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Posted on 9/26/23 at 9:11 pm to Bison
1763-1865 America
Posted on 9/26/23 at 9:31 pm to udtiger
I prefer the James Michener approach to looking at history and that is to take a local area and develope it from before written history to Present day. His books such as Alaska, Hawaii , Texas, The Tell[isreal], and many others make for great reading. The books are historical novels, not history data.
Read Alaska, from mastodons walking across land at the Bering Sea floor before the great Ice melt that raised the ocean levels hundreds of feet. To current day educational problems getting native Alaskans to show interest in IT over snowmobiles. A lot of Russian issues, oil issues, and fisheries in between
Read Alaska, from mastodons walking across land at the Bering Sea floor before the great Ice melt that raised the ocean levels hundreds of feet. To current day educational problems getting native Alaskans to show interest in IT over snowmobiles. A lot of Russian issues, oil issues, and fisheries in between
Posted on 9/26/23 at 9:37 pm to Bison
The golden age of piracy & wwII
Posted on 9/26/23 at 9:42 pm to Bison
quote:The period she had when she was 17 and I thought I had knocked her up.
What is your favorite period of History?
Posted on 9/26/23 at 10:15 pm to Bison
Been reading a lot into The Cold War (with all the conflicts within it).
Posted on 9/26/23 at 10:18 pm to Bison
quote:Third
What is your favorite period of History?
Right before Lunch
Posted on 9/26/23 at 10:25 pm to Bison
Specific event, the Sack of Constantinople by the Mehmed II in 1453, it altered the course of world history as much as any other singular event IMO.
- Confirmed Islam as the dominant religion of the Middle East
- Ended the Byzantine (Roman) Empire
- Opened Europe to the technology and knowledge that had been spreading throughout Asia but has yet to really reach Europe in large numbers
- Opened Europe back into the Spice Trade and what was left of the Silk Road
- New science and technologies mixing between Europe and Asia leads to the Renaissance
- A desire to find a better route to the Spice trade and see what else was out there leads to Europe discovering America
- All thanks to the Sack of Constantinople
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- Confirmed Islam as the dominant religion of the Middle East
- Ended the Byzantine (Roman) Empire
- Opened Europe to the technology and knowledge that had been spreading throughout Asia but has yet to really reach Europe in large numbers
- Opened Europe back into the Spice Trade and what was left of the Silk Road
- New science and technologies mixing between Europe and Asia leads to the Renaissance
- A desire to find a better route to the Spice trade and see what else was out there leads to Europe discovering America
- All thanks to the Sack of Constantinople
LINK
Posted on 9/26/23 at 10:32 pm to Bison
I would say WWII. But honestly, recency bias aside, the past 85 or so years as a whole have been super fascinating.
This post was edited on 9/26/23 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 9/26/23 at 10:34 pm to biglego
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Definitely top 5 defenestrations
Did you know there were 2 separate Defenestrations of Prague?
Posted on 9/26/23 at 10:36 pm to Trevaylin
quote:
to looking at history and that is to take a local area and develope it from before written history to Present day.
If you are from Texas to Florida’s , you will not be disappointed if your read “ the gulf” by jack Davis.
Prehistory value of the miss. Valley + Gulf coast to present. Game changer. Native tribes, geography, fishing, euro encounters .
IMO this book should be a part of all LA history courses. As I said , a true game changer
Posted on 9/26/23 at 10:36 pm to Bison
Early 1800's. So many contradictions as 'civility' flourished along the eastern seaboard and inland scalping happened and farmsteads were carved out of the great Eastern Forest.
Posted on 9/26/23 at 10:44 pm to Carolhdg
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1066 to 1603 AD
So, as I stated earlier in this thread, two pages ago ... basically the Plantagenet Empire era.
1066 changed everything in England/France/Europe/The New World/The Future of the world, this world, our planet .... but do you understand why?
Posted on 9/26/23 at 10:52 pm to Bison
quote:I have this book on the coffee table at my condo and whenever I’m there, I pick it up and start reading it again.
It’s the book equivalent (for me) of when you are channel surfing and you bump into “Forrest Gump” or “Apollo 13”.
Posted on 9/26/23 at 10:57 pm to soccerfüt
Personal: 1981-2001
Historical: The Age of Discovery through the Age of Enlightenment.
Historical: The Age of Discovery through the Age of Enlightenment.
Posted on 9/26/23 at 11:00 pm to Bison
Late bronze age collapse circa 1200 BC.
Every civilization collapsed and was burned to ground by warrior/vandals that history still cannot identify. They tried to attack Egypt and the Egyptians were barely able to hold them off. Everyone else fell (Greece, Hittite empire, Ugarit and various city-states).
King of Ugarit wrote a letter to king of Cyprus saying "Brother please help me. I see their ships approaching my shore and I have no army here to fight." His letter was never sent and was found in his burned out palace.
Every civilization collapsed and was burned to ground by warrior/vandals that history still cannot identify. They tried to attack Egypt and the Egyptians were barely able to hold them off. Everyone else fell (Greece, Hittite empire, Ugarit and various city-states).
King of Ugarit wrote a letter to king of Cyprus saying "Brother please help me. I see their ships approaching my shore and I have no army here to fight." His letter was never sent and was found in his burned out palace.
Posted on 9/26/23 at 11:14 pm to Bison
1987
Posted on 9/26/23 at 11:19 pm to Bison
Prehistory hunter gatherer
Proto linguistics
Biblical
Bronze Age collapse
History of the steppes
Anatolia
Proto linguistics
Biblical
Bronze Age collapse
History of the steppes
Anatolia
Posted on 9/26/23 at 11:51 pm to SuperSaint
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Prehistory hunter gatherer
It’s interesting the role geography and resources played in Native American culture. Specifically In the gulf coast region.
Great Plains: followed bison herds, temporary shelters , nomadic culture with tee pees that followed the herds of ungulates. Big horse culture.
Vs.
Miss. Valley: The more agricultural based societies of the miss river valley, that cultivated beans, corn, squash to set up longer term settlements. And used hunting and gathering to supplement their agricultural way of life.
Also gulf coast tribes had the opportunity to fish as well as harvest shellfish . Bald cypress Canoe building . Oyster shell ( oyster mittens) foundation for houses. And palmetto thatched roofs.
The local Native American tribes adapted to their location conditions which i think we can learn something From.
Posted on 9/27/23 at 12:01 am to Tiger1242
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Specific event, the Sack of Constantinople by the Mehmed II in 1453
quote:it already was by then
Confirmed Islam as the dominant religion of the Middle East
quote:had already happened
Ended the Byzantine (Roman) Empire
quote:Did it though? Was Constantinople stopping trade with the Ottomans?
Opened Europe to the technology and knowledge that had been spreading throughout Asia but has yet to really reach Europe in large numbers - Opened Europe back into the Spice Trade and what was left of the Silk Road -
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