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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 1198359" data-attributes="member: 891">True.So much is skipped in what is recorded and what is taught. My education has told me nothing of what I might have found along the Rhine in say.... 500 BC.Pre Rome, I was never taught anything about Europe north of the Mediterranian. What I know comes from my own post-school study - and it has severe gaps.I can make the same statement about Pre-Columbian America.And these two are directly relevant to the chain that in the end results in the modern western world I live in.Step out of that chain, and even relatively modern history is missing from the education system. Do you know who ruled in Korea around 1000 AD? When the Inca came to power? How a group of people native to South Africa have the DNA of the Jewish priest class in their blood (one I got out of a PBS special...)? One can pull out whole sections of the world and whole periods upon which modern history does not even bother to glance.Some of them have very interesting links that are highly relevant to how our world is currently shaped - such as the Aztec - Toltec conflicts and the nation (who's name I forgot) that allied with and married into Cortez's conquistadors - and others just make interesting footnotes.The field of history is in sad shape.</blockquote>