What's the dumbest history question you've ever heard?

>>1135998
>Why is Communism bad?

>>1135998
>were the guys who built the pyramids communist?

>Why do you deny the Egyptians were black? They were from AFRICA!

>>1136018
Please tell me whoever asked this was not serious.

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>Was this leader a good or a bad guy

>>1136023
You're trying too hard

>>1136057
Dude, seriously shut up. Go look at black pages on Facebook, stuff like theGrio and it always has a majority of people wewuzing hard whenever Egypt is brought up.

Also most Americans really do think that African is a synonym of black.

>So I know that Romans and Greeks were really the same people, but why did they just decide to change their name after beating the Persians?
t. Person in my history class

>Where is Mexico?

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>>1136091

>>1136073
To be fair they have evidence of 'black Egyptians' that would be perfectly acceptable by /pol/ standards if it happened to instead be confirming something significant for whites or Europeans. And while I'm not saying that Egyptians were at any point black, it's not THAT intrinsically unthinkable to someone with a cursory understanding of history and geography and a bias to confirm.

Let me ask you something because I don't want to be presumptuous here: did the holocaust happen?

>>1136135
Yes it did. I'm not a /pol/ tard. You however are a fucking retard.

>>1136157
>I'm not a /pol/tard!

So you went out of your way to read stupid questions black people asked on the comment section of some website or facebook, and I'm to believe you have never heard a more stupid question before when belief that eqyptians were black is again, not that farfetched if you're exposed to some sloppy circumstantial evidence? Plus you're being mad and used the 'we waz' meme, you look and quack like /pol/yard.

By the way 'how can you deny that Egyptians were black?' Is just a contrived way of making a statement into a question. The question here isn't about history, it's a question about 'you' denying something related to history. The op asked for dumb history questions, and you went out of your way to bring black assertion (not question) of black Egypt into it. That's why I'm saying you're trying too hard.

>>1135998
what was the color of the napoleons white horse?

>what's the capital of Eritrea??

you STUPID bitch. JESUS CHRIST i can't believe how dumb you are

>>1136435
I have no idea what's the capital of Eritrea either.

>>1136435

>Eritrea
Literally who

>is the hyperwar just a meme?

>>1136435
why would a sea have a capital?

>>1136476
>>1136439
Autists.

>>1136476
>>1136439
>>1136435
Fuck all of you.

ASMARA

hulachihumi bekonidomi

>>1136622

ānite : ke’inanite iyanidanidu net’ela weyimi āniduni yit’elali huletenyawinimi yit’elali huletenyawinimi . izīhi layi minimi negeri yets’afe sewi hulu fagot newi

>>1136435
What, I don't get it

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>Why were the Allies and Axis fighting in North Africa
I almost went mental at that point.

I had my little brother not know who Genghis Khan was at 17 years old.

To change a bit

>who united the Abyssinian people?
I asked this to some rasta whigger faggot

>>1136641

That's not as bad as the people who immediately say "oil" as the answer.

>>1136687
I implied more of that the person was 16 years old and he did not know that there was combat in the North African theater during WORLD war 2.

>>1136216
Stop with the damage control please, you're looking quite pathetic.

>>1136635
He's mad because somebody doesn't know the capital of his country.

What's the dumbest history question you've ever heard? is the dumbest question I ever heard. I used to think only a question not asked it dumb, but OP you proved me wrong

>Eritrea still thinks it's a real country
Has nobody given them 'the talk' yet or what?

There was a thread here a few days ago asking why nobody ever tried to invade England from Ireland

>>1136759
That's pretty fucking pathetic

>>1135998
>Anon did humans and dinosaurs ever live together?
t. my high school girlfriend, ever the trove of retarded questions. Yet somehow with a better gpa than me.

>>1136768
Tbqh that's not a stupid question, the average guy is not likely to know of the attempts made.
That is unless whoever asked you this weren't implying that Ireland has a land connection with England.

>>1136834
Not him, but if he's talking about the thread the other day, it was in a WW2 context, and the OP of that thread was retardedly insistent that if German troops showed up, the Irish would fully mobilize to help them out and repulse any British attack, rather than say, appeal for help or try to stop an unprovoked invasion.

>>1137192
Well the Germans did try to deliver weapons and ammo to the Irish prior to the Easter revolt in '16 so it could happen I suppose

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>>1135998
>lesson on the Nazis in sixth grade
>Teacher: "In 1940 Germany captured Paris, and by the end of the year controlled much of western Europe"
>Student: "What areas do the Nazis control today?"
No word of a fucking lie

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>>1136435
>Eritrea
You mean Italian clay?

>>1135998
I once heard this group of retards expecting serious debate about worldviews on fucking 4chan

>>1137331
If it was in 6th grade then it probably was the first time those children were for lamely taught about WW2. Not a big deal if a kid doesn't understand the basics yet.

>>1137473
Formally not lamely

>>1137331
The American deep south.

>>1137475
Those people love capitalism though. So you're wrong.

Whats the Holocaust?
The person asking was a 18 year old girl, I don't know how you go that long without knowing what the Holocaust is

>>1135998
>Is it like... the natural progression... of governments to become tyrannical? Like I guess what I'm asking is that does every democracy fall or does every republic become a dictatorship?
I have never wanted to slap another student so hard in my life. This is fucking Latin American history, not fucking political science.

>>1135998
"Who was Ben Franklin, again?" -asked by a basic bitch in IB US History...

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>>1136107
>Mexico is angry

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>>1137475

>>1135998
Not really history, but
>Why does German sound like real words when Spanish is, like, made up?

I would excuse this if this person was in at least high school, but this was someone days away from graduating from college.

>>1137549
In her defense, Spanish sounds like ass. The only romantic language that sounds worse is fucking French.

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>>1137549
>>>Why does German sound like real words when Spanish is, like, made up?

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>>1137549
I'm trying to wrap my head around this question. What?

Every /his/ thread

>What?

>>1137607
>Huh?

>>1137569
>person whose primary/only language is English and doesn't understand that other languages are going to sound different to somebody not used to it wonders why a language that developed from the same Germanic language base as English did sounds close to English, but a language based in Latin sounds nothing like English

>>1137720
>who?

>>1136761
Asking questions at least shows thought.

>>1136768
>why nobody ever tried to invade England from Ireland
Napoleon did, it just went ridiculously haywire and he gave up because the Irish are a shit

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>Are we all descendants of the Suomi?

>>1135998
>can you believe some dumb bitch brought up hitler when were were covering ypres in wwi?
Some dumb /pol/tard that didn't even read Mein Kampf in a stupidest thing you've heard about history thread.

one of my friends told me a story from when he was in fifth grade, and a kid asked if Andrew Jackson was related to Michael Jackson

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>was oswald mosley just another a nazi

>>1136107
>Mexico is the new China
SLANT EYES BTFO.

>>1137761
Asking questions can also show a lack of thought.

>>1137331
>Nazis
The correct term is Germans, and they still control Germany.

>>1137797
Yes.
T. Ancient Finnish Empire

>>1135998
>Why was everything before the 1950's black and white?

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>>1135998
Sorta of related
>Sitting in Science class
>Dumb nigger behind me talking about Korean exchange student we had last year
>"I felt so bad for him when we wuz watchin them documentary's on Pearl Harbor in class."
MFW

>>1138031
No
t. Hwan Empire

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>>1135998
The sad part is that this wasn't ironic.

>Why did America go to war with New Mexico?
no joke

>question to a holocaust survivor, at a Jewish museum in Sydney, by a high-school student
"Why did the Nazis not like the jews?"

Not the dumbest question, but fuck you'd think his school would've told him why beforehand

didn't mean to reply to >>1136761

>>1138524
There's an option for deleting posts at the bottom of the page, anon.

Click the blank checkbox next to one of your posts and then press the delete button.

>>1138533
cheers

>>1136057
You're a faggot

>>1137561
I like French.

>>1138428
>Why did America go to war with New Mexico
Because half of it tried to join the Confederacy.

>>1137569
why does german sound like a real language while spanish sounds like someone talking out of their ass

>>1137569
Person being surprised that there are other language groups than Germanic.

>>1136018
>in Roman history class
>/pol/tard raises hand
>"Was Gracchus a communist?!"
>BTFO by the professor

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>>1138673
>so... the gracchi were kind of like the kennedys of rome, right?

>>1138673
He was a fucking communism wanting to steal hard-earned property from hardworking people.

Why you are you commies even there after being BTFO so many times?

the overthrow of the Bastille was part of the Olympics ?

>did the suberbians really start both world wars?

>>1135998
>So, when do Adam and Eve show up?

>>1138876
Legitimate question

>>1136107
¡Ay caramba!

What....is the capital of Assyria?

>>1136435
Al-Wadiya?

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>>1137549
¿Qué cosa?

Did Spanish steal the guitar from the English?

>>1137561

Spanish sounds decent, French and Romanian suck.

>>1138900
It's either and edgy question or a stupid question

>>1137549
Where do you live?

> if the Netherlands were so tollerant (1600's) why wheren't there any mosks. Isn't that a litte racist ?

>In high school
>Learning about French Revolution
>One kid raises his hand
>"Sir was this in, like, Robin Hood times?"

>>1137561
vete cagar

>>1136508
Can't believe there are still hyperwar deniers.

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>>1138687
Land taken while the original owners were at war

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>>1139135
>>1138720
>>1137549
>>1137331
>>1136107
>>1136034

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Back in highschool...
>was Caesar gay?
>did he take it up the ass?
>whole class devolves to asking about the sexual orientation of historical figures

>>1139297
Once a classroom starts taking about bumming, it will stay on the topic for a while

I live in Australia and I did the equivalent of AP History in high school. We were just about to learn about the invasion of Normandy by the Allies when the guy sitting in front of me raised hand and asked:
>So did the Americans actually invade Europe, or did they just, like, bomb Japan?
It was by far the most ignorant thing I've ever heard in my life. He was doing AP history in a private school and was asking a question most Slovakian children know the answer to.
My teacher just ignored the question and we went on with the lesson as planned. When he started looting casualty figures, he was so embarrassed that I could tell that his face went red, and I was sitting behind the dude.

Posted this on the cringe thread before but:

>If there is an "Before Christ" and an "After Christ" is there a "During Christ"?

>>1138028
Keyword still.

>>1139317
Did you get taught that Guadalcanal was designed to ensure that Australia wasn't cut off, or does that get swept under the rug? I know you guys weren't very happy with us for a while since we came and fucked your women afterward so I can see why you'd push that aside if you do.

>>1136435
Rome,obviously

>>1138399
Ugh.

Back in 08, playing Call of Duty World At War with a friend. He was a good way through the Campaign against the Japanese when it occurred to me that he thought he was fighting the Chinese.

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Not a question, but one of my superiors is a legit afro centrist who believes that Mugabe (of all people) and generally african socialist movements are good.
I thought that these people only existed in the US.

>>1135998
virtually anything printed in the margins of 48 Laws of Power

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>>1135998
>Prussia is Russia's old name?
One of my friends. She asked me this in junior high.

To be fair, I didn't know either back then. I thought it was Poland's old name, since they were Slavs but with a P. Turned out I was sort of right.

>>1139415
>Turned out I was sort of right.
you weren't.

>>1139415
The original Prussians were Balts like Lithuanians. Not Slavs.

>>1139440
>>1139443

I meant I was sort of right in the sense that Prussia is now in Poland.

>did the natives know how to speak spanish?

>>1139650
It's not.

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>>1135998
>Did Romans make contact with Han China?

>>1140073
a few years later we are going to be taught this as fact in history books when the chinese century dawns.

>>1140073
how is this a dumb question? i don't get it

>>1135998
There aren't any really, unless you have watched a person be told something and they are unable to even repeat the question but that would suggest disability or intoxication. You need to divide questions into 2 categories, those that genuinely don't know and teenagers. The former needs the answer, the latter wants an argument and asks a question for the purpose of feeling smug, most of this shitty board really.

>>1137496
I broke up with a girl after 8 months because she asked me what the Third Reich was.

She was 23.

>>1139275
Fucking over plebs is hard work.

t. American

>>1140073
Didn't they?

>>1137561
Va te faire foutre

>Is America in Europe ?

>>1138687
>being THIS mad about public ownership

>>1140196
From memory both empires knew the other existed but never sent any official delegation and didn't really know anything about them at all, just considering them that one empire on the opposite side of the world thats probably full of magic fantasy shit. The chinks have a couple of records of Romans but the Romans don't have anything on their side so they might have just been merchants or something.

>>1140256
There are at least two recorded cases of the Han and Romans sending delegates to eachother, both recorded by the Han.

There's one case recorded by the romans but it's not clear if the delegates they received were from Han China or from India instead.

>>1140300
Sources?

>>1135998
>Live in Jefferson City, Missouri for a few years
>On field trip with school to visit governor's mansion.
>One dumbass, effeminate, just short of confirmed queerbait motherfucker asks, "Like why are these buildings so old?"
>Teachers tell us how hard they were cringing the next day

>>1136435
Ranch or cool ranch?

>>1136765
Ethiopia tried and failed.

This wasn't a question but it is still relevant. I was in AP World History and my group and I were researching the War of the Spanish Succession. And so my group members put down Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Stalin as the leaders of the Grand Alliance. This is in a damn AP class.

>>1140306
>Only a few attempts at direct contact are known from records: In 97 AD, the Chinese general Ban Chao unsuccessfully tried to send an envoy called Gan Ying to Rome.[1][2] Several alleged Roman emissaries to China were recorded by ancient Chinese historians. The first one on record, supposedly from either the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius or the later emperor Marcus Aurelius, arrived in 166 AD.[3][4]

>Hill, John E. (2009).Through the Jade Gate to Rome: A Study of the Silk Routes during the Later Han Dynasty, First to Second Centuries CE.

>Hirth, Friedrich (1885):China and the Roman Orient. 1875. Shanghai and Hong Kong. Unchanged reprint. Chicago, Ares Publishers, 1975.

>Pulleyblank, Edwin G.: "The Roman Empire as Known to Han China",Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 119, No. 1 (1999), pp.71–79

These are the main sources if you want reads.

>>1140376
Thanks anon

>>1137561
How do you know it's a her ?

>>1140806
I also assumed it was a girl. I swear I saw a "she" in there when I first read that post.

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>>1135998

>Can you prove that the holocaust was real?

>>1142274
Holocaust Deniers don't use "facts" to support their position. Their method tends to be one of how the statements/arguments are framed. This results in a meta-level debate in which the scholar knows how the Holocaust denier is misusing language and Holocaust understanding, but less knowledgeable people don't. Hence, don't give the denier the opportunity.

>>1137561
>Spanish sounds like ass
Callate tu puta boca pinche gringo. Tu idioma es franco. Ingleses son putos.

>>1142278
My favorites
>No single written order existed saying "Go murder 6 million Jews"
>People died of typhus and starvation too
>Zyklon B was a delousing agent
>Jews only care about the 6 million (out of the 11 million total)
>Physically impossible to burn 6 million people

They deliberately spin a broad fact "up to 6 million Jews died" with another discrete fact "Auschwitz was a death camp" which creates a falsehood "6 million died at Auschwitz" - that is immediately paraded as proof that the holocaust didn't happen "as described". When unpacked, the 6 million number includes: mass shootings, starvation, disease, gassing and other. The first 3 are hard to dispute - Allies photographed the concentration camps filled with emaciated bodies, and dug up mass graves filled with bullet riddled civilians. So the effort to "disprove" the holocaust must be done quickly and insincerely in order to avoid accounting for the totality of the event.

If you ask a denier straight up his feelings about the Jews (curiously, sympathy exists for the other victims), its plain the objectives of the denial.
>Six million did not die but Jews deserve to be gassed because they destroyed the aryan race
>Nazis were stronger and smarter than the allies had it not been for the Jews. They conquered Europe all by themselves!
>Nazis did nothing wrong and couldn't have committed genocide because the Nazis were human

If you deny it happened, while also lamenting that it happened so much that you admit wanting it to happen, you might be a holocaust denier.

-Where do you live?
-I live in Athens!
-Ooooh it is also a modern city?
-Omg yes.......
-And in Greece you use the Latin alphabet?
-NO faggot we use the greek alphabet cause we are GREEKS.
-Ohh sorry I thought greek alphabet was only for aesthetics..
-Aesthetics.......WTF

REAL conversation with an American during my Erasmus scolarship in Lyon...

>>1142631
>we are GREEKS.

You're Trukish rape babies, and the British had to re-introduce you to "your" ancient language.

>>1142589
You are talking about exactly one kind of person, the type you want to describe. There may be elements of truth to what you're saying, but your attempt to sort deniers and non-deniers into distinct two camps is still a gross over-simplification.

What's Aryan?

>>1142648
we may are turkish rape babies..but unforunately my friend the greek language is unstopable the last 3500 years..as you are in /his/ and you work on humanities you should know that...

>>1142648
so no reason for rasism and hate..I accept the fact that nations have been bastarted...modern french italians greeks germans..but a language is a language and ancient greek of 300 BC have not much difference from modern greek of 1700 and that's true if you work on Greek language and greek philology

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>>1140073
Its actually a decent question, since they both knew the other existed. There were also records in China saying the Romans visited China through Vietnam or something like that, but contact isn't that insane to imagine.

>was NikolaTesla the one who invented tests.
The girl who said this pronounced his name as "Testla"

>>1136018
Weren't they?

>>1140256
They traded with each other through the silk road, that counts as contact

>>1136435
I learn about a new country in Africa that iv'e never even heard of literally daily. Is the rest of the world as ignorant about Africa as the southern U.S.? Because here, Africans are from Kenya, Ethiopia, or Uganda.

>>1136633
BOOGA BOOGA

>>1140073
Not "officially", but there was contact between merchants.

>If China is on the other side of the world, why would the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbour during 9/11? Was it because of that Kim Jong guy got angry at us because of Vietnam?

I don't even know how she was allowed into high school. She's said a lot more than that, but I think that was the worst she'd asked me.

>>1142739
What

It's like someone had a stroke in the middle of talking

>>1137569

I don't know why I love this image.

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>>1142739
Holy hell. You win this thread, unfortunately.

>>1142748
That was the worst thing she asked me, but she also asked why Columbus sailed to America when he could have just went to the airport and taken a plane, and how they elect the queen of England.

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>>1142739

>>1142739

There is no way this is real. It's just too absurd.

>>1142878
I wish it wasn't.

>>1142739
>>1142792
I refuse to believe this

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>>1138420
This wasn't rage or sad to me, this was just plain fucking funny.

>>1136023
Hollywood sensational misinterpretation.

>>1143054
I wish I could be you.

"If the Pacific campaign was such a brutal fight why didn't we just slam through Germany and Russia to get the Japs through China?"

t. 14 y/o Axis and Allies player I overheard

>>1142792
The airport thing might've been an attempt at a joke.
Everything else seems to disprove that, though.

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We were talking about 9/11
>9/11. That was, when 2003?
someone I consider intelligent said this.

About four years ago in my gr.11 socials class we had this one fucking fedora lord that tried to argue with our teacher on everything he disagreed with. Some of his full retard moments were trying to explain to the teacher why the world would be better if the commies won the cold war and why Christianity is the only reason the dark ages were called the dark ages. In the same class some girl asked "Wait why did they like, mostly use muskets in WW1 if we they had like machine guns they could carry around?".

>>1138420
kekd and saved

>>1143415
Technically speaking, 9/11 only tells you the day and month.

>What is Austria? Don't you mean Australia?

I actually got in a back n' forth about Ben Franklin being a President. With fellow freshmen at Washington University in St. Louis. Fucking surreal.

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>>1143464

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>>1142298
>ser sudaca

>>1136641
It was to defend italy, right?

>minneapolis is the capital of Minnesota

>>1143650
It was to cut the Suez Canal, Anon.

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>>1142739

>>1143468
president of the republic of inventions and big pimping

>>1142739
I have to ask if you went to High School in West Tennessee, because there was a girl in my English class who the class pranked by convincing her that William Shakespeare died like twenty years ago.

>>1135998
>in math class back in highschool
>someone brings up the topic of King Richard III body being found under a car park in Leicester
>some chick in the class asks "why was he buried under a car park?"

>>1140073
/gsg/ pls go

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Not really a question, but once in school (I was like 9 or 10 or something) we had pic related in our history textbook so I told my classmate that those precious stones on the throne are actually buttons that the tsar pushed and cool stuff happened. He didn't get that is was a joke and told the girls behind us of this cool fact.

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>>1144223
>his history class didn't talk about the Mobile Tsar Gundam's use against the Commonwealth

>>1142739
Are you sure she wasn't trolling? Because that sounds like some high-level trolling. Just too many events mashed together for it to be anything else.

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>>1138595

>>1142792
Anon, this girl was trolling you like a pro.

>>1136768
>what is the Spanish Armada

>>1140317
Jeff City high?

>>1139297
>did he take it up the ass?

Well he did in the Spartacus TV series.

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>What's the point in history?

The dumbest question I heard from an idiot was: "In Shakespearean times, did they, like really kill people on stage?"
The girl had gotten gladiatorial combat and Elizabethan theater confused, somehow.

The dumbest question I've ever heard from an intelligent person I respect was: "Oh, the Bronze age collapse, was that around the same time Vesuvius erupted?" She seems to have confused the Minoan Eruption with the Vesuvius Eruption.

>>1137561
american english reeks the sound of cucked flanders

>>1136005
this

>>1138687
>hello, I don't know anything about Pythagoras

>>1138920
Well I don't know!

>>1144745
A friend of mine asked me this in high school and I was just confused. She's struggling to pass art school now, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised.

>>1143435
The girl wasn't too stupid, it was a legit question she probably just thought muskets was another name for rifle or something.

>>1136135
>saying that Egypt isn't synonymous with black means you may be a holocaust denier
Maybe your intentions are more pure than I think, but you look really stupid right now

>>1142739
Asia is actually a time paradox, everything is happening at once.

>>1142739
She was obviously joking you dumbass

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Not really /his/ related, but Geography is a soft science anyway am i right :^)

>In high school - year 11
>Legal studies class
>There's a discussion going about the law pre-federation, when states were independently governed, and Federation, when Australia became a nation
>As an example, teacher talks about how we needed standardized laws about things like the width of train tracks, all these small hangovers from when we were all 'separated'
>Girl next to me raises her hand
>"...Why did they have train tracks going there if they were separate?"
>Teacher uncertain, asks her to elaborate
>"...Before federation," she says. "The states were separated, right? So there would've been water there?"
>Start to figure out that this bitch actually thought that the states were SEPARATED, physically, by a body of water large enough to require a boat
>And that they magically clicked together in perfectly straight lines in the year 1901 through continental drift
>Whole class pauses and laughs it off awkwardly

This was going on eight years ago, and I don't think I've ever had someone ask a more stupid question.

>>1144759
Well, in older plays, as in iron age and before iirc they would actually murder a condemned criminal on stage for the play.
She's dumb, but not horribly so.

Bad feels in general?
>"Anon, what was the low german traders alliance that governed baltic trade"
>"The Hansa Company"
>Entire class bursts into laughter
>Teacher grins widely and says "No, that's down the street."
>Another student answers "The Hansa" and gets it right

IStill burns to this day

>>1145126
One of the girls in my pass about the same age, who was a straight A student, couldn't find the Americas on a blank world map.

Grades really mean nothing but the ability to memorise the teacher.

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>>1135998
>be 14
>history class
>Learning about the Black Death.
>Recreation documentary showing all the horrible shit
>teacher - 'any questions?'
>Girls asks if the documentary is real footage from the black death.
>mfw

>>1138673
>/pol/tard

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>>1135998
>Weren't Republicans the racists and ones who pushed for slavery?

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>>1144973
>someone willing to be an artist asking the purpose of humanities

>>1139297
His soldiers friendly mocked him calling him "husband to all wives, wife to all husbands" actually

>>1136435
Do shitholes have colonies nowadays?

>>1137355
>italian clay
not even trentino is italian clay, m8

>>1137331
Ukraine.

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>>1145380
DELET THIS

Not history, but it's worth repeating.

>gr 11 English class
>really dumb girl staring blankly off at the back of the room
>randomly blurts out "would a fish die if you took it out of water"
>stares at teacher, evidently waiting for a serious response

That one's etched into my memory.

>>1145294
Graphic design major, I think. So soulless, commercial art.

>Prof spends 20 minutes discussing King Alfred of Wessex
>"Any Questions before we move on?"
>One kid raises his hand
>"Is he William the Conqueror?"
>Prof's smile slowly fades
>"No... He's Alfred"
>Next slide

Why didn't the Comanches fight at the Alamo?

not really related to history but at geography class:
>are fjords named after that Russian author?
I think she meant Dostoevsky.

>>1145228
Haha dude everyone knows the parties swapped :^)))

>>1145478
That's pretty cute.

>>1145478
I met one guy once that thought fedora hats were named after him

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>>1137331
it's a legitimate question
the answer would be germany and partially austria, or does someone really believed they actually "changed"?

because that's pretty much what they've done since the dawn of barbarians tribes... they have tried to wreck europe and conquer everyone and failed miserable time after time and yet the betas in charge of european countries keep giving them the power to run this shithole.
it's like putting michael jackson in charge of a day care center for the sake of redemption

>>1144973
most of us asked that at some point in our life, probably during high school. the way most teachers "teach" history makes most students wonder that..

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>>1142631
>>1142674
This is you, right?

>>1145126
literally what

>>1137561

>implying French isn't the best Romance language

Italian would be a contender if the accents weren't fucking hideous.

>>1140073

One Chinese merchant made it as far as the Caspian sea, IIRC, but turned back.

Can you imagine how fucking glorious Roman-Chinese trade would have been?

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>>1136641
>they were racism

>>1136641
>>1136730
Thats not bad, the majority of historically illiterates won't know that.

A few days ago talking about Battlefield 1 with some friends, it's set in WW1 of course. One guy said it's going to be crazy having spitfires swooping down on you. I called him out and luckily someone else backed me up.

>>1136018
Yes. Full Posadism soon, comrades.

>>1136435
Addis Ababa obviously

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>if Antarctica is frozen, then how do we know it's there?

>>1145126
Fucking kek

>>1146004
if ice isn't real how can mirrors be real

>>1145170
Twist: time travel is real and monopolized by documentary film makers

>>1139080
>mosks

>>1146046
>Mollosques

>>1145448
Fucking kek, I remember this from an old thread.

>>1137561
Spanish sounds like ass when spoken by Chileans or Mexicans, otherwise it's a beautiful language.

>>1139415
>"Sir, you spelled "Russia" wrong!"
When talking about East Prussia.

>>1137498
Litterally gone to school with plato

>>1145448
Heard this one before. Still funny.

>>1142878
>>1143054
>>1144263
>>1145122
you guys obviously have no idea how stupid the average american is.

i've met plenty of adults who know absolutely nothing about history or geography. most people don't even know the difference between the asian countries.

>>1145228
(Not /pol/ but) I tried listening to this podcast called Yo Is This Racist? or something similar. A few episodes in and the host basically dropped this. The next episode he was responding to listener emails and was like OKAY FINE I GUESS and then made a point of saying it 'must have been' the only progressive platform the Republicans ever ran.

So I just stopped listening. I'm not even American and I know this stuff better. And it's not even that he didn't know to start with, it's that he clearly didn't bother following up on anything he got emailed about. Just, Welp, guess I had that one issue backwards, presumably there's no lingering gaps in my understanding of the subject...

>Could the love between Antony and Cleopatra have been out of love?

This was a university student, mind you.

>>1144353
Simonsen 9th Grade Center, moved after that.

How did they know what time the battle was so they would be on time?

>>1147411
Possibly meant as opposed to out of political convenience?

>What year was Jesus born?

>>1147472
that's a legitimate question if you aren't a born-again biblefag

I was in my microbiology class and we were going over the history of the science. We were talking about Rosalind Franklin and this dumb Friedchickeneesha wit her done did nails an coo ass weave asked if she was "the one nigga that discovered lightning"

>>1147494
>BC
>AD

>>1147455
Yes but even then they should know that highborn romans married politically, not out of love. It just makes for a nice story.

>>1147538
Yyyyeah, but how many had a Shakespeare play about it?

>>1147507
On december 25th, right? In a cute little stable outside of bethlehem, surrounded by donkeys and baby lambs?

The AD/BC distinction was made up centuries after the birth in question.

The only information we have on the birth, death, and life of Jesus is from demonstrably unreliable sources, so it's not a silly question.

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Not wuite history, but I was working at a coffee factory and we were doing a changeover from running Italian roast to a French roast, and we had to take out and clean some of the tooling. A guy asked me why we had to do this, saying that he thought that Italian roast was a subset of French roast. I told him it wasn't, and asked him why he thought that. He says
>well I thought that it was because Italy is a state in France, so Italian roast was a kind of French roast
and I had to take like 5 min to explain to a 30-something year old that Italy was it's own deal, totally separate from France.

>>1147847
>Sea (British)
>Equator (British)

my sides

>>1135998
Not a question, but some kids back in primary school thought the universe used to be black and white.

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>Who's Nicolas Tesla, is he a musician?

>>1147847
>Coon Coast
>Nignogeria
Goddamn that got me

>>1139297
That's a fair question, like >>1145318 says. He spent an unusual amount of time at king Nicomedes IV's court trying to get some ships for the Roman Navy back when he was just a junior officer, leading many to rumor that he was not only having an affair with the king, but was "underneath" the king during the nights. This would've been extremely embarrassing because it shows submissiveness to the dominant partner in most ancient Mediterranean practices, something the boastful Caesar would very much not want to be said about him, especially on his rise to power.

Still, people get so hung up over wether or not these historical figures were gay, though they clearly fucked far more women and were much more vocal about it than their supposed relationships with men, so it's not like they would support gay pride parades today anyways

>>1147472
around 30 AD I believe.

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Was talking with my mom a while ago about a Mississppian site I'm working at this summer, when she asks:

"So, I just read on Facebook that Native Americans came to America across a bridge they built in Alaska, guess Sarah Palin isn't that crazy after all." She was being dead serious.

>>1137561
>romantic language
It's "Romance", not "Romantic". No one uses "Romantic" for that language family.

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Not history but it took place in a history class.
A girl in my 11th grade world history class thought that California was in South America. Not the southern part of the USA. South America.
>mfw

>>1145387
tru

>>1145427
>would a fish die if you took it out of water
It would be extremelly painful

>>1143650
>>1143681
It was to bail out Italy. Basically what happened is that in 1942, Mussolini stages an invasion of British-controlled Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya. Italy has more troops in the area than the British, the Italians have 4 divisions and the Brits only one reinforced brigade. So, it SHOULD have been an easy conquest and seriously threatened Allied control of the Middle East and established Italy as the dominate power in that region of Africa. Italians, being Italian, screw the pooch, and the invasion stalls and they subsequently get btfo by Allied counter-attacks. The Germans, then, to protect their interests in North Africa, send aid.

>>1139297
to be fair this sounds like the kind of shit 4chan normally would talk about

>>1136031
Sorry but nope. 5th grade.

>>1139297
>Caesar
which one?

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>history class is dumb, everyone is dead anyways
This pisses me off big time

>>1149379
you're a big crustacean and/or amphibian

A kid in the back of my film studies class once asked if the "Greeks had beliefs."

>>1136216
>hurr u /pol/tard!!!!!
>why u use their memes!!!!!!
>Stay in this echo chamber!
Die.

>>1150098
The salad

>>1150219
I'll tell you a little story about two villages, one called Hiz and the other called Pol. Hiz was full of people who loved to talk and Pol was full of people who loved to shit in their bathtubs and roll around in it all day. Sometimes, people from Pol would go into Hiz and try to join in the conversations. But the people from Hiz would smell the shit clinging to the filthy Pol-ites' diseased bodies and would reject them. "Fuck off, /pol/tard!" they'd cry. No matter what the hapless Pol-ite did or said, the only response was "Fuck off, /pol/tard!"

And the people of Pol were sad. They brought their problem to the smartest man in all of Pol and asked his advice. He got his biggest bathtub, filled it with the foulest shit he could find and sat in it for a week, stewing. Everyone in Pol grew more and more tense the more he pondered. They knew he was very clever and wise - some folks said he could read without moving his lips, though most were sceptical about talk of such feats - but could he crack this nut?

Finally, the smartest man in all of Pol emerged from his bathtub of shit and announced that he had found a solution. Everyone gathered around to hear his wisdom.

"What we will do," he told them, "is this: Whenever they say 'Fuck off, /pol/tard!' we will-" he paused, furrowing his brows for a moment in intense concentration, as though he had lost grip of his momentous idea. Then he started. "Yes!" he cried. "We will... uh... yes! We'll tell them we aren't from Pol!"

>>1150219
>>1150235


Silence greeted this extrusion. A young man in the crowd put his hand up.

"But... we ARE from Pol," he said, bewildered.

"Yes," said the wise man, "but, and it's very complicated and tricky, I know, BUT, what we do is, we... TELL them that we're not. And then they'll have to talk to us!"

The young man put his hand up again.

"But... we ARE from Pol," he said again.

The wise man sighed and began to speak once more.

It took several months of classes and speeches and diagrams and tutorials, but after much effort, most of the people of Pol were fairly sure that they could manage to say that they weren't from Pol. And so a contingent was dispatched to Hiz, in high spirits at the prospect of their inevitable success.

As soon as they entered Hiz, the people there began to yell at them "Fuck off, /pol/tards!"

The Pol-ites nudged and winked and grinned at one another. "We're not from Pol!" they cried.

But the people of Hiz responded: "Of course you're from Pol, you fucking /pol/tards, we can smell the shit all over you! Fuck off, /pol/tards!"

They went home, as dejected as they were mystified.

>>1137823
>poltard
Christ, what did pol do to you faggots to trigger you so much.

>>1136216
Found the dindu.

I've heard a 30 something year old man ask what imperalism was

>>1150236
>>1150235
>t. never been on /pol/

>>1150447
yeah but what is it exactly

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>all these people triggered by simple lack of information
>not even outright idiocy
>sometimes good questions
Gee, anons, are you autistic, or something?

Here are quotes by my ex girlfriend

>What's communism?
>World War 2 ended in the 1980s
>Can my cum get another girl pregnant?
>Who's George Bush?

>>1150492
You may think she's stupid, but you can't answer any of these questions.

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>>1150259
are you serious? /pol/ is a shithole that brings their shitty "discussions" here and everywhere else. Thats why people are pissed.

>>1150501
>'WW2 ended in 1980' is a question
Good to know

>>1150521
pedant.

>>1150521
Besides this one you autist

We were learning about the Russian Civil war and how the red were able to use trains to outmaneuver the whites.

Teacher described them as "war trains" leading to a guy putting up his hand and ask "how can trains be used in battles, how did they get to the fighting?"

He thought a "War Train" took part in battles and essentially rammed through white soldiers

>>1150572
welcome to the NWO

>>1150517
>are you serious? /pol/ is a shithole that brings their shitty "discussions" here and everywhere else
Not true senpai

>>1150572
#FirstWorldWar

>>1150572
>>1150579
>>1150583
>wah why are they trying to make the subject relatable to younger children wah stop that stop it

>>1137480
Nazis believed in capitalism you wanker.

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>>1150572
chilin with ur homies in thrench and this faggot shows up
#fuckartillery #trenchfoot

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>>1150572
haha this nigga tried to eat mustard gas, haha this nigga is stupid
#mustardgas #trenchfoot

>>1150572
ugh maj gen breathin down my neck to get on the peri and the jerries keep picking off my squaddies
#trench foot # first world war #i think i just dug up a skelly

>>1135998
>watching footage from ww2 in class

>IS THIS REAL

>>1150616
Well, was it?

>watching livestream from ww2 in class

>IS THIS REAL

>>1150558
You're the fool buddy, "war trains" existed. What that guy was asking was how could they be used effectively when they're restricted to their track.

>>1146932
>implying Spanish sounds good when spoken by anyone
>implying Spanish even sounds good when spoken by lispy Spanish faggots
I don't think so, Tim.

>>1150642
no no he clarified. He thought they ran on without track to get to battles

>>1142589
the best one was someone who had matemathically calculated how many jews that had to die per minute for the numbers to ad upp.
But he never tought the nazis could kill several people at the same time

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>>1135998
>Be 17
>Teacher asks the class when radio was invented
>one of the girls in my class says 1980s

>>1150517
>He dosen't understand that most of /pol/ is ironically nazis.
The majority of us may be racists but the legit stormfags are a minority

>so world war 1 was against ireland?
said by an english girl who i was explaining the 1916 easter rising to

>>1150558

Hahaha how the fuck are war trains even real, nigga just move out of the way, like nigga just get off the tracks

>>1150723
oh right, sorry, you are actually a good guy, jesus christ.

>>1151017
wut?

>>1151071
you are still a racist ass, is what i meant.

>>1151129
it's naive to believe that people that have lived seperately isolated from each other for thousands of years whould have the same intelligence

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>>1151199
>isolated from eachother
Well memed ;)

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>>1151702
yeah because Europeans, Natives in Amazonas, Aboriginals, Andaman islanders, East asians have had such a big contact with eachother for such a long time

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>>1151794
>200,000BCE-25,000BCE (175000 years) homonids breed and live in proximity
>25000BCE-1400CE (39000 years) sapiens live moderately seperated (if you exclude earlier instances of cultures crossing)
Weve literally developed as a species in a much greater time than not. Apparently "failures" of a groups cultures are likely linked to environment. You dont quite seem to understand how intelligence and evolution works. Now get out of here /pol/

>>1150517
HERE'S A FUCKING THOUGHT

STOP FUCKING WHINING ABOUT THEM

I'M MORE PISSED AT YOU FAGGOTS WHO BLAME EVERYTHING ON THEM AND DERAIL THREADS THAN /POL/CANCER ITSELF

FUCK

OFF

YOU FAGGOTS ARE CONTRIBUTING TO /HIS/'S DECLINE. IGNORE AND REPORT BLATANT BULLSHIT. NOT EVERYTHING IS A /POL/TARD.

>>1137561
this guy gets it, thank you. french is like the most overrated bullshit pretentious piece of crap out there

>>1138989
the fuck does this even mean

>>1139650
not really

>>1140073
the byzantines did for sure tho

>>1140150
>breaking up with someone because they don't know your fancy terms
you know not everyone likes history right. it's perfectly natural to finish high school just calling it "nazi germany".

>>1140317
this made me mad

>>1142631
>-NO faggot
lol grow the fuck up

>>1144745
what the fuck does this even mean
like what is he asking
is he asking what's the point in learning about history? cause otherwise he's basically just asking "what's the point in things happening?" which literally doesn't mean anything

>>1145126
holy shit how can anyone be this stupid

>>1145584
kill yourself

>>1152361
Why so hostile, kiddo?

>>1152371
he sounds like the typical pretentious humanities idiot

>>1151841
not him but watch this, it's really interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve6uK00AvNo

>>1152454
Looks neat, will do