What is the most misunderstood and misrepresented event/period

>>2913813
Because it is romantic : the fall of an empire burning in flames is way more glamour than a slow decomposition of it

What went down in the Americas during European contact as perceived by the general public. Apparently the Spanish understood germ theory enough to weaponize it over 400 years before germ theory was a thing.

>>2913856
Didn't American colonists do that too before germ theory?

>What is the most misunderstood and misrepresented event/period in world history
That painting

It's not painting of Rome

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>>2913887
True. It's a depiction of a fictional generic empire and is the fourth in a series of five paintings by Thomas Cole. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(paintings)

>>2913875
There is one incident of small pox blankets actually occurring and its dubious as to whether or not the whites knew they were infected.

The pandemics which plagued the natives were spread naturally after European contact and their extreme veracity due to the lack of native resistance to such diseases. We have little reason to believe Europeans tried to deliberate spread plague.

>>2913813
>>2913887

That painting was legit in my 7th grade history books. Sad.

>>2913813
When i banged ur mom

>>2913813
The middle ages.

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>>2913813
The (((Dark Age)))

>>2914654
colonial europeans believed in miasma theory and humoralism but more importantly in God

they had not the capability to spread it but they certainly believed it was divine intervention to their advantage when it happened

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>>2913813
THAT ISN'T ROME