Why is the study of tribal/barbaric europe unimportant?

Question

Why is only Mediterranean/Egyptian ancient history available for study[at least in Australia] even though most of the population are of anglo-saxon/welsh/celtic and northern european origin.Are people not interested in a huge part of their own history?

Answer 1

Same reason why they don't teach our kids about who was in control of specific territories in the United States.

Polotics!

I mean, think about it... To tell our kids that half the US was Mexico is an abomination for economic reasons.

Hide the truth; hide the reason to think for yourselves.

Answer 2

Egypt was a great Empire that lasted for thousands of years and has much written history.  It was involved with the Jews which were the source of all the major religions.  Rome was highly influenced by Greece and also grew into a great empire.  The Romans colonized most of Europe and spread their brand of civilization to much of Europe including Christianity.  Their influence continues to this day so we see history of Europe mostly from their perspective in the history books.

Answer 3

I don't believe that is the case, I know that Celts were forbidden to write there history because of religious reasons, so there is not much known about them.  I recommend "The Celts" Petter Berresford Ellis if you are interested in learning more.

Answer 4

I think it has to do with the way history was recorded. Take a Western Civilization class and it'll explain why.

Answer 5

It's not.  There are departments devoted to such study all over Northern Europe.  I just recently attended a lecture on traditional Latvian culture hosted by the University of Edinburgh's Northern Scholars program.  There is a lot of research going on but it's mostly located in Northern Europe.

Answer 6

Because, until the medieval era, the tribes of Europe were doing nothing but warring.  We hear about Roman and Greek civilization (classical era) because they were doing things like analyzing consciousness, ethics, and morality.  

The Egyptians left artifacts that fired the imagination, so we study the heck out of what they left behind, because they left it behind.  There isn't much left of the European tribes.  They didn't make things of such permanence (except, pf course, the megaliths of England, and nobody knows jack about those).

The Persians were the Galactic Empire of the day.  They were everyone's favorite nemesis.  As non-whites, we don't really study their culture for this reason.  That, and all their libraries and learning centers were burned.  After the crusades, where whole populations were expended just to be thrown at them, the Persians had a hard time rebuilding their empire, it broke into all the little parts we have today, and no one can agree on what is really left of Persian history.  After all, it's Istanbul, not Constantinople, not even whatever it was before that.

It isn't so much that people aren't interested, there just isn't much left to look at.  They were barbarian tribes that roamed northern Europe and burned and looted whatever they could.  They didn't have much written literature, just oral tradition, and built no permanent structures.  Anthropologists and archaeologists count themselves lucky when they find so much as an old bronze brooch in a two thousand year old bonfire.