That's a complete lie. As someone who just took a European History class, I tell you, the only thing they didn't teach was the part I was most interested in.
Yeah but it's not apart of most history classes and social studies. Mainly it's just drilling in the revolutionary war the civil war, ww1, ww2 and maybe Vietnam and the Korean war if they make it that far.
My school did offer world history classes, those were the most fun. We did a colonial unit and in an activity seeing how each country took colonies I managed to trade my card representing Italy for Portugal. The poor bastard thought Italy would own the world.
On my first visit to Rome, I was amused to see something I recalled from a photo of Hitler's visit to Rome when the bromance between him and Mussolini was going strong, and everything falling to shit for both of them was a few years in the future.
On one of the high walls of a Roman building that had been exposed when Il Duce demolished a lot of poor people's homes so he could do some major excavations of the Forum, he had put up a series of four marble slabs engraved with maps showing the expansion of the Roman Empire, along with a fifth map showing the new Roman Empire that Mussolini wanted to create.
In the photo I vaguely recall, Mussolini is doing his usual gesticulation, while Hitler has his usual sourpuss expression. Hardly surprising in this case, since Mussolini's message was clear: the Italians were a great people back when the Germanic tribes were all running around in animal skins, living in hovels and slaughtering each other with bronze weapons.
Four of the maps are still on the wall. For some strange reason, the fifth has disappeared, even though there are still fascist monuments scattered around Rome and in other parts of Italy.
I've always thought that it would have been far more educational if Mussolini had showed Hitler a few more maps in the historical sequence, with the mighty, invincible Roman Empire shrinking back to piddling obscurity and poverty in a relatively short space of time.
Too bad Italy during ww2 had abysmal manufacturing capacity. They were simply not prepared for a large scale conflict. They didnt even have the slight technological superiority the germans had. Hell their tanks are a meme now for how bad they were yet American tanks were much the same, though Americans had the production capacity to keep them rolling off the line.
Weirdly, in the European History class, they taught from 1400 to the early 2000's. I wanted to learn about the people from 1000-1399, but we skipped that because of the terrible Floridian school boards.
Why the hell are Americans so horrendous at geography?
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because of the rotten education system we have, they dont teach history or geography
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That's a complete lie. As someone who just took a European History class, I tell you, the only thing they didn't teach was the part I was most interested in.
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Yeah but it's not apart of most history classes and social studies. Mainly it's just drilling in the revolutionary war the civil war, ww1, ww2 and maybe Vietnam and the Korean war if they make it that far.
My school did offer world history classes, those were the most fun. We did a colonial unit and in an activity seeing how each country took colonies I managed to trade my card representing Italy for Portugal. The poor bastard thought Italy would own the world.
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On my first visit to Rome, I was amused to see something I recalled from a photo of Hitler's visit to Rome when the bromance between him and Mussolini was going strong, and everything falling to shit for both of them was a few years in the future.
On one of the high walls of a Roman building that had been exposed when Il Duce demolished a lot of poor people's homes so he could do some major excavations of the Forum, he had put up a series of four marble slabs engraved with maps showing the expansion of the Roman Empire, along with a fifth map showing the new Roman Empire that Mussolini wanted to create.
In the photo I vaguely recall, Mussolini is doing his usual gesticulation, while Hitler has his usual sourpuss expression. Hardly surprising in this case, since Mussolini's message was clear: the Italians were a great people back when the Germanic tribes were all running around in animal skins, living in hovels and slaughtering each other with bronze weapons.
Four of the maps are still on the wall. For some strange reason, the fifth has disappeared, even though there are still fascist monuments scattered around Rome and in other parts of Italy.
I've always thought that it would have been far more educational if Mussolini had showed Hitler a few more maps in the historical sequence, with the mighty, invincible Roman Empire shrinking back to piddling obscurity and poverty in a relatively short space of time.
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Too bad Italy during ww2 had abysmal manufacturing capacity. They were simply not prepared for a large scale conflict. They didnt even have the slight technological superiority the germans had. Hell their tanks are a meme now for how bad they were yet American tanks were much the same, though Americans had the production capacity to keep them rolling off the line.
Weirdly, in the European History class, they taught from 1400 to the early 2000's. I wanted to learn about the people from 1000-1399, but we skipped that because of the terrible Floridian school boards.