I mean, I'd be confused and concerned too if a time travelling European from the 18th century stepped off a boat in 1492
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People genuinely do not understand history.
I think a good comedic example of this is in Futurama, where some characters from the year 3000 get tossed back to Roswell in 1947. They try to blend with "period correct clothes" and lingo, but since they're 1000 years out of place, they're combining things that hadn't been invented yet with stuff from 1947s past.
A lot of people seem to think cleopatra was hanging out with the dudes who built the pyramids and think it's weird Sparta and Rome never went to war. I mean, sure technically they both existed in an overlapping period of about 50 years, but technically the USA has had diplomatic contact with the Holy Roman Empire for a few years.
Imagine if a shuttle landed on the planet and someone from 2402 popped out with their neon implants, xarthan death spikes proudly displayed, and an onion on their belt. Everyone knows they don't show up until at least 2215.
and an onion on their belt.
Which will be the style at the time, of course.
I don't know if there's any period in history where having an onion on your belt would be a bad idea.
Then again, there isn't one where it's a particularly good one, either 🤷
Onions have layers
You are right and i know this isnt what you were thinking about, but Rome and sparta did go to war
I like the futurama reference
Shhhhhhhhh....
Also, I thought Sparta had been absorbed by the Achaean League by then.
I guess I helped further prove my point that people don't know history.
native ppl: these dudes are sickly, scurvied, and so pale they look like they're about to die, we have to give them food
europeans: they bring us offerings! they must think we're gods, probably
The white people as gods myth likely comes from Australia where pale people were thought of as ghosts and treated well and given things they'd need on their trip to the aboriginal afterlife of sorts.
Gets off the boat, gets out his gun: "Let me show you a magic trick!"
To be fair, this is looking more like late XVIII century man with advanced syphilis, but after looking some of late XV century portraits the point still somewhat stands anyway.
Why the fuck would you use Roman numerals?
Some Slavic languages, such as Russian, use Roman numerals for numbering centuries
Edit: why was this downvoted? If I'm wrong please tell me, I'd like to learn :)
In some roman language like french too !
Spanish too
some latin languages as well!
I couldn't give VIII fucks if he uses Roman numerals
It's called history.
It's in the username!
Arabic numerals are the devil's numbers!
When men were men 🥰
Imagine a few days later everyone he got into contact with getting horribly sick and dying.
While that happened, and vice versa, this info often tries to whitewash USAs war on indigenous people, and systematic genocide to irradicate the "savage natives" https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states
Both can be (and are) true, while the Europeans and later Americans did many things that would now be classified as genocide and ethnic cleansing, the majority of the native population simply died inadvertently of diseases. It’s actually unlikely that the Europeans would have been able to so thoroughly conquer the Americas if the native population would have survived the first wave of diseases.
This makes me think you did not read the full article and the timeline. Of course the indigenous people survived the first wave of diseases. The majority did not die out, This is why the colonizers were later fruatrated with the situation of trying to expand into more land. There are so many historic books about the systematic elimination of "Indians". The diaease trope is what is taught in american school so we can feel detached from their ultimate demise. But if you don't have time to search and read, just look at this wiki link on how many were genocided rather than the paltry few you think were left over from disease. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_Indigenous_peoples
And then hands you a cool blanket.
Apparently this is largely a myth, somebody did try it on a single occasion but it doesn't actually work to spread smallpox. That guy was clearly an arsehole, but yeah, apparently it wasn't a thing. I don't know how important this is given the near total genocide of the Native Americans, but it's funny how some things become "common knowledge" and some things never really get out. Soap made of Jews is another one - it was apparently an urban legend at the time due to the letters written on the rationed bars of soap. Again, more than enough evil to go around without the soap. It does seem that one insane commandants wife collected people's tattooed skin and likely did make a lampshade out of human skin. People say that didn't happen, but there's a pretty convincing photograph out there of all the seized items at one camp. Can't remember why I started talking about this, think I was trying to distract myself from a stomachache.
Americans forget their history because it is not widely taight to them, so the smallpox prevails, but history channel put together a good summary of American Genocide https://www.history.com/news/native-americans-genocide-united-states
the fact that in an era with relatively few records, there is a recorded intentional attempt to spread smallpox (~~even if incompetent)~~ is plenty to assert that the Europeans intentionally spread smallpox
edit: the CDC does say contaminated bedding can spread smallpox. reconsider the sources telling you it's a myth
This is the final evolution of the Trump take over. The upper crust will all start wearing blonde feathery wigs and painting themselves orange to demonstrate their genetic superiority. Oh and a suit two sizes too big.
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What a floating dollhouse. Can't believe they are even moving, talking. It was a really weird experience.
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