Hello everyone,

I'm a high school student in Hong Kong, China and I'm just curious in what other students elsewhere learn in their history classes and what common mistakes there are. In our school, our topics over three years are in chronological order:
1. Basics of History
2. Ancient Civilisation
3. Middle Ages
4. The Renaissance and Enlightenment
5. The French Revolution and Napoleon
6. WWI and the Age of Imperialism
7. The Treaty of Versailies and the Great Depression
8. The Rise of Hitler and WWII
9. The Cold War
10. Globalisation

I remember that our textbooks stated that Hannibal won the Battle of Cannae with 200 elephants... And Rome fell in 476 when the barbarians stormed the city. They also managed to skip Caesar and Augustus so it was Hannibal (they rolled all three Punic Wars into one and said that he was killed when Carthage fell) then the fall of the WRE and the Legacy of Rome. This year, our textbook stated that China was a major combatant in WWI among similar mistakes and absurd claims. Anyone else have similar experiences?