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In Austria the history lessons are sadly very Austria centric.
The prehistoric stuff is pretty standard I guess, when it comes to early high civilisations I learned about Mesopotamia and especially about Egypt, Greece and later on Rome in detail. Then came the fall of the Roman empire and the Völkerwanderung.
After that the Frank empire in detail and than we are already at it, Ostarrichi exists and thats where the focus remained from then on. First the Bamberger dynasty and then the entire history of the Habsburger dynasty in very detail. Other European powers were taught mostly in the context of the own country.
I can't remember where and how the colonisation and imperial age was taught, but it was not really that much of a focus.
As highlights of the last 250 years, of course the French Revolution and Napoleon was a big issue, the Viennese congress, then after internal stuff in Austria again, already WWI, 1st republic of Austria, Anschluss, WWII, occupation and thats pretty much it. The recent history of the 2nd Republic of Austria was taught in political education.
Additionally I can remember to have learned about jewish history, especially of the modern state of Israel.
I hope I have not missed out anything...
Thats it for the history lessons, we learned however a bit about the history of other countries in the geography classes as well. However only in a rough way.
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