I can remember as a kid (1970s timeframe) having the world history year (there’s only one course in your final five years of high school), and the Roman history period was covered by two pages in a text book, and the teacher at the time spent no more than two class days on the whole Empire period.
I would go to study hall, and pull out the encyclopedia to read over the whole period of Roman Empire history. It made no sense to me to skip the period because there is so much that occurred and affects us even today. Yet, even in college....it marginally improved.
If you understand Ancient Rome the first thing you will realize is there truly is nothing new under the sun.
They say it all—and anyone who studies history can understand the present and the future.
_That_ is why they don’t teach it in school—don’t want the kids to be wise when they can become obedient servants of the ruling class instead.
My high school history text spent exactly two sentences on Lincoln’s assassination.
It began my turnaround in studying history. The teacher we had that year was a dolt and made history completely boring. The book made it worse. I went along for a while then realized the book authors and the teacher were compete idiots. This woke up my interest again, after I was done with that class.