@Grandtheftautism @11112011 @FreedoingVlad @Senator_Armstrong @animeirl @dicey @eisai @icedquinn My mother bought me this gigantic atlas...in 1988, right before half the map reconfigured itself.

Anyway, I don't know the curriculum when you were in school or what they're doing now, but high school had a year of what they referred to as "World History" (knights, Charlemagne, Christopher Columbus, some mention that Asia existed, a brief bit on WW1, then several months of Hitler; no mention of the raj, the Dutch East India Company, any of this; no mention of the Dutch East India Company in American History, either, which there probably should have been). My grandfather, out in the countryside, learned Latin in high school.