Most interesting period of history?

[RedRalph]

Which part of history fascinates you the most?

Of late Ive become somewhat obsessed with the long 19th Century, industrialisation etc.... such huge changes in the way the world worked, new countries, new empires etc etc

 

[Camikaze]

I am most certainly a modern history person. I used to mostly like the 20th century (and still do), but over the last year or so, I've become more fascinated with the 19th century, probably because of what I've been doing in Modern History in school.

 

[Masada]

industrialisation

I avoid that like the plague... historians, economists and anyone interested in it try to push their own agenda... and I hate that.

Currently I'm fascinated by trade between the Arab world, India, the Golden Chersonese (used broadly) and China before Europe messed it up [and rampant partisanship creeps in].

 

[pop daddy]

It's hard to not be enamored with the rise and fall of the Roman Empire, I think. The sheer genius of many parts of their society, mixed with their sometimes brutish behavior is a fascinating combination!

 

[Yeekim]

There are not more or less interesting periods of history. Just the ones you know more about and the ones you do not.

 

[Virote_Considon]

I prefer studying the pre-Roman period.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Some periods interest me more than others. I like really early prehistory (well, I will count it as "history"), like before agriculture, and I have been into World War I lately.

 

[RedRalph]

Yeah, it changes from time to time, of course. and place to place, generally I find European and Asian history the most interesting, if I'm compltely honest I know little about American, Australasian or African history

 

[Dachs]

Classical history, especially the Hellenistic age; Byzantine history; the modern age, from 1600 onwards, with a specific focus on the 19th century.

 

[RedRalph]

Dachs (Or anyone else) could you recommend any good websites about the 19th century?

 

[Yui108]

19th century/crusader states

 

[Dachs]

Dachs (Or anyone else) could you recommend any good websites about the 19th century?

Websites? No, not really. I mostly read books.

 

[Higher Game]

500 BC to 500 AD more or less summarizes the Classical era of every global civilization, which is remarkable. 1450 to 1700 is also a good time period, for Europe. Basically, the fall of Constantinople to just before industrialization and stupid peoples' revolutions.

 

[RedRalph]

Websites? No, not really. I mostly read books.

Me too (Age of Capital at the moment), but I cant sit at my desk with that in my hand now can I?

 

[Mirc]

Ancient history, from 3000-2500 BC to ~250 AD is by far the most interesting to me.

Honorary mention to the 15-17th centuries. I'm rather less interested in modern and early medieval history, although all history is interesting to me. I'd say it goes something like this for me: Ancient -> early modern (post Age of discovery/Renaissance) -> late middle ages -> early middle ages -> contemporary -> modern -> prehistory.

 

[flyingchicken]

I'm interested in (but defnitely not very knowledgeable with): Alexander the Great to the end of the last great Hellenistic kingdom (those vile Turks!), the Warring States Periods of China and Japan, the First and Second Great Wars, and the Cold War era.

This isn't permanent, though.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

Middle Eastern History beginning with the Rise of Islam through the collapse of the Abbasid Caliphate, Russian History from 1861-on, and the Roman Republic.

 

[innonimatu]

I avoid that like the plague... historians, economists and anyone interested in it try to push their own agenda... and I hate that.

Funny, I initially did the same. But then I realized that all those agendas around 19th century history were what made it interesting - it shows that those past events are still very relevant to our time!

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

WWII era by far. There are just so many incredible things that happened that time period that don't even make it into many history books.

 

[Taras Bulba]

WWII, Imperialism, (American) Civil War, Greco-Roman history are probably my top favorites. For the most part wars interest me