Ka-pi96 said:
African history? Or sub-Saharan African history? I'd argue there's a difference, at least there was in the UK. Northern Africa often gets a lot of attention, especially Egypt and you'll almost certainly learn about Carthage (Tunisia these days) if you do any courses about the Romans too. But yeah, sub-Saharan Africa was completely untouched. |
Here it was only North-East Africa, Egypt and indeed Carthage, ancient times only.
Marrocco, Algeria, nothing, nothing after the Romans either.
Sub Sahara was mentioned for 80K years ago, Homo sapiens vs Neanderthals.
Also only ancient history about China, after the great walls nothing.
In contrast with Russia, which didn't come into the picture until the world wars, same as Japan.
South America, Aztecs and the Spanish getting gold from there.
It was mostly Western European centric after the Romans, or really just UK, Germany, France, Spain, Portugal and Italy.
Geography class pitched in with ancient history, movement of the continents.
Biology class pitched in with Darwin and evolution theory.
English language pitched in with Shakespeare and the times he lived in.
Math class pitched in with the origins of different math forms from China to Pythagoras.
Social studies pitched in with political movements, locally and across Europe from WWI on.
Religion class pitched in with the origins of different religions across the world.
Physics and Chemistry classes also contained plenty history about the origins of different theories.
All the 'applied history' was actually a lot more interesting than history class.
