I live in Northern Greece/Macedonia and I can confirm that we were never taught history with this level of detail.
It seems so fascinating to me that if you focus hard enough to a simple sentence of a modern history book you can uncover battles and kings and strategies and winters and politics.
As a fellow Macedon, I concur. Ancient history was kind of glossed over, although I'm not sure if you can call three years of ancient history "glossing over". I guess there's just so much to cover.
It seems so fascinating to me that if you focus hard enough to a simple sentence of a modern history book you can uncover battles and kings and strategies and winters and politics.