@evan Mainly? Otherwise, what's the point of it being Canadian?

If you take a course on quantum mechanics, classical mechanics won't be an important part of it — but it'd be referenced and compared to.

You can't just pile everything together — sometimes it's important to focus.

@Anibyl @evan

as a historian I disagree heh.

I don't have a strong opinion about the Italy thing, but ..
look up the New Imperial History school of thought which discusses how economic and population forces work at great distances affecting and defining local history in ways which were previously ignored. it's a whole thing.

@evan @carkner Because it was? I never said the soil was the only defining factor, but you have to draw the line somewhere if you're trying to divide the global history into national parts.