Jha, you make a great point. As they say, history is written by the victors, and the victors within the historical theory circles have — until very, very recently — been Euro/American Caucasian (and often Christian) men. The inextricable linkage you cite is something that women frequently acknowledge, but the other 50% of the population has had to figure out independently, as they are often never taught that history is history, and it’s humankind rather than mankind.

When I was 5, my parents had me take an IQ test, administered orally. The first question was “Who discovered America.” Apparently, the Native Americans was not the correct answer, nor the Vikings who reached American shores long before Christian colonizers, and I wound up faking an illness to go home, rather than give in to the guy administering the test’s insistence that I say Columbus discovered America.