Truth or Meme

>Vikings were the first Europeans to discover America
Truth
>Everything else
Meme

>>2715886
>Vikings were the first Europeans to discover America
true, although there are stories that St. Brendan, an irish monk, may have travelled the North Atlantic and arrived either at Newfoundland or eastern NA
however, most believe that he arrived at a small island off the coast of north africa
>Romans were smaller than other people
of course they were, most people around the Mediterranean were shorter than northern europeans
>Napoleon was short
yes, it's generally agreed he was ~5'5"

>>2715901
>Napoleon was short
>yes, it's generally agreed he was ~5'5"

what was the average height back then?

>>2715891

Nope, the Basques beat the vikings, and the Irish beat the Basques.

>>2715934
About that

>>2715886
>Vikings were the first Europeans to discover America
Oldest that we have conclusive evidence of.

>Leonardo da Vinci never invented anything
He did, it's just that most of it was never implemented on a large scale.

>we have no idea how the Giza Pyramids were built, and modern engineers wouldn't be able to do it with ancient technology
Ramps, logs, and lots of spare labor.

>Romans were smaller than other people
Not really, at least at the standards of the time.

>Napoleon was short
He was 5'6", which was taller than the average Frenchman back then.

>>2715934
>>2715945
well I guess he is a manlet for our time, but generally normal height for his

just looked it up and height severely decreased across europe from the early to late middle ages

>>2715972
One of the reasons Napoleon as thought to be short is that the guards he surrounded himself with had to be above a certain height to join

>>2715937
[Citation needed]