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📜 What claims are just not backed by the historical facts?
If there’s one thing that people love to believe in, it’s a good story. But when it comes to history, it’s important to separate fact from fiction. There are plenty of claims out there that simply don’t have the historical evidence to back them up. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at some of the most common historical myths and debunk them with the actual historical facts.
## The Great Wall of China was visible from space
One of the most widespread myths about the Great Wall of China is that it’s the only man-made structure visible from space. However, this claim has been debunked time and time again. Astronauts have confirmed that the wall is not visible from the distance of the moon, let alone from low Earth orbit.
## Vikings wore horned helmets
Thanks to popular culture and depictions in movies and TV shows, many people believe that Vikings wore horned helmets. In reality, there is no evidence to support this claim. The image of Vikings with horned helmets is purely a myth.
## The Dark Ages were a time of intellectual stagnation
Contrary to popular belief, the period known as the Dark Ages was not a time of intellectual stagnation. In fact, there were significant advancements in various fields such as art, architecture, and philosophy during this time. The term “Dark Ages” is a misnomer and does not accurately reflect the historical reality of the period.
## Columbus proved the Earth was round
The popular belief that Christopher Columbus proved the Earth was round is a widespread misconception. In reality, the idea that the Earth was round was already well-established by the time of Columbus’ voyage. The myth of Columbus proving the Earth’s roundness has been perpetuated over time, but it simply isn’t true.
## Cleopatra was Egyptian
Despite what many people believe, Cleopatra was not actually Egyptian. She was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which was of Greek descent. Cleopatra was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, but she was of Greek heritage.
In conclusion, it’s important to critically evaluate historical claims and separate fact from fiction. By debunking these common myths, we can gain a better understanding of actual historical events and figures. 📚
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That ancient humans were dumb
That there was massive fraud in the 2020 election. When you lose 60 times in a row in federal court and fail to produce any evidence, it’s time to hang it up.
Edison invented the lightbulb
That ancient people thought the Earth was flat.
We have records from around 430BC where Greek philosophers spoke of the Earth being a sphere. In 240BC the Greek astronomer Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth and was only about 2% out.
The people in Medieval times would empty pots of shit and piss right out their window. If you stop and think about it for like two seconds this idea is so fucking bizarre that it is surprising it became such a popular myth. I remember clearly being told this as fact by my 4th grade history teacher.
Blackbeard’s privateer transport, Sovereign Anne’s Vengeance, was certainly not a tremendously immense Vessel, however really a light and deft frigate.
The Sovereign Anne’s Vengeance was truly flexibility and quick. Very much like the way in which Somalian privateers use dinghies against freight ships
Abner Doubleday inventing baseball in Cooperstown, NY.
That binary numbers were first used by Leibniz. Most computer histories make this claim.
But there’s an existing [manuscript page](https://i.imgur.com/bKw3LOc.jpeg) by the English mathematician Thomas Harriot that includes binary numbers and binary multiplication that was written around 1605, forty years before Leibniz was born.
Edit: spelling
Well, for starters, the claim that Napoleon was short is just not backed by historical facts. The guy was average height for his time. It’s like saying your 5’8″ friend is a giant because he hangs out with a bunch of kindergartners.
There has never been a viking helmet found that had a horn attached to it.
Marilyn Monroe never said “…if you can’t handle me at my worst, you don’t deserve me at my best”
There is literally no documented proof she ever said that.
Never did Marie Antoinette say, “Let them eat cake” To be honest, history has demonized that poor child. She was married to a moron, she was in a foreign country, and she had no idea what she was doing.
The idea that medieval/early modern people (especially peasants) were filthy/had poor hygiene and never left their villages. Medieval people cleaned themselves and their clothes fairly regularly. They even cleaned their teeth by chewing split twigs. Also, it was fairly common even for peasants to travel to pilgrimage sites on holy days/periods.
Calling the American Civil War “the war of Northern Aggression”
Bitch you literally shot first.
Edit: “I’m from the south and I’ve never heard this” the fuck you haven’t!
That the Pyramids were built by Jewish slaves. The Egyptians were good at record keeping and none of their records say anything about slaves being used for the construction of the Pyramids.
This may be more a prehistoric misconception but the idea that individuals in hunter-gatherer or “caveman” societies were/are stupid. Imagine how difficult that life is and all of the things every individual has to know in order to survive. There is no infrastructure or existing structural supports, everything has to be done by hand. These societies have to know which plants are edible, what animals will be where during which times of year, how to treat injuries without any sort of medical equipment. imagine any aspect of your life and now imagine it without any modern comforts at all. Relationships and hierarchies are maintained without use of record keeping. Food is gathered and prepared without any means of long term storage. Now remember that the entire planet was settled this way. From the African veldt to the Scandinavian fjords, and from the the Atacama desert to the Islands of the pacific, and these people utilized some pretty ingenious discoveries and inventions to do these things.
That knowledge and science in Western Europe were wiped out during the Dark Ages because of the Church. In fact, the Medieval church was one of the only places in Europe keeping knowledge alive, as monks transcribed and copied ancient sources. For example, everything the ancient Greeks knew about the science of sound and acoustics was transmitted down via church sources.
Not saying the Church hasn’t done awful things. But the usual narrative about its function in the Middle Ages is completely opposite from reality.
Heck, while we’re at it, the so-called Dark Ages didn’t really exist at all.
Corsets were not typically tight laced. They were only tight laced by the highly fashionable women, and usually only for particular events or portraits. Corsets were designed to be comfortable. Women wore a cotton layer underneath the corset, so it didn’t rub against the skin. The corset was more like a bra, bit instead of using the shoulders to support it used the whole torso. Some people claim they are much more comfortable than modern bras. The intense proportions of the past were achieved with Corsets AND padding. Tight lacing was uncommon, but layers of petticoats or hoops or bum rolls or whatever else at the time was very common to give women the trendy body shape at the time.
I’m sick of curriculum materials teaching my fourth graders that the Spanish discovered Florida when they were looking for the Fountain of Youth. That lie was developed in the 1920s as a tourist gimmick. There’s literally nothing in the historical record that supports it.
“The holocaust never happened.” I am baffled how people can believe this.
That the American Civil War wasn’t about slavery and was started by the Union.
Both of these are wildly wrong, but various groups hold to them like an emotional support blanket so they can rationalize their chosen side lost.
General Omar Bradley was stopped by MP during the Battle of the Bulge in WW2 due to them thinking he was a Nazi infiltrator. The irony was that he was stopped because he correctly identified the capital of Illinois as Springfield when the officer thought it was Chicago.
Vomitoria were passages designed to accommodate large crowds, not rooms for actual vomiting (“vomit” comes from Latin for “spew forth”).
Catherine the Great did not do that with a horse.
Einstein being a low-level student (his grades were average to top tier of the class, and he was pretty damn good academically)
Young Earth Creationism is NOT the historically believed position of the Early Christian Church or the Ancient Church. It’s a fairly recent theological position initially proported by 7th Day Adventist, but quickly became popular with Fundamentalists due to backlash over evolution becoming mainstream.
Before that, most people saw the Creation narrative in Genesis as a narrative myth and was not meant to be read as scientific fact.
That every women in the Middle ages married at 12 or 13 and started having babies immediately. And they did not love and mourn their children as much as we do.
That people in the Middle ages thought the earth was flat
The “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” is a fraudulent document claiming to outline a Jewish conspiracy for world domination. Published in the early 20th century in Russia, it has been thoroughly discredited as a forgery. Investigations, including one by The Times in 1921, confirmed its falseness. The document is widely condemned as antisemitic propaganda, lacking any historical or factual basis.