what century do you find the most interesting? For me its the 15th:
>the climax and end of the hundred years war
>the rise to dominance of gunpowder weapons
>the end of the Byzantine empire
>discovery of the Americas by Europeans
Late 18th-early 19th.
>Great Revolution
>birth of the modern world
>Dawn of a new age of liberty
>>801729
also Napoleon
The 20th
>start off riding horses, owning slaves, exploring "mysterious" untouched blank areas on the map, and living with absolute monarchies
>end up with faster than sound aircraft, space travel, internet, electron microscopes, and the highest standards of living ever
>>801772
who had slaves still in 1900?
>>801784
Who didn't have slaves in 1900?
>>801784
slavery is still legal in Mauretania today
>>801784
The entire muslim world and Qing China
>>801716
The Victorian era in general is a high point for me. Wild West, British Empire at it's height, American Civil War, race for Africa, century of Chinese humiliation. Bloody noice.
>>801824
Slavery was abolished there in 1981
>>801819
America and Europe
>>801866
>doesn't know about sharecropping
>>801839
Gothic Victorian Continental European surrealist lesbian romance is my favorite genre of books
>>801716
>>the rise to dominance of gunpowder weapons
is this true though?
I'm quite sure gunpowder weapons only became increasingly popular in the centuries following, the 15th seems a bit early especially considering the shitty archaic cannons that the Ottomans used in the siege of Constantinople, which was by the middle of this century
19th
It's when traditions in the West really had to contend with rapid change for the first time
>>801826
>The Qing dynasty initially oversaw an expansion in slavery and states of bondage like the booi aha.[4] They possessed about two million slaves upon their conquest of China.[1] However, like previous dynasties, the Qing rulers soon saw the advantages of phasing out slavery, and gradually introduced reforms turning slaves and serfs into peasants.[1] Laws passed in 1660 and 1681 forbade landowners from selling slaves with the land they farmed and prohibited physical abuse of slaves by landowners.[1] The Kangxi Emperor freed all the Manchu's hereditary slaves in 1685.[1] The Yongzheng Emperor's "Yongzheng emancipation" between 1723 and 1730 sought to free all slaves to strengthen his authority through a kind of social leveling that created an undifferentiated class of free subjects under the throne, freeing the vast majority of slaves.[1]
>>801883
Well the Ottomans won the battle with those cannons you speak of. And from 1492-on Europeans dominated the new world mainly through firearms
>>801883
France already used cannons in the 14th century.
>>801944
No, the earliest usage in Europe was the 1590s.
>>801960
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artillery_of_France_in_the_Middle_Ages
14th century.
>>801975
It appears you're correct.
>>801716
19th
>French Revolution/Napoleon
>Europe conquers the world
>Britshit fucking Empire
>US Revolution
>German unification
>Europe invents the modern world
>>802030
>US Revolution
I have some bad news for you...
Before they started recording histroy, desu. We cannot know what we got up to in the times before we wrote shit down or made things.
7th Century
>Islam is a very young empire
>Conquers the Byzantines
>Conquers the Persians
>Spreads incredibly fast
>>802062
>Conquers the Byzantines
that didnt happen until 1453
>>802053
How is it interesting if you know nothing about it?
>>801960
>No, the earliest usage in Europe was the 1590s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cr%C3%A9cy
>>802043
He's not wrong, there was a revolution in the 1860's. It just got violently put down.
>>802096
You know what I meant, anon.
>>802116
Speculation can be more fun than facts.
>>802120
D-d-desu, I already apologized. ;_;
>>801716
The century leading up to the Finno-Korean Hyper War for sure.
>>802142
Ego te absolvo.
>>802138
then go post on /x/
>>802183
Why so mad? Even our unknown history is part of our history.
>>802187
because saying that prehistory is the most interesting time period is like saying your favorite book is one you haven't read
>>802187
The latter part of the word history is literally "story".
>>801874
So, you really like Carmilla?
>>801716
I am fond of the 15th century also.
For whatever reason it has captured the modern imagination. It is the earliest we had the printing press so all the old tales were anachronistically set in this era, it is also the twilight between medieval mysticism and renaissance reason, maybe the collective consciousness was looking back one last time before jumping into the abyss.
>>801729
And this. Things changed a lot and relatively fast compared to the rest of history and this is where you ought to look if you want to get to the bottom of it.
>>801716
The long 19th century.
>The French Revolution and culmination of the Enlightenment
>Napoleon
>Nelson and Trafalgar
>Counter-Enlightenment
>Pax Britannia
>Opium Wars
>Revolutions of 1848
>Crimean War
>Disraeli and Gladstone
>Napoleon III and the Franco-Prussian War
>Bismarck and German Unification
>Berlin Conference and Scramble for Africa
>Boer Wars
>Boxer Rebellion
>Russo-Japanese War
>Anglo-German naval arms race
>>802230
Carmilla is god-tier tbqh
