Here's a basic list of things the medieval historian is factually wrong on from a single read through--even beyond the horrific ideologies really showcased through "cultural Marxist" and other garbage:
1. Lying about the form and function of land acknowledgments
2, Columbus is strongly motivated by apocalyptical religious zealotry, attempts to wipe out the Taino, arrested for tyranny, promotes enslavement of Africans, etc. etc. etc. everything he says on Columbus is nonsense.
3. Lies about historiography of Native American genocide and settler-colonial occupation
4. Pretends that racist pastoralism conceptions of Natives are the dominant paradigm--also nonsense
5. Says accidental disease is whole cause of death and Europeans blameless--
Andrés Reséndez's The Other Slavery won the Bancroft Prize in 2017 and is incredibly well known and decisively points out this is garbage.
6. New World population is not much smaller than Europe's and is definitely not homogenous--recent work in genetics, archaeology, etc.
7. We can also bring in epidemiology and medical history to show that without European violence the Native population would have recovered from the plagues.
8. Completely wrong about history of anthropology MY GOD pretending it is magically pro-Native
9. Egregiously wrong on Native agriculture-- @SarahTaber_bww has done numerous threads on this I'll be tracking down but it wasn't primitive
10. Claims no permanent settlements--to hell with that, the post-Mississippians, Mexica, Mixtec, Zapotec, Mayan, Incan, Puebloans, etc.
all live in long-term major urban areas. Cahokia alone is bigger than London or Paris in the 13th century.
11. Compares indigenous people to Celts--that's pure Puritan mythohistorical crap designed to primitivize Natives and put them into the category of the Irish and Scots.
12. Property is not a Greco-Roman invention.
13. Native people don't migrate peacefully away from Europeans following game. They are farmers. They are driven out.
14. Firearms don't wipe out animal stocks. What the hell.
15. Claims sub-Saharan Africa had a lower population density than Europe because of slavery, and Europeans don't decimate their population through diseases like America and so its only disease. No mention of settler-colonialism, dear God.
16. Claims the Mongols had a genocidal mindset, something work on the Mongols and their conquest has shown is not true and is EVEN WITHIN OUR (medieval) TIME PERIOD WHAT THE HELL--uncritical swallowing of narratives.
17. Again, wrong on Native farming and urbanisation.
18. Claims that European population growth was inevitably going to be greater than Native American population growth because.... farming and cities. Hmmm. Again, both exist in large numbers already.
19. MASSIVE omissions from Columbus' journals, like the apocalypticism.
20. Acts like Bartholome de las Casas didn't even have to try to get royal support for kinder treatment for Natives, which is just bloody fucking unbelievable.
21. Extended sequence of uncritically accepting John Smith's THIRD ACCOUNT OF JAMESTOWN. THIRD. EACH DIFFERENT. As true.
22. Really gross interpretation of the kidnapping, rape, and death of Matoaka.
23. Incredibly racist characterization of Natives who live on reservations.
24. Incredibly racist teleological narrative of progress=Western.
25. Lengthy section on the glory of early Residential Schools, in this case Moravians in Pennsylvania, but really gross, racist white washing of atrocities.
26. Literally a "what about white slavery in the Balkans?" thrown in
27. Literally a "German culture was eradicated in US and that's just as bad" section
28. Nonsense about how nice the Pilgrims--my ancestors--were, in ways that are actively deceptive and wrong
29. "English indentured servants were literally economic slaves!" fuck you.
30. In the end its all the fault of Cultural Marxists.

You know, the problem with responding is really figuring out which of these points to start with and how many you can fit in.
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