Why do most people, even people who are pretty well versed in

>>2678464
How about you try to preserve physical documents for 2+ millennia

History is by nature focused on writing and documentation. There isn't much documentation about ancient history.

>>2678464
It's because of a Presentist attitude that pervades history. There's a narrative of history which presents history as an ever-rising tide of progress, with every generation surpassing the last in wisdom and knowledge, which is only lost in so-called "Dark Ages". The people that far back were so uncivilized, so uncouth, so stupid, why would we study them? We could study WWII for the 500,000,000th time, because WWII was obviously a throwback to a more dark, unenlightened time, instead of a product of its time.

It's the same people who think the "Dark Ages" were a real thing. It's Hegelians, for the most part.

>>2678464
Because it doesn't interest them. Most people also don't heavily study pre-Mongolian Central Asian history either, but you don't blame people for that.

because many people want to know history to gain insight into modern events

history like the World Wars, the Cold War and various communist-capitalist proxy wars, etc. which gives context to many recent cultural phenomena, and the motivations of many political states which do not ally themselves with US/EU.

Some will get into European history to shed light on the age of exploration to gain insight into their own nation's trajectory and why Europe has been the cultural powerhouse of the world

Very few feel the need to comprehensively study ancient history besides ancient contributors to science theory and Kings/Emperors

Fewer still will ever get into pre-colonial American, African, Indian, Arabic, Chinese history, as well as nongreek city-states and other civilizations

>tfw an old book quotes a verse from a lost book

>>2678464

Romans were slaves to a leader that taxed them while Germanic tribes built ancient fortresses all on their own initiative. Not to mention Germanic tribes were numbered in the hundred thousands while Romans were 60-70 Millions. Talk about being inferior per person!

For centuries learning history meant learning the history of Greece and Rome. The idea that children should learn the history of their own history was considered ridiculous.

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>>2678585
I raged when I read Cicero's quotes from lost dialogues in his discourse on death.

>>2678627
We hardly know anything about pre-roman germanic history so that makes sense

>>2678585
>this is what g*rmans believe