I am a mere plebian who want to learn history starting from Ancient History. Where do I begin?
>>1174974
start with the greeks
>>1174974
What kind of history?
Human history?
Pre-human history/history of the universe?
>>1174974
Your family tree, because i have good news...Son.
>>1174974
Herodotus
>>1174974
high school is a decent start
>>1174974
Mesopotamia.
>>1174974
Donald Kagan's History of Ancient Greece on iTunesU. The whole lecture course of one of the best ancient Greek scholars teaching a 101 class, for free - you can't go wrong.
Proto-IndoEuropeans
Mesopotamians
Egyptians
I personally find The Levant and Egypt most interesting. Then maybe the Greeks?
Read "Idea of history" by Collingwood.. that would help you...
>>1174979
Egypt is the oldest recorded civilisation. If you want to be thorough, start there.
>>1174974
The Bible is the only true history book there is. Watch out for deceivers claiming the ancient Egyptians and other pagans could have high morals and that ancient Hebrews were polytheists and got their concept of a Messiah and a Final Judgment from the Zoroastrians, for their are the children of perdition.
>>1174974
Start with the berry pickers
>>1177058
Shut the fuck up you berrypixking faggot.
>>1174974
history of rome podcast is a good intro to the west. Also shows the inevitable political evolution (or devolution) of republics->into democracy-> into demagoguery-> into empire.
>>1176856
>Donald Kagan's History of Ancient Greece
You can also watch it on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FrHGAd_yto&list=PL023BCE5134243987&index=1
>>1174974
what langueages can you read OP?
start with Cambridge ancient history...1235641234 pages of pure fun
>>1177314
also i made an invenoty of my ancient histoty book folder... it seams i have around 12 000 books and papers
>>1174974
Start with the cradle of civilization. Start between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers.
Read Will Durant. It's a part if being well read.
>>1177275
Greatly appreciated Anon!
>>1177433
its really good anon.
>>1177328
You know what to do.
Upload it to MEGA
>>1177467
what is mega?
>>1177329
seconding this, they are very well done and elaborate while avoiding the common problem of being too intellectual for new readers.
>>1174974
Mary Beard's SPQR is a pretty good overview of the Roman Empire and Frank McLynn's biography of Marcus Aurelius is also v interesting
>>1177502
The new megaupload.
>>1177502
Mega is like Megaupload. The link is mega.nz
It gives you 50 GB of free cloud storage after you create account making it ideal for sharing files without the retarded seeders/leechers that slow down and in the end deny the distribution of information.
I have eleven different accounts of which i filled completely nine of them and others are nearly full.
>>1174974
Commence the Hellenes
>>1174974
As far away from /his/ as you can
start with ancient history
>>1174974
Peer reviewed academic texts.
