Favorite historical period?

[UK2K]

Anyone enjoy history like I do?

I love the period between 1580-1620 or so, early American history. Also, love the 1920's. Boardwalk Empire does a great job of portraying Atlantic City, one of the highlights of the time period.

[Nick Young]

I like 400 BC-600AD Mediterranean and Europe as well as 13th century Mongols. My third place favorite time period is French Revolution - early 18th century Napoleonic Europe, that was a cool time for warfare and the French Revolution is cool to read about and endlessly philosophize about.

[DonDadda59]

The transition from Republic to Empire in Rome. Feudal Japan (the Samurai). America's expansion West (the outlaw period).

[Rocketswin2013]

1850's - 1960's. Most fascinating to me.

Organized crime, wars, massive USA progression into being the GOAT country.

[riseagainst]

this period. How else am I supposed to get on ISH?

:confusedshrug:

[ArbitraryWater]

1850's - 1960's. Most fascinating to me.

Organized crime, wars, massive USA progression into being the GOAT country.

thats.. quite boring.

[Rocketswin2013]

thats.. quite boring.
As compared to :confusedshrug:

[UK2K]

thats.. quite boring.

I think 1850-1950 was crazy exciting. We basically went from a lawless country to an industrial machine in 100 years.

[UK2K]

The transition from Republic to Empire in Rome. Feudal Japan (the Samurai). America's expansion West (the outlaw period).

There's a video game you should get, Red Dead Redemption. Open world game, hours and hours and hours of game play. Right up your alley.

[DonDadda59]

There's a video game you should get, Red Dead Redemption. Open world game, hours and hours and hours of game play. Right up your alley.

Already got it. Top 5 GOAT game. :bowdown:

[ArbitraryWater]

American History, and that part of it, is ****ing meh... so many more exciting earlier periods.

I love the early early days, the GOAT conquerors.. China/Japan is starting to grow on me, too..

Okay, there aren't alot of boring periods really.. boring professors, but not boring periods, but I'm not feeling that American timeline much.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Persian - Byzantine Wars (heavily armored knight takin down nikkas across the dry desert yeahh buddy)

Ancient Egypt at the time of Hatshepsut (watch the local crocodiles swim in de nile while doing all kindza cool dancing and spiritual practices in them secret school to reach higher levels of bliss)

Rome vs Carthage (on an elephant crossing snowy mountains to sack a big city fukk yea)

Enlightenment period in France (learnin all kindza cool shiznit)

Feudal Japan (only if a samurai or above)

[24-Inch_Chrome]

The transition from Republic to Empire in Rome. Feudal Japan (the Samurai). America's expansion West (the outlaw period).

:applause:

[ArbitraryWater]

Rome has such a huge impact on todays times

[SugarHill]

Y'all need Dan Carlin with his GOAT podcast

[Nick Young]

Dan Carlin is awesome at telling stories but facts wise lots of the things he says are off.

[SugarHill]

Dan Carlin is awesome at telling stories but facts wise lots of the things he says are off.
That's subjective. Your facts might not be his facts.

no such thing as facts in history

[ArbitraryWater]

That's subjective. Your facts might not be his facts.

no such thing as facts in history

a lol

definitely different things you hear from different sources.. but you can tell whats more right/wrong I'm sure.

[Jailblazers7]

The American West is pretty interesting on a lot of levels. I'm reading Cadillac Desert now, which is about the development of water and irrigation systems in the Western US and it's really interesting.

[BasedTom]

too many to count

i will say that eastern european and asian history is massively underrated

[Akrazotile]

Primordial Universe
Permian/Late paleozoic Earth
European Upper Paleolithic
Ancient India
Early American Colonial/Puritan
Current day Mongolia
The Reign of King James (Lebron)

[riseagainst]

When God created the Universe.
:confusedshrug:

[ISHGoat]

My favouritr period is the one in which I was born. So 21st century.

[Nick Young]

That's subjective. Your facts might not be his facts.

no such thing as facts in history
There are things that Dan Carlin says that university educated historians vehemently dispute as inaccurate, and they provide primary source evidence to back up their claims.

[Nanners]

the 80s

[Derka]

Too many to name, but some favorites...

- feudal Japan up through the Meiji modernization
- the history of the old Fertile Crescent region, pre and post Islam
- American expansion westward
- Native American history in New England since colonization; some tribes here still preserve their pre-colonial history, too.
- the Soviet years in Russia along with the final years of Nicholas II's reign
- Rome becoming a republic

[nightprowler10]

Great question. I think anything to do with the Mongols is very interesting. The Third Crusade is another time period I love which is why I got into the original Assassin's Creed game and love 'Kingdom of Heaven'. I love reading a lot about Roman history as well (mostly online reading). This is a relatively new topic for me to read about but it's very intriguing. Same with Renaissance era Italy. I had a constant hard-on when I visited Florence and Rome.

[nightprowler10]

- the history of the old Fertile Crescent region, pre and post Islam
Good one. Have any recommendations for reading material?

[LJJ]

There are things that Dan Carlin says that university educated historians vehemently dispute as inaccurate, and they provide primary source evidence to back up their claims.

Obviously. There are many things educated historians themselves say that are disputed by other educated historians.

Carlin sources all the important stuff from respected historians. Which may be disagreed with or disputed. When it comes to history there is usually not a single accurate interpretation.

[UK2K]

American History, and that part of it, is ****ing meh... so many more exciting earlier periods.

I love the early early days, the GOAT conquerors.. China/Japan is starting to grow on me, too..

Okay, there aren't alot of boring periods really.. boring professors, but not boring periods, but I'm not feeling that American timeline much.

I love early American history. I spent probably 30 minutes reading up on Roanoke Island today and think it would have been a hell of a time to be alive. Amazing to think the colonists could live there a few years and not be able to survive on a well defensible island.

Evidence poins to when they left the island, they split into smaller groups because any one Native American tribe couldn't care for all of them. Over 100 people. Small in today's numbers but the amount of food and shelter and water they'd need would be outrageous, especially given that the colony was larger than most tribes around the area.

Imagine that life. 99% of people today would fold in six weeks.

[UK2K]

too many to count

i will say that eastern european and asian history is massively underrated

The Total War games are amazing. A-mazing. They're full of historical snippets and tidbits.

[UK2K]

Obviously. There are many things educated historians themselves say that are disputed by other educated historians.

Carlin sources all the important stuff from respected historians. Which may be disagreed with or disputed. When it comes to history there is usually not a single accurate interpretation.
Interpretation... I think of it as view points. One side will obviously see things differently than the other. Conditions in one area would be different. I don't think it's as much distorting facts as it is seeing things from the other side.

[Crystallas]

9240s BC

Such an amazing time

[Patrick Chewing]

Roman Empire and The Crusades

[KingBeasley08]

Roman Republic to Empire
Crusades
Rise of Genghis Khan and Mongol Empire
French Revolution
European Enlightenment Era
Meji era Japan
American Civil War
Great Depression and WWII

All good ish

Russian history is also mad underrated. Some cool plot twists and some nice characters like Peter the Great and Catharine the Great. And then shit hits the fan when the commies take over and Lenin and Stalin start fcking around

[KingBeasley08]

Egyptian, Middle Eastern, and African history also pretty badass and have some awesome moments. Nubia takin over Egypt and then getting kicked out a century later is some epic stuff

Also human beings are cool and have done some nice shit, I'll admit but let's give some credit to our predecessors.

The Mesozoic era had some of the baddest animals to ever walk the planet

[iamgine]

1335-1355

[Draz]

Lights were off and I thought she was wet..

[BoogieWoogieMan]

The transition from Republic to Empire in Rome. Feudal Japan (the Samurai). America's expansion West (the outlaw period).

I'm right there with ya. :cheers:

[ROCSteady]

Whatever era will be defined by Fetty Wap.

[bigkingsfan]

Facebook era

[gigantes]

i have many favorites that i like to READ about, but if i had a choice to personally live in that time? ...i would choose pretty much any period in pre-history and pre-civilisation going back a few million years.

other than during events like the toba catastrophe, that is.

yep, just me and my tribe... preferably living far away from other hominids.

[CasterL]

1066 and the Normans including the events leading up to it, and the ramifications. Often touted as the most significant period in British History.

I'm also a fan of the Vikings, Irish Norman history, Plantagenet England and the crusades.

[NBAplayoffs2001]

Born in 1970. Be a teen in the 80s and experience 90s as a 20-30 year old.

[JohnnySic]

Russian expansion into Siberia, the Caucasus and Central Asia is fascinating.

[JohnnySic]

Born in 1970. Be a teen in the 80s and experience 90s as a 20-30 year old.
I was born in 1974. Close enough. :D

[kNIOKAS]

1850's - 1960's. Most fascinating to me.

Organized crime, wars, massive USA progression into being the GOAT country.
Or, the progression to start marketing itself as the GOAT country.

[BoutPractice]

Fifth century Athens.

If you could land around 445 BC and exit around 405 BC, before Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War, you would be able to witness the first experiment in true democracy, attend some of the greatest festivals ever put together, and most of all, get to meet and talk to Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Hippocrate, Phidias, Democritus, Empedocles, Protagoras...

It's incredible to think that all those pioneering figures in human history were all living together, at the same time, in a single city with about as many people in it as Madison, Wisconsin.

[UK2K]

Fifth century Athens.

If you could land around 445 BC and exit around 405 BC, before Athens' defeat in the Peloponnesian War, you would be able to witness the first experiment in true democracy, attend some of the greatest festivals ever put together, and most of all, get to meet and talk to Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Hippocrate, Phidias, Democritus, Empedocles, Protagoras...

It's incredible to think that all those pioneering figures in human history were all living together, at the same time, in a single city with about as many people in it as Madison, Wisconsin.

It's always fascinating when you realize how many people a city did (or didn't) have at any one time.

The population of Rome at the height of the Roman Empire is said to have been 50-90 million. MILLION. Crazy how much resources a population that size would need.

[Uncle Drew]

1940-1945.

[StephHamann]

16th century, exploration of the new world, start of world trading companies, adventurers like Francis Drake were cruising through the carribean. :rockon:

[JohnnySic]

It's always fascinating when you realize how many people a city did (or didn't) have at any one time.

The population of Rome at the height of the Roman Empire is said to have been 50-90 million. MILLION. Crazy how much resources a population that size would need.
No way. The population of all of Europe wasn't that much at that time.

[UK2K]

No way. The population of all of Europe wasn't that much at that time.

Maybe you're right.

Per Wiki:


Ancient Rome was an Italic civilization that began on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world[1] with an estimated 50 to 90 million inhabitants (roughly 20% of the world's population[2][3][4]) and covering 6.5 million square kilometers (2.5 million sq mi) during its height between the first and second centuries AD.[5][6][7]

[~primetime~]

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e2/56/5a/e2565a1bc2a58b7e44ffcc57267d8a67.jpg

Feudal Japan for me...I'm an artist though so probably just biased to the fact it is the coolest looking period IMO

Although, the shit that went down in those centuries really is truly fascinating...ninjas are real!

[JohnnySic]

Maybe you're right.

Per Wiki:
Oh; if you meant the population of the whole empire then 50 million+ is possible. I thought you meant Rome as in the city of Rome. :lol

[StephHamann]

Oh; if you meant the population of the whole empire then 50 million+ is possible. I thought you meant Rome as in the city of Rome. :lol

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/77/Population_of_Rome.png

Ancient Rome was a city with more than 1 Million people, in the middle ages the biggest cities had around 50k people. Let that sink in for a moment. :eek:

[~primetime~]

I just got back from Rome last month...it's really amazing

[UK2K]

Oh; if you meant the population of the whole empire then 50 million+ is possible. I thought you meant Rome as in the city of Rome. :lol

I did say 'city' in the sentence before didn't I?

Yeah, I follow you, if you read the whole thing together. My bad.