True – and most people who taught history in school tried to keep it that way. Always hated the “Timeline” in which nothing really important seemed to happen but stuff I had to memorize.
Thankfully as a lifelong fan of Doctor Who, I was able to enjoy time travel and history from traveling perspective which made up for the dry fact memorizations and mythologicalization of history that school teaching brought.
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