaining Targaryen.
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  2. The real historical events that inspired Game of Thrones. Game of what? Apparently there’s some TV show called Game of Thrones which isn’t a chair-based quiz show at all, but a fantasy epic...

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  3. HBO ordered the second season on April 19, 2011, which began filming in July 2011, primarily in Ireland, Northern Ireland, Croatia and Iceland. The story takes place in a fantasy world, primarily on a fictional continent called Westeros, with one storyline occurring on another continent to the east, Essos.

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    • The War of the Roses. To begin with, the main plot of A Song of Ice and Fire is plucked directly from the English War of the Roses. The war was generations-long and fairly complicated (especially since everyone in English history has one of three names), but it boiled down to a fight for the English throne between the Lancasters (Lannisters) and the Yorks (Starks), complete with boy kings, scheming mothers, a duty-bound "hand of the king," and a royal growing up in far off Europe with a claim to the throne (little Daenerys and her jerk brother).
    • The Fall of Rome. Before the Targaryens brought their dragons to Fantasy England, they were part of a vast empire over in the Fantasy Mediterranean. Old Valyria bears a striking resemblance to the Roman Empire: both were technically "republics," both empires enslaved people from all across (Fantasy) Europe and the (Fantasy) Middle East, both arose on a peninsula in a warm climate, both built roads and buildings with wildly advanced technology for their time, and both eventually collapsed, leading to centuries of conflict.
    • Pompeii and the Pink and White Terraces. In real history, of course, there were a whole mess of different factors that led to the fall of Rome, like invasions and over-reliance on slave labor and too much military spending.
    • The Black Dinner and the Massacre of Glencoe. Yes, the Red Wedding is indeed based on a true story — two true stories, to be exact, and both of them in Scotland.
  4. Game of Thrones is roughly based on the storylines of the A Song of Ice and Fire book series by George R. R. Martin, set in the fictional Seven Kingdoms of Westeros and the continent of Essos. [5][6] The series follows several simultaneous plotlines. [7]

  5. Certain events have drifted into different seasons, so the above isn't always strictly true -- just mostly true. Season 6 took most of its story from The Winds of Winter (although there were some unused things from A Feast for Crows and A Dance with Dragons that appeared in it).

  6. Aug 23, 2020 · Published Aug 23, 2020. The Red Wedding was one of the most horrific events in Game of Throne s but creator George R.R. Martin based the massacre of the Starks on two real-life events in Scottish history.

  7. Game of Thrones: Season 2[1] is the second season of Game of Thrones. It consists of ten episodes. It premiered with "The North Remembers" on April 1, 2012 on HBO, and concluded with "Valar Morghulis" on June 3, 2012. It is based on A Clash of Kings, the second novel of A Song of Ice and Fire by...

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