History is my favorite subject, I'm in AP Modern World History, getting into 1450-1550 I think, I really can't wait for WWII, despite how unoriginal that sounds, because I really think I can prevent us from skimming over a lot of it like it has been. We skimmed over the Ottomans vs. Habsburgs, the 30 Years War, and probably a lot more that I wouldn't know about

Since history is about the past, I would just like to come here and say that Epstein didn't kill himself in the year 2019 AD.

AD?

Anno Domini

Latin for "in the year of the Lord"

Basically after Jesus' birth.

Today, AD is replaced with C.E. common era.

Some replace it because they don’t like anything involving Jesus. But most textbooks and whatnot keep it how it historically is, AD

I've seen it used in early AD ages, like 79AD

I've been doing some studying on Amelia Earhart, and how she didn't just disappear on her flight, but was captured, held, and then executed by the Japanese during WWII. What I haven't been able to figure out is why the American government hid that information. Do y'all have any thoughts?

She disappeared in 37

Before WW2

That's when she was captured, and WW2 started in 39. There's a lot mystery about when she was executed, but they do know she was held on Saipan Island for several years.

If she was captured in 37, the Japan probably would have said something, the US and Japan were trade partners at the time

Japan had already started expanding by then and they were sending spies to the US. Also the Japanese had a plane called the "Betty bomber" which is a twin engine bomber, that is a copycat of Earharts plane. There's a theory that the Japs wanted her plane.

Hm

I just want to know why all that information is just coming out now? Why was it hidden?

Who knows

I though AD meant “after death” referring to Jesus’ death

That's a simple way of remembering it

I noticed that student dont like History or know almost nothing about is because its barely taught in elementary and if it though, then its European history like wtf.

I still remember when my schools taught Texas history, and ended it shortly after i got into Junior High

But now they include "mexico" history as part of US history

To for what i can guess, "fill in for rhe Texas history" they removed from the curriculum

How does Mexican history have anything to do with US history?

i have no idea

A little bit, such as the US and Mexico war

1846

well yeah that, but overall aside from a few states it really doesnt play a massive part in US's history

I presume its taught in such a way that somehow everything averse to happen to Mexico

Is somehow a fault of the US

Like the arrival of the Spanish.. sure brutal, flu and chicken pox

Probably

But what really did the aztecs in was the fact that they were so brutal to smaller tribes

yeah, and that states like Cali. Texas, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico were land stolen from Mexico is what i can imagine being taught nowdays in grade schools

They joined the Spanish and helped them out plenty

hell from what iv talked with people around my age, alot of them think that Texas was land stolen from Mexico by US imperialism

Mexicans did not inhabit the land that far north🤦‍♂️

Bruh

tho those people were from outa state and dont know anything about Texas history

they dont even know it were the French that were the first Euro's to discovered it, then the Spaniards came across an abandoned french fort some 20 years later when they first began exploring that region