Today we often have a distorted picture about many significant events that marked history. Historical facts tell us that not everything is black and white, like we are used on seeing things.
Before exactly 520 years Christopher Columbus received an approval from the Spanish king to set off on a voyage to discover a see route to India. What he didn’t realize is that, by touching the soil of a new continent, he altered the course of history. Columbus died with the belief that he discovered the route to India. That was his mistake. Apart from that, he actually wasn’t the first man to step on American soil, because in 11 century Norwegian sailors under the command of Lejf Erikson did it first when they reached Newfoundland. Because of that fact it is a mistake to believe that Columbus was the first to discover America.
Tesla tough that atomic energy cannot be used for military purposes, one American surgeon claimed that smoking is good for health, and director of American Patent biro Charles Djuel said in 1899 that everything that can be discovered is already discovered. Anyway, sometimes because of lack of facts, and sometimes because from pure intention, certain events are misinterpreted, which lead to untrue interpretation of certain historical events. In this attachment you can see 10 biggest historical mistakes which we meet today.
10MYSTAKE No. 10
Some believe that in gladiatorial combat a thumb pointed down denoted execution, in fact an upwards thumb meant kill, whereas a fist meant mercy.
09MYSTAKE No. 9
Viking helmets, other than a few ceremonial ones, did not have horns. They were smooth and rounded – horns being a hazard in a fight.
08MYSTAKE No. 8
In account of iron maidens can be found before 1793. They are likely an amalgamation of various torture devices.
07MYSTAKE No. 7
King Canute didn’t try to order the tide back to prove his power. Instead he proved to sycophantic followers that even the king has limits to his power.
06MYSTAKE No. 6
Napoleon wasn’t short, being 5ft 2´´ (1.50), but in French units. This is 5ft 7´´ (1.70) by modern standards, taller than the average Frenchman of the era.
05MYSTAKE No. 5
Nearly all Greek and Roman sculptures we see today are white. However, they used to be painted vibrant colors, which time has worn away.
04MYSTAKE No. 4
The emancipation proclamation did not free all slaves, as some believe. Rather it freed those living in states not under union control.
03MYSTAKE No. 3
Paul Revere never actually said “The British are coming.” Most Americans identified as being British then: the line comes from a poem of events.
02MYSTAKE No. 2
“VOMITORIUMS” weren’t place where Romans would purge their bodies after meals by throwing up. They were actually a style of entranceway found in stadiums.
01MYSTAKE No. 1
The theory that the earth was flat was not a popular medieval belief. Ancient Greeks had taught earth´s spherical nature; these teachings had carried on.
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