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From: jsq@ut-sally.UUCP (John Quarterman)
Newsgroups: net.misc,net.politics
Subject: Re: Bias in history teaching -- international survey
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Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 13:15:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  6 13:15:34 1983
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At least most history courses *mentioned* India, China, and Japan,
but most people have never even heard of Ghana, Songhai, Benin, Zimbabwe,
Axum, the Khmer Empire, or other nations older, more powerful, or
more extensive than European nations of the same periods.

A pop test:

1) What is the oldest continuously occupied city in North America?
2) Who was Mansa Musa?
3) Where is Samarkand and why was it important?
-- 
John Quarterman, CS Dept., University of Texas, Austin, Texas
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