Reply #97: Uhhh, I'm a historian. I will pick on one particular issue.

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With a few exceptions, historians do NOT use archaeologists' findings to study and write about people and events of the past. The exceptions are ethnohistorians, typically working on the histories of indigenous groups and some historians who work on material culture. I work on indigenous peoples in Mexico and my work is heavily influenced by archaeology, ethnology and anthropology. But it's not that way for everyone. My friends who are regular old US historians would die laughing at that. They would fail out of grad school if required to use archaeology in order to write dissertations/books.


Okay, I'm being nitpicky. I do not doubt the impact of religion on world cultures, but this curriculum is biased on the west, and I don't mean on the Americas. Strange, considering while Europe wallowed in the misery of the Dark Ages, killing each other and such, massive, impressive cultures rose in Mexico (Teotihuacan, Tikal, Palenque, etc, etc).