samcster94
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We all know that the Confederacy is the most troped pre 1900 subjected on this site. What are the most common cliches about other pre 1900 subjects, whether Islam, China, or even Ancient Greece???
There was 30% Christians in the Roman Empire around 300 and Christian triumph was somehow magically "inevitable".
(Actual historians peg it at 5-10 percent and it probably would have gone no where/ been wiped out once Roman stability collapsed without Constantine)
There are other variations of this but this is the most common.
Here are some I've noticed:
-- "Inevitable revanchism!" The idea that any country that loses a conflict and has to pay an indemnity or surrender contested territory will then hate the opposing nation for all time. In reality, countries lost - and won - conflicts all throughout history, and revanchism wasn't a central factor in a lot of cases. Mostly, actual geopolitical interests decided who was to be the enemy in a future conflict, and who had been the enemy a generation back was typically of far less importance.
-- "Zheng He discovers America!" It's not actually that plausible, but it just keeps showing up.