A lot of our misconceptions of history probably come down to the way we were taught in school. Teachers don't teach the history of the world from start to finish — if they did, the indiscriminate smattering of people, locations, and events would make it incredibly difficult to keep your facts straight. Instead, they break history up into discrete chunks: the Renaissance in Europe, the colonizing of the Americas, the rise and fall of the Roman Empire. That puts them in easily digestible units, but also have a tendency to keep students from putting the lessons in context with other events that happened at the same time. As a result, there are some events that you'd never guess happened at the same time — that is, if a few reddit threads are any indication. Hold on to your DeLoreans.
4K Years Ago
The Great Pyramid of Giza was built on the west bank of the Nile about 4,600 years ago in 2650 B.C.E., during a time when Egypt was among the richest, most powerful civilizations in the world. In fact, pyramids like Giza were erected for centuries, from roughly 2600 to 2300 B.C.E. Want to know what else existed during that time? Woolly mammoths. Those furry, tusked, elephant-sized creatures only died out 4,000 years ago, which gave them roughly six centuries of overlap with the Ancient Egyptians. What if the Sphinx had been built with tusks?
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