6 Things From History Everyone Pictures Incorrectly

Cracked.com ^ | Jul 06, 2010 | Alexander L. Hoffman

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks dware!

[bannie]

Another one:

Indians never rode on horses until Spaniards brought them over. Their largest beast of burden were probably DOGS...and WOMEN.

What a noble image.

They, certainly didn't have guns, and their clothes were less often made of WOVEN CLOTH and more often made of leather or just skins:

BEADS? Those pretty glass ones were from Europeans:

Even the universal symbol of American Indian defeat includes a non-indigenous HORSE:

The common, universal, accepted images we have of the Noble Native are not accurate!

In reality, the most common life of the American Indian was an (on-foot)hunter/(on-foot)gatherer/(on-knees)digger (with some, rare farming) before the evil Europeans came. (Of course, pictures of these images are harder to find!)

without forged cutlery, the women scraped hides with sharp stones and chewed leather to soften it.

Obviously, any actual pictures of the American Indians before the Europeans came don't exist!

Now...before any American Indian descendants get too excited about these facts...stop. I'm bettin' that almost all of you who claim to be "American Indian" are less than 40% "American Indian"! Most of your claims of being victims are foolish because more of the genetic make-up of MOST of you is European--and not "American Indian." In the American melting pot, most of the Nation's citizens are "part Indian," and almost all "Indians" are mostly "other."

[bannie]

HAHA! That man thinks he OWNS Egypt.

[bannie]

Thanks for the ping! :-)

[bannie]

Who said Jesus’ earthly body was little?

[Partisan Gunslinger]

Jew, Arab, who can tell the difference? Children of Abraham, remember?

Jews are of the children of Isaac, the Arabs are the children of Ishmael. Isaac's mother was Sarah, Ishmael's mother was a coptic Egyptian. Up the line from Abraham was Aram from whom the Syrians are descended and many Syrians look very European. After the Assyrians and the Babylonians displaced most of the tribes of Israel the Arabs have trickled into these areas, but from the looks of a lot of Syrians the Arab-looking people haven't been the only inhabitants of the Middle East, especially going back 2000 to 3500 years. Just like you can't look at a typical modern American and tell what an American Indian looked like in 1491, you can't look at lot of Middle-Easterners and tell what what a Judaean looked like in Jesus' time. You can find a modern indian and tell what they looked like, and you can find a modern descendant of Aram and tell what a Judaean looked like. Looking at an Arab doesn't tell you much. The shroud has it right, that's what Jesus looked like. He didn't look anything like the picture in this article. If He did look like the picture in this article and the history would support that then fine, that would be nothing to take away from His divinity. But the fact is that Jesus had the complexion of Solomon and David, and David and Solomon are descibed in the bible as fair and white-skinned respectively.

[Old Student]

“Jews are of the children of Isaac, the Arabs are the children of Ishmael. Isaac's mother was Sarah, Ishmael's mother was a coptic Egyptian.”

IIRC, Jews and Arabs have nearly identical DNA. Abraham was from Ur, and is their father. Minor differences are to be expected. Having not been there myself, at the time, I'm not so certain as to what people looked like then.

[Partisan Gunslinger]

IIRC, Jews and Arabs have nearly identical DNA.

That's meaningless as humans and chimps are 98% alike yet obviously look nothing alike relative to our discussion. Plus there was a study done that showed that a person is likely to have more similar DNA to a person of another race as someone from that person's own race. The genes and chromosomes that determine appearance are a very small part of the gene pool of DNA.