Poll: Favourite era of history

[chadachada123]

Whoa, those results are surprisingly cool. Anyway, I voted classical, and my vote was probably cemented by the Latin courses I'm taking right now combined with my Greek History course from last semester, and the History of Philosophy from the semester prior.

Plus, I mean, togas, man. Come on.

Part of it, also, is that, even WAY back then, there were philosophers that decried religious extremism, with some suggesting that gods didn't even "really" exist, and/or that everything here has a natural explanation. My love of science stems from these ideals, which were sadly forgotten in much of Europe and replaced with fundamentalism of the intolerable sort for, well, until today, even.

 

[BlackEagle95]

Went with Classical, but I can really only narrow it down to Classical, Medieval, and WWI-WWII. Really interested WWII military for some strange reason.

 

[Olas]

I find it quite ironic that the renaissance is one of the least voted.

 

[jedisensei]

"Stone Age," or rather 'prehistory ' -- the period of time spanning the emergence of anatomically modern humans and the 'first' (oldest know) ancient civilizations. We have, what, 6000 years of recorded history? Humans have been around for some 30x as long!! What about all the epic, world-shaping events that occurred in that span? The ancient (historical) world didn't just show-up overnight, 6000 years ago -- it was a long slog of false-starts, set-backs and improbable victories, replete with it's own heroes and villains and fantastic discovery. Think of the rich well of real stories that swells underneath our feet (literally!), all around the world.