Essay:Greatest Myths of World History
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Here is a growing list of the greatest myths of world history:
"Let them eat cake!"
Marie Antoinette's "Let them eat cake" was almost certainly never uttered. The phrase was likely invented by anti-monarchist revolutionaries seeking to have Marie and Louis XVI executed.
=Columbus sets out to discover America
- When Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue, what he was really doing was looking for a sea route to Asia. It didn't turn out quite the way he expected; he made landfall on the island of Hispanola. A related myth is that Columbus discovered or proved that the Earth was round. Unlike many others, these myths are widely known to be false.
A pox on you!
- There are widespread rumours that Europeans deliberately spread smallpox among the American Indians. In fact, smallpox was endemic amongst Europeans, and they introduced it to the Americas unintentionally and without knowing the devastating effects it would have on the local population.
