Two thousand years is just the most recent stuff. I agree that ancient history in general is fascinating, when the realization hits that during things you learn about in a sentence or two, whole generations lived and died. And many more generations don't even have anything about them.

My teacher would bring in people from several faiths to talk about their religion and for us to ask questions.

But because I was a shitty 15 year old atheist in the early 00s, we quickly had a "no more than 3 questions each" rule, then a "only 1 question from Tar_alacaran" rule.

Honestly, if they didn't want to answer hard questions, they shouldn't have gone to a school.

Fair point, thanks for educating me

Go further back. Christinanity before Christus ist the interesting part, how it happened and what it was before and all. And also, what religions they swallowed up and why some of it is Beelzebub and another is christmas. Oh, and also Moloch and Isis.

Oh how naive. You think a religious studies class in any cou try would actually be presenting an objective and historically accurate view of religion and how it has affected human society? Nah. Its mostly about trying to settle in the preffered default religion of the country into children's minds by way of repetition.