so some stuff....its something that sometimes can capture my interest

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I've been caught in a mind riot...

Part of the problem with learning history is that it's damned difficult to find ACCURATE history. America is subjected to a lot of this "revisionist" crap, a la 1984. Or it's given some kind of a secular-progressive slant... But that may just be American history. As for the rest of the world...? I recall that we did quite a bit of European history in western civilization class; I don't think we really touched upon the history of any other part of the world unless it had some major impact on the way that Europe (re: British Empire) did things. We didn't touch much on the history of any African nation, very little of eastern Asia, nothing of Southeast Asia until the 1960s, and we learned that South America is, indeed, south.

I believe I learned more world history in my Art History classes and in my introduction to anthropology course than I ever did in any of the regular history courses.



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"What we do in life echoes in eternity." -Maximus

I generally read history books that date from 1960's-backwards. You can avoid a lot of the crappy revisionisy mumbo-jumbo and the progressive history movement was still in its earliest stages...

About your Western Civ class, it makes sense that you'd focus on Europe because that is where western civ was born and cultivated lol! So contemplation of any other area of the world would simply be a study on how those areas effected the development of the West.

About your art history class... That's kind of sad lol!

By American education standards, I might as well just write the textbooks.
But as for world history, just average. I've tried to learn what I can on my own, and that's been hard but worth the effort. Thankfully I've got a dad who's stuck maps on the walls around the table so he can quiz us on wars and politics and the like during dinner...

*first sentence not meant to be taken literally*

I heart history. Most people find it boring, but it's one of my favorite things to learn.

I don't claim to know everything, I'm pretty up on Canadian and European (more than anything else) history. American history, for a Canadian, I suppose I'm not bad. Asian history a little less, except for a few specific periods (gotta love the feudal eras). African, Australian, and South American history is a bit more lost on me except for a few specific things. But history by itself.. I think it's one of those things that ties into so many other aspects of life, it's hard to outright ignore it.

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"In Soviet Mordor, Boromir simply walks into you."

On the other hand, back in the 60's, they still thought Genghis Khan was an annoying, Russian-eating barbarian.
Though, today, most people prefer to know him as the guy who created an empire that spanned from the Pacific Ocean to the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as the spiritual godfather of Outer Mongolia.

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I just noticed something. You have super powers. That is so cool. Can you fly?

-Glorificus the Beast

Am I the only person in this country to have had competent history teachers in middle school and elementary?

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I just noticed something. You have super powers. That is so cool. Can you fly?

-Glorificus the Beast

~rachaelm5 "What was it like lying in that hole for a thousand years?"
~avancna "I was enjoying it until you showed up."

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I just noticed something. You have super powers. That is so cool. Can you fly?

-Glorificus the Beast