Comment on Ismail al-Jazari – the medieval 'Father of Robotics'parentComments−jbay8085yBut, overall, the single biggest event to impact the era was probably the Mongol sacking of Baghdad.Just goes to show how Eurocentric my history education was; I never heard about this. Fascinating.−andrepd5yI never learned that my country used forced labour in its colonies until the 60s, or that we dropped napalm on civilian villages as a reprisal. I'm very skeptical about the quality of history lessons in school, no matter the country.
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Just goes to show how Eurocentric my history education was; I never heard about this. Fascinating.
I never learned that my country used forced labour in its colonies until the 60s, or that we dropped napalm on civilian villages as a reprisal. I'm very skeptical about the quality of history lessons in school, no matter the country.