Quote Originally Posted by Remco
Well, we shouldn't blame people for not knowing, since most teachers don't know what they are talking about. Everything I know about history, mostly antiquity and WOII, I taught myself. But lets not be to hard on people who don't know about history. I bett I could ask you trivial questions on the subject of mathematics and physics and only a few would know the answer. Everybody has his own field of interest. Sadly this is mostly about utter crap.
It depends by the question.
I wouldn't blame anyone who doesn't know who were the Seleucians, or what was the Operation Tannenbaum, or when the Hell did the Moghal Empire rise, or who the duke of Alba was.
But I would surely put my hands on my hair in case of hearing somebody say that Alexander the Great was a relative of Charles the Great, or if somebody doesn't know where the Nazis passed in order to invade France, or think that Cina is on the Equator, or say that Achilles defeated the Turks.

Quote Originally Posted by General Appo
"before the vikings there lived some people in Sweden who hunted deers and eat roots and couldn´t do jack shit".
Today some black/pagan/Viking metallers still do that.

Quote Originally Posted by Zeibek
but people who are into natural sciences rarely bother to learn even the most rudimentary historical facts.
My university faculty is biology and I always had interesting in history too, so I'm happy to be an exception. ^^'