Jay wrote:
I think you misunderstood me, and it's my fault. I said "American History" courses treat England as a footnote, or the bad guy. American History is not the only required history course for grade schoolers. Usually two years of Western Civilization is also taught and that involves European and Middle Eastern history from hunter-gatherer through the Renaissance (from what I recall). If one were to take European History as an elective it would pick up from there.
The world outside of America does matter, I never said it didn't. What I said was that I find British history post-William the Conqueror to be tedious. You're frankly not a very interesting people. That's my own personal opinion. You had about 300 years of being anything other than a backwater and poor nation on the periphery of history (which is where you are now, you just don't see it lol@Brexit). Aside from campaigns by Marlborough (overrated compared to Eugen) and Wellington, British history in that time period consists of beating up on backwards people and stealing their money while funding proxies.
The same can be said for Scandinavia. Once they adopted Christianity they stopped being interesting, with the only exception being the 30 Years War.
I was trolling, and hoping for a better reaction.
I find most history boring, the bulk of British history was written on behalf of the royals to burnish their legacies, and of course the whole of Europe went through the dark ages, not just Britain. Britain was a backwater - like everywhere else before significant international travel occurred.
America has had about 50 years of not being a large farm thanks to unsustainable loans from other countries, I think your time is about up - a bit weak compared with 300 years.
British history in that time period consists of beating up on backwards people and stealing their money while funding proxies
Funny, that's the American present you're talking about - you remember your trip to the ME presumably?
Still, British history is more relevant to American history than probably the whole of the rest of the world put together. Good luck making sense of American history if you ignore the British.
We did use to own the world you know.
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