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 ...
And the Muslim conquest of Constantinople.
Orwell was unbelievably prescient
Starting world history in 1450 AD (not CE) is a fine way to produce more dumbasses at the local imbecile factory.
How does that class start? “Once upon a time, there were civilizations everywhere...”
Some of us trads still think of CE as “Christian Era.”
Then 1750 BC is a good place to start.
The history of the world is largely the history of the West. What significant contributions did the continents of Africa or South America make? There are contributions in Asia, more in the middle east, but the bulk is in the West.
These professors are self-loathing fools, as usual.
In particular, 1871 - 1914.
At times, I think of that period as the pinnacle of human achievement.
At other times, I think of 1945-1968.
You got that right. The common era begins way later, unless they mean the Christianity is what made the world common. Plus, what’s way later is hardly common. Liars.
Sumerian writing was at least 600 years earlier than your 400 BC date. As were written records of Egypt.
“Some of us trads still think of CE as “Christian Era.”
Oh I cannot wait to annoy the next museum docent I see. They thought they pulled a fast one to use a non-Christian term to describe “something” that happened 2000 years ago. And now you went and rained on their parade. lol
Hmmmmm....quite the conundrum...
FIFY
So, 1450 CE (Christian Era / Current Era) - Nothing about Greco-Judeo-Roman history or culture. Nothing about the rise of Islam and the conflicts like the Crusades or Tours. Nothing about China prior to the Ming Dynasty or the Mongol Empire or Alexander or Timur (the Lame). Nothing about Egypt’s history or Meso-America pre Aztec or Inca.
Yeah, that will work just like ‘New’ Math! Leaves lots of room for the required inclusion of the people that the PC crowd want to include.
I thought it was MLK!
Poisonally,doc, i yam sikened by the CE and BCE crap. CE is Common error, which began when? With the death of CHRIST, sic. CE is AD. So let us not offend people like me who are traditionalists. Of course BCE is a Waste of ink & paper for the environmentalists. The E is an extra letter. Lets go back to BC and save a tree.
“1450 CE?”
1450 years after Christ’s Execution?
They are only fooling themselves as CE still begins with the Nativity of Our Lord.
Correction. C.E. as with A.D. starts with the birth of Christ not His death.
Of course. The main purpose of that is to eliminate any knowledge of Jesus Christ or the later Roman Empire, which was very Christian. A secondary purpose is to emphasise Islam.
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