How the fuck does one get into this board?

How the fuck does one get into this board?

I'm a brainlet and most of this shit makes no sense. Do I just start reading random history? Is there recommended reading?

>i'm a brainlet who hasn't read anything about history
you'll fit in just fine here I think

Most everyone here will tell you to pick an area of history that tickles your fancy and go from there. There's no perfect starting point.

Start playing grand strategy

Just post a photo of Anne Frank and enjoy the shit-show

Crusader Kings 2 or europa universalis 4.
Pick one, play it for 200 hours minimum.
Come back and pretend you know about history.

Just pick a country as your team and relentlessly shill for it while calling everyone else's team gay, shit or autistic (preferably all 3 at once)

History (Rome vs Han dynasty)
Humanities (philosophy/religion)

find a period of history that interests you, preferably in a certain geography within a relatively short timeframe (a few years or decades)
i got into history in the 3rd grade by absorbing everything i could about the second world war and i went from there.

Only autistic shit faggot anglos do this.

fpbp

>200 hours
So you just want him to get his feet wet? 1,000 hours as the most conservative minimum is essential for true immersion in the turbo autism simulator.

Go to thriftbooks.com and buy a shit load of dirt cheap history books, stuff you like or don't know a lot about. Then once your finished with those buy more history books but this time about stuff that was mentioned in the previous books so you alreasy have a base knowledge of it. Then just repeat over and over

Khan academy is a good start

To be perfectly honest, EU3 is why I have such a solid basis of the world's geography.

There's a book thread at Wikipedia is a good place for finding bibliographies on certain topics and periods
gen.lib.rus.ec is the best source for books, sci-hub.la for journal articles

you guys need to knock it off with this textbook stuff. To truly be immersed in history, read the accounts of contemporary, or close to contemporary historians. There's something magical about it. Stuff like textbooks, Khan academy, Wikipedia, are all fine to refresh a few facts, but if you want to understand history, they're shit. I personally recommend Thucydides, but only if you find Greek history interesting. It's also important to pick something relevant to you, the history of your ancestors.

ask question. this board tends to not give you too much shit for it

You don't. This place is shit, not only because of the usual retard of Veeky Forums, but &humanities and /pol/. It's ded.

Pol is unironically the least boring, most interesting board. I just come here for Romanov posting and to teach gommietards about communism.

>How the fuck does one get into this board?
read article about Pol Pot, realize that he was right and argue with those who don't understand his genius ideas

The best advice is to ignore all non-genetics threads.

t. Hans

kek

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>HRE formed
>Ruthinia formed
Either that’s multiplayer or this was one of your odder games, then again I never have played past 1550 on ironman

unironically this

What historical movies do you like ? i might know a book about that period. Honestly just go buy pop history books that are best sellers like Beevor's WW2 books. You can usually check the back of the more academic history books for a 'Further reading' section that should let you choose similar books.

The best thing for you to do would be to go to the library, wander around the history section and pick out something that looks good/ interesting

Sad but true.

Wrong
you have to be a fluent 9gag memer and you have to have masturbated to anna frank fan fic for atleast 4 years to be accepted into our holocoaster denying community.

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It's also a board where you find more people well versed in certain History areas, sadly you often see here a distorted version of History as is the case in Holocaust and National Socialism related threads for instance.

You literally only need a vague, wikipedia summary page knowledge of history and you will be indistinguishable from the average user

Complete school education in a non-shithole.