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| Ka-pi96 said: I certainly wouldn't say that. An awful lot happened. Charlemagne conquered a big chunk of Europe, before his empire shattered after his death and laid the foundations for modern day France and Germany, the muslims conquered Iberia, then the christians conquered Iberia off of them leading to Portugal and Spain's existence. The vikings had a pretty huge impact throughout Europe. It was also the period that saw the decline and ultimate end of the eastern Roman Empire (thanks in large part to the crusades, actually). Also, it was only really a dark age for christian Europe. It was a bit of a golden age for the islamic world where they were at the forefront of medicine and science. |
See, all skipped, I had to look up what Iberia is. We did get a bit of the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire, yet most of it was local history in that period. The feudal system was discussed a lot, but only locally. The Islamic world was only really discussed in ancient times with Egypt and Mesopotamia. Well, actually is was never discussed since Islam wasn't around until the 7th century. (Islam was discussed in religion class) Just like China only got attention before the Romans were around, then only some bits when Marco Polo came around.
There is a lot to cover, 2 hours of history per week definitely didn't cut it. From Neanderthals to 7 billion people with over 10,000 religions, 6,500 languages in between.
The style of teaching wasn't very engaging either. It was mostly the teacher writing down facts, copied from a text book, which we had to copy down ourselves. Then learn those by heart to answer questions in a test. It was rather boring. I say discussed, but actually there was no discussion. Addressed is a better term. My English teacher was better at teaching history taking us to see a play of Hamlet!
I'm 'discovering' a lot more about history right now while playing FS2020. I'm flying around the world and check out the places visit on Google maps, check out the local museums and old buildings. Yesterday I learned the Dutch also had colonies in India from a Dutch-Armenian cemetery in Surat. Nagpur was the geographical center of India where the zero milestone is from where British Raj measured distances in India. And also seeing the Pakistan-India split portrayed from both sides in local exhibits. Now that's a good way to teach history!
Of course none of that was around when I was in school, long before the internet and flight sims. (fs 1.0 just came around) We had textbooks and a library with encyclopedias to look things up. Yet mostly it was just copying down what the teacher copied down from the textbooks, while having the rest of the textbook as reference.
