What's a good way for a historically illiterate brainlet to get started learning European history...

What's a good way for a historically illiterate brainlet to get started learning European history? Specifically pagan history up to the renaissance. Any good books to get me started? Maybe one for each era?

Start with Greece in the first Greco-Persian War. The stuff before that really isn't relevant.

John Green has some good history videos

That's like over 2000 years of history across dozens of different countries.

You're gonna have to be a lot more specific user. History is a very specialised field for a reason. Pick one country and one era and stick to it at first.

Is there anything more specific you're interested in?

I don't really care about the Greeks though I just want to learn about kingdoms and knights and paganism and shit

Okay, how about medieval England? Honestly I don't know anything about history and I'm just trying to learn more about my ancestors and how life worked back then. I'd like to learn about nobility and how it worked and stuff like that, also what kingdoms did what and shit

but ancient greeks are precisely pagans user...

I thought the Greeks were like a bootleg version of the pagans

>I just want to learn about kingdoms and knights and paganism and shit
Not related.

Start with Norse mythology, The Saga of the Volsungs is pretty short and a good read. There is a million and one books about kingdoms and knights, simply pick your king and there will be ample books written about him during the medieval period in europe.

The book "Misconceptions About the Middle Ages" might be of interest to you. It dispels a lot of pop culture myths about medieval society in an academic but very easy to read way.

Cool thanks. What would you recommend for medieval European history?

100 years war
4th crusade (very interesting)
charlemagne is cool too, also byzantines and shit

Any specific books you'd recommend? Trying to throw together a shopping list

lmao books are for faggots just go on wikipedia or online shit

th-thanks chad

You sound like a larper wannabe

>le ebin pagans

>le pole boogeyman
Nah I'm just interested in reading about the transition of Europe from paganism to Christianity. tbqhwyf i'm more interested in Christian Europe than pagan Europe atm

memes aside tho if you are brand new to history like just getting into it read those shitty "history of civilization" books where is vaguely describes everything from 3000bc to now

thanks again chad

Start with WW1 and work backwards. That's what I did.

>What would you recommend for medieval European history?

>simply pick your king and there will be ample books written about him during the medieval period in europe.

Start with Herodotus