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.
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!