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Yes always amusing that civilization started in Greece apparently conveniently ignoring what was going on in India and China. You can thank centuries of coloni
by MomoXenosaga 5y ago
Yes always amusing that civilization started in Greece apparently conveniently ignoring what was going on in India and China.
You can thank centuries of colonial white superiority for that.
- jhgb 5y agoFor someone living in Europe, you see Greek roots everywhere but Chinese roots nowhere, so I'm not sure that anyone is "conveniently ignoring" anything, rather than simply teaching or learning local history.
- james-redwood 5y agoTrue. I suppose what they’re trying to say is that we don’t recognise Indian and Chinese classical history as much as we should, which is valid considering it was extraordinarily sophisticated. That being said, besides knowledge and technological transfer, it does not form a core part of European history in the same way Rome and Greece does.
- jhgb 5y agoOne of the major issues IMO is the fact that there's very limited time budgeted to history in schools. If you want to learn a broad array of subjects in high school (and you usually need to do that), you won't get that many history lessons, and the world is a big place and history spans a long time. We even had problems covering just European and our national history in the time allocated. It would have been great to be able to learn more but that would have made our high school just a school of history.
- MomoXenosaga 5y agoMy own country wouldn't exist if it wasn't for trade with Asian countries.
- Bayart 5y agoThe root civilizations of the West are originated from the fertile crescent (Egypt, Mesopotamia) and have nothing to do with neither India nor China. If anything, during the Neolithic and Bronze Age innovations moved from the West to the East.