The purpose of this paper is to point out specific problems in history education in high school world history textbooks and to explore ways to improve them from the standpoint of Latin American studies, which is on the “frontier” of Japanese historical research. Specifically, we will take up the so-called “ancient” civilization of the Aztecs and Inca and the Mexican Revolution as historical topics, and discuss their erroneous placement in textbooks and their lack of connection with other historical events. The Aztec and Inca civilizations have often been described alongside the Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Indus, and Yellow River civilizations, but it is a clear error in textbook placement to connect these civilizations, which flourished in the B.C. period, with those that flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries and were destroyed by the Spanish conquistadors. It is also a clear lack of connection that the Mexican Revolution is not described in textbooks in comparison to the Russian Revolution, which has many similarities to the Mexican Revolution, although it was one of the most important social changes of the first half of the 20th century. Finally, this paper proposes that by solving these problems we will be able to overcome the “popular view of history” that is so prevalent in the world.Yusuke GOTOHistorical Education from the “Frontier”: The Locus of Latin America in the Japanese World History Textbook143
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