You don't learn the actual facts of what happened of course. But you do learn about the situation in which different countries and historical figures found the

You don't learn the actual facts of what happened of course. But you do learn about the situation in which different countries and historical figures found themselves and the options they had. This is much more valuable because this type of learning has lessons for today; versus merely memorizing that king such-and-such did this-and-that in 1523, which doesn't.