Your most interesting era of history.

[Da Orky Man]

What era of history are you most interested in? I ask for no particular reason.

Mine has got to be the truly ancient history, the early civilisations. Uruk, the Sumerian king list, he Epic of Gilgamesh. I find it fascinating how details of the early civilisations have remained to the pleasant day.
Which leads to the annoying situation that there are very few pieces of evidence from that era.

 

[ghostsprite9]

I'm going say before anyone else...

Ancient Greeks. Just everything they did I find so interesting, everything they discovered.

Blows my mind everytime

 

[Hitokiri_Gensai]

Japan between 1200 and 1900.

Its been a point of study throughout my life. Im half Japanese, so its a bit of my ancestory and history and its extremely interesting and important to me.

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

The Renaissance. Seriously, a revival of art and culture after a period of intellectual decay. Refreshing, no?

 

[McMullen]

I've always found the Age of Sail/colonial period a fascinating setting for movies, books, and games.

 

[Daymo]

I've always loved the cold war period. It's such an intriguing period with such rapid change. I've always been dissapointed to be born a few years after it ended.

 

[Duskwaith]

Napoleonic era is pretty intresting. Though the huge geo-political,political and cultural aspects of the last 150 years is still quite intresting

 

[Esotera]

The 20th Century, so much more stuff happened than in all the previous centuries. So much technological advance as well.

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Elizabethan Era. England goes from a destitute country almost being swallowed up by France to the most powerful and advanced nation in the world.

 

[Wushu Panda]

All time periods of Central America. That ranges from 8000 BC to 900 AD. The vast stone architectural accomplishments achieved are astounding. Work that is so complex, precise and enormous modern science can't re create it.

 

[emeraldrafael]

The dark ages of europe and the US civil war.

 

[Avaholic03]

Renaissance. Art, science...pretty much everything was affected.

Of course, I'd also say the modern era because of how the internet has shaped the global culture. But we won't see the full effects of this until much later. Still, great time to be alive

 

[mikey7339]

The Cambrian Explosion (he never said it had to be recorded history guys).

 

[Hero in a half shell]

The Middle Ages, with all the knights, castles, massive battles involving tens of thousands of men duking it out in one field, and before guns were thought of as anything more than an unreliable, single shot sidearm.

Something about that time period just enthralls me.

 

[Amos the famous]

Hitler's germany, the cold war and ANYTHING to do with Vikings

 

[Furious Styles]

The 20th Century

Never has more blood been shed is a single century

 

[tigermilk]

The Enlightenment: While I have my reservations about the applications of rationalism to social and political discourse but such an important era.

Late 1960's/70's: Time of social and political upheaval like the enlightment (but arguably an oppositional force). The rise of a number of fascinating movements of paticular interest to me the deconstruction of the literary canon and the rise of cultural studies.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

1800's - 1970ish

I love most military history, including ancient history but I'm obsessed with the last two centuries conflicts.

Focal points in my interest being the World Wars but I really do like reading up on the American Civil War, battles like Trafalgar and Korea. I'm all over the map.

 

[Father Tunde]

Carboniferous. You telling me you wouldn't want to see a 'day in the life' of our planet, 300 million years ago, in a world dominated by giant insects?