Uncover the Shocking Truth Behind 51 Historical Myths You’ve Been Believing All Along—Despite Easy Access to Facts!
I think the notion of the US being created based on Christian values was promoted mostly by politicians running for office, and the overwhelmingly Christian voter base back in the day loved that sentiment.
Many people believe that the Roman empire ended in 476. In actuality, that date only marks the surrender of the city of Rome and the dissolution of the WESTERN Roman Empire, which was far smaller than the Eastern half, and in no way more legitimate as the sole heir to the legacy of Rome.
Constantinople was still secure as the capital of the Eastern Empire, and had been the capital of a UNIFIED empire before the empire was split into Eastern and Western halves anyway. And in fact, at the date of 476, Rome itself was not even the capital of the Western Empire.
Since the Renaissance, many historians have incorrectly referred to the Eastern Empire as the Byzantine Empire, but no citizen of that empire ever referred to themselves as anything other than Roman. The citizens of the former Western empire also considered themselves Roman, and up until hundreds of years after the “official” fall of Rome, believed that their true government was in Constantinople and would shortly reconquer them to free them from their barbarian oppressors. This turned out to be true, as the Eastern Emperor Justinian did in fact take back all of North Africa and the entire peninsula of Italy. The point that all contemporaries considered the Eastern Empire to be well and truly The Roman Empire is further illustrated by the fact that when Sultan Mehmed II finally sacked Constantinople in 1453, he named the province “The Sultanate of Rum [Rome].” That’s ONE THOUSAND YEARS AFTER the traditional date of the fall of the Roman Empire that a foreign army considered themselves to have finally conquered Rome.
Washington never cut down his father’s cherry tree. That’s a total myth, never happened. His biographer made it up to make Washington seem more honest. Ouch, that irony hurts…
Anon:
How do people not understand these simple little parables as such obvious propaganda? At this point, I’m starting to wonder how many “dog drops his steak in the river” type fairy tales we also need to specifically point out as being allegorical.
A proposal to make German the official language of the United States of America was defeated in Congress by one vote.
It’s easily debunked by common sense (seriously, why would they do this??) and congressional records. The myth likely comes from the fact that a proposal to adjourn and discuss at a later time a petition to have laws translated to German for German-speaking residents was defeated by one vote.
That Texas retains the right to secede back to the Republic of Texas whenever it wishes.
Dirigibleduck:
The Supreme Court held in Texas v. White that no state has the right to unilaterally secede from the USA.
Misconception: Germany’s tanks were flatly superior to allied tanks all through WW2.
How did it arise: The myth that grew up surrounding the Tiger 1 and Tiger 2 tanks, which were superior to many allied designs when they were introduced and had a very good gun.
The reality: The Tiger 1s and Tiger 2s were prone to breakdowns, had poor mobility, and for their weight and other specs were actually poorly designed. For example the lack of sloped armor ended up increasing the weight for the protection offered, necessitated a larger engine and put more strain on the road wheels and transmission, which lead to the aforementioned poor maintenance record of the vehicles. They were also horribly expensive to produce for the already strained German industrial sector.
When Germany invaded France their tanks were actually inferior to the French tanks (the Panzer 1 and 2s were intended as training vehicles), they simply bypassed, encircled, or out-flanked the French tank units when they encountered them. It was actually the tactics of the Germans that won the day, not their vehicles.
The Russian’s actually had the best tanks at the outbreak of war, and despite throwing essentially WW1 designs at the Germans early on they were already producing T-34s and KV-1s. The KV-1 was so heavily armored that the Germans didn’t have a gun that could reliably penetrate it. At the battle of Raseiniai a single KV-2 tank held up *the entire 6th Panzer division for a day* at a Crossroads and was only taken out after it ran out of ammunition.
Check out this short wiki article on the first German encounters with T-34 and KV tanks for a few laughs and an idea of how terrifying these vehicles were for their time. To the point that the KV and T-34 series tanks would be in service with very few modifications through to the end of the war, with the T-34 standing as the most mass produced tank in history.
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