I'm just an anecdote (but: an anecdote from exactly the kind of school district you're trying to dunk on) but I checked and OPRF students do Euro history the first half of Grade 9 (in World History A), then US History, then again in Grade 11 (if they elect it).
It seems to me that none of the time students spend on subjects like Mesoamerican History are "inordinate", since students take history for a fixed, small number of semesters. You can definitely ordinate the time here.
Re:Ancient City Found in the Amazon
by selimthegrim on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @10:13AM
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You must’ve missed the history lessons about China and Tipu Sultan
1) Western europeans are probably the people least in need of that reminder. They’re probably the least ethnocentric culture in the world, having voluntarily adopted a Mediterranean civil society (from the Romans) and Middle Eastern religion. They’re NPCs in some of their own most important stories.
Maybe it’s different in Europe, but American kids spend inordinate amounts of time learning about other cultures (native Americans, Mesopotamians, Egyptians) and comparatively little time learning about their own. European history isn’t even a part of most American curricula.
2) Which cultures invented rockets and sent people to space?