James

I'd have to agree with you OP. Anything to do with The Roman Empire fascinates me.

Schranz bass

Sooooo, boring. What's wrong with you, people? **** human history. So short and almost predictable.

Most interesting periods in history:

-Hadeon eon, 4.6 Billion years ago, the formation of Earth and the first living creatures.

- Paleozoic Era, Cambrian Period, 542 Million Years ago. Diversification of life; hard-bodied creatures emerge.

-Mesozoic Era, Triassic Period, 251 mya. First mammals

-Mesozoic Era, Cretaceous Period, 146 mya. The K-T Impact: the end of dinosaurs; mass extinction.

-The time of the invention of the wheel.

crukster

Menstruating T-rex

Howard the Duck

i prefer the era when we were still primordial ooze

DoctorSoft

Now is pretty cool, the internet age that is.

Schranz bass

That would be near the middle of the Hadean Eon, 4.2 b.y.ago, to about 3.8 billion y.a, in the Archean Eon...give or take

Howard the Duck

^^ok

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Some off the top of my head:

French Revolution
Soviet Revolution
WWI - WWII - Middle Europe
Spanish Exploration of the world
Plague epidemics in Northern Europe
1960s California
Ancient China
Civil War America

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Burning Down

In terms of human history (~2M years or so), I'd have to say the Enlightenment is extremely interesting to me. I really only know the basics of the Enlightenment, and that's just the tip of the iceberg there. All the new schools of thought and philosophical revelations are just so fascinating to me.

Also, World War One is by far the most interesting event to have occurred during the 20th century, to me at least. The fact that it was a springboard for new types of warfare and weaponry (poison gas, shell-fire, trenches, tanks, etc.) really sets it apart from every other war that has taken place before and after it. WWI is a subject that I'm fairly knowledgeable in, having written 2 academic papers on topics to do with the war - one on life in the trenches and the other on the Battle of Vimy Ridge.

Now, in terms of history before the existence of humans, dinosaurs are interesting to me as well, but I don't know enough about them

Guybrush

I'm surprised noone's answered the European Renaissance, the time when civilization (well, some of it) rose from and challenged the oppressive conventions of the medieval times. You got great artists and thinkers like Michaelangelo, Leonardo DaVinci and Galileo Galilei who challenged the geocentric world view. America was discovered and settled, the protestant reformation took place, ehr .. Classical music came a long way etc.

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