Top 10 HUGE Historical MYTHS

As TopTenz has covered in other articles, the past was in some ways so much worse than we can relate to. But let’s not assume that it was all terrible, or that everyone was too stupid to make life better for themselves. Our heads are full of flawed beliefs about the past. These myths are often created to make history more dramatic to keep students awake during class, to simplify the past for easy digestion, or to inflate our sense of superiority over some country or the past in general. Let’s try to set some of those myths straight.

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Source/Further reading:

https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/w/wills-evil.html
https://books.google.com/books?id=R-OTgb-nbHMC&pg=PA45&dq=average+age+of+marriage+historically&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiypbf6_q_OAhXMwiYKHdktBo8Q6AEIJTAC#v=onepage&q=average%20age%20of%20marriage%20historically&f=false
http://www.theatlantic.com/sexes/archive/2013/03/getting-married-later-is-great-for-college-educated-women/274040/
http://www.medievalists.net/2013/04/13/did-people-in-the-middle-ages-take-baths/
http://www.medicaldaily.com/brief-history-bathing-importance-hygiene-ancient-romes-sophisticated-showers-modern-364826
http://www.toptenz.net/10-forgotten-peoples-early-middle-ages.php
http://www.livescience.com/27790-catholic-church-and-science-history.html
http://www.pbs.org/faithandreason/intro/histo-frame.html
http://www.biography.com/people/gregor-mendel-39282
https://books.google.com/books?id=cx2gmuOr3E8C&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309&dq=The+North+Vietnamese+finally+won+by+purely+conventional+means&source=bl&ots=3Nr4mzO5OA&sig=0BRlQ4HdKRTcoylvEBZVMdNT43A&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj15_CA6MLOAhUI4CYKHQmvCOcQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=The%20North%20Vietnamese%20finally%20won%20by%20purely%20conventional%20means&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=ypNQqcCI218C&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=The+North+Vietnamese+finally+won+by+purely+conventional+means&source=bl&ots=F5rhXxqKzZ&sig=mN1IilFzd7WOg3AHOBIQfg2WpFM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj15_CA6MLOAhUI4CYKHQmvCOcQ6AEIKTAD#v=onepage&q=The%20North%20Vietnamese%20finally%20won%20by%20purely%20conventional%20means&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=hlFm1FUrVP0C&pg=PA215&dq=India+democracy+before+Greece&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwiujy8cLOAhXF2SYKHehBAHMQ6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=India%20democracy%20before%20Greece&f=false
http://www.indiaprofile.com/people/malana.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/reviews/000220.20gewent.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/careless-whispers-how-the-german-public-used-and-abused-the-gestapo-1.2369837
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/the-jewish-thinker/were-jews-ever-really-slaves-in-egypt-or-is-passover-a-myth-1.420844
http://www.ancientsudan.org/history_04_egyptconnub.htm
http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/12/egypt-new-find-shows-slaves-didnt-build-pyramids
https://books.google.com/books?id=rXOoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PP53&lpg=PP53&dq=romans+hated+togas&source=bl&ots=aZ76TYJXhN&sig=OOisZj_McBSP9kM3KwClPaQzIIc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ-o_RmMPOAhXTZiYKHUi-ADk4ChDoAQhgMBE#v=onepage&q=romans%20hated%20togas&f=false
http://www.ancient.eu/article/659/
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/disbelieve-it-or-not-ancient-history-suggests-that-atheism-is-as-natural-to-humans-as-religion
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Xenophanes
https://books.google.com/books?id=0eOICgAAQBAJ&pg=PA33&dq=atheist+african+tribes+ancient&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ6J_HpMPOAhUJRSYKHc2cDOwQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=atheist%20african%20tribes%20ancient&f=false
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/secularspectrum/2015/10/in-china-heaven-doesnt-mean-what-you-think/

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