Thanks so much for your input — it’s so informative — i think you’re right — it’s about war and politics instead of real history.

Not entirely. You still have to teach what has been put in the history book you’ve chosen. The way you teach and what you add to the info given in the book is up to you. I think the publishers here get some guide lines about what to put to their history books, though. I doubt it has changed all that much since I was in elementary and high school, but the history books seemed to be full of politics and war. That’s the way I remember it anyway. And they wonder why kids think history is boring…

Wow, thank you so much for your help — one of my beloved Warriorettes! You really have a place in my heart.

i didn’t know much about Greece either — I’ve never studied it until just recently — not even the mythology — yeah, I think our education could have been better. We should at least know more about this country and republics — like I said, there haven’t been that many of them in history. : )

Have a super evening!

I so look forward to the posts here from you and all! I’m always enjoying learning about the history and I think I understand so much more when I read now! So don’t stop giving us that great info! The Age Of Pericles is totally new for me. I actually didn’t get much from HS at all with no interpreters and there wasn’t much to take of in History in College. Most I learn now is thought things i look up and in books and like here! I know of some mythology with the Greek gods, which probably doesn’t have much to do with Greece (I’m not sure, so I can say now I know LITTLE of it except for what I read in romance and then looked up more on their characters). How hard is it to find history from 495? I’m so glad they can preserve history now than they could then but you did find so much more that they did have on the government then.