Brainlet History

>Thought that siege towers were works of fantasy and refused to believe that they existed

>Used to think countries were on different planets

>used to think ancient europe didnt have people of color

>>3182146
Used to think that the Catholic Church wasn't the Church founded by Jesus Christ himself.

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>Picrel of hydrant was nazi symbol, because H means Hitler
>II world war is still going on
>Ancient Germanic barbarians looked like Mongols, only Romans and Gauls had blonds
>Medieval started in 1 AD, and Romans started building "medieval" castles

>thought America and England were the same thing (both start with A in my language)

I post this in every thread but
>Believed that New York city spanned from Washington DC to Boston

I believed NYC was in Hungary because I watched a film set in NYC and everyone was speaking in Hungarian thanks to dubbing.

> used to think the Khmer empire was something like 10 000 years old
> soviet union == russia, right?
> Korea is so small in front of China; so Korean language must be Chinese with some small variation
And finally:
> Everyone in Poland is named Paul
For my defense, I0 was extremly naive and had religious-tier faith in my brother

I thought Britain basically won WW2 themselves with a bit of help from America. My dad has a skewed vision of history.

>>3182337
Is your dad Lindybeige?

>thought the ussr was one of the axis powers
>thought that slavery ended because of the civil rights movement
>thought the vikings were in north america before literally anyone else

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>>3182146
>Thought the Gulag Archipelago was an actual archipelago
>Thought that zeppelin raids during WW1 were a retarded steampunk meme.

>>3182387
I used to think that nobody was on Ireland until Catholicism happened and St Paddy went over.

>>3182146
>thought Hungarians are the same thing as Huns
>thought Turks are native people in Anatolia
>thought Romania is a state similiar to Israel, but established because Roma Gypsies needed their own country.
>thought Romanians are Gypsies.
>thought Rome was conntrolling whole Europe, and Barbarians were entirely of Asian origin.

>>3182257
Bist du Deutscher?

I thought the civil war thing too

>>3182146
I thought Abraham Lincoln was the first US president.

>>3182146
>Thought the us civil war was about state rights
>HRE was a centralized nation
>Anglos won at Waterloo

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>>3182552
>thought Romania is a state similiar to Israel, but established because Roma Gypsies needed their own country.

>>3182146
>Used to think Picts weren't African

>Thought Babylon was the capital city of Persia

>>3182146
>Thought Vikings came from the north pole because it's the only place with snow
>the only place with snow
Where the hell are you even from to get such an idea stuck in your head?

>Thought slaves built the Egyptian pyramids
>Thought Napoleon Bonaparte was short
>Thought you could see the Great Wall of China from the Moon
>Thought viking helmets had horns
>Thought Europeans got African slaves by catching them
>Thought Marco Polo introduced pasta to Italy
>Thought Christopher Columbus sailed to prove the Earth was round

>>3183898
Na klar, Amerika und Angland fangen ja beide mit einem A an.

>>3186516
These are all very common misconceptions. I'm sure a lot of people have had them.

I thought Russia was Nazis and the ones who started ww2 when I was a kid.

>>3182146
Thought Normandy was another name for Norway, so D-Day was in Norway.

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>>3182146
>thought that the Axis were the bad guys

>>3182146
I thought Morocco was the same country as South Africa

>>3182146
Thought that the Romans where the good guys.

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>>3186664
Ask anybody in Europe if they like the Germans. Then tell them you love the Axis.
>special sauce for you

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>>3182298

>>3182146
>Normandy was a country during WWII
>the Eiffel Tower was the "Paris Tower" and was centuries old
>the Middle Ages looked like a fantasy realm from comics and video games

>>3186516
>>3186524

I believed in all of them except the Marco Polo one.

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>WW1 was a battle during WW2
>War of 1812 was a myth

>Thought the Holy Roman Empire was science fiction from some sort of "what if" movie where Germany never existed
>I thought the Hanseatic League were a bunch of boats making up a city in the middle of the sea, Waterworld style

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>>3182169
This
>>3182190
Kill yourself

>>3182387
https://www.google.com/amp/www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-evidence-suggests-stone-age-hunters-from-europe-discovered-america-7447152.html%3famp

>>3187039
>war of 1812 was a myth
anon...

>>3186516
but napoleone was short

I used to believe that everything east of New York in the USA was the Wild West, as in Lucky Luck.

>>3186516
>Thought you could see the Great Wall of China from the Moon

Wait you can't?

>Used to think that Britain and USA were the only modern countries, and that everybody else essentially lived in either medieval standards or 19th century tier standards
When i went to Germany at age 11 it blew my mind that they had cars and not horse and carts.

I don't know why i had this conception, i think it's something to do with charity adverts showing everywhere to be mudhuts and dirty water.

>>3187291
If you could then you could see every road from the moon too.

The misconception is retarded, its long, not wide

>>3182146
>Thought that zeppelin raids during WW1 were a retarded steampunk meme.
This was me until right now.

I thought America won the Vietnam war

>>3182146
>Thought that the Holy Roman Empire was holy, roman and an empire

>>3187296
Are you from the USA or Britain?

>>3182146
Holy fuck you guys are retarded

>Thought Nazi was a place in Germany, hence "Nazi Germany" which to me was Nazi, Germany

>>3187350
That one is true

>I thought that Zoroastrism was the state religion of Babylon.
>I though that medieval Europe was as shitty, muddy and miserable as they parody it in Monty Python and the Search for the Holy Grail.
>I thought that the only difference between the roman and the greek gods were that they had different names.
>I thought that southern Sweden (Skåne) had always been a part of the country.
>I thought that the Hanseatic League was still around to this day and that it had reinvisioned itself as a sort of franchise for shopping centers.
>I thought that the swedish soldiers during our imperial days were called caroleans (karoliner) because they were all named Karl.

>>3186520
It makes me so hard that England is effectively Angle-Land in your language.

>>3182146
>Thought Prussia was between Poland and Russia because its name was a combination of Poland and RUSSIA

>>3187291
According to the people who have been there, it's hard to even make out the continents. Of course you can't see a fucking wall.

>>3187284
It kind of was in the late 18th early 19th century.

>>3187604
It's the same in english really. The e isn't that far off soundwise.
As a swede I sometimes jokingly refer to people from england as "Fieldlanders" (ängländare) instead of englishmen (engelskmän) since the combination of the sounds for a and e makes an ä.

>>3187711
The phoneme /e/ isn't. The 'e' in England, however, is much closer to the phoneme /i/ which is.

>>3182146
>Thought that WW2 was a religious war between and jews and christians like the religious wars between protestants and catholics

I thought USA was a white country

>>3188162
How? Even in Hollywood movies they send to the entire world there's always a shitton of niggers.

>>3182146
>used to think fantasy creatures such as dragons, ogres, trolls, fairies etc, etc. existed during the middle ages and were hunted into extinction

Thought the Soviet Union was the same thing as modern Russia for a long time, up until like 15.

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>Thought the holocaust was real

>>3188172
Actually in the past no. Most actors are white. When I was young black actors were mostly in a minority of mainly black movies, so the logical thing was to think they were africans. Maybe african immigrants in the USA.

>>3187692
I meant in the "present" (when I was a kid), the late 20th century.

>>3187580
>I thought that the only difference between the roman and the greek gods were that they had different names.

Like 90% of the people still believes this.

>>3187643
Kek i believed this too

>Thought my country was actually relevant during WW1

Until about 12 I was convinced the Gulf War was fought because an Iraqi fleet invaded the Gulf of Mexico.

>>3189698
I actually believed it until I read your comic and looked it up

>>3187491
Britain. It doesnt make sense because i traveled Europe extensively around 6-8 YO

>>3188172
Not in the 90s growing up though

>WW1 was literally just millions of soldiers walking in close order into machine guns over and over
>the US Army won ww1 because they refused to dig trenches and fought smart by using cover just like in the Revolutionary War

>>3189712
I thought "the Gulf" was a dude who caused the war. I also didn't know that it was actually the first Iraq War.

>>3189719
>my comic
W-what?

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>>3182552
>thought Romania is a state similiar to Israel, but established because Roma Gypsies needed their own country.

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>at some point, I thought the past was in black and white

>>3182387
the USSR was one of the axis powers, right up until Operation Barbarossa

I used to think Britan was where france is, the idea of them being an island was kind of strange to me

>>3186516
I used to believe all of these except Marco Polo one

>>3187525
I keked

>>3186516
>>Thought Christopher Columbus sailed to prove the Earth was round
wait that's not true? I thought it was part of the reason why he did it other than to find a new way to India

>>3189798
Why would he need to prove it? Why would some random merchant want to prove that? Columbus didn't even circumnavigate the globe.

>>3189798
It was well known, at least among educated people, that the Earth was round by that time. They actually had a good idea of how large it was, too, thanks to mathematics. That was why no one wanted to give Columbus funding, because they thought he'd never make the long trip across the ocean from Europe to Asia, not realizing there was an American continent in-between.

The only reason Columbus himself thought it was possible is because he thought the world was actually pear shaped, and so smaller in the northern half than in the southern.

>>3189798
Every educated person in 1492 knew it was round. Columbus' theory was that it was *smaller* than the conventional wisdom said it was, and that therefore he could plausibly reach the Far East sailing West. Everyone else thought this was retarded and suicidal because the distance was too great.

Columbus was totally fucking wrong; the mainstream calculations of the Earth's size were nearly exactly correct. However nobody had realized there was an entire western continent in between Europe and China, so Columbus went down in history as a visionary.

>>3189829
So i told Columbus to sail around the world

He actually did it the absolute madman

I used to think that England and Europe were the same place.

Later, I thought that the United Kingdom was Europe and England together.

I also thought Japan was much further out in the pacific. Like, Hawaii tier.

>>3189829
>>3189828
Columbus also died before anyone managed to conclusively prove that America wasn't Japan, so he spent the rest of his life smug as fuck about being right where mainstream academia was wrong.

>>3182146
(As a kid,tho)
>Thought cannons were invented in the 20th century
>Thought Prussia was it's own nationality
>Thought Austria was not german
>Thought Germany was united in a conquest by Prussia
>DDR is Nazis hurr durr
Thanks grandpa, you fuckin' moron

>>3189881
>>Thought cannons were invented in the 20th century
>>Thought Prussia was it's own nationality
>>Thought Austria was not german
>>Thought Germany was united in a conquest by Prussia
>>DDR is Nazis hurr durr
>Thanks grandpa, you fuckin' moron
I FEEL LIKE YOUR GRANDFATHER WAS AN AUSTROFASCIST.

PLEASE TELL ME YOUR FAMILY IS AUSTRIAN.

I NEED THIS.

>>3189754
I did too until i asked my grandparents.

>>3189836
But he didn't

>>3182146
I used to think the Roman Empire existed during medieval times and wondered why Rome Total War and Medieval Total War were separate games.

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>Thought Greek people still believed in Zeus and Greek Orthodox Church worships Greek gods

>>3189881
>Thought Germany was united in a conquest by Prussia
But that's true

>>3189836
magellan did that, friend

>>3187091
>tfw used to think the holy roman empire was actually just the Roman empire converted to Christianity

When I was real young I thought war was when two armies showed up and shot at each other for a day and then picked a winner and went home

>>3190012
It was Elcano, Magellan died trying.

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>>3190005
>I used to think the Roman Empire existed during medieval times
It actually did, though.

>Thought Holland and the Netherlands were two entirely different countries, and had no clue where the Dutch were from
>Thought England/Great Britain/UK were entirely different places as well
>Thought the Holy Roman Empire was actually Roman, and that Rome fell then reappeared again later
>Thought Marcus Aurelius was Julius Caesar's nickname

>>3182146
I used to think that the movement of tectonic plates was in sync with political boundaries. So the 13 colonies moved to England so when they got their independence, they moved away back to the Atlantic.

>>3182146
I thought that Nazis were Russian when I was like 8.

>>3182146
When I was a kid I thought King Kong was based on a true story and there actually was a giant monkey who climbed the Empire State Building back in the day and shit.

>>3182298
But that's basically true

>>3187754
Actually it was.

>>3182552
top thing isn't *entirely* wrong

>>3187091
Hanseatic League would be much rad-er like that desu

>>3189776
Yea, they couldn't really travel far by sea until the renaissance

>>3189798
That the earth is round has been known to the western world at least as far back as 400 bc-ish.

>>3190005
The roman empire existed way into the medieval period. Just because someone decides to start calling them Byzantines way after the fall of Constantinopolis doesn't mean that the past changes.

I know that you're refering to the WRE when you're saying the Roman Empire but that's quite frankly stupid to do as the ERE were the richer, more stable and the more powerful of the two dual-empires in which the 'supreme' capital city was located. The only thing WRE had going for it in the sense of civil supremity is that it contained the actual city of Rome. However Rome became pretty much irrelevant after around 200 ad.

>Thought history was anything more than institutionalized mythology

>>3187740
We're not talking about phonemes, little autist ;)

>thought you could trust history instead of every event having at least three different interpretations

>>3189829
The Earth is flat, you fool.

Americans: the thread.

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>thought that plated armour would make you invincible against modern day rifles especially if you had a shield

>>3190353
It's 100% wrong. Hungarians appeared like 400 years after the Huns.

>>3189798
The Ancient Greeks thought the Earth was round, IIRC some mathematician from Hellenic era Alexandria even managed to predict the circumference of the Earth fairly accurately.

>>3182552
>Roma Gypsies needed their own country.
They do, they really do.

Let's give them New Jersey.

>Thought Korea is on the same islands, that Japan is, but occupies all the coastline and Japan is bunch of landlocked enclaves
>Thought The French Revolution was started by peasants
>Thought the Soviet Union was Catholic
>Thought the Phoenicians were the Canaanites that escaped from Jews
>Thought thee World War II was just between Poland and Germany. Russians helped Poland a bit, but they were suckers
>Thought every Islamic state is rich like Qatar because of oil

>>3187291
You can't even see it from ISS orbit, let alone the moon.

You can see the pyramids from the ISS though, if barely.

>Prussia was between Poland and Russia, hence PRussia.
>thought Greeks still worshipped Zeus, Egyptians Ra, etc
>thought 'America' (the USA) controlled all of both north and south America
>thought Iraq was were Apple was based (iRaq, iPhone)
Later I got less retarded:
>thought the Crusades were just out of the blue and not a counterattack
>thought the Byzantines were Turkish

>>3190573
It's where the English (and a couple of other languages) name comes from.
Huns used to be based out of Pannonia, so were the Magyars, so the Magyars are Huns from Hungary!

>>3187296
A lot of Americans still tend to think this, particularly as it applies to everyone in the middle east living in caves and riding camels, or African cities being mudhuts, or China being made up entirely of rice paddies and grass huts.

When I was a kid and first learned about various ancient mythologies I thought the modern descendants of those cultures still worshiped their old gods for a long time. I was very sad when I found out Scandinavia and Greece were Christian, and Egypt was Muslim. Made the world a lot less interesting.

Also I used think nobody had cavalry until the high middle ages, mostly due to video games.

>used to think Germany was the bad guys in WW2

>>3190604
No it doesn't, the word Hungary comes from Onogur.

>>3190504
Or just normal people going back as much as when they were 5 years old.

>>3190483
>The e isn't that far off soundwise.
You may not have known the proper nomenclature, but yes you were.

>thought the rings of Saturn were a popular tourist destination
>thought Hungary was Buddhist(Budapest)
>confused austria hungary with bosnia herzegovina(a very powerful country in my imagination) and thought that the conflict in yugoslavia started WW1

I used to think Sean Connery was a character played by George Clooney.

>>3190585
Hear hear!

>>3186377
It was the defacto capital before Alexander invaded.

>>3182337
This is true though

>>3190576

Eratosthenes measured the earth accurately using nothing but two sticks.

>>3190587
>>Thought The French Revolution was started by peasants
Masons still propagate this lie to the plebs.

>>3182337
Wrong thread, this is for dumb shit you used to believe.

>used to think Jerusalem wasn't real because I had just heard about it from the bible.

>believed it wouldn't take decades to get a boat from Sicily to Sardinia

>>3182146
>Used to think that Aztecs, Incas and Mayans were the same thing
>Used to think that ninja were the Chinese equivalent to Japanese samurai
>Used to think that Prussia was an alternate spelling of Russia
Sometimes, I was a retarded kid.

>>3191069
Actually masons aren't propagating anithing
And i thing they should untill people say dumb thinghs about them

>use to think Jesus existed
>use to think God existed
>use to think Christianity gave birth to the west

Glad I uncucked myself from it

for the longest time I thought julius caesar wasnt a real person because there were so many movies with him in them, like some sort of fictional character.

>>3186809
Finns like axis. Even tough germans burned down shit most people in lapland is like "well they did what they had to do. No hard feelings"

T. Finn

>Thought that every battle after the invention of gunpowder was men standing in opposing lines and shooting eachother, even with ARs
>Thought that was really stupid (and would have been right) and that medieval warfare was very superior and much more fair
>Didn't know how inaccurate early firearms were aswell

>>3190585
Trust me, they won't get on with our Italians

>>3190607
The irony being that compared to America, the UK is a third world shithole

>>3191256
It's not like israelites get on with anyone

>>3190094
>holy
>Roman
>empire

>>3191256
Really doesn't matter. North America is ideal for putting rootless ethnicities in.

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>The Civil War was about states' rights.

I thought Venice was literally paid to destroy Constantinople during the fourth crusade. I also thought crusades were entirely formed by armored knights.

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>>3187580
>>I thought that the Hanseatic League was still around to this day and that it had reinvisioned itself as a sort of franchise for shopping centers.
Hansakompaniet heter så för att det ligger där Hansas gamle kontor i Malmö brukade ligga.

>>3191274
>what is byzantium

>>3189712
In German Gulf is Golf, so I was very confused on how Golf could start a war. But then again, a Football (=Soccer) match once served as a casus belli.

>>3190094
>Medieval TW is about a centuries long Roman civil war

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>>3184521
How could you be so un-wokified

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>>3187039
wot

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>>3191099
Hearty kek

>Thought Prussia was a country in southern france

>>3191242
comedy genius

>>3190587
>Thought thee World War II was just between Poland and Germany

I take it that you're polish?

>>3191288
(((Venetians))) actually did it for money though

>>3191064
Of which one was his erect penis.

>>3191262
Compared to any country the UK is a third world shithole.

>>3187525
Dunno if you're joking or not but I did the same thing. I thought it was named the same way as Weimar Germany, but the new fovernment started in the town of Nazi. While the party named themselves after that town.

>>3191262
>>3191999
These. The UK is easily the shittiest West European countries and definitely shittier than even some Eastern European ones (Czech republic, Slovenia). To compare it to USA is just laughable.

>>3191293
>Hansakompaniet heter så för att det ligger där Hansas gamle kontor i Malmö brukade ligga.
I think that I just got this explanation confused in my little child brain. Something along the lines of "Hansa was here but aren't any longer" turned into "Hansa used to run the place but now they let other people use their facilities/brand" in my head.

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>>3182146
I thought Ninjas were Chinese

It's more of a /k/ thing, but I thought that swords were more valuable on the battlefield than spears.

>>3192039
Blame Hollywood for that. Also
>good guys always carry swords
>bad guys always carry axes and maces

>I used to think that a war only lasted for a battle.
>I used to think that barbarians (i.e germanic, celtic, hunnic and scythian peoples etc) all dressed in animal hides, if even that, and didn't see the value of gold.

>Thought all the natives are extinct
>Also had the misconception they had been all brutally genocided
>Somehow used to believe that Africa was fully colonised at around the same time the Americas were.
>Thought modern Macedonia is a successor of ancient Macedonia.

>>3191464
>I take it that you're polish?
>>Russians helped Poland a bit, but they were suckers
as a Pole, I highly doubt he is

>>3192371
How else would you explain his understanding of the war? As a swede, a people to cowardly/wise to even be directly involved in the war and thus have no real emotional stakes planted we still know more than that when we were young children.

>>3192371
Yes I was. But I was about five years old.

>>3192398
I was just picking on "Russians helped a bit" part, he is probably Polish.

>>3190800
We aren't speaking of nomenclature or phonemes, little autist ;)

>>3187273
Not for the time

>>3189719
Same. I thought Romans just converted to Greek polytheism so they can WE WUZ GRIK N SHEEIT

I used to think swords were actually used in war

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>>3182552
>thought Romania is a state similiar to Israel, but established because Roma Gypsies needed their own country.

I used to think finland was sandwiched between norway and sweden

>>3192706
They basically did though.

>>3189698
this is some complex shitposting i dont get

>>3182146
I used to think people in NYC only have 2 genders(hermaphrodite not included), but now they said they have 31 genders, truly a bunch of degenerated psychopath.

>>3182146
>Thought south american natives were peaceful until the evil iberians shot em up
>Thought there were no christians in the middle east

>>3191193
>And i thing they should untill people say dumb thinghs about them
How retarded can you make one sentence?

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I used to think Vietnam was a region in Korea, like how California is a part of the US.

I used to think Byzantine was just another empire not an offspring of roman empire. Can`t really myself cus they aint roman.

>>3190595
>>thought the Crusades were just out of the blue and not a counterattack
But is wasn't a counterattack ?

>>3192757
They were though, don't be a retard. People ran around with sidearms for a reason.

>>3193521
No, it wasn't a counter attack in the sense that the word is used today. It was more a counter-culture and age old blood feud in which Christian nations were fed up with Arab and Turkish armies constantly attacking, pushing further into Europe after these same Muslim armies had already sacked and converted much of the holy lands in previous centuries. So once they had the power they would march south en masse and slam into the holy land as often and as viciously as they could to create the crusader states in the Levant and Palestine.

The crusades were in no way a rapid counterattack like Stalin ordering wave after wave of loosely coordinated Soviet attacks against the wermacht to weaken them and slow their momentum as they moved on stalingrad during operation blau.

>Stalin literally killed 60 million people
>premarital sex wasn't a thing before the 1960s
>video games were 40-50 years old
>the US didn't do anything bad in the Cold War
>people in ancient times were all solemn and didn't make jokes like we do

>>3182552
>thought Hungarians are the same thing as Huns
They're not?

>>3189798
Everyone already knew the Earth was round. His expedition was denied funding because everyone else (accurately) concluded that Columbus' calculations on how big it was were way off.

>always had troubles remembering that 19xx is 20th century and 18xx is 19th century
>Whenever I read a 4 digits dates I focus my memory only on the first 2 digits
>BCE dates were worse
at the same time I was trying to memorize a general timeline of major events. I was trying to give each century a very general description, as an index or book chapters of the events I remember.
the result was that every event I remembered is off by one century and they are mixed up with the general descriptions of the centuries.

I still remember two examples
>in 14XX Colombus discovered the New World -><- The 15th century is the age of discovery.
>The 16th century is the age of religious war -> Seven Years War happened in 16XX

>>3193609
No. Hungary was founded by Magyars. The Huns had disappeared way before then.

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>>3193642
>BCE

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>>3182146

Until 2 years ago I didn't knew that Crusades were an answer to Muslim aggression.

As in they never stated anything about what led up to them.

I was completely unaware of it, not once mentioned in school.

>I always thought apes including humans came out from Africa only once until recently

>>3193642
Just think of when each century ended.
>the 15th century ended in 1500

Did people actually get to learn about the byzantines and holy roman empire in school?

>>3194200
Not me. Even when it was part of the lesson, the HRE was called Germany in my school.

>henry viii was in the wrong

>>3190362
kek

>>3192019
the UK has a higher HDI then any eastern european nation so you are objectively wrong

>>3194200
Only the odd mention. We learned about Charlemagne being tricked into becoming the Holy Roman Emperor by a crafty pope which made the byzantines butthurt.
We were also told to use the fall of Constantinople as a rough bookmark for when the middle ages turned into the renaissance.
That's about it IIRC.
t. Swede.

>>3195959
Oh and we learned the basics of Constantine the Great aswell.

>>3194200
Nope. They simply called them Germany and Greece when they were brought up. I guess because they thought it would be too difficult for small children to understand.

I think they once or twice might have called the German Emperor the German-Roman Emperor though. Which in hindsight only confuses me even more.

>>3196014
IIRC the swedish name for HRE - Tysk-romerska riket (German-Roman Realm) made me think that it actually was a remnant of the WRE who fled into germania when I first heard about it in school.

>>3182552
to be fair, romanians may as well be gypsies

>>3195959
Everything I learnt about was 'antikens Grekland', nothing more interesting really.
t. Swede aswell

>>3182146
>Used to think the nazis killed everyone who wasn't blonde haired and blue eyed

Thought that Crusaders were mexicans (was 9)

>Thought the East Roman Empire wasn't a continuation of Rome

>>3186516
Who built the Pyramids if it wasn't slaves?

Also, I've seen Bonaparte's clothing in a Muesum in Berlin. He is surely a very petite man, at least by today's standards, as was Frederic the Great. How tall was he?

thought the Jews were good!

>>3194200
As far as I remember, HRE was referred to as Germany, which was confusing to me at the time because the Teutonic Order/Prussia were also Germans. As for the Byzantine, we only mentioned them when talking about Russians, and later Turks.
t. Pole

>>3196255
>Who built the Pyramids if it wasn't slaves?
Professional builders.

>>3182158
how

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I believed in the holocaust

>>3196292
No, I knew that. What was the workforce comprised of?

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german war crimes xD

I thought mid 10th century Bulgaria looked like and was just slightly smaller than present day China.

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>>3182146
>Thought "BC" meant "Before Christ" and "AD" meant "After Death"
>14 year old me looked up how old Jesus Christ was when he died (about 40-something)
>Reasoned that between the year 0000BC and 0000AD, there were 40-some odd years that we just don't talk about in writing for some weird reason, because we're only supposed to refer to history in terms of before Christ's existence and after his death...

>>3182337
t. lindybeige's son

>>3182146
I used to think Jesus lived in America because I didn't know the Middle East actually existed

>>3196340
Egyptians.

>>3191282
>The civil war was about slavery
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corwin_Amendment

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