What's the most interesting time period in US/World history?

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#1 SgtKevali
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Topic.

Personally, I'd go with the Cold War, but what about you, OT?

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#2 LZ71
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I could never narrow down it to one. But some of my favorites are World War Two, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, ancient Greece, Rome, and Egypt, and Russian history in general.
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#3 LightR
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The Cold War and the surrounding periods are the most interesting to me in US/World history.
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#4 T_P_O
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Probably the interwar period, WW2 or the Cold War for me.

Couldn't choose one.

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Right now
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#6 funsohng
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Pre-imperial Roman era, Enlightment Age, pre-WWI era, and Cold War.
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#7 Osaka-06
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French Revolution, Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire are all awesome periods.
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#8 MystikFollower
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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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#9 deactivated-6016f2513d412
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Ancient Rome Ancient Greece WWII Cold War
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#10 juden41
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1300 Mongolia, or whenever Genghis Kahn invaded. Also, the horse archery combat of Attila and the Huns.
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#11 Ninja-Hippo
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The industrial revolution created the world we live in today in a very short space of time. :)
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Now, as others have already stated. It's going to be really interesting what will happen 50 years from now. WW2 and the Civil War is also vastly interesting to me.
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#13 tocklestein2005
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The American pioneer age.

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#14 Dylan_11
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When Canada (British troops) burnt down the White House 8)

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The mid to late 1800's, what with the industrial revolution, westward expansion, the Civil War, and the birth of the modern age.

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#16 Xx_Hopeless_xX
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1500AD and below..i find most things from the centuries before then the most interesting..

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#17 Communist_Soul
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WW2, pagan Rome, Carthage, ancient Greece, American revolution, and Macedon.

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WWI, WWII, Cold War, Pre-Depression era.

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#19 SolidSnake35
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Russian history is pretty entertaining. At least it was when my history teacher was telling it.

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#20 CongressManStan
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Definitely world war 2.
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#21 Pirate700
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For me the old west era.

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#22 Lab392
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Either the Bolshevik Revolution or the Cold War.

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#23 ariz3260
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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

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The industrial revolution created the world we live in today in a very short space of time. :)Ninja-Hippo
Yeah, 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.
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#25 789shadow
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World War II to the end of the Cold War.

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#26 F1_2004
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Renaissance.
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#27 scorch-62
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I've always enjoyed learning about ancient Greece and ancient Rome.
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#28 NightStalkerBX
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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:

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#29 legend26
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USA - everything from 1940-1990 I love anything post WWII, also love the culture of the 60s and 70s

world - Ancient Greece, Renaissance

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#30 GmasterRED
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WWII. Or the Revoultion. In WWII, we kicked ass and took names.
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#31 GmasterRED
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For me the old west era.

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#32 SaudiFury
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US history:

  • Revolutionary War
  • Civil War (and precurser to it)
  • World War II
  • Cold War

(a lot of 'wars' going on but these were also marked with very interesting things going in American history)

World History:

  • Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • Ummayyed and Abbassid Islamic Empires
  • Ancient China
  • Communist Revolution in Russia
  • Zionism
  • Modern Day 1948 -> Today Middle Eastern conflicts
  • the Rise of the British Empire
  • US occupation of Mexico
  • World War I - mainly from the European perspective.

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.

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WWII. Or the Revoultion. In WWII, we kicked ass and took names.GmasterRED

after we took a really long nap

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I will allow President Josiah Bartlet to speak for me: CHARLIE: I'm making notes for a final in modern American history, the consumer movements in late 20th century America. BARTLET: Modern American history sucks. CHARLIE I had a hunch. BARTLET: You want to study history, study the Crusades, the fall of the Roman Empire from Theodosius to Justinian. CHARLIE: The Visigoths. BARTLET: Damn right the Visigoths. Modern history's another name for television.
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#35 coolbeans90
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The industrial revolution, shortly followed by WWII.
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#36 Stanley09
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ww2 and beyond..anything industrial revolution and before that is just way too boring
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#37 Stesilaus
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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.

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#38 WhiteKnight77
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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.

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#39 Cherokee_Jack
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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.

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#40 TheAbbeFaria
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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.

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#41 dercoo
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victorian/western era (US civil war-1900)

It just seems like the era of endless posibilities, and steam punk is awesome:P

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#42 Tokugawa77
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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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#43 Cloud_765
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For me it's a tie between 1910-1950 (both World Wars and the Great Depression) and the Civil War era.

But as for World History, either the World Wars or the era of Napoleon.

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#44 nZiFFLe
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Ancient Greece, High Middle-Ages, and the Renaissance are my favourite time periods.