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

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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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It's kind of amazing, really. Two to three hundred years of the Roman Empire that gets barely a glance other than the rise of Christianity (and no mention of how and why it actually happened). The Empire was still throwing field armies in some of the battles with the Sassanids and even Germanic invaders out there in the 360s AD that wouldn't be matched again in size or capability on the European continent for more than a thousand years. How many natives of New Orleans and the original Orleans in France could even tell you how the city originally got its name? One of the best emperors, pound for pound, that ever donned the purple.

It is also very interesting to me how the Germans, after the Volkswanderung was more or less settled, expended immense amounts of energy and resources - far more than the Romano aristocracy that remained - in trying to re-establish that elusive reunification goal that stuck in the back of their minds for hundreds and hundreds of years.

It was kind of odd how it happened for me, but Game of Thrones is what got me really interested in that period of European history. Having to live among the ruins and remnants of Valyria and knowing that you cannot achieve what they did for hundreds and hundreds of years has to be an odd feeling. Same thing with the early and middle medieval Europeans.

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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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You need to give Dan carlin's Thor's angels
Hard-core history podcast.a listen

Whatever the day was when the first slave ship arrived in the US. I'd send it back......lots of problems would be averted.

the time period when women started getting waxes to remove hair

Roman Britain through 1066, and a couple generations after

The late 1600s through 1820ish.

The musket changed warfare and military organization. For the first time, a mass of peasants with muskets were more effective than the nobility with their fancy armor and horses. This promoted the rise of the modern beaurocratic government, in order to manage the swelling military numbers. It also provided the means for revolution in America and France.

The golden age of piracy. The War of Spanish succession. Beginnings of the industrial revolution. It's an overlooked time in history for all that happened.

Ancient Rome

Id like to be "in Rome"