What's the most interesting period of history, /his/?
the stone age
>>443734
Next thursday
>>443734
Basically any period that follows the disintegration of a large empire (Diadochi, Mongol khanates, post Napoleonic Europe)
Easily the post-Napoleonic to WW1 era. Major societal and economical changes, the birth of the world's most influential ideologies, the changing geopolitical landscape, glorious nationalism, expansionism and imperialism, high point in art. Up until the end of World War 2, most historical events have some basis or starting point in this era. Just look at how the Russo-Japanese war influenced even Japan's strategy during WW2.
>>443768
Nice, thank you
>>443734
Classical Greece, Rome and the French Revolution.
Anyone who says otherwise has a different opinion than me and is probably a kiddy diddler.
>>443777
One of my favorites as well.
But it really is subjective. Everybody enjoys different aspects of history.
>>443777
Is that Foreign Legion or Arabs? Can't make it out
1450-1550 saw some really insane stuff happen.
>Constantinople is kill
>Closure of the Silk Road spurs expansion into N.A.
>Protestant reformation
>Cool things happening in the Middle East as well
I'd also say 1150-1250
>Crusades and stuff
>Mongols and shit
>Empires changing like crazy
1800-1900
>The world is basically at war everywhere
>The French are at war
>American Civil War
>Industrialization changes fucking everything
>Germany, Italian reunification
>>443818
Russians apparently.
>>443851
Really? Looks pretty Middle Eastern to me. Is Eastern Russia like that as well?
>>443862
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Vereshchagin
I thought it was Turks, but it was not.
>>443818
Russians fighting in Central Asia, I think against the Emirate of Bukkhara, after the latter had declared a Jihad against the Russian Empire.
Anyone who says anything other than the Classical Era is a fag.
>>443734
Warring States and their hundred schools of philsophy
The Three Kingdoms
or the Red Turban Rebellion and it's subsequent birth of the Ming dynasty
Never seen the big deal about Classical antiquity. For me Europe really starts to get interesting after the fall of the empire.
>>443734
1918-1939
The interwar period was interesting as fuck.
>>443734
I dont know, but the most boring is late medieval to like 1600s europe. Nothing but same old nobel families fucking each other over and going to war over retarded reasons over and over again.
>>443992
>literally the birthplace of every science and humanistic discipline
>never seen the big deal
kek
>>443992
It pretty much all goes back to >>443768
Large empires represent periods of stability and order (or at least the promise of it).
However the longer they last the more culture and developments stagnate, so the chaos from empires collapsing/being built are way more interesting than the empires in themselves because the repercussions echo throughout history, in proportion to how long they stood.
>>444010
I understand the importance but I'm still bored by it.
>>444031
And you're entitled to your opinion.
I personally don't see the interest in Europe after the fall of empire at all, and the reason is that I am not particularly interested in the wars that came after.
>>444059
To add a caveat, the reason is that I am tired of hearing about WW2.
>>443734
Industrialisation and WW1 hands down
>>444063
I agree.
I think there are two main interests for history lovers. Those people that are interested in times that have big impacts on modern times (like WWII) and people that are interested in the times that laid the foundation for modern times (like fall of Rome)
>>444083
I guess that's mostly true. Though I will say that I am slightly interested in WW1 if we are talking about modern history. Partly because it feels neglected in history classes, but also because I don't know that much about it.
>>443734
all the shit we have no clue about
basically everything that history isn't.
>>443734
Either Bronze Age or NOW
Probably now, because you couldn't shitpost on Assyrian Cuneiform Forum back then.
For me, highly turbulent eras of warfare or change. WWI/WWII, Sengoku period, formation of Qin China, just eras that were so bad that it makes you appreciate what you have now.
Christians like to use the suffering of Christ as a reminder to buck up, I like to thank whatever gods are out there that I never had to experience something like Stalingrad of Verdun.
>>443734
I wouldn't know. But I have a big fascination with the 19th century.
>>443734
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From the Punic Wars to the fall of the Western Empire, even Byzantine Empire is pretty based. I'm pretty biased but I think Roman history is probably the most interesting period. Honorary mentions go to the Reconquista, discovery of the New World, and the Napoleonic Wars.
>>443734
All periods are interesting. It's your approach of them which matters the most.
Establishment of the Germanic kingoms to the Renaissance.
>>444687
Kingdoms*
>>444518
which part of it senpai, it stretches from the (supposedly) 8th century BC to 1453
>>444703
The induction of the empire, starting with the first triumvirate and ending with Augustus proclaiming himself emperor (or the 'first among equals').
>>443992
Late antiquity is great
>>444973
literally the worst part though, it's just that there's so many more sources for it and its the most recorded period of the classical period
early republic was the only right answer
>>443734
Song Dynasty China
I'm fascinated by the Spartans and ancient Greeks. They're so interesting for some reason...
Pax Romana
>>444973
Wasn't Augustus appointed emperor by the Senate?
>>443734
Cold war.
>>444008
but the renaissance is GOAT
>>443777
Couldn't have agreed more.
Napoleon's campaigns beginning in 1803 and the final entente offensive in 1918 marked the most interesting and amazing period in human history.
The period of rapid industrial progress and the evolution of military tactics. Bringing new things to the world stage consistently and annually for the period of about 100 years.
Everything from medicine, travel, exploration, warfare, politics, our national identity, economy, ideology, scientific category, artistic expression, class, humanities, political process, monarchy, globalisation, education, to how we view the remainder of history was re-defined in this time period.
The old world of honour, chivalry and the humble nature of human existence will all be burned up in the great inferno of the first global war. The first war to pull combatants from every civilised continent and throw them into a great machine of change. Through iron and blood and a storm of steel humanity would be mechanically altered from the species who looked to the past empires and to religion for answers, into the species that would find it's destiny beyond the stars.
From the Napoleon's idea to create uniform guns and specialist to work in his artillery regiments, to the Germans launching the first man made object into the stratosphere, during their bombardment of Paris from that could attack from up to 26+ miles away...
All in the course of about 100 or so years.
>>443791
This. For better or for worse, the French Revolution was one of the most exciting time in human history
>>443749
this since we have little facts therefore we can invent anything we want about the subject plus the gunpowder/napoleonic era
400th Century BCE to 14 CE.
Colonial North America. Relatively tiny numbers of people determined the shape and look of the world's wealthiest continent.
1850-1930. Lots of interesting political shit in this period, from the rise of nationalism and Marx's theories to the establishment of the first totalitarian states.
>>443734
yesterday afternoon between 13:53 and 16:19
>>447374
finally got laid, huh?
>>447458
No that happened between 16:30 and 16:31
>>447191
It's a lot more interesting if you see the American Revolutionary War as a proxy battle. The upstart independent government was heavily backed by France, providing money, arms and ships. France was still salty as hell about the Seven Years' War and would gladly take another chance to strike back at Britain. Don't forget the financial contributions of the Netherlands and Spain since they were equally eager to kick the Empire's ass.
