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Hello Tumblr. I have a question for all history enjoyers out there :)
((by history enjoyers I also mean people that are in any fandoms related to history))
beware! yapping session ahead ↓
So I've been to many fandoms, and recently, many of them have had a big connection to history. I've become interested in it since I joined the Countryhumans fandom (I know, problematic, but I'm out of that phase), and I always focused more on the historical side of the community. I found it interesting how those personifications of countries can describe different moments of history in different ways, and ever since then I started thinking about these historical moments not as just a random event that happened in the past, but as something that REALLY happened, as something that real people FELT and LIVED through, and as something that can serve as a reason of why we act like we do now.
As a part of all these historical fandoms, I realized that most of the communities know a LOT more stuff than I do about history, and for that I blame the incredible education system in my country. They focus too much on the history of the country itself, and when we started learning world history in 7th grade, it felt very... summarized. Heck, our history class doesn't even last a year, it lasts one semester out of the three. We didn't learn about the important Pharaohs in Egypt, we didn't learn about the important wars in Ancient Greece, we didn't even talk about the Roman Empire.
So my main question was:
Did any of you historians learn most of your history from school? Or did you have to learn everything yourself?
Side note: I'm on Easter holidays right now, and I plan to make a real big file with the detailed information for any historical happenings that I think are important to know :)