As far as religions are concerned I can't say we learnt much. And we didn't learn a thing about Asia, except where we colonized and how it ended. Even that didn't take much time. I regret it but there's nothing you can do except educate yourself.

Glad to see we're not the only ones then.

And numbers for the day:
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Kuuki wrote:It is interesting.
Didn't you at least talk about it a little in school? I was pretty sure everyone in the world more or less touched on the subject or at the very least mentionned it.
(I only say that from a very curious standpoint, how other countries learn history in school is very interesting to me so don't take it badly)

If you were asking me, I moved a lot during school years, so some sections of history I learned over and over, and some I never seemed to be in the right place at the right time to hear about it. Development of writing systems and how alphabets/logographic/hieroglyphic/etc systems were created? Yep. Did that three times. WWI we only covered once. I did get the American Civil War and Restoration and Civil Rights movement. WWII a whole bunch, yeah. Ridiculously broad overview of relatively recent history of most of Africa, mostly the southern regions, the western coast, and the south-central area. Lots and lots on the Ottoman Empire. Not so much about northern Africa and a MINISCULE amount of time on anything in Asia. China, but recent, and that's about it for that whole area of the world. It was a little crazy. We did get a segment, once, on South & Central American large societies before the Age of Sail, but I don't remember much of it. I keep getting Toltec and Olmec mixed up.

Honestly, I don't think many people know the difference between Olmec and Tolmec, just knowing their name is already a lot more than many people.

There's one thing interesting in Europe, it teaches us history from the viewpoint of the country we're in now. Like, for example, during the whole of WWI, my place was German. But we're taught all about France during that war and how Germany was an "enemy". Which is strange thing to think about.

My favorite history is ancient history. I just find it so much more interesting.

Most of my history was also murica based. Though I did take a women in us history class and that was pretty cool.

Huh. I guess it'd be great though to get to the point where every country can teach history about things it's been involved in with both the things they are proud of and also the things they think they were wrong about. It'd make for an easier time at international conferences, I expect!

light_sucks wrote:My favorite history is ancient history. I just find it so much more interesting.

Most of my history was also murica based. Though I did take a women in us history class and that was pretty cool.

It's cool you can take it in the first place. That's something you can only do in Uni and only if a teacher specialized in the subject is here to teach it.
Like, my college was the only place in France where you could learn History of Religions as a subject, it's kinda sad.

We had religion studies as a subject during both junior high school & high school but it's all about orthodoxs and a 10 page mention to other religions, feels so biased and useless *sighs*

Well, some history of religion I feel like you end up learning right along with regular history, though, because they're so intertwined in certain areas? Like the places where they had god-kings or other 'divine right' rulership, and then the spread of Christianity and Islam both changed a huge numbers of borders and sparked quite a few wars, so those come up, and then if you're in an English-speaking area you usually get the Henry VIII bit and the foundation of the non-Orthodox Christianity, and then if you're anywhere near those areas you always get a bit of Budhism just because so many places count time based on that one, just like a lot of the Western stuff counts time based on the Christianity stuff.
So...
a lot of it is kind of just woven right on in....?