It is worth noting that the 'discovery' of the Americas is a misnomer: millions of people already lived there, as their ancestors had done for thousands of years, but geography had left them ill-prepared for the arrival of the newcomers.
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3 sentences with “misnomer”
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3 sentences with “misnomer” — examples
Sometimes European powers favoured certain local groups over others to better maintain control, such as the British policy of using the Tutsi tribe ("tribe" in this case is a misnomer; "class" is more accurate) to rule what would later become Rwanda over the majority Hutu.
Where possible, he will refer to specific groups by name, such as the Goths and the Huns. In addition, he will refer to "Germans" when talking about the specific groups native to Central Europe that played such an important role in the fall of Rome. However, this is something of a misnomer, as there was no kingdom or empire called "Germany" until 1871 CE (i.e. some 1,400 years later). Thus, by using the term "Germans", this section refers to any of the Germanic cultural groups of the time, rather than to the citizens or subjects of a unified country.
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