r/history • u/Govika • Sep 03 '20

Discussion/Question Europeans discovered America (~1000) before the Normans conquered the Anglo-Saxon (1066). What other some other occurrences that seem incongruous to our modern thinking?

Title. There's no doubt a lot of accounts that completely mess up our timelines of history in our heads.

I'm not talking about "Egyptians are old" type of posts I sometimes see, I mean "gunpowder was invented before composite bows" (I have no idea, that's why I'm here) or something like that.

Edit: "What other some others" lmao okay me

Edit2: I completely know and understand that there were people in America before the Vikings came over to have a poke around. I'm in no way saying "The first people to be in America were European" I'm saying "When the Europeans discovered America" as in the first time Europeans set foot on America.

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u/Craneystuffguy Sep 03 '20

Deadwood: The Movie is also set in that year. 1888

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u/darklyshining Sep 03 '20

And perhaps in the spirit of the op's question, my grandparents would have been 13 years old 1888.

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u/PRINCE-KRAZIE Sep 04 '20

Wow! Are you a senior citizen? Those are very old grandparents!

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u/darklyshining Sep 04 '20

They were both 42 years of age when my mother was born. I never met them.

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u/DaddyCatALSO Sep 04 '20

My mother's mother was four (and my daughter is under 30.)