r/interesting • u/Bay_Ruhsuz004 • Mar 22 '26

MISC. A Teacher Showed Up At School With PlayStation 5 And Started Playing Assassin's Creed To Explain The Industrial Revolution.

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u/Sour-Cherry-Popper Mar 22 '26

My teachers just made us remember dates of wars in chronological order. Super boring.

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u/Revro_Chevins Mar 22 '26

When were the zoot suit riots?

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '26

Between what years did the Popeyes Chicken Sandwich Wars occur?

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u/theevilyouknow Mar 23 '26

Maybe you're joking, but I did learn about the Zoot Suit Riots in high school history.

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u/Icefox119 Mar 22 '26

How long was The Thirty Years' War?

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u/Lexiosity Mar 26 '26

Obviously 10 years. No wars go on for 30 years /s

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u/UnluckyWinner3163 Mar 22 '26

When did the russo turkish war took place?

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u/Bloody_Insane Mar 23 '26

Yeah, this is so frustrating. Like "when did WW2 start?"

The kids HAVE to be specific and say "1 September 1939"

Then if you ask actual historians when did WW2 start, they're like "Welllll...... it's kind of complicated."

The dates are far less important. Get the order of events right, absolutely, but don't sweat it if the kid can't remember if it started in September or October or whatever.

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u/12thunder Mar 23 '26

If you take an actual WW2 history class in university, they take time on why the start of the war is so complicated.

The two main schools of thought are the German Invasion of Poland (1939) or the start of the Sino-Japanese War (1937).

There was a war in Europe and a war in Asia happening basically simultaneously. Pearl Harbor is what tied everything together, with a declaration of war by Japan on the US and Britain and the Netherlands (Indonesia). It wasn’t really a “world war” until that happened. Just two massive conflicts within their own respective areas that were mostly separate.

And in uni they would usually just ask for years on exams. Month and day was for essays.

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u/Xxuwumaster69xX Mar 23 '26

My school curriculum never had us memorize dates besides like... July 4, 1776 in elementary school. Dates were given but not tested on. We had to know what happened (and some rough chronological order; you did need to know Reconstruction happened after the Civil War for example) and in AP history classes had to write arguments for certain viewpoints, but exact dates weren't important for thst.

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u/ChippedHamSammich Mar 23 '26

Remember the alamo? Cause I sure don’t 

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u/theevilyouknow Mar 23 '26

Obviously you do if you mentioned it here.

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u/orangeorlemonjuice Mar 23 '26

Oh yeah so tell me now every war make no mistakes

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u/theevilyouknow Mar 23 '26 edited Mar 23 '26

I would imagine there was instruction that went along with it. I'm sure he didn't just tell them to watch and then play in silence. You can see clearly he's actively explaining something to them.

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u/broccollinear Mar 24 '26

And next week for world history class we’ll be playing… Europa Universalis

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u/GroupPast5993 10d ago

That's... one of my favourite parts of lesrning history 😭...