Someone Asks People To Share Common Historical Myths That Annoy Them, And 30 Deliver

This! There's a difference between trying to work on things and staying in a relationship because of coercion. It's still a huge issue today with many partners controlled by threats of financial ruin and limited custody of children. Just two of the threats my abusive ex levelled at me over the years...

And it is scary to think how recently it started changing

Men would just up and leave - no child support, no spousal support and go start new families. So no divorce on file and no one bothered to check if the man had been married before.

And lots of people killed their spouses. People would "run off", "disappear", "have a sudden heart attack", "die of apoplexy" etc.

In the US, women couldn't open their own checking account until the 70s. Hard to pay your bills and have your own place without control over your own finances.

I get bored with correcting this. It wasn't Columbus who got the radius of the spherical Earth wrong, it was Ptolemy in 150 AD in his great geography book. Eratosthenes in 200 BC had earlier got it correct, but Ptolemy didn't. Columbus based his trip on Ptolemy's geography book.

I've never understood flat Earthers. I mean, mountains exist. I grew up next to the Rockies. As you drive away, they go down in the rear view mirror...

He miscalculated the circumference of the earth. He believed that it was 19,000 miles when it actually is around 24,901 miles.

I grew up in the Caribbean. I remember this was never something we thought cause we learned this history - hence why he thought of going the other way for a spice route. I do remember though later when I was like 11 watching this US cartoon where Columbus proposed the globe idea-- AND him discovering the US 🤣 It was too ridiculous.

The lie we were told in school was that Columbus was the one who thought the earth was round, but it took him so long to get funding for the trip because no one believed him.

There is 5000 year old cuneiform tablet lamenting the youth disrespecting parents and deities. The world is ending... As old as people

Me sitting, looking at BP on phone. Wondering what Socrates would think of me, an adult... at least I don't read the celeb or affiliate posts.. 🤭

I love this one. Now get off my lawn!

Gosh! It's almost like civilizations have fallen before!

The first such complaint we know of was written in Sumerian.

And a whole lot more of them were infectoius diseases because there were no vaccines, no antibiotics, no antifungals, and no antivirals.

Access to clean water, and even understanding why it is important added lot to the general health. People of today go around buying bottled water with the belief that their water is bad, which is mostly just the bottled water companies' ads, and don't realize all the work that has gone into getting clean for the modern societies.

If you lived past 30, then there were good chances for you to be old? Just really hazardous beeing younger back then?

It's all about averages.

And on a related note, natural birth advocates who say "women gave birth for thousands of years just fine before modern medicine came along!". If they want minimal interventions for their birth plan then they can go for their lives, but that claim is just stunningly incorrect. Do they realise how insanely high the rates of death in childbirth were for millennia? You can quibble about whether there's overuse of certain childbirth interventions, there probably is in some cases, but you can't seriously claim that the average stone-age woman giving birth was better off than one in a modern Western hospital who has had current standard pregnancy monitoring. That's a ridiculous statement.

You are using a 20th century understanding of the word "Discover" and the like, rather than the older 18th and 17th century meaning. If you look at older history books you see Samau, a chinese explorer during the Yuan Dynasty (contemporary of Marco Polo), being describes as discovering pathways to Europe, despite people already using them

We're not native americans, we're indigenous peoples. You can't be native to something that came after you!

Ah but history is told by the victor and if they say they found it.

It goes the "New World was DISCOVERED", not founded. First of all, it WAS a discovery from the perspective of Europeans and many other people from the Western Hemisphere who had never previously navigated the Atlantic Ocean so far. What was "founded" was the first democratic Republic. Get your terms straight and maybe things won't seem so illogical to you.

This society was created by Whites after displacing the original inhabitants, so yes, the New World was founded by them. That's the whole point. Otherwise the Americas would look very different.