I was looking through my old 7th grade textbook from 2000 on Medieval Times (800s - 1200s) and it seemed to only focus on Europe during the middle ages, not Africa, not Asia, not the Americas, not Australia etc.
There was a small section on the Native Americans from what is now Peru (Incas) and that's about it.
I have learned a lot since I was in the 7th grade that contradicts most of what I had learned about the more 'advanced' Europeans.
-Islamic Empires in the Middle East were far more advanced in Mathematics than the Europeans
-Native Americans from what is now Mexico (Aztecs) were one of the first to have a free market economy (like what the USA and China have now)
-Aztecs built bigger cities and marketplaces compared to the Europeans at the time
-Mayans invented the most accurate calendar of their time
-The Incas had one of the most advanced road system in the world during that time
-Ghana (next to the aztec state) was the wealthiest society with the most resources. (Both had gold)
-Muslim Empires seemed to know that many sicknesses could be caught by coming in contact with a person who was infected (Europeans did not know this, hence the millions of deaths during the middle ages of the black death)
MY QUESTION IS WHY DO TEXTBOOKS LIKE THIS ONE, HAVE A EUROPEAN ('WHITE') SLANT ON THEM? IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE MAJORITY OF THEIR NEIGHBORS WERE FAR MORE ADVANCED???
There was a small section on the Native Americans from what is now Peru (Incas) and that's about it.
I have learned a lot since I was in the 7th grade that contradicts most of what I had learned about the more 'advanced' Europeans.
-Islamic Empires in the Middle East were far more advanced in Mathematics than the Europeans
-Native Americans from what is now Mexico (Aztecs) were one of the first to have a free market economy (like what the USA and China have now)
-Aztecs built bigger cities and marketplaces compared to the Europeans at the time
-Mayans invented the most accurate calendar of their time
-The Incas had one of the most advanced road system in the world during that time
-Ghana (next to the aztec state) was the wealthiest society with the most resources. (Both had gold)
-Muslim Empires seemed to know that many sicknesses could be caught by coming in contact with a person who was infected (Europeans did not know this, hence the millions of deaths during the middle ages of the black death)
MY QUESTION IS WHY DO TEXTBOOKS LIKE THIS ONE, HAVE A EUROPEAN ('WHITE') SLANT ON THEM? IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THE MAJORITY OF THEIR NEIGHBORS WERE FAR MORE ADVANCED???