Veeky Forumstory Normies Never Heard About

On this topic i want to discuss about some Veeky Forumstorical events, periods or empires normies in western countries (Europe, Murica, Colonies) have no utter and absolute idea about.

We also discuss why this is the case, being it education, political correctness or whatever the case

Ill start with my favourite:

The Diadochi and Hellenistic period, most normies know only that "Alexander conquered Persia and stopped in India" but are completely oblivious of the absolutely important Hellenistic period afterwards which allowed the rise of ROMA, stoic philosophies (Aka christianity 1.0), and changed the geopolitics of the middle east and near asia till this very era.

I yet have to hear about a school or even college that teaches about this ¿Why is kept so obscure? We could have amazing movies of it

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In my country we learned about the Hellenistic period, almost as much as about Alexander, maybe even more...

You greek? or from any of related countries?

I guess if your country is related to an historical event, teachers are much more likely to teach about it plain simple.

For example, as a Chilean, as everyone on this forum, i got a shitload of info of national history. maybe even 75% of history in school.

Yet we still had world history, learning from prehistoric migrations till modern geopolitcs (aka the Pax Americana) and never heard about the diadochis and hellenistic period (and many other subjects) untill i started educating myself

>He didn't learn about the Ghaznivid Empire, or the Tui Tonga Empire, or Couto Mixto.

How does it feel to have spent your youth going to pleb schools?

Literally all of the crisis of the third century

>Took class on early modern history
>Literally just renaissance Italy, Colonial America, and West Africa

Normies don't even know about the Ottomans and East Indies.

Well im no Veeky Forumstorian myself, im just a biochemist and i study history for fun.
i guess i could cuck you into oblivion talking about genetics as much as you would cuck me talking about history

Also lets not keep this only on school/college matters, im talking about the historical knowledge of mainstream society. Why mainstream society knows about the crusades but so few for example of the origins of christianty and life of the first christians?

Things like that

Another apalling thing, there is literally no mention of the ottomans on any relevant cultural piece of the western world whatsoever (except maybe Lawrence of Arabia which mentions them tangentially)

Cristeros War
Persecution of Catholics under the secular mexican government, spoiler, in the end they the Pope made a deal with the Mexican government to overturn the Anti-clerical laws and the Cristeros were subsequently massacred.

Japan during its rise from a feudal state to a Great Power.
This is a very interesting and very exciting due to the societal and political conflict caused by modernization of Japan. Coups, ritual suicide, secret ultra-nationalist societies, it's like a movie.
In the end all those culminated into Statist Japan and ended by their surrender after the war.

There's a lot more, but I'll just post those for now.

I'm a college student and I've filled all my history credits. What I have learned about:
>American history
>Western European history starting from the Renaissance
>generalized global history from 1900
That's it pretty much. I only learned about the romans/greeks in one unit in 6th grade, where we also brushed on a few major ancient empires like the Sub-Saharan ones, Indian, Chinese, and Middle Eastern. Gotta love the American education system.