Comments by "Michael Wright" (@michaelwright2986) on "Who Wrote the Qur'an? | What Sources Were Used?" video.

  1.  @matthewferrantino9521  I agree that "we" should know more about the Persian Empire, and the history of China, and the Indian sub-continent. But there is a reason why the Roman Empire (and the Greek world) are much more taught in "our" schools, which is that, for better or worse, "we" are in a direct continuity with it; might even speak a language that is the development of Latin. It depends who "we" are. On YouTube, "we" tend to be majority, or anyway plurality, English speaking, together with European. Same with the British Empire: in relatively recent times, it touched the lives of many people in many parts of the world, and the aftermath is still going on. I think the focus on these aspects of history is reasonably understandable in parts of the world to which they are especially relevant. You can only get so much into a syllabus, especially if it's to have any kind of substance to it. What really does bug me is the way that I was taught the history of Greece and Rome as though they were entirely exceptional, rather than in their context and in their interactions with other ancient cultures and societies. But, at least in Anglophonia, it's a battle to get any kind of knowledge of the deep past into curricula.
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