ITT:We post historical facts that we used to believe it was true

>when books refer to Englishmen,I used to believe they were talking about Americans
>Italy was still ruled by Julius Caesar's direct descendant
>Prussia was a Russian colony in Europe that broke away from it
>Mexico was this cool far away country filled with Eagles fighting Snakes everyday and people wear Sombreros and Ponchos like it's a normal thing
>Cuba was a US State until Fidel Castro rebelled
>Iraq was some mythical legend nation until America declared war on it
>Iran and Iraq were brother nations because of their name
>That Asterix was a real person who fought against Romans and was a french national hero

>the Roman empire didn't end on the 1st of November 1922

>european middle ages were shit, while the middle east and china were progressive utopias

Lol that was when Constantinople officially became Istanbul right?

brainlet post

>Stalin was a bad guy

>Medieval nobles learned to speak Czech together with French, Italian, German and Latin
We still learn this shit aƄ school

If trotsky was in charge instead of stalin the ussr would have better and more humanitarian

>Rome fell because of lead pipes

HAHAHAHAHA
>Czech stronk

>It is possible to have Capitalism without State.

>The germanic peoples that supplanted the WRE were savage hordes of fantasy barbarians.
>Rome had an official position of emperor before Diocletianus.
>That christianity was the downfall of the roman world.
>Russia was as powerful during the middle ages as it was later in history.
>The achaemenid empire was a savage place of unlearning which Alexander brought reason to.
>The achaemenid emperors portraited themselves as God-Kings.
>That nothing interesting happened in history before Alexander the Great.
>That the crusades were an existential threat to the muslim world.
>That Hitler was a genius.
>That Scania had always been swedish.

>>when books refer to Englishmen,I used to believe they were talking about Americans
is this something burgers actually believe?

>Greece and Europe are interchangeable terms
>t. 6 year old me

>the US was losing vietnam
>etruscans were germanic or nordic people that traveled south
>slavs were a swamp people

You were smarter back then

>we werent losing we just lost

>Abraham Lincoln was black

>Transylvania belongs to Hungary

>the HRE was always a clusterfuck

True, war with no support=lost war. If the public was for it or even neutral it would have been easy

no

Where are you from?

Nigga wut?