I believed Poland was a majority-Jewish country where everybody followed Judaism, and that Hitler invaded them so he could capture all the Jews there. I didn't learn otherwise until I was 13, when I played Europa Universalis 3 and noticed Poland and all its provinces were listed as Catholic.What were some dumb, wrong things you believed about history as a child?
i thought there was land at the north polefor some reason santa lives where there's no fuck off huge continent but its just pack ice
>>18413992>What were some dumb, wrong things you believed about history as a child?I thought jews were innocent and just hated because they rejected Jesus>>18414070>i thought there was land at the north poleAlso this, for some reason I have a faint memory of seeing a landmass slightly smaller than Greenland over there in a map, and assumed just like Antarctica it was split between a bunch of nations. Only a few years later when looking at a map did I notice it was missing it and that's when I discovered. I probably saw some shitty map with two Greenlands idk
I thought Jews stopped existing in 33AD and I thought the dudes Hitler didn't like were different guys
I thought Hinduism, Islam and Buddhism were the same thing. I thought Mexico was in South America
>>18413992I did the dumb mistake of believing that when there was a time period in a war's name, it meant that it actually lasted for that time period, no more, no less.WHO THE FUCK WROTE THIS SHIT?
>>18414079Close enough
my dad was mormon and taught me a lot of mormon odditiesthe weirdest was the tribes of israel going to america
I believed in the bible as a kid but after reading just the old testament, I found a god who is a very evil god that either murders or allows murders to happen. A subverted jewish history book the writers plagiarized to make their religion credible.
>>18413992I once thought "South America" meant the Southern United States
>>18413992I thought turkish people spoke arabic and that "byzantium" was some mesopotamian empire
>>18413992i've had an interest in geography for as long as i can rememberand the kindergarten that i attended as a kid was a christian oneso when my kindergarten teacher taught us about how the israelites fought against the philistinesi got confused and thought something like"aren't israel and the philippines pretty far away from each other?"
>>18413992I thought that amazons were supposed to live in the amazon region in South America instead of somewhere in the caucasus. I was confused when the amazons appeared in aladdin (the cartoon series) and thought that they went all the way from the americas to arabia.
I didn’t know America practiced unrestricted submarine warfare in ww2 till I was like 27
>>18413992I didn't really register that Hitler was the actual official leader of Germany until I was like, 9 years old. My dumbass brain thought he was just acting independently that whole time and had his own private army but also that WW2 against Germany was just a wholly separate ordeal from that lmao
>>18414260Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow timeline
>>18414070I AM SORRY TO BE THE ONE TO TELL YOU THIS, BUT «SANTA CLAUS» IS NOT REAL.
>>18413992I remember a Disney cartoon where they sang about "Magellan's crooked strait". And I thought that all straits were supposed to be straight. I also thought that because Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill were always grouped together that they must all be based on real people because Johnny Appleseed was a real historical figure. Turns out Paul Bunyan is vaguely based off a number of Quebecois woodsman, but Pecos Bill is more or less completely fictional.
>>18414237>America practiced unrestricted submarine warfare in ww2Not issue with this; but it ks kind of moot since even the japanese fleet was kind under blockade since 1942.
>>18414893No issue with this US's policy, but it is kind of moot since even the japanese fleet was kind of under blockade since mid 1942.
>>18413992>101st airborne division>damn, they had a lot of airborne divisions
>>18413992>Julius caesar was attacked by his opponents who he had given clemency for fighting against him.Many of the liberators were given clemency, but many other were his former legatus (Gaius Trebonius, Decimus albunius junius brutus and lucius minicius basilus).
>>18414129>the weirdest was the tribes of israel going to americaits true
>>18414501>«SANTA CLAUS» IS NOT REAL.Cum genius, aren't you supposed to be Christian?
>>18415011THAT IS SAINT NICHOLAS, NOT «SANTA CLAUS».
>>18413992Quickly realized the truth, but i was nearly tricked by the misrepresentation about the removal of the Iranian PM in 1953.Despite some propagandistic claims, PM wasn't the legal ruler of Iran, the Shah was the ruler before and after Mossadegh's mandate as PM.Furthermore, he was lawfully and morally removed and seize for his bad management and his attempt to undermine the Shah's authority.
>>18415024>That is Sint Nicolaas, not "Sint Nicolaas"Now you're gonna claim that Jeeezus H. Christ didn't exist.
>>18413992Santa clause was a temüdschin or some shit, thanks to our useful DEI teachers.
>>18413992I didnt know Ukraine and Russia were separate countries, which would be forgivable except my mother is Ukrainian
>>18413992I used to think World War 2 started in 1940 for a long time
>>18413992The first time I heard about Napoleon Bonaparte I thought he was Spanish because, to me, his last name sounded Spanish.
>>18416439Yeah, you often hear the assertion "the US installed the Shah in 1953" which is simply not true.
I wondered why the Japanese still exist if nuke killed all of them
>>18413992I used to think that my home country of Czechoslovakia participated in the pacific campaign because we were part of the allies
>>18413992I thought that Prussia was a primitive state that existed before Russia>>18416919He's obviously talking about the North American/Coca-cola Santa Claus
>>18418723I also used to believe that native americans were jus a completely extinct race, with only mestizos remaining but full blooded ones being wiped from the face of earth.
>>18414079Kek
>>18413992I thought the Pompeii casts were actual bodies turned into solid ashI was today years old when I found out they were plasters of voids
>>18413992Damn you were redpilled as a kid.
>>18418992I mean, outside of the Amazon, Alaska, Greenland and Nunavut, this is basically true. Is it not?
>>18418669Nukes are unironically overrated. You would have to fire quite a few to do serious damage to the wider world. Chernobyl was far worse than Hiroshima or Nagasaki
>>18418858>prussia= pre-russiaThose fucking Germans stole Russian heritage and land!
I thought Hitler was "Hilter" for some time b/c I didn't hear his name spoken until I was maybe 10, and my eyesight was poor when I read about him.All the religious-adjacent stuff, I never really believed.
>>18417632Indeed, it was initially a more British led initiative that later got gradually more and more taken over by the Americans, and it started back in the 20's. In '53 they didn't install the Shah, but rather reinstalled him, or perhaps more accurately reaffirmed his power by helping him return, arresting Mossadegh and gunning down several thousand protesters who demanded democratisation.
Definitely Thebes. For a very long time I thought the Egyptian and Greek city were one and the same, so in Disney's Hercules I thought they were actually in Egypt, but that Egyptian Thebes was a Greek colony ir something.
>>18419239There's like 10 million of them and slowly growing, that's not a near extinction population, even if they don't number in the billions.
I thought americans are even whiter than europeans because I once saw a very pale american on tv.I also thought all of europe had been controlled by dark people (or something) once because my father made an offhand comment where he only meant spain (I guess. I'm not spanish.)
>>18413992i thought americans and englishers/europeans were from different races, and that the english language was somehow originated in the us
