What's your favourite period and why?

Yeesh, I have to pick one?

Enlightenment, I suppose.

Late modern. Specifically social history of that period, and I'm a big fan of the micro histroical approach. It's people I'm interested in and the late modern, for me, is an important period concerning the mass mobilisation of people.

I hate ancient history. Blurgh.

I think I don't have much idea about world-history. We were mainly taught Indian History. I like the Mughal period from that... It was the most theatrical of them all!

Babar - Humayun - Akbar - Jahangir - Shah Jahan - Aurangazeb

I really couldn't say. Pretty much everything since the first advanced civilisations arose, I guess. I'm not as interested in anything before scripture arose, though.

Future

Don't ask me anything after 1667.

Before then, I'll have a go!

(I will probably be wrong, mind. )

The Roman Republic, I guess. For the simple range of fascinating characters that appear, before the principate casts the aristocracy into such a deep shadow. And it's accessible, relatively, given the language ties to the one I speak.

I'm a novice when it comes to history (they didn't teach us much in Australia in the 80's) ... but I've grown to love reading the ancient Romans.

Sigh...the words of Pliny the Younger jump off the page as if they were written a few years ago and seem very human and 'real, (despite some odd practises compared to our western modern morals). When I finished his book I moped around all day... felt like I had lost a friend and could *never* find out what happened to him... amazing stuff.

I find all those ancient histories fascinating... before we went backwards as a species in the dark ages. I sort of switch off a bit with that stuff.

But really.... I wouldn't want to exist any'when' but now... give up modern medicine, technology and science? No fanks!

I love history and think we are right now living through some of the most interesting times in all of history. Easy access to flight ,powerful computers, internet, we have even seen men on the moon!

although I guess seeing a t-rex would have been cool....

The future is pretty nice but I always find myself in the past. How can one help going back when you can see chaps like Plato and David Hume? Fascinating fellows!

The library and institute at Alexandria blows my mind a bit. Oh for a time machine, an invisibility cloak, and a babel fish!

heyjude wrote:The library and institute at Alexandria blows my mind a bit. Oh for a time machine, an invisibility cloak, and a babel fish!

Doh! You nearly forgot the towel!

Paul G wrote:Late modern....I hate ancient history. Blurgh.

Completely the opposite for me. I love ancient history, the older the better!

Probably Saxon England. Dunno why.

Homer's time; but, specifically, in the country of the Phaeaks.

The one that comes when you don't want to be pregnant.

The Interwar period and the Arab Conquests, but generally I'm a fan of all history.

I think socially, I particularly have an interest in classical Greece and Norse traditions. But if you were to ask which period I'd like them to make a Total War game about (since they've already done Medieval), it would have to be just after the rise of the Ming dynasty in China.

ConnyRaSk wrote:The one that comes when you don't want to be pregnant.

I hate to draw attention to this, for fear somebody will be "offended," but:

1. U.S. Civil War (hey, I was raised up in the Deep South...).

2. Pre-Columbian North America c. 900 to 1300 CE -- Mimbres, Casas Grandes, the Mississippian chiefdoms, the emergence of classic northern Northwest Coast art, ... what's not to love.

3. But all the other favorites sound fascinating, too (well, with the possible exception of Conny's)!