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I saw a question posed by someone on Linkedin about how “facts” which were taught to us in school have since been uncovered to have been false. This isn't to say that we were being outright lied to, but that myths sometimes carry more weight than they should, and sometimes historical study uncovers truths which were unknown only years earlier.So, with that said, what were some historical "facts" that have changed since your childhood? One might be the belief that the people of Columbus' day thought the earth was flat, or that the period after the fall of Rome was a period of "Dark Ages" (now typically called the "Early Middle Ages").
Too many to list but:Last Ice Age was 40,000 years ago.Germany alone was responsible for causing WWI.The Soviet Constitution of 1936 gave the USSR the same rights as Americans (WWII propaganda textbook).Napoleon was a meanie -- as a boy he put rocks in his snowballs.
Too many to list but:Last Ice Age was 40,000 years ago.Germany alone was responsible for causing WWI.The Soviet Constitution of 1936 gave the USSR the same rights as Americans (WWII propaganda textbook).Napoleon was a meanie -- as a boy he put rocks in his snowballs.
a bad boy putting rocks in his snowballs? Where did you find that? ::)
a bad boy putting rocks in his snowballs? Where did you find that? ::)
More importantly, where did he find snowballs in Corsica?
The Napoleon tale was in a textbook of “short History stories” in elemantery school that included The Man Without a Country and The Queen of Spain has no legs. It has snowed in the Vatican winter of 1955-56 and the Nile ca 820s
How about “bad history that is being taught now”? I have been debating with people about the presence of black characters in sixteenth-century movies/TV shows. I do not deny the presence of Africans in England in the sixteenth century (there is even evidence that one was in the court of Queen Elizabeth I), but I don't buy the view that if blacks are not shown in those movies that they are either “factually incorrect” or even “racist”.
