Uncover the Shocking Truth Behind 51 Historical Myths You’ve Been Believing All Along—Despite Easy Access to Facts!
Basically, the more (un)intentional biases you uncover, the lower the accuracy. Try to think about the goals and agendas the source behind the claims might have had, and what their audience was.
There is no specific Plymouth Rock, but there is an enshrined rock that someone basically picked out and people pilgrimage to.
I haven’t met too many people who believe this (I do live in New England though) but nobody was burned at the stake during the Salem witch trials. 19 people were hung, and one man was pressed, but nobody was burned.
Alexander the Great slept with a copy of the Iliad under his pillow. In Alexander’s day (4th century BCE) the book had yet to be invented. The Iliad would have been written on several (more than 2 dozen) scrolls, which would have required some sort of chest or coffer to contain them.
How do you stay constantly curious about the world, no matter your age or responsibilities? What do you think your most extensive knowledge blind spots are, and what are you doing to rectify the situation?
Meanwhile, from your perspective, what’s the biggest historical misconception that you think everyone in the world should be aware of? Tell us all about it.
The Puritans didn’t leave England to settle the Americas because they were being persecuted in England, it was the other way round. The Puritans in England persecuted other branches of Christianity. They left England because England was about to pass laws allowing Catholics to practice their religion free from persecution.
TLDR – Puritans settled New England so they could carry on persecuting people.
Probably the most modern one believed by your average joe, is that the French do nothing but surrender. I’m not French it makes me roll my eyes.
“*Oh, they see the Germans at the their border and throw in the towel, hehe.*”
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It gets old after the first dozen times, especially if you actually look into Frances military history. It’s really just a regurgitated joke that turned myth at this point I think.
Columbus was the first person to discover North America.
Proof #1: Native Americans are people…. (duh)…..they exist, and have lived continuously in the Americas for at least the past 18,000 years, presumably having crossed over a land bridge connecting Asia and modern day Alaska during the last ice age.
Proof #2: The Vikings beat him to it by about 400 years, and can be proven to have traveled at least as far south as the mouth of the St. Lawrence. Norse sagas refer to a place (Vinland) populated by grape vines, and areas further south where it doesn’t snow during winter months. This would have put 12th century Norse exploration about as far south as North Carolina. and See: L’anse Aux Meadows, butternut seeds.
Proof #3: The bones of Pre-Columbian chickens in south America are genetically linked to ones introduced by Polynesians, not Spaniards.
During WWII, Polish soldiers didn’t attack German tanks with horses. It was propaganda.
The story of Pocahontas and John Smith is crushingly unromantic. She was 12 when they knew each other. She got captured by the English a few years later; she ended up in England with a kid, and passed away at 22.
George Washington Carver did not invent peanut butter. He invented a peanut margarine made with peanut oil. Some newspapers reported it as peanut butter.
The peanut butter that you buy in the grocery store was invented by the Kellogg brothers who also invented corn flakes.
It is a myth that people in medieval Europe drank mostly beer and wine because the water was unsafe.
That Rosa Parks was the first black woman to sit in the front section of a bus.
George Washington didn’t have wooden teeth. They were made out of ivory.
USA was established as a Christian nation.
John Adams said that in no way was the formation of the nation based off of Christian values, or any other religion. “The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.” –John Adams
Also, “in god we trust” was added to our money in 1957. Also, the “under god” portion of the pledge of allegiance was added later as well. On phone, but a quick google search can give the details. If I remember right it was several years after it was written when it was added.
Here we go: It was originally published in 1892, several changes were made periodically, but “under god” was added in 1954.
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