31 Historical Misconceptions That Change Everything
‘Vietnam stood a very small chance of joining the Chinese communist body’
We like to imagine periods from history as being neat enough to wrap up in a single establishing shot. Medieval times? Okay, serfs, scythes, a knight on a white horse with a damsel astride behind him, and cut. The fact is, there’s some eras from history that have been oversimplified, and sometimes even miscommunicated.
A post on Reddit asked historians to share some of the misconceptions of different eras of history that upset our nice, neat imaginings of the time. Surely, there would be no way they would lie to me at the movies, would they? Next, you’re going to tell me America isn’t automatically the good guy.