AHC: When myths come true

With any POD, make a widespread historical myth true. (I am talking about myths like Columbus sailing to prove the earth is round, not Alt-History ones like sealion, magical myths and aliens, or miracles and religious events you personaly consider fake)
 
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Myth: "Christianity caused the Dark Ages and the Church universally hated learning"

ATL: Iconoclasm wins in the Byzantine Empire, predominates for centuries, and most ancient Greco-Roman texts are destroyed. Causing a measurable decrease in science and writing output.
 

Albert.Nik

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If in an ATL the holocaust doesn't happen,the myth that it didn't happen as propogated by Holocaust deniers wouldn't be a myth. This is not a generally believed myth as it is prevalent only among fascists,Anti-Semites,conspiracy theorists and Neo-Nazis.
Second one is the Indigenous Aryans theory propogated by Hindu Nationalists that Indo-Europeans spread from India(Borderline to mid ASB).
Israelite exodus from Egypt(Border to mid ASB).
Existence of the literal Jesus(Border to full ASB).
 

Albert.Nik

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Nordic and Sub Saharan African Ancient Egyptians,Sumerians and Elamites.
Ethnically homogenous Dravidian IVC
Ethnically homogeneous Indo-Aryan IVC.
 

Albert.Nik

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Nordic Ancient Persian civilization whixh was Nordic till islam which WNs project stupidly. Well I agree, neighbouring Scythians,Tocharians might be Nordic but Ancient Persians were a mix of various peoples.
 

Albert.Nik

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Ashkenazi looking Ancient Jews is an another myth and at the same time Black Ancient Jews is also an another myth like that(they looked like Mizrahi Jews really).
 

samcster94

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The best case scenario for the Norse settlements gets you a viable Western pre 1492 civilization in what is now Maritime Canada.
 
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If Free France is prevented from forming somehow and the French Resistance is crushed by the Nazis, the myth of the French rolling over for Germany without a fight will become more true.
 
If in an ATL the holocaust doesn't happen,the myth that it didn't happen as propogated by Holocaust deniers wouldn't be a myth. This is not a generally believed myth as it is prevalent only among fascists,Anti-Semites,conspiracy theorists and Neo-Nazis.

It would be kind of weird to deny the Holocaust in a world in which the Holocaust actually didn't happen.
 
Israelite exodus from Egypt(Border to mid ASB).

Egypt conquers the Hebrew tribes, enslaves a bunch of them and brings them to Egypt. Under their leader Moses, they use the turmoil created by a sudden spate of natural disasters to convince the Pharaoh (a very superstitious man) to let them return to Israel. Which they do and later people start revering Moses and embellish the story.

Existence of the literal Jesus(Border to full ASB).

Jesus, a 1st century Jew, helped pioneer the art of illusionism and street magic with the help of his talented assistants like Peter and James. His greatest acts include turning water to wine (his famous debut performance), feeding 5,000 people from one man's lunch, walking on water, and being tortured, crucified, and surviving three days in a tomb.

Strangely people started worshipping him for this, and illusionists this great wouldn't appear again until the 19th century.

[thanks South Park for the inspiration]
 

Albert.Nik

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Myth: Ancient Egyptians and Berbers were black
PoD: There is a large Sub-Saharan migration into North Africa during the Neolithic.
Except for Nubia,Ethiopia and Somalia,parts of SSA wasn't that populated before the Bantu Expansion from West Africa which happened during sometime around 4th century AD. So the large migration from SSA is very difficult. Crossing Sahara with a small population isn't a good decision. Since Caucasus,Anatolia and Levant were more densely populated,some other race similar would have occupied the precious Egypt. Plus,the fertile crescent and Egypt were not actually ethnically homogeneous. A TL very difficult to achieve.
 

Albert.Nik

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It would be kind of weird to deny the Holocaust in a world in which the Holocaust actually didn't happen.
In such a World,the fringe extremist minority would believe it did happen rather than the fringe extremist neo-Nazis and some others who believe it didn't happen in OTL.
 
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