Originally Posted by
ozfe
In Australia, the high school history teaching is approximately as follows (at least it was ~10 years ago):
Year 7: first homosapiens, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Romans
Year 8: mostly England (Elizabeth/Tudors etc.) and a bit about The Renaissance
Nobody really cared about any of the above.
In Australia, we definitely are not taught that wonderful things happened in the British colonies, rather the exact opposite. There is a lot of teaching about how poorly the Indigenous Australians were treated by the invaders and the Stolen Generation. At the exact time I was learning this, the Australian government announced an official apology.
Year 9: Australian history (invasion by the British), Australian Gold Rush, WWI, WWII, Vietnam war
Year 10: More on WWII, Cold War
We definitely didn't learn much South American over here, maybe just a bit on Castro/Cuba.