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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.

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To: MUDDOG

And the Muslim conquest of Constantinople.


21 posted on 06/29/2018 7:08:18 AM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: Sasparilla

Orwell was unbelievably prescient


22 posted on 06/29/2018 7:09:01 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: C19fan

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...”


23 posted on 06/29/2018 7:12:11 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: jerod

Some of us trads still think of CE as “Christian Era.”


24 posted on 06/29/2018 7:13:29 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: D Rider

Then 1750 BC is a good place to start.


25 posted on 06/29/2018 7:13:48 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Buckeye McFrog; cumbo78
According to Liberals the entirety of history began with the election of FDR. birth of Margaret Sanger.
26 posted on 06/29/2018 7:15:59 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: C19fan
with some historians fretting it will make the course too "Western-centric."

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.

27 posted on 06/29/2018 7:16:05 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: MUDDOG

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.


28 posted on 06/29/2018 7:16:20 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

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.


29 posted on 06/29/2018 7:19:51 AM PDT by aspasia
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Sumerian writing was at least 600 years earlier than your 400 BC date. As were written records of Egypt.


30 posted on 06/29/2018 7:22:17 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: Mrs. Don-o

“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


31 posted on 06/29/2018 7:24:56 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: C19fan
"The American Historical Association, meanwhile, sent a letter to the College Board earlier this month attacking the changes from the left, arguing that focusing only on recent history would make the course too “Western-centric.”

Hmmmmm....quite the conundrum...

32 posted on 06/29/2018 7:25:40 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: C19fan; jerod; DesertRhino
“The College Board wants to remove over 8,000 of those years, and start the course in 1450 CE AD 1450,” declares a petition seeking to prevent the change, which had already exceeded 11,000 signatures by press time.

FIFY

33 posted on 06/29/2018 7:34:32 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: C19fan

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.


34 posted on 06/29/2018 7:37:50 AM PDT by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

I thought it was MLK!


35 posted on 06/29/2018 7:38:27 AM PDT by Original Lurker
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To: C19fan

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.


36 posted on 06/29/2018 7:43:23 AM PDT by Tuketu (The Dim Platform is splinters bound by crazy glue. TRUMP is the solvent.)
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To: jerod

“1450 CE?”

1450 years after Christ’s Execution?


37 posted on 06/29/2018 7:50:26 AM PDT by sonofagun (Some think my cynicism grows with age. I like to think of it as wisdom!)
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To: jerod

They are only fooling themselves as CE still begins with the Nativity of Our Lord.


38 posted on 06/29/2018 8:16:39 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Tuketu

Correction. C.E. as with A.D. starts with the birth of Christ not His death.


39 posted on 06/29/2018 8:18:29 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: C19fan

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.


40 posted on 06/29/2018 8:22:44 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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