So what was your country's moment of fame? What are the fabled "glory days" what you learn about on school?

>meme
no sorry to break it but there was practically no Austrian meddling after 1867, Hungary was as sovereign as Austria.

Post proofs if you think otherwise.

"Glory days" meme is bullshit and is all about muh clay, a bullshit concept from the start.

The vast majority of countries has never seen better days than in the last decades.

So there was no germanization in Hungary?

Sure there was, but that was a late 1700s - early 1800s thing and basically triggered our own enlightement, national awakening and finally, the 1848 revolution, so lol yeah it backfired a bit.

>Germany

I don't know. Charlemagne gets a lot of praise in history classes, muh founder of Europe etc. But the Frankish Empire isn't called the Golden Age of Germany. Maybe Second Reich under Bismarck because of unification, Bündnispolitik and muh social reforms.

Obvious answer would be 1940 ofc :^)

If anything, the Hungarians were busy magyarizing other people

>tfw American
>tfw when living in it
>tfw h8 us cuz they aint us

The correct answer for Germany would probably be never. I would say post 7 years war Prussia if that counts.

Bismark did some pretty dope shit, but even he isn't save from the "but he was fighting wars"-meme, that is popular among german intellectuals.

In Ontario, the "glory days" are exclusively focused on the War of 1812 and WW1, and even for 1812 the focus in my school was about how the British did all the real work and Canadians stole all the credit later on. Aside from that, we mostly learned about American history and Quebec.

Muh Dutch golden age

There are several, but they all revolve around
>muh clay
>muh three seas
>muh wars

Bullshit, pre-1914 Germany was one of the most powerful countries in the world and could've taken on France and Russia by itself if the eternal Anglo had not intervened.

English glory days go from 1583 to 1956

2nd Reich seems like the best answer to me, but i suppose that in classes it gets underrated a lot because of muh evil prussian=nazis

england has never had glory days

the english are perfidious dealers in human flesh who have no honor

>caring about honour when you could be caring about money instead

lmao stay mad frenchie

Technically, it's Vytautas' fault that Muscovy wasn't crushed before it rose to power.

Sorry brah, i just wanted to be edgy

France and Russia weren't exactly that powerful around that time either.

>two of five strongest nations on the planet that literally controlled all of it
>not really that powerful

Russia was in such a great position that it collapsed a few years later, and France was not comparable to its own power it had like 100 years earlier. Both had seen way better times, user.

Let me show you the fault in your logic:

Vietnam beat USA in a war.
USA has better economy few decades later.
"Well, USA wasn't exactly that powerful around that time"

It doesn't matter they have seen better times. They were still in top 5 most powerful nations on the whole damn planet.

it's less "muh clay" and more "remember that time when we were relevant/top dog in our own backyard?" i surmise

When you're a few years away from collpasing being one of the 5 most powerful nations doesn't say much.

I'm British and I didn't study history for GCSE (14-16) but I did study it for A-Level (16-18)

We never covered the greatest part of this country's history, which is of course the Empire. Why? Because our country is cucked and sees the Empire as something to be ashamed of, that's why.

It's fucking horrible. Fuck I hate all the pozzed cunts all across our great country. Fuck them to hell.

>sees the Empire as something to be ashamed of, that's why.
i think most of the sentiment's caused by the shit done by the heic and the raj
>never covered the greatest part of this country's history
what do you mean?

>i think most of the sentiment's caused by the shit done by the heic and the raj
Do I give a single fuck what happened to a bunch of shitskins?

>>never covered the greatest part of this country's history
>what do you mean?
The very next part of that sentence is what I mean: "which is of course the Empire".

For about 100 years, from maybe 1840 to 1940, Britain was the most powerful country in the world. Pax Britannica, of course. But nowadays it's Pax Americana because the USA is the most powerful nation.

You are retarded.

> Denmark

Either Kalmar Union, which was this great period where we officially "ruled" Sweden, meaning that we got to enjoy sending troops up there to quell rebellions every few months and got backstabbed as soon as any pills got hard to swallow.

There was also a period in the early 1200's under Valdemar the Victorious where we dominated the Baltics and Northern Germany. It lasted for about 2 years, because our king was dumb enough to go hunting alone on the German border, which meant that all the North German prines banded together and betrayed him, taking him hostage and holding him until all of North Germany broke out and we returned to being irrelevant.

I don't think you understand what "Pax X" means

US already took the top position after ww1 (or some time during it)

>Do I give a single fuck what happened to a bunch of shitskins
80% of Brits are white guilt cucks who are ashamed of the Empire and the 20% of Brits who are proud of it are racist edgy retards like you. Why can't you just take pride in it while acknowledging the bad things it has done like every other fucking normal person?

Our golden times were when we wuz still ottomans and sheeid.
Atleast till the 17th century everything was comfy and well.

The fact that you say this confirms that YOU have no idea what it means, you fucking cuck.

Pax Britannica was when Britain enforced the peace of the world - as the largest power, they acted as "world police". Just like America does now - hence Pax Americana.

Perhaps you should learn these fucking terms before accusing others of not knowing what they mean you fucking cuck.

Oh yeah damn it's 1815 - 1915, my mistake.

>Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace", modelled after Pax Romana) was the period of relative peace in Europe (1815–1914) during which the British Empire became the global hegemonic power and adopted the role of a global police force.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pax_Britannica

Christ you are a fucking cucked idiot, why do I have to explain these terms to you like you're a little fucking baby you fucking cuck?

DON'T tell people they don't know what a term means when you don't know what the term means yourself you utter cucked pozzed piece of shit

Because I fucking hate shitskins

>Do I give a single fuck what happened to a bunch of shitskins?
i dunno. quite a few of your compatriots might though, hence why the empire's a footnote
>The very next part of that sentence is what I mean: "which is of course the Empire".
no as in, how did they teach the post-american revolution and victorian era there?
because if they didn't cover at least the important events during the empire's existence (sepoy rebellion and the formation of the raj, the opium wars, the 1888 berlin conference and the 1931 statute of westminster, as a few of many examples) then the course proctors really must be retarded
it would be like telling the history of the united states without mentioning the louisiana purchase, the mexican-american war and the indian wars

>bulgarian "Empire"
Basil "if you're a bulgar, you're not up to par" II
Basil "Bulgarians on the slack get the wrack" II
Basil "exterminates all bulgarian scum" II
You dirtbags got what was coming to you

>no as in, how did they teach the post-american revolution and victorian era there?
>because if they didn't cover at least the important events during the empire's existence (sepoy rebellion and the formation of the raj, the opium wars, the 1888 berlin conference and the 1931 statute of westminster, as a few of many examples) then the course proctors really must be retarded
it would be like telling the history of the united states without mentioning the louisiana purchase, the mexican-american war and the indian wars
As I say I skipped a couple of years when most people studied history (14-16) because I didn't like it then. I did geography instead.

So maybe the Empire was taught at that time, I don't know.

For A Level (16-18) the only British history I did was British domestic politics, from the same time as the Empire actually, around 1820 I guess to 1920, BUT it was purely focused on domestic politics. Gladstone's Liberal Party, the Liberal Prime Ministers of Asquith and David Lloyd George, etc. And the start of the Labour Party. We studied those things. We didn't study the Empire.

Also ironically I *did* study the Louisiana Purchase, and the Mexican-American War, because I did three modules on American history: one was the causes of the Civil War, one was the Civil War itself, and the other was American race relations from 1865 - 1965.

So yeah, I studied more American history than British history in those last two years. But that's because I happened to have a teacher who specialised in American history. The other history class in our year group studied Italian Unification and German Unification instead.

Now calm down, take a deep breath and squeeze your Naruto action figure.

Are you calm now?

Okay, now read what i wrote
>"I don't think you understand this thing"

And now read what you wrote
>"Christ you are a fucking cucked idiot, you're a little fucking baby you fucking cuck, you utter cucked pozzed piece of shit."

See where i am going?
If you want to talk with adults, you need to learn to express yourself like and adult, and not like 5 year old baby who just discovered Veeky Forums.

>skipped a couple of years
Well, maybe you shouldn't have done this

Oh i missed to upper paragraph, so our whole conversation would be:

>"I don't think you understand what "Pax X" means"

>"you fucking cuck, you fucking cuck, christ you are a fucking cucked idiot, you're a little fucking baby you fucking cuck, you utter cucked pozzed piece of shit."
also a cherry on top
>"I fucking hate shitskins"

>Gladstone's Liberal Party, the Liberal Prime Ministers of Asquith and David Lloyd George, etc.

so no foreign policy then. im surprised -- disraeli would have at least deserved a mention to splendid isolation. ditto with lord palmerston and the crimean war

pretty ironic that you learned more about burger history than brit history in where i assume to be a brit institution (or commonwealth, at least)

While I loath what Basil II did to my people, I respect him as one of your greatest emperors. Do take note that even in that weak state we were at the time(thanks to Byzantine, Russian meddling and internal conflict)we not only made you exhaust your resources, we took part in the greatest wars on the Balcans. The Bulgarians fought a total war, the type of which was incredibly rare at the time. Can you imagine fighting the ERE at one of its peaks for all of 40 years? Four decades of back and forth battles our two nation. It is one of the reasons why I rank Tzar Samuel as one of our greatest leaders. Also, unlike Basil, Samuel remained honorable until his last dying breath. Basil himself said that the Bulgarian war was the "greatest achievment" in his life, and that those he would come after him should thread lightly when dealing with us. They didn't. Enter the Second Bulgarian Empire.

The Potato Famine.

Nah seriously though a guy from Ulster burnt down the White House that was pretty neat. We didn't learn that in school ofcourse. Just Potato Famine, Holocaust, Russian Revolution, Holocaust.

Since Northern Ireland in it's own right has only existed since 1921. Nothing really of much note has gone on other than Terrorism.

If our tourist board is to be believed building the Titanic was this regions apex achievement.

While I have never seen such a shit-stained clump of dirt farmers than the balkans, and Bulgaria, I can respect the ferocity with which fought. I agree that Samuel was a great and noble sovereign to his people, and could have made your people great if he had the chance
Even so, Basil's biggest mistake was not continuing his destruction of the Bulgarian people

american born ethnic ethiopian here. We revere our victories against Italy in the 1890s and the 1930s (though we downplay how much help we got). Other than that, we we-wuz over the Solomonic dynasty but thats mostly a fiction. Beyond that, we have the glory days of Aksum but thats a distant past.

from accepting Christianity in 966 to somewhere around 1650-1700 with small breaks where decline started mainly because of lithuanians

Our glory days are in the future.

And they will always be.

also elective monarchy was a mistake, Vasa dynasty brought ruin to entire country with their retarded politics and Wettins did literally nothing
Sobieski was overrated cuck
The only based elected king was Bathory who was as close to 10/10 as it gets but he ruled for too short amount of time

*torches rainforest*

Yeah, your glory will be being snuffed out of your miserable existence when civilization ends and all your people die

sorry sweetie but latin america is destined in staying as a shithole that is worse than eastern europe or middle east
thank USA

If it wasn't for USA helping us remove commies during the Cold War, it would be even worse. Just look at Venezuela.

I wish we actually torched the rainforest.

The Amazon basin has even more agricultural potential than the Mississipi or La Plata basin, but thanks to (((NGOs))) and (((environmentalists))), we can't exploit that.

Wrong image, lol.

Winter War.

This I quess.

>who needs oxygen anyways

I'd rather not have this conversation devolve into petty insults, I take pride in being from the Balkans. Partly because of all the great history that has gone on here, and partly because of our unique culture. I appreciate that you are objective enough not to insult Samuel. Where are you from, by the way?

What does count as a military presence for that map?

>I take pride in being from the Balkans. Partly because of all the great history that has gone on here, and partly because of our unique culture.

>cucked into defending israel from muslims and europussies from ivan when they should be doing it themselves and paying for it with their own sheqalim

Care to elaborate? I'm willing to answer any question you may have about the region.

Half Polish half Hellenic here.
Went to a Hellenic school.
Practically the Byzantine empire and the period from the revolution to the Balkan wars.

Btw I really like and understand Bulgarians. Hard place, though at last one way of another you can learn from past mistakes and evolve a bit.
Would have fought you 100 years ago.

I'm from Oregon in the US. My ancestry is mostly Swiss and swedish

>muh heritage

Oh-ho, so you're a germanic? To be honest I know little about swiss and swedish history. Mind sharing some kind of tragic heroic hero from there? I'm curious.

just because balkans are part of turkish civilization doesn't mean they are civilized

Isn't it time for your 5th prayer Ahmed? While praying contemplate on the insignificance of your entire civilisation.

>international discussion

I never took history as a subject in school, buti learned about brtish involvement of world war 2, the empire was a shame, we denied those within our borders the rights that we took for ourselves, our true moment of glory was in world war 2, despite the storm of fascism ravaging france we stood alone against a power that stretched across europe, in defiance of unaccpeatable agression, the colonies deserved their right to at the very least vote on the british parliament, and the sacrfices made by our colonies were not listened too, even some of our most irrelevant colonies fought with a ferocity for us, and we ignored them, that is the great british shame, that we took for ourselves what we denied to those who fought with us shoulder to shoulder, for queen and country.

meme

>Ireland coloured in
we let you refuel your jets at shannon airport during the iraq war and a handful of hippies REEEEE'd. that's it

You apparently get colored in when some US soldier goes on vacation in your country

I can't talk with you if you'll spill out /pol/ related phrases. Don't forget that some of the building blocks of Western Civilization were fordged there.

Vietnam didn't beat the us militarily at all. We had a peace treaty and left. Then the South fell

>if the eternal Anglo had not intervened
>invading a sovereign country and raping and pillaging and executing all throughout the countryside and then complaining when someone says "sorry you can't do that"
G*rms everyone

>So what was your country's moment of fame
Swedes erased our history thoroughly, although we still have saga information that tell of Ancient Finnish kings. Also historians like Al-Idrisi wrote of them.

You didn't have any history before the Swedes came

Lol @ the Great Britain island being 2x bigger than it actually is in that map. All that territory and the artist was still insecure?

That is an imperialist lie.

Looks accurate, what are you talking about?

No that's reality. Now back to your bin you fin

Everything from archeology, genetics to historical records attest otherwise.

No you didn't write anything down so it didn't happen

That's absurd, of course it happened if there's evidence of it. There are written records as well, like I stated above.

>cuck

Nah you were just cavemen living in bogs

That's objectively wrong, we were advanced pastoral metallurgists since at least Proto-Finnic times, that's how they gained such a foothold in NE Europe after IE expansion had already taken place. Swedes carry pred. I1 haplogroup, which is of Paleo-European origin. In other words; their forebears were berrypicking sub-humans who Indo-European R1 civilized.

Facts have never fazed Swedes however, so I won't expect you to acknowledge them.

yet it were those berrypicking swedes who ruled over your shithole and used your people as cannon fodder for hundreds of years before selling you to russians