re: What is your favorite historical time period/episode?

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What is your favorite historical time period/episode?

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The 2100s because I'll be dead.

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The 2100s because I'll be dead.

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Hey bud you need someone to talk to?

No time period pre-anesthesia. Think about it

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I can't get enough WWIi, it was such a horrific and fascinating time. I think I'd say Victorian England comes in second, there were so many advances in science and technology and full of fascinating people like Isambard Kingdom Brunel who would do things that seemed impossible,

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Covering a lot of time and events in this space, but the latter part of the Roman Empire (roughly everything from about the Crisis of the Third Century through the Dominate and fall of the Western Empire). Tack on the early Middle Ages up through about the rise of Charlemagne and the early Viking raids.

That period doesn't get enough attention in popular culture outside of Constantine, but it is perhaps the single most pivotal if you want to understand why Europe (and through extension, much of the rest of the world including the U.S.) became what it did in modernity.

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Covering a lot of time and events in this space, but the latter part of the Roman Empire (roughly everything from about the Crisis of the Third Century through the Dominate and fall of the Western Empire. Tack on the early Middle Ages up through about the rise of Charlemagne and the early Viking raids.

That period doesn't get enough attention in popular culture outside of Constantine, but it is perhaps the single most pivotal if you want to understand why Europe (and through extension, much of the rest of the world including the U.S.) became what it did in modernity.

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This. This period gets glossed over wayyyyyy too much in schools. Understanding this long run up to like the 1300s will change the way you view modern times.

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This. This period gets glossed over wayyyyyy too much in schools. Understanding this long run up to like the 1300s will change the way you view modern times

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Do you have any good book recommendations on it? I'd like to add it to my "to read" list if so.

I find genghis khan and the mongol dynasty interesting. I'd rather have seen it from the mongol horde's perspective than the people they conquered. Better to be raping and pillaging than being raped and pillaged, if that's the 2 options.

i'd be fine going back to around 1975 and bartending at CBGB"s until 85 or so.