"wasn't Italy where the Greeks were from?"

"wasn't Italy where the Greeks were from?"
"No that was Greece"
"Oh yeah, well... wait yeah, Italy took over Egypt"
"And Turkey I think"
"No, Turkey was Roman, Istanbul was the Roman capital"

mfw I didn't think the stupidity of others could actually trigger me

why are the general population so ignorant of basic world history? Was it always like this?

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Most people think history is for 'nerds" and other dumb retarded insults. Also trust me, people are way more stupid that that.

Also people used to be way more educated than today. Most people drop out of college and then do something shitty like acting or some other dumb crap.

>high school
>teacher lecturing on WW1
>WAS THAT THE ONE WITH THE JEWS
I have never given up on someone until that moment

But it WAS the one with the Jews

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>be me
>back in high school
>have to label map of europe
>negress screeches "WHERE DA FUK IRELAND AT?"

Is that Himmler on the left with the glasses?

What army is this?

You reminded me
>About 6th grade
>Geography class
>Learning Magellan's journey around the world
>Task is "what route could have Magellan taken to make his journey significantly shorter?"
>Teacher is smug as fuck
>Says "If I were Magellan"
>Moves her pointing stick towards the Isthmus of Panama
>"I would have gone through the panama canal and right around the world! :)"
>mfw I didn't know back then that the Panama Canal was built in the 1900s
>All of those students probably still think Magellan was retarded for not going through the Panama canal

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Every war is "the one with the Jews"

Nothing wrong with these to be honest.
I thought Alexander the Great was Roman until last year and Taiwan and Thailand were the same country until the year before that.

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Holy fucking brainlet
Might as well share my early historical brainletism
>i used to believe the prussia was fromed from the marriage of russian nobility with polish nobility and every prussian noble was actually a slav

It’s nothing too egregious
But l was taught columbus wanted to prove the earth was round in third grade
They corrected that in sixth grade though

>why are the general population so ignorant of basic world history? Was it always like this?

They are stupid because that's how humans be
and yes, it has always been like this
remember, you're here forever

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this happend in my uni class

Gods

>that one time in middle school history class when you asked why Germany didn't get in on the early colonization thing like England, Spain etc.
>actually got a crash course in the >H>R>E since the teacher was actually competent
I'm still haunted by it though
Also I think I never would have learned anything else about Germany prior to 1900 in school if I hadn't asked about that then
Fuck American public schools

>Class what is Prussia?
>Oh it's the german russians :)

but the greeks are from greece, and there were plenty of greeks in southern italy

italy did take over egypt and turkey as the roman empire

and istanbul was the eastern roman capital as constantinople

what the fuck are you mad about

I thought that Alexander and Achilles being blonde in movies was just Hollywood whitewashing. I even brought it up as an example in class. Little did I know that they were both accurate.

Probably the alpine front because its Germans on the right and austrians on the left

>some bitch asks why cleopatra isnt black in a movie

This legit pissed me off.

This

At least you can admit your mistakes. I don't think I had heard of the >H >R >E until 2014, unless I just forgot about it from hearing it in childhood.
Holy fuck that's hilarious

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Could be worse.

My English-language History teacher made us watch History Channel videos about the apocalypse and how every barcode has 666 encoded on it.

>10th grade history class
>"I thought Hitler was executed!"

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This is the truth they don't want you to know.

>"wasn't Italy where the Greeks were from?"

They were right. Italy used to refer just to Calabria which was settled by the Greeks

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>Junior in Highschool.
>WW2 history.
>Teacher puts on Pearl Harbor and sneaks drinks from his flask while grading papers.
>Get tested on it.

>being taught that the first men to bring elephaunts to europe was a portuguese king in the xvi century
>Athens razed Sparta in the penepolese war
>constructivism being taken seriously

beat me faggot

>freshman in high school
>be truant, show up halfway through the day
>manage to smoke some weed in the woods during lunch
>show up to history class
>the teacher already taught everything on the syllabus and gave all of the tests, so history class was just the movie 300 without any notes
>my entire day consisted of nothing but smoking weed and watching the movie 300

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I seriously wonder what Hellenic Marseilles looked like

good days

>be a gook
>talk about the Huns to my dumb uncle
>he suddenly shouts and talks about how Huns BTFO Europeans XD
>then he claims that the Huns and Koreans are the same
WE

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based Grey Wolves Uncle teaching you to respect Turan
is he fighting alongside The Turks in Afrin?

Nah, half of Himmler's inferiority complex was because he just missed the opportunity to fight in World War I.

My French colleague who comes from some town in the Alps once mentioned the famous story of how Alexander the Great crossed the Alps with his elephants.

I asked him who Alexander was fighting but he couldn't remember.

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What? Weren't the Huns related to the Xiongu?

I dropped out of college and do acting Kek.

It has nothing to do with that degrees or anything like that. The problem is simply that most people don’t have any hunger to learn more, improve themselves or even just listen and retain information.

When I was 17 a kid in my class randomly announced "who would call a kid Ein?"

He though Ein was Albert Einstein’s first name

he was the the firstborn and his parents were really uncreative

>being taught that the first men to bring elephaunts to europe was a portuguese king in the xvi century
What the fuck, did no one hear of Hannibal?

other than the "wasn't Italy where the Greeks were from" those mistakes ain't bad enough for a thread

What is amazing is the blissfulness of people when they assert their ignorant opinions/data with total confidence, never making a conscious exam of themselves. I am always thinking I'm an ignorant and, if possible, recheck things before spouting them and putting words like "in my opinion", "according to evidence", "if I recall correctly" in my speech and writing.

They were closer to Koreans than Europeans.

>mfw I didn't think the stupidity of others could actually trigger me
Like you said, that's ignorance, not stupidity.

For instance, OP is stupid, but not ignorant.

Someone post the cap of that Irish user who thought Northern Ireland existed for thousands and years and that the first Irish protestants were pagan druids who converted

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>be teacher
>on Civil Rights unit
>make review lesson where they can make their own violent/non-violent group
>get tons of funny shit hybridizing Nation of Islam and Black Panthers
>they also present them to each other
>one is this hilarious group centered around kidnapping Obama’s dog, blowing up parts of the Mexican border, and painting the White House red to get rights for illegal immigrants
>laughing so hard as they give their speech I start crying
Goddamn those classes were fun

>Spartacus was Spartan