What era/eras in your country’s history are the most discussed in history class?

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1. In the UK, the most common include the Roman invasion of Celtic Britain, the Viking and Norman invasions, the Tudor Period, the Victorian era, WW1, and WW2, along with the histories of non-British countries such as Greece and Egypt.

   Advanced history classes tend to discuss the Elizabethan Age, Colonialism/The British Empire, the US Civil Rights movement, and the Cold War.

   The Revolution isn’t really discussed, but it is acknowledged, and the creation of the US Consitution and the separation from Canada might be.

   There’s also a separate history option in some schools and universities which I suspect focuses more on the columbian exchange instead of the cold war.

2. Depends where you study. If its gymnasium, you can get fairly detailed history, especially if its needed for the university entrance exams. If its trade school or specialized high school you get highlights.

   In gymnasium we covered, important early european history, romans, greeks.

   Egyptians, mezopotamia, Mohammed, importance of silk route.

   From medieval, Reneissance, Ottomans, with Austrian Hungarian empire, to magyarisation to Habsburgs and Jagels.

   100 year war, French revolution, Napoleon, Henry and the new church of England + Elizabeth. Industrial revolution.

   Bismarck is mentioned, WW1, October revolution, WW2 and Czechoslovakian history is covered. Communism, and its impact, cold war in the world.

   Also early local history as Samo land of Moravian kings. Also then also Jan Hus.

   Discovery of Americas, independence war, civil war and end of slavery. If we had time, we learned more about ML King, but I didn’t know Harriet Thubman for a long time only from film.

   I had 4 years of history in HS, but this might not be true to every type of high-school. Plus it was a decade and a little bit ago. Also if you have a cool teacher, he/she might add her interests so definitely sure our talked about S chuang ti.

   How do I know, I stole a school book by accident, and still have my HS notes.

3. Most likely the **viking age**. It’s a focal point of Norways (and the scandinavian countries) history in general. It was the time when the first version of our nation was created. It was also a time the nation were considered a great power.. With vikings being all over the place.. being there at the focal point of other nations history as well.. like norwegian kings fighting the pre-battle before the battle at hastings 1066.. Remember the picture of the bayeux tapestry being in the history books etc.. The theme has also gotten a lot of revival in recent years.. with tv-show, documentaries etc. of the that age.. They are even rebuilding the vikingsship museum in the capital and not that long ago discovered a [vikingship](https://www.hiof.no/iio/itk/english/research/news-events/news/2020/the-viking-ship-at-gjellestad-comes-to-life-online.html) in another districts/region..

   Another topic that is heavily covered is the time period **1814 to 1905**. It’s the timeline that takes norway to it’s independence.. From beging a danish “colony”.. to being in union to sweden.. to finaly being independent in a peacefull way in the end (contrary to most european nations gaining independence). The period is with much focus on specific figures raising norways position internationally.. Like famous polar explorers and authors.. Not to speak of looking back on the past (all the way back to the viking age) when norway was a great power. So it’s often interwoven into other subjectds in school like “literature” (the history of the authors also become the history of norway).