What were you taught in school about your country's history

[Idocreating]

Or more specifically, which leaders/time periods were you taught about?

During early primary school it was basically the Tudor period centred around King Henry the Bigamist- er i mean King Henry VIII. During secondary school the closest was more Tudor stuff and a smidget of stuff in World War II. Oh and the whole Guy Fawkes thing, except that clearly didn't work as i don't even remember who it was he was trying to blow up, i think he was of Scottish nationality (James I?). Oh and Oliver Cromwell's short Republic stint.

So that's all i remember from my time in school. Guy Fawkes, Oliver Cromwell, Tudors and a wee bit of World War II. That's not an awful lot considering England has one of the longest running monarchy's in the world.

 

[Cpt_Oblivious]

Primary school we learnt about WW2, Industrial Revolution * Tudor era.
Secondary School we've done WW2 in depth and for GCSE History we've touched English history slightly in The Cabinet War Rooms (WW2 again), Arab - Israeli Conflict (we started that) and the history of Medecine.

That's it so far for me.

 

[sky14kemea]

Or more specifically, which leaders/time periods were you taught about?

During early primary school it was basically the Tudor period centred around King Henry the Bigamist- er i mean King Henry VIII. During secondary school the closest was more Tudor stuff and a smidget of stuff in World War II. Oh and the whole Guy Fawkes thing, except that clearly didn't work as i don't even remember who it was he was trying to blow up, i think he was of Scottish nationality (James I?). Oh and Oliver Cromwell's short Republic stint.

So that's all i remember from my time in school. Guy Fawkes, Oliver Cromwell, Tudors and a wee bit of World War II. That's not an awful lot considering England has one of the longest running monarchy's in the world.

pretty much the same as you...

and that the town i live in used to be really icky...

 

[SmilingKitsune]

Well I'm just finishing up my school years and I am sick to the stomach of Irish history, it's the only history I've studied all year and it's starting to drive me nuts.

 

[Pandalisk]

Well I'm just finishing up my school years and I am sick to the stomach of Irish history, it's the only history I've studied all year and it's starting to drive me nuts.

What he said, the second we got away from Irish history and into WW2 i was relieved

Irish history is pretty much a testament on how much we got our asses kicked of the years by foreigners and other Irish

 

[Andalusa]

Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament, for what reason I don't really know. But whatever floats his boat.
Dinosaurs, Egyptians and a bit of Tudor stuff in primary school.
Battle of Hastings, the feudal system, world wars 1 and 2 in secondary school.

 

[Jay D Gee]

Being Scottish I honestly remember being taught a national hatred for the English which looking back was f**king ludicrous. Mind you my teachers were a tad mental.

 

[Aries_Split]

For me it was Grade School 1-6:America was discovered by Christopher Columbus, a hero!(Actually a murderous douche-bag.
Grade 6+: Columbus was a D-bag...So was Andrew Jackson...America is a cruel empire...we enslaved 2 huge races of people...slaughtered mexicans...

Damn...I'm moving to canada.

 

[Tech Team FTW!]

Not much...

 

[Fairee]

We studied the Victorian era so often at school I will never forget it. And it's not even interesting. Damn you, St. Davids!!!!

 

[The Infamous Scamola]

The greeks, the romans, Italian city states, Garibaldi, yadda yadda yadda....

Frankly I find school history very boring. I prefer looking up my own stuff out of my interests.

I've taught myself more history than any school could.

 

[Specter_]

7 years of history classes at a public school:
Holocaust. And "we are so evil because 60 years ago somebody did something, so it's totally your (meaning my generation) fault".

And that's the reason I don't give a fuck anymore and all those holocaust-mongering bastards can crawl in a hole and fucking die.

After I got kicked from that school I spent 3 years on a private school and there it was politics from '33 to '91.

 

[cathou]

WW1, WW2, we covered antique world (rome, greeks, egypt, etc.) Then columbus period, then our own history (discovery of canada, new france until english conquest), and canada history post WW1

 

[cainx10a]

I wished they actually taught us about snippets of world history, they only bothered to tell us about a certain volcanic eruption that created a small island, that was discovered by Arab sailors who hastily left, a bunch of drunk Dutchmen who committed genocide on our dodos (> . <), bunch of Frenchies who decided to settle and drag slaves from Africa, then a bunch of Brits who came, kicked the Frenchies faster before they could say "baguette", abolished slavery, and brought in, paid immigrants (Indians from India =D, yay) to work the land, then the Indians asked for independence (in exchange of Diego Garcia: yep, that's where a US military base is), and now we are a developing countries that rely heavily on the tourism industry (and soon enough, IT field).

So technically, we love England, India, and France, a little bit.

 

[hotacidbath]

I think it mostly consisted of America FUCK YEAH, but that was a while ago so I don't remember very well.

 

[Darmort]

Never went to school, but...
History of England. Lots of it from all kinds of different time periods.
World War I from multiple perspectives.
World War II from multiple perspectives.
Naval History.
Ancient History (Boudicca, for example).


Also to add to other Histories;
French Revolution.
Russian Revolution.
Greek, Roman and Egyptian (Ancient) history.
American History here and there.
Germany after the first and second World Wars.

 

[Randomtime]

Nothing too remarkable

Learnt about Roman, Greek, etc history, with a little WW2. Then did the whole "british history" thing, medieval to WW1. German history about Hitler then British history about the war, then Communism and Stalin.

 

[Bulletinmybrain]

That America is so fucking retardly convoluted, if you were to draw it.. I am sure everybody would scream its art.

Anyways last year in 7nth grade: Early exploration, native americans, industrial revolution, 1920s, world war 2, Vietnam, Korea and that was about it..

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

Too much, Canadian History is damned annoying.