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Scholars blast decision to cut 8,000 years from AP World History
Campus Reform ^ | June 28, 2018 | Mason McKie

Posted on 06/29/2018 6:44:16 AM PDT by C19fan

Students and scholars are up in arms over a decision to cut thousands of years from the Advanced Placement World History curriculum, with some historians fretting it will make the course too "Western-centric."

“The College Board wants to remove over 8,000 of those years, and start the course in 1450 CE,” declares a petition seeking to prevent the change, which had already exceeded 11,000 signatures by press time.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; history; worldhistory
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My daughter will be taking AP World History. Thankfully she will get the full 10,000 year view.
1 posted on 06/29/2018 6:44:16 AM PDT by C19fan
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...some historians fretting it will make the course too “Western-centric...

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history”
Attributed to George Orwell


2 posted on 06/29/2018 6:49:08 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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Liberal’s actions bring to mind all kinds of quotes of the Orwellian society they pursue.

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed – if all records told the same tale – then the lie passed into history and became truth. “Who controls the past,” ran the Party slogan, “controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”
George Orwell 1984


3 posted on 06/29/2018 6:51:23 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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start the course in 1450 CE

Could still cover the Aztec human sacrifices.

4 posted on 06/29/2018 6:51:29 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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IN NYS, the Global History Regents now only cover from 1750 to the present.


5 posted on 06/29/2018 6:52:58 AM PDT by cumbo78
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And as far as the web of lies they spin,one final Orwell quote.

...In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it...

George Owell from 1984 


6 posted on 06/29/2018 6:53:30 AM PDT by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning)
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So no Assyrians?


7 posted on 06/29/2018 6:53:52 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendix))
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Western civilization is the best thing that ever happened to the human race.


8 posted on 06/29/2018 6:54:32 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Hey, Rocky--Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!)
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At least that covers my favorite century, the 19th.

In particular, 1871 - 1914.

I’m a 19th-century western man.


9 posted on 06/29/2018 6:55:22 AM PDT by MUDDOG
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People who homeschool and focus on the traditional, classical system of education will be at a huge advantage in the future.


10 posted on 06/29/2018 6:56:22 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Yes, I get it - racism is bad and mutual respect and inclusion is good. But value Truth too.)
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1450 CE?

There ain’t no CE in my vocabulary... It’s either AD anno Domini, or nothing. Bloody heathens!


11 posted on 06/29/2018 6:56:41 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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There isn’t much tangible before 1750BCE. It’s all speculation and myth. Such a winged black men building the pyramids.


12 posted on 06/29/2018 6:57:28 AM PDT by D Rider
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Christian Era. Ain’t nothing COMMON about Christ.


13 posted on 06/29/2018 6:58:11 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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I’ll go out on a limb here and posit that the vast majority of today’s Humanities curricula are about as useful as tits on a bull.


14 posted on 06/29/2018 6:58:29 AM PDT by tomkat
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Ha!

Erasing Catholic history to pretend Christianity began with Luther.....

Oh...wait....They’ve already erased Christianity from history......


15 posted on 06/29/2018 6:59:35 AM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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“scholars” is a term that means little these days when leftists quote their lies.


16 posted on 06/29/2018 6:59:57 AM PDT by elbook
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Technically correct. History is about written history. It is separate from archeology, which covers most of the rest.

Written history began in the 4th millennium BC, concurrent with the invention of writing. And yes, it happened in the west first. The history of China was hampered by its first emperor, who ordered all written history prior to his reign destroyed.


17 posted on 06/29/2018 7:00:37 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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To: C19fan

The continual crapping down of academic standards.


18 posted on 06/29/2018 7:04:11 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: cumbo78

According to Liberals the entirety of history began with the election of FDR.


19 posted on 06/29/2018 7:07:35 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: KC_Lion

Ping.


20 posted on 06/29/2018 7:07:44 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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