Hell, the only thing that you really do learn of the Bible in public school is that Jesus of Nazareth was born in 4 BC, and executed by the Roman government in mid 20s AD. Or have they even taken that much out of World History textbooks?
EDIT: Guys, I said "World History," not "American/US History," you're not going to find Christ mentioned in the latter.
In America we talk about 2 main events. Colonization/pioneering and revolution. Later on, in college the plight of our Indians and blacks was explored.
Wait, what? They don't teach the formation of civilized hunter/gatherer society in Mesopotamia? How all sorts of early societies formed around rivers (the Themes, the Nile, etc.)? Notable leaders of said societies in history? The Caesars? The Louis? Marie "let them eat cake" Antoinette?
White people invented slavery, caught black wxmxyn from Wakanda with butterfly nets, then caused the holocaust, but a gay man solved an enigma code machine which ended wars forever, you now know all of public school history.
I remember a History class in 7th grade (~age 13-14) which covered an extremely brief bit on extremely early human cultures. We learned about Cuneiform, Ziggurats, Ashurbanipal, Spartans, etc, but only for one year. In my schools (~90% White, fairly nice) there was a very limited concern with everywhere else in the world outside of some tests on remembering every country in a content and maybe their capitals. Extremely in-depth studies on the things you mention would have been later electives, probably not even available in my high school.
In 10th grade we had World Cultures which I don't remember anything from except having to memorize a bunch of African countries & capitals, which I actively avoided doing. I remember telling my teacher that I don't care about Africa, it sucks, and I'm sick of seeing the 'starving African' commercials shoved in my face all the time trying to make me feel guilty about people I'll never meet in my life. That teacher actively disliked me a lot afterward.
Hell, the only thing that you really do learn of the Bible in public school is that Jesus of Nazareth was born in 4 BC, and executed by the Roman government in mid 20s AD. Or have they even taken that much out of World History textbooks?
EDIT: Guys, I said "World History," not "American/US History," you're not going to find Christ mentioned in the latter.
In America we talk about 2 main events. Colonization/pioneering and revolution. Later on, in college the plight of our Indians and blacks was explored.
My US history classes - Elementary school: columbus, pilgrims, civil rights. Middle school: indians, holocaust, civil rights. High School: slavery, "progressive era", worshiping FDR, holocaust, civil rights.
And this was in late 80s/early 90s, which is why I still got columbus and pilgrims. I can't imagine how bad it is now.
In response to your edit. Public schools in the US don't teach world history. That's why they're confused.
Wait, what? They don't teach the formation of civilized hunter/gatherer society in Mesopotamia? How all sorts of early societies formed around rivers (the Themes, the Nile, etc.)? Notable leaders of said societies in history? The Caesars? The Louis? Marie "let them eat cake" Antoinette?
White people invented slavery, caught black wxmxyn from Wakanda with butterfly nets, then caused the holocaust, but a gay man solved an enigma code machine which ended wars forever, you now know all of public school history.
I remember a History class in 7th grade (~age 13-14) which covered an extremely brief bit on extremely early human cultures. We learned about Cuneiform, Ziggurats, Ashurbanipal, Spartans, etc, but only for one year. In my schools (~90% White, fairly nice) there was a very limited concern with everywhere else in the world outside of some tests on remembering every country in a content and maybe their capitals. Extremely in-depth studies on the things you mention would have been later electives, probably not even available in my high school.
In 10th grade we had World Cultures which I don't remember anything from except having to memorize a bunch of African countries & capitals, which I actively avoided doing. I remember telling my teacher that I don't care about Africa, it sucks, and I'm sick of seeing the 'starving African' commercials shoved in my face all the time trying to make me feel guilty about people I'll never meet in my life. That teacher actively disliked me a lot afterward.
Not in highschool, and it's an elective in University.
WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO EDUCATION THE PAST TWO DECADES??? I learned most of that stuff BEFORE high school!
Mormons and delusional jojo fans would disagree ;)
Mormons get a paragraph in US History books. There is more about the Wizard of Oz bring an Allegory