15 history things I want you to know (more serious version)

These are meant to be more serious ways to correct misconceptions or gaps in knowledge. 

1. Women played key roles in the Mongol Empire under Chinggis Khan and the rulers after
2. There were tens of millions if not more than 100 million people in the Americas pre-contact
3. Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white woman 9 months before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat.
4. For a while, "American literature" was in large part composed of captivity narratives
5. Given that 65 countries and territories have gained independence from Britain, that means that every ~6 days a country or territory could be celebrating its independence from Britain
6. One possible etymology of the racist term "redskin" is that the US government used to pay for the skins of indigenous people (they'd be red because they'd be bloody)
7. The Emancipation Proclamation freed enslaved people only in the Confederacy
8. Everything about the boarding school system for Indigenous Americans and Canadians. For instance, the last ones closed in the late 20th century (it's confusing to figure out exactly when though because some were taken over)
9. "Cleopatra lived closer in time to the building of the first Pizza Hut than to the building of the pyramids." While this may not seem as important as other facts listed here, I think it goes to the misconception of Ancient Egypt (and perhaps other ancient cultures) as a stagnant civilization
10. "The Navajo Suffered From Nuclear Testing"
11. One major reason the Salem witch trials of 1692-3 are historically significant is that they ignited debate over spectral evidence (which generally wasn't allowed)
12. The American Indian Movement (AIM) conducted many protests since its founding in 1968
13. Iceland's "Althing is one of the oldest national parliaments in the world"
14. Wounded Knee was a massacre, not a battle
15. Folktales, legends, etc. often have some truth to them. For instance, it was said that the moai of Easter Island "walked" and now it seems that the moai were put in place by moving them in a way that resembles walking

(Prompt by me)

"English: "Tumanba Khan, His Wife, and His Nine Sons", Folio from a Chingiznama (Book of Genghis Khan)." Credit line: Purchase, Francis M. Weld Gift, 1948.