What is your favourite period of history, and why?

Are you me?
Except that I like ancient period as well.

Middle ages and ancient (expecially bronze-age and before) times.

how the fuck did people in Europe run around without shoes without succumbing to frostbite

I like all of European history, but specifically the early middle ages/fall of rome to the end of the Napoleonic era. Specifically my favorite is high and late middle ages, but I'd say my interest is pretty even for all

The Great Game fascinates me to no end. Its fucking crazy how close Russia and Britain got to war. Many people point out today that it might have been hard for Russia to conquer India, but Britain didn't know that at the time. Besides Russia did not outright have to conquer India. The greatest fear of the British Raj was another revolt like the Indian Mutiny of 1857. The idea that Russia was planning to instigate something like this was not far fetched(and they did in fact have plans to do it).

The exploration part is also really cool. Much of North India and Central Asia was blank on the map, and fierce tribes wanted to keep it that way. Many explorers sent into these areas would die from bandits, disease, or even the armies of viziers.

At one point, it got too dangerous for Europeans to travel into these areas, even with their skin dyed. After this point pundits, Indian spies and explorers working for the crown, were used. The way in which these guys were trained is amazing and ingenious.

Upper paleolithic because i'm a huge /out/ faggot

WW2 becouse its part of my history becouse im german. I remember years ago my grandma told me how babaric the russians were. They Raped here mother killed all animals and took with them want they wanted.

ay I like ancient societies also

>1950's America. I mean living in America and being an Adult Male, Female, or even a child, had the highest standard of living in human history. Plentiful well paying jobs, the Nuclear family, no internet to corrupt youth, strong conservative values, malts and fries in the diner, comfy high schools.

Nice meme, /pol/

I'd assume they wore shoes when it was cold..

>favorite time period
High medieval times England or France. (Romanticized version, not the actual shitpile).

>Why?

Fucking knighthood, chivalry, glory, Lord of the Rings bullshit battles, etc.

>The way in which these guys were trained is amazing and ingenious.
Go on...

>Internet corrupt youth

Yet teen pregnancy was the highest around those times

Weren't there a lot of wars during that time?

>United States
from the Civil War to WWII

>Europe
anything since late medieval is fascinating. recently I've been on an early modern bend

>Middle Eastern/Islamic
Muhammad to 13th/14th century when Turks took over

>Mediterranean + Persia
Ancient

racism, malts, and fries still exist my friend.

Late WRE, maybe in the last century or so starting with the Valentinians. Some of my favorite more obscure/overlooked emperors like Majorian. Lots of notable or interesting figures (Atilla, Aetius, Stillicho, Galla Placidia, Alaric, Ataulf, Genseric, Ricimer, etc.) and an overall exciting time period to learn about.

Also like post-Civil War, pre-World War I American history a lot.

Late 1800's to the 1950's. To me it's the most chaotic and dramatic moment in recent history. So much change in a little time

Hard for me to settle on a favorite because it really changes for me so often, but lately I've been getting into east Asian history with an emphasis on Korea of all places. Lots of obscure battles and wars between equally obscure kingdoms and states. Despite the staggering losses of life and shit that reads like something out of legend (Battle of Salsu for example) information about this period is typically sparse.

The Enlightenment.

Whilst it lasted, manking really came into it's own. The Enlightenment created the Industrial Revolution, Rule of Law, Capitalism, Scientific Thought, and a rebirth of History and the Arts.

The 18th century

Mostly for aesthetic reasons, but also for the Kings. Louis XV and XVI and how they failed their grandfather king, Louis the XIV. Then the true first World War, The Seven Years' War.
Great Catherine in Russia, Marie Therese and then Leopold..
Just a beautifully horrid era.

Vive le Monarchy

Had we been born to that era, do you think we could have caused at least one of those pregnancies?

Wow, that's pretty savage.

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You are fucking retarded and you should kill yourselves.

Everything you listed has heritages much older than the enlightenment

Please fall off a ledge, nigger

>lol he likes the industrial revolution

Have fun toiling away in a factory. Do you know that medieval peasants and slaves had more time off then industrial workers during that time?

Anytime where monarchy was strong, (or at least wasn't getting absolutely bum-fucked) but technology wasn't primative: Basically Medieval Europe to about the 19th century.

I just have a boner for monarchies.

>chainmail
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
mail or maille you pleb

calm down user, I didn't think anyone would care
what I meant was I think the long hauberk with coif and mittens, while worn with a heraldic surcoat, is very aesthetically pleasing.
Is that better you autist?

Much better
and I agree, early to high medieval mail is aesthetic af, shame there is less focus on this period in regards to armour than 14th ant 15th century

ROMABOO CHECKING IN!

>the MF morgan bible
mah nigga

romantism

bach off
if you understand the reference

morgan bible best bible

i was so excited when I found out every page was displayed on the museum's website

What

>I don't think any of us can grasp just how routine death and disease was in everyone's daily lives.
Was? Just because you live in a nice suburban bubble doesn't mean disease and suffering were eliminated by steam engines. Pre-industrial death rates are overestimated due to a)higher incidence of infant mortality and b)no rigorous record keeping like we have now.

Truth, no wonder everyone was so lofty back then.

youtube.com/watch?v=t6apSLamS7Q

Everyone glorifies military victories when really they should be glorifying Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Joseph Bazalgette. Then everyone forgot, took it for granted and fucked everything up in the 20th century.

Out of the orders, Hospitaller is god tier.

>its part of my history becouse im german.
it's the WORLD war you retard, it's part of everyone's history

That's essentially all of North America and Australia.

They just didn't write anything down because they invented jack shit.

So the British-Indian Government faced the problem of getting surveys of these dangerous areas in Afghanistan, Tibet, and some parts of Central Asia. This Captain named George Montgomery(If you've read Kim, Montgomery is the inspiration for Colonel Creighton) comes along. He has the brilliant idea of using natives to penetrate these areas. Now it was dangerous for anyone to be found making maps/surveys of these areas, regardless of race. It was just thought that Indians had a better chance of staying hidden since they were more common in these areas.

Now it was time to figure out where these surveyors would come from. It was decided to use people from this clan of Hindus called the Rawats who lived near Tibet. They were a mix of North Indian Rajputs and Tibetans. Rawats had a good understanding of Tibet because an ancestor of theirs helped drive the Chinese out of Mount Kailash and Lake Manasavorar holy places to Buddhists and Hindus alike. They were given more free reign near the usually closed off Tibetan border. They also looked and spoke Tibetan, which would make matters a bit easier for them.

So two people were chosen, Nain and Mani Singh Rawat(they were cousins). They were taken to Dehra Dun, the headquarters of the Survey Of India(A British-Indian Government project that made maps and surveys of the Indian Sub-Continent). They went through 2 years of vigorous training. Some things were easier than others, reading sextants, compasses, and thermometers. Others were more complicated. To determine altitude they boiled water(The lower the boiling temperature, the higher the altitude). They were also trained in having a constant stride length, even when going up steep hills. Nain's was measured to be 31 inches, which meant approximately 2000 steps per mile.

Nain and Mani were put in the disguise of a Buddhist Monk, not an uncommon site in the mountains of Tibet. This gave them a lot of places to store the heavy measuring equipment they needed to hide. One example is the rosary, which was used by the Pundits as a way to measure the distance they had traveled. The Buddhist rosary holds a total of 108 beads on it. Montgomery decided to cut off 8. This would leave an even 100 beads, and the difference in beads was small enough so as to not attract suspicion. Every hundreth pace, the Pundit would slip a smaller bead. Every tenth bead was slightly larger than the rest. These larger beads represented 1000 paces, or roughly half a mile. Since every Pundit had a constant stride length there would be little variation.

The staff of the first Pundits' disguise held thermometers. The prayer wheels held compasses as well as coded notes rather than the usual prayers. A strongbox held their sextants. There were also various hidden pockets in their clothing to hide other objects. The later Pundits would branch out more in their disguises. They would become traders or Muslim pilgrims. They were also heavily trained in the art of lying and cover stories, for any slip of the tongue could mean death. Many would travel for years before returning. Some would never return.

Nain and Mani failed on their first attempt to Tibet. Though Mani would fail on their second attempt, Nain would succeed in reaching Lhasa, being the first person to record it on British Maps. He told accounts of the various crops, and trade routes of Tibet. In total, he traveled 1200 miles. He would be the first person of Asiatic descent to be awarded the gold medal by the Royal Geographic Society.

There's a few other cool stories about the Pundits, but much of it is hidden due to the nature of their job. I'll quote Kim here to get the point across: "We of the Game are beyond protection. If we die, we die. Our names are blotted from the book. That is all."

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Middle Ages. A time full of darkness and a fight to keep knowledge alive, and a great deal of pagan folklore and music trying to stay hidden.

And 1950's America for the a e s t h e t i c

>because they invented jack shit.
False

I would say Bronze Age or Medieval. Bronze age cultures to me represent the height of the first civilizations. Medieval is cool, cause just about everywhere in the world interesting developments were happening.

careful with that bait

Fin die Siecle. So much advancement and change in such a short time.

The Crisis of the Third Century till the end of the reign of Constantine

When Doggerland was still afloat, and Maglemosian culture Scandinavia.

Get on my level.

Australian history from 40,000 BC to 1600 AD

Thanks, like I said before the Great Game fascinates me, it has so many cool and interesting stories like this.

French Revoultion / Napoleonic Wars
>advances in technology
>cultural and moral debate
>tactical and strategic ingenuity
>"new" strategies of warfare show their prowess (guerilla, scorched earth)
>david v goliath style nation fights

Early 19th century or classical antiquity. Nothing bores me more than medieval Europe.

I used to be an 1800s fag but now I'm slowly converting to romabooism

I love the age of Germanic migration and the dark ages. Early human civilization too.

Fuck off /pol/tard

Early imperial Rome and late medieval Europe

The 1980's
It had the coolest cars, the neatest weapons, the catchiest songs, and the funnest movies.

The Crusades.

No, really. There's just something really interesting to me how Europeans managed to cobble together a bunch of states in an ultra-hostile environment and have them functionally survive for the better part of a century.

Leftshits are LITERALLY SHAKING after reading this post

Post-Cold war period
1997
>Anarchy in Albania
>Biker war in scandinavia
>Stoner in the white house
>Alcoholic in the Kremlin
>people still too scared to use the interrnet
>MMMBop on top

Late Antiquity

Victorian Era to the end of WWI

I like it because it's not as foreing to us like medieval times or that stuff, we have pretty good records on how thing happened during that time and that's the root of a lot of political problems we still have today (west vs east, african shitholes, the complete fuck the middle east is, left vs right, red terror, ultranationalism, etc)

Ancient era

Cradle of Civilization, Ancient Egypt, Persian Empire, Ancient Hebrews, Ancient Greece, Conquests of Alexander, Ancient Rome, and the beginning of Christianity.

17th and 18th centuries.

Napoleonic Wars. Because based Napoleon and the height of badass naval action.

the crusades are very interesting, the crusaders managed to keep armies in the field for almost a year while armies in europe usually disbanded after a few months

Must be the magic of feudalism

History of the Royal Navy and naval warfare stretching from the 16th to mid 20th century mainly. Also have a hard on for Rome and early medieval history

Any good books on the Crusades you guys would recommend?

The Killing Time because stalwart Covenanters were mercilessly persecuted for daring to assert Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ alone as the head of the Christian kirk!

finding the time period interesting does not equal wanting to work in a factory, dipshit. glad you could find a way to be stupidly self-righteous though

This desu

>Good times are a meme!
Fuck off Tumblr.

Vive le roi

Michael Haag,
The tragedy of the Templars
Goes from beginning of the Muslim and Arabic invasion and tragic end.

Wow that is pretty nice.

I'm interested in the Roman Republic through the Roman Empire as well as the "dark" ages directly proceeding the collapse of Western Rome and then the early middle ages through the high middle ages. Renaissance and beyond I'm not as interested in.

Reading about the stuff now starting with Gibbon
>inb4
I never understood the memes, but it doesn't hurt to read it anyways.

17 Century Ukraine would be interesting.
As well as 17th century Spain and England.
>tfw you will never be a pikeman or a musketeer.

Late 1800's to the Interwar period.

nice derail attempt, fag.

I have a raging boner for this time period so much so I built a gaming PC just to play empire/Napoleon total war and I view master and commander/the Sean bean Sharpe series at least one a year.

Hornblower is a great series that I think you will enjoy. It stretches through the Revolutionary Wars into the Napoleonic Wars

The mid to late roman republic. The politics that went down during then is very interesting to me

They had something akin to mokasin and footwraps with thick woolen socks in colder times.

Lived it, wasn't that great in the Balkans. As a rich West European/American on the other hand, you would have gotten anything you like.

In the context of the time that was normal. Nothing to do with corruption. Teenage girls are sexually and biologically ready for child birth and so could be wed if their parents gave their blessing.

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