if you have to rank the top 10 mistaken historical facts, what would you put on?

You mean on tumblr or in general?

1- Vilification of the French Revolution usually expressed in the famous “Robespierre killed everyone”

2- Tumblr special: “white people are evil and responsible for everything bad that happened in the world while the rest of the world just follows this noble savage trope”

3- Beethoven/Mozart is back.

4- The Inquisition burned millions of people - mind me, the Inquisition did kill quite a lot of people but it was a very complex organization and the image of the Inquisitor dressed in black with sinister intents killing every woman who had a cat is a bit outdated. Inquisitional processes are very often much more intricate than that and people weren’t just “arbitrarily” burned at the stake.

5- The “Dark Ages” myth.

6- During the Roman period everyone knew how to read and everyone read Cicero then came the middle ages and people stopped bathing and reading.

7- The Catholics are fanatics but the Protestants are the epitome of tolerance. Explanation: it is true that countries like the Netherlands and Britain were more tolerant of other religions than the Catholic countries but that doesn’t mean that tolerance was a widespread thing. Lord Acton who was a catholic living in the end of 19th century Britain was barred from admittance at Cambridge because of his religion.

8- Slavery as something that began with the 15th century European expansion. The word literally comes from slavs. 

9- Marie Antoinette painted as a naive person who was unfairly persecuted by the revolutionaries instead of the savvy political woman (she was over 30 in 1789) she was raised and educated to be.

10- Imperialism as something invented by Europeans.

Bonus: 11- Anything that connects 18th century Prussia and Hitler. Hitler and Nazism were not connected to Enlightenment (and 18th century Prussia very much was). Hitler personally was culturally much more close to Austria than to Prussia. The reasons for Prussian militarism in the 18th century are not the same reasons for Nazi militarism. Background and mentality is completely different. Anything that attempts to connect Frederick the Great to either Hitler or Hindenburg.