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Based on my kid's experience, the very particular details aren't required, though enough to prove you aren't just completely fabricating things.
Knowing roughly which century and what region things happened, and being called upon to take a cited scenario and then compare and contrast with a scenario of the student's choice, constrained to a general region and area, that's the nature of the history class.
I'm overall actually pleased at the blend of knowing enough but not getting carried away in trivial minutia. Has to be somewhat tethered because the teacher has to have some way of knowing whether they actually studied or just vaguely make up thoughts that sound right.
But it takes a while for grades to come back and there aren't many grades, because it's pretty much entirely essay, entirely handwritten (because typed is too risky for AI interference).
No complaints from my kid about "computers can do this anyway", because it's understood that we do "stupid human tricks" to foster our ability to think, so it sucks, but fine. A bit of the "I'm never ever going to use this" for the advanced math and chemistry, which is accurate, but balanced against "well we can't specifically tackle what you will use, but we can vaguely get your brain to use these topics to get used to reasoning through things in ways you'll have to reason through real stuff".