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Because every history class you've ever taken starts in the ancient past and has a week or two on the syllabus for everything after WWII. Lose a day on the Egyptians, two days on Rome, three days on the Renaissance and a day on the Civil War and suddenly there's no time for anything after the Spanish American War. I've long thought that history ought to be taught backwards, from current events clear back to the magna carta. You'd get a lot more causality. Also a lot more controversy, which is why it isn't done.