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LLXerxes
Dec 18, 2004, 07:43 PM
I got a long l list ;)

Early Man
Mesopotamia
Greece
Rise of Rome
Springtime China
Fall of Rome
The Dark Ages
Meso-america
THe Middle Ages
The Crusades
The Rise of the Mongols
Barbarians
European Exploration
The Revolutionary war
Sengoku
Napoleon
WWI
WWII
US 60's-70's
Modern Times

I'm a history guy :D wot about u?

pawpaw
Dec 18, 2004, 07:46 PM
ancient world--greece & rome
wars of religion era--1500--1700

superisis
Dec 18, 2004, 08:11 PM
You left out the european renaissance. Those were the times!

superisis
Dec 18, 2004, 08:13 PM
for the 1900 hundreds

1900s and 1910s Paris
1950s US (california)
1960s Paris
1970s London
1980s and 1990s Berlin
2000s well I like it here in Rome, so...

Plotinus
Dec 18, 2004, 08:17 PM
The Carolingian age, and the twelfth century. If I had to choose which one to live in, definitely the latter. The thirteenth century was pretty good too. After that - downhill ever since!

Xen
Dec 18, 2004, 08:19 PM
-copper age
-bronze age
-iron age
-Classical Age
-Hellenistic era, and rise of the Roman republic
-Imperial Roman era (early/mid)
-Late Imperia era Rome
-"Patrician" era rome
-Dark ages
-Middle ages
-wars of the Crux (Crusades!)
-Renasissance
(whith those last three, the Itallian states are of particuler interest to me)
- early Imperial, and the age of sail
-age of Imperial European ass kicking
-and loads of other stuff as well

North King
Dec 18, 2004, 09:19 PM
prehistory
stone age
bronze age
iron age
imperial age
medieval age (but mainly in Asia)
gunpowder age
colonial age
European Wars of Religion
enlightenment age
napoleanic wars
Crimean War
Civil War
Prussian wars of unification
World War one...

OR I COULD SAY

Everything WW1 and older, excluding the dark ages. :)

alex994
Dec 18, 2004, 09:24 PM
Everything present day and older, excluding the stone, and prehistoric ages. :)

viper275
Dec 18, 2004, 10:53 PM
Greece 2500 BC-146 BC
Rome 753 BC-476 BC
Arabs 632 AD-1258 AD
Japan 1467 AD-1615 AD
China 1000 BC-1978 AD
Mesoamerica c.1200 BC-1521 AD
Mongols 1215 AD-1360 AD
Ottomans 1517 AD-1922 AD
Zulu c.1800 AD-1871 AD
Russia 1917 AD-1991 AD
Vikings c.800 AD- c.1000 AD
Western Europe (France, England, Spain, and Italy mainly) c.1000 AD-c.1650 AD
Songhai c.1400 AD- c.1575 AD
The World 1914-1945 AD
United States 1776 AD-2004 AD (basically up to now)

Adler17
Dec 19, 2004, 02:43 AM
Sumer, Egypt and a little bit ancient America
Greece, Carthago and Rome
30 years war to today

Adler

Mescalhead
Dec 19, 2004, 04:49 AM
-Early Mesopotamia
-Near East ca. 1,500 B.C.E. to Alexandrian conquest
-Ancient Greece and Macedon
-Rome and the surrounding climate and cultures
-Europe from the fall of Rome through to the 15th century
-Asian steppes during the Medieval eras (Huns, Turks, Mongols, Tamerlane, Ghengis, etc.)
-Pre-Colombian American Civilizations (Aztecs, Toltecs, Mayans, Olmecs, Incas, Mound Builders, Anasazi, etc.)
-European conquest of the Americas
-Wars, politics and social revolutions in Western Civillization during the last 500 years.

Bungus
Dec 19, 2004, 04:54 AM
Last week.

MaisseArsouye
Dec 19, 2004, 05:44 AM
IMHO :

Egypt's new Empire
classical Greece
late roman Empire
Carolus Magnus and the beginning of walloon culture
the golden age of Wallonia ( 1000-1300 )
Renaissance in Italia and François Ier in France
Revolution Française and Napoléon

Jack the Ripper
Dec 19, 2004, 03:51 PM
Napoleon sucked.

WWII
1850s-1870 in america

BananaLee
Dec 19, 2004, 11:11 PM
The Napoleanic-era.
The Three Kingdoms era in China
The Warring States era in China

Reno
Dec 19, 2004, 11:21 PM
Muromanchi period in Japan
Napoleon
World War I
Macedonia during Alexander the Great

Suppersalmon
Dec 20, 2004, 04:56 AM
Napoleononic-era
World War 1
World War 2

expeliarmus
Jan 07, 2005, 08:12 AM
I think the two most interesting periods in History were, whithout any doubt, the Crusades, with the European and the Arabs fighting against each other, and the WWII.
Because the WWII was very interesting, at the beginning the Germans winning, but at the end the allies had them in their hands.
I would like to be there, but there were no computers, so... better be here.
Greetings.

privatehudson
Jan 07, 2005, 08:19 AM
Anything after around 1792 usually.

knorman
Jan 07, 2005, 10:36 AM
Roman Republic
The Enlightment
Hellenistic Greece

Blackbird_SR-71
Jan 07, 2005, 04:13 PM
Alexander the Greats Conquest and Empire
Roman Empire
America 1776-1800
Civil War 1863-1870
World War One
World War Two
Cold War
1990s
Today

blindside
Jan 07, 2005, 04:54 PM
The age between the rise of the Huns to the end of the Mongols.

Kublai-Khan
Jan 07, 2005, 09:03 PM
Am I the only one here who loves the period of the Christological controversies in the eastern roman empire, being a bishop in Alexandria for example would have been quite cool.

Mungaf
Jan 07, 2005, 10:27 PM
Europe from 1871 to 1914. It was such a period of ideological and scientific dynamism, with so many ideas and countries and people struggling for dominance. It's a shame that it derailed so horribly.

Plotinus
Jan 07, 2005, 10:35 PM
Am I the only one here who loves the period of the Christological controversies in the eastern roman empire, being a bishop in Alexandria for example would have been quite cool.

Me too. But which period of controversies? Cyril and Nestorius? Severus of Antioch? Baradeus? Maximus the Confessor? John Damascene?

Relatedly, I think the golden age of Makuria, seventh and eighth centuries, would have been fun.

Insane_Panda
Jan 07, 2005, 11:08 PM
The Napoleonic Wars and the French Revolution
The Age of Imperialism, namely 1870-1914, especially German history of the time and British history.

The Thirty years war
World War 1
The Classical Age. (namely rome and carthage)
The Early Islamic empire (700's)
Theres tons more too, I just have a hard time remembering them all.

~Corsair#01~
Jan 08, 2005, 12:01 PM
Punic Wars. WW2. The rest is nice too.