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Personally, I'd go with the Cold War, but what about you, OT?
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Nothing beats the Now as EMO put it, but if I had to pick a historical time, I would either go with the Revolution or Civil War. Both we're huge defining moments that set the tone for what we are today, though every day is a historical defining moment that sets the tone for tomorrow.
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Agree completely. Instead of reading second hands account what it it was like during any particular moment in history, it can't beat experience learning first hand what it is to live through a historical moment such as what we are going through in the US history. This is a very unique period we are living in, I am very keen to learn what is going to happen next
The industrial revolution created the world we live in today in a very short space of time. :)Ninja-HippoYeah, Industrial Revolution onwards, capitalism really got things going. Although 5th Century BC Athens is pretty interesting because of the surviving literature: Greek Tragedy, Historiography, Philosophy and rhetoric. Revolutions are always interesting too: the English, American, French and Russian etc.
US: The Cold War
World: Europe between German Unification and WWI. I actually once had a dream I was a soldier stationed on the border just as the Franco-Prussian War broke out. :lol:
US history:
(a lot of 'wars' going on but these were also marked with very interesting things going in American history)
World History:
I'm a bit of a history buff but i mostly follow (suprise) my two homelands.. Saudi Arabis - which to an extension the Middle East, and the United States.
If you ask me very bluntly... from what i understand in history and what i think of human nature (and i really don't wanna start a debate on this really)
I think USA is gonna remain a world power,, but will eventually stop being the superpower.
I think the Middle Eastern nations are gonna see a sharp rise in their quality of life in SOME of them (The Gulf Countries - Saudi/Kuwait/Qatar/Bahrain/Emirates/Oman) also in Jordan and Israel.
if Iraq can manage to hold itself together i think could be the Germany of the Middle East - if you ask me..
of course i do not know the future, but that's how i see it.
WWII. Or the Revoultion. In WWII, we kicked ass and took names.GmasterRED
after we took a really long nap
I'm fascinated by the Bronze Age Collapse that marked the end of Mycenaean Greece and ushered in the Ancient Dark Ages of ca 1200 BC.
The period is especially interesting because archaeological studies have yet to reveal the cause of the Ancient Dark Ages. Some of the evidence suggests violent destruction of literate cultures in a period of protracted warfare, and some historians point accusing fingers at the Dorians: the ancestors of the Spartans.
WWII and the Cold War. There is an interesting book on that, especially what subs did, called Blind Mans' Bluff. We had subs that tapped Russian phone lines out of Vladivostok and we knew a bunch of their secrets because of this. It also speculates on what happened to the USS Scorpion, a US attack sub that went missing and some believe that the Soviets sunk it in retaliation for a sub of theirs that in the Pacific.
WW2.
Though I really find Julius Caesar's Rome and the ensuing Roman Empire to be just as interesting, along with Stalinist Russia.
The Tokugawa period and the Meiji Restoration of Japan are also really interesting.
I'm interested in all historical periods, but I tend to favor particular ones such as the Renaissance, the Rise and Fall of Rome, the Crusades, the Caliphate, and WW1.
WW2. The politics behind and motives of all the countries involved is truly astounding. If you ask me, this period in time basicly sums up all of human history, and it's not atall pretty.
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