Which nation, for your money, has the most interesting history overall?

you forgot the wars of religion as well

Oh yeah that's true.

Turkey got a pretty interesting history aswell and so does Germany. Russia's also neat if you like your misery meme.

France and Britain
France for what happened in Europe, and Britain for what happened ourside of it

france, poland, russia, spain

>France
>Spain

Hi Alberto-Marmaduke Barbossa Fishbury III

France

Ok, what happen with that image?

back to /int/

>greece
>byzantine included

They chose to be 'Hellens', they get ancient greece only.

It's a term of endearment

What are you trying to say?

In the world, Turkey.

In Europe, France.

>Nations
>history
They barrily make it beyond the 25y rule the oldest one (french) being 250 years old

Nations are a means of categorizing, they didn't come in to being suddenly when some frog fag elucidated on them

France, not the french republic, my friend, has existed for nearly a couple millenias now.
Not only that, but it's a developed, first world country, with charming people and a handy, widespread understanding of English, with thousands of maintained monuments and a thriving touristic economy.

Or you could eat boy pee eggs in china, visit the suicide forests of japan, or get blown up in syria

The Byzantium was Roman. Roman identity and citizernship. When greek independence happened, instead of reforging that, they reached back to the ancient greek world instead

China. If i had a penny for every time a schizophrenic Chinese prophet lead a massive holy war against a declining Chinese empire which ultimately failed yet still directly contributed to said empire's eventual balkanization, I'd have six pennies.

Which doesn't sound like a lot, but it's still weird that it's happened six times.

>or get blown up in syria
or get blown up in Paris :^)

Is India a taker for Veeky Forums? I always found people who really know their Indian history well can always describe amazing happenings in every century .

Cool prehistoric stuff too.

Spain, Russia, Mexico if Aztecs count as part of their history. Probably Spain overall.

Israel

Italy including the Roman Empire
Greece including Ancient Greece and the Byzantine Empire
France
The UK
Russia
China
Japan
Germany

Also Spain and Mesopotamia

Well ofc the ERE was roman. That doesn't however mean that it isn't a huge part of greek history.

Not a nation but I'd say the levant.

>Japan

USA of course

Small euro nations can't even compete, USA decides the date of the world

No other nation has ascended so quickly too, USA is the most powerful country ever and it managed to achieve it in only just like 2 centuries really

Yes but if we put the modern category of nations on to happenings prior to mid 1700s we just and up with people larping as someone, it doesn't help us unterstand anything

N I H A O

I'm taking about nations not states/protostates/other forms os organising a country in medieval/ancient times.
And btw find me any source earlier than 1000ad that takes about France/a translation of that and not the regnum frankorum/translation of that

I only know one of these times.

Could you give the list?

France, Greece, Italy, China, Germany, Russia

Maybe Britain too.

Kill yourself. Nations aren't the same as state.

Afghanistan.

Japan

i mostly agree but Chinese history is amazing, weaboo shit is boring

Yeah that doesn't make the concept of nation older. Applying modern concepts to talk about stuff in the past, doesn't help you unterstand it. If you would ask someone from earlier than the mid 17th century what their nationality is, they wouldn't know what you are talking about.
And out of interest why are you asuming that I'm talking about states(which don't exist that much longer anyway)? I never wrote anything about the organisation of a community/political entity in a certain area

Are you kidding? USA's history wasn't interesting untill like the late 19th century. Seems like you're a bit biased. Or are you really saying that the history of such a young place, I don't think that you include pre-colombian history, can compete with something like greece that has been extremely relevant for about 2500 years?

For me it is, the Indian region definitely has lots of interesting history

True dat. Unfortunately I know next to nothing about the region's history. Would you care to give us some highlights?

I've been reading into the Indo-Scythians for the past two hours. Want me to green text for you?

Fo' shizzle my nizzle.

Whoops! Just saw your post. Well here it is.

>the era is of Indo-Greek kingdoms period in the East (180 BC - 10 AD)
>the Greeks, although once mighty and powerful, have been losing territory after territory from the East by ambitious Indian kings since 100 BC
>it doesn't worry them tho
>they'll eventually recover right?
>nope
>the group known as the 'Yuezhi' have a mass invasion in 70 BC which makes the Hindu Kush slip from their hands
>then the Scythians invade the Central territories of the Indo-Greek kingdoms 23 years later
>they're trapped on all sides
>but they fight
>they fight like hell
>it takes the Scythians decades to finally put them down in the tenth AD

Netherlands ?

Well...

China, India, Persia, Egypt, japan (only bc i'm a weeaboo), UK, Greece, Rome, maybe Denmark

>Indo-Scythians are easily one of the most powerful and richest kingdoms in the world right now
>they conquer as much as they can
>whatever they can't control they raid and loot
>from the bottom of Iran to nearly the middle of India they take control of for decades

>the Indo-Scythians are made up of several distinct groups
>the most most powerful and far reaching one is the Western Satraps
>there's this kingdom in the middle of India called the Satavahana dynasty
>Western Satraps invade and annex nearly the kingdom into their own
>big_mistake.jpg
>the king of the now shamed Satavahana dynasty is called Sivasvati
>has a young royal son called Gautamiputra
>Gautamiputra dedicates his life to earning back his kingdoms prestige
>and he does
>BTFO's the Western Satraps
>BTFO's the Indo-Parthians
>BTFO's the remaining Indo-Greeks
>defeats entire confederacies made from other surrounding kings
>upon the end of his reign the Satavahana dynasty is one of the largest in India

>the Indo-Scythians prestige has been smashed but they're recovering slowly, bit by bit
>it seems like they might actually come back into relevancy..
>and then BOOM
>Kushan Empire explodes from the West

I'm a huge patriot but seriously who can be this retarded

Anyways the history of Iberia as a whole has always really fascinated me, from the Iberoceltics to first settlements, to conquering by muslims and subsequent reconquista. Exploration age always held a special place in my heart, too.

Poland.
Little fellas did pretty well for being surrounded by hostile major countries

Kinda agree

>Kushans easily roll through most of the Indo-Scythian and Indo-Parthian kingdoms under the brilliant guidance of their best -Kanishka I
>only one that manages to break free is the (surprise, surprise) Western Satraps
>but they're tributary states anyway

>while it's a dark time for the Satraps, it's the golden age of the Satavahanas
>get this new king called Vashishtiputra
>he's new and wants to prove himself
>talks a lot of shit to the Satraps
>king of Satraps is this guy called Rudradaman
>he's sensible and doesn't want any trouble (Jackie Chan style)
>tries to calm him down by arranging an alliance between them
>gives his daughter to Vash and even a city as dowry
>all seems good for a bit
>then war breaks out anyway for some reason (never explained who started it but it seems more likely to be Vashishtiputra)
>Rudradaman seems to be a speak softly and carry a big stick guy because Vashishtiputra has his ass handed to him
>twice
>all the hardwork Gautamiputra put in goes to the trash as the Satraps regain the territory they had before he came into the picture
>Satavahana dynasty starts declining rapidly (ayy lmao)

>well never sharing the same absolute power they had before in their golden age, the Western Satraps do pretty well for another few decades
>Savathana continues to decline even further until an ambitious king called Yajna takes control
>the Savathana dynasty is nearly finished but under his rule they temporarily reconquer their southern regions in western and central India
>this leads to the greatest and final decline of the Western Satraps

>neither of them ever recover into what they once were

>the Savathana dynasty fragments into five smaller kingdoms
>two of those kingdoms end up going south and then later control most of South India
>the other three stay in the north and get involved in petty skirmishes constantly
>the Western Satraps, although beaten and bruised, maintain a small, dignified presence in Central India
>all four are eventually caught, crushed and annexed by what is known as the Gupta Empire in 380 AD
>and thus ends the legacy of the Indo-Scythians

Hope you enjoyed it. Imo it got a bit slow at the end.

* while never

France, Spain, Germany

Probably Germany.
>Barbarian Wars
>Charlemagne
>Holy Roman Empire
>Thirty Years War
>If you count Prussia, then Seven Years War
>German Unification
>WW1
>Communist Revolution
>Weimar Republic
>National Socialism
>WW2
>Holocaust
>West Germany vs East Germany
>The absolute shitshow of their current state
>The history of all of the regions within Germany
This is just off of the top of my head.

Egypt.

That was amazing, thank you very much!
My limited knowledge of the indo-scythians led me to believe that they were a reasonably short lived part of the history of greater india.