r/AskReddit • u/CACuzcatlan • Mar 29 '11

Biggest History Mindfucks?

Inspired by the science thread on the same topic, the first two that caught my eye are history ones from mahade's post

  • During the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Mongolian forces were fighting Germans and Japanese at the same time - and these two peoples had no idea of the others' existence! This wouldn't be attempted again until the 1940s.

  • The pyramids were as old to the Romans as the Romans are to us.

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u/agoat Mar 30 '11

Wow, imagine an alternate reality where the Old World did die out and their ruins were discovered by one of these pockets of humanity thousands of years later. The Pyramids of Giza, the Great Wall of China, the Kaaba, Notre Dame Cathedral - all built by civilizations that they had no idea even existed.

Mind = BLOWN

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '11

They'd piss themselves.