I never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed but that's the very opposite of what they teach in those kinda classes right
If you say they do I'd like to see the syllabus breh
Western Civ? That's all about how the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Berbers, and Moors helped form the structures that the modern Western world survives off of.
It's all Greeks and Romans in that class, etc. I'm sure some school districts play down the African/Central Asian influences in education, medicine, etc., but my experience was not that. It was all about Arabs pioneering the basics of mathematics, the Malians creating the first university that went on to influence the Ancient Greeks, who influenced the Ancient Romans, etc. Down to the fact that a lot of classic literary themes and stories came from Arabs and Africans, the Greeks remixed those into their own stories, and then the Romans remixed those Greek stories for themselves.
European History is where you get into what Europe did with all that knowledge once they left the Dark Ages, you talk about the incestuous royal families across Western Europe, and you get into Western Colonization, the Scramble for Africa, etc.
Maybe that was just my experience, though? IDK, what did everyone else experience in high school Western Civ.? Do they even have that as a mandatory class for your freshman year of H.S. anymore? Admittedly, I am