Favorite Period (topic) in History?

[Gerry]

What's everyone's favorite part (or topic) in history?

Mine's ancient civilizations -- probably Ancient Greece.

[hoping]

Anceint Rome, Egypt, Greece, persia, Macadonia, Sparta, Britan, vikings, i know choose only one but i cant, if i had to choose only one it would be Ancient Rome.
also the second world war manily in Europe

[Bevo]

- Modern History - German empire, 19th and 20th century europe, post-colonial africa

and yes i do like history, its my most favourite subject except when its done under the heel of "Australian History" (not the topic but the subject curriculum)

[Chloe]

Period in between world wars

[Hln D]

Soviet Russia, I find it fascinating. Also, Victorian London, more specifically the Jack the Ripper cases, I'm an avid amateur Ripperologist, as is my mummy :D

[Behling]

probably the world wars but we never talk about em much in class and I have not learned anything new about them from school in a while, we have a chapter or two at best for them.

[Lexington]

I liked Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, the Middle Ages, and everything since World War II. :)

Lex

[Hln D]

probably the world wars but we never talk about em much in class and I have not learned anything new about them from school in a while, we have a chapter or two at best for them.

Gosh, really? We learn about them all the bloody time in British schools :p

Mind you, in the UAE we're not strictly allowed to learn about the Holocaust, but I went to the holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London to find out for myself, and thankfully we had a very awesome history teacher who gave us a basic grounding of it ^_^

[Malchik89]

The World Wars piss me off, mainly because of the otrocities

My fav would have to be Japan's Feudal (Warring States) Era, Samurai fo sho

[Jebs]

Crusades. Killing in the name of God... right.. I still love reading all about it. And when I was like 15 I was totally transfixed on the Roman Empire.

[Swamp56]

I like the Medieval Times, as well as the senteenth and eighteenth centuries :D

[ccdd]

I like Roman history and also the middle ages. I like the Tudors and Stuarts too. But I like most historical periods!

[nodoubtjunkie]

Ancient Egypt is my passion, but many subject interest me. I like Nazi Germany, the world wars, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome and the disaster of Pompeii, The Romans, The Vikings and The Tudor period with Henry the Tart and his six wives =], i also like the Medieval times and the Victorian era.

Ooh, now that i look back, that covers quite alot of history lol.

Oh, and I liked doing the Cold War and all the topics that go with it :D

[Behling]

probably the world wars but we never talk about em much in class and I have not learned anything new about them from school in a while, we have a chapter or two at best for them.

Gosh, really? We learn about them all the bloody time in British schools :p

Mind you, in the UAE we're not strictly allowed to learn about the Holocaust, but I went to the holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum in London to find out for myself, and thankfully we had a very awesome history teacher who gave us a basic grounding of it ^_^

Yeah, we never really go in depth about anything unless the class is specifically about it
I would hate to not be able to learn about something but its really cool you were able to learn about it. Do a lot of people learn about it on their own in the UAE?

[Nova713]

I love history. Everything from ancient times through colonization is my favorite. Everything from colonization onwards I'm not all that interested in. The older the better. My specialty is Ancient Egypt.

[Daniel]

Greek culture and then European colonizations.

[Daniel]

Oh yeah, my mother is a Global History teacher for my school and teaches the AP World History, and the AP European History classes.

I had her for a teacher. And have a chance to do independent study with her. I don't know if I should or not...

[RobbIsFlyyy]

The American Civil War.
Tudor England.
Victorian England.
Queen Elizabeth II.
Ancient Egypt.

[ibsian]

My favourite Topic in history was ancient civilization and Mythology

[Miaplacidus]

Cold War. Most definitely.

[Pyro]

I love history these are my favorite topics

Both world wars
Cold war and it's consequences
Prussian wars
Medieval times since the foundation of my country (1143)
Portugal Colonization and the discovery's (The first person to make a trip arround the world was portuguese)
Portugal's Dictatorship and the colonial war
I find American civil war interesting too
Spanish civil war
Russian civil war
The roman republic and empire
The greek mythology
The napoleon wars (and the way we kicked his ass out of here)
The Portugal-Spain Wars and battles (and the way we almost always won)
And the present history with all the conflicts going on

From this post you can see that, I like war (alot) I like to study history and that the portuguese are tough people (or at least we were)

[Muzzy]

Mine would have to be Ancient Greece (I love the mythology).

[Asteroid]

Ancient civilizations (including the rise and fall of the Mayas); Alexander the Great; the three Balkan Wars; World War I and II; the aftermath of the Cold War

[Gerry]

Wow I didn't know it would start up such a great thread just asking about history. I didn't think there were that many history buffs in here. :)

[Fiorino]

Hmm. Ancient Egypt. Roman Times are ok. 17th century Japan. 18th century England.
1880s France. 1930s Japan. French Indochina (Vietnam) before WWII. French Africa in the 1940's (AOF and AEF). The fifties and sixties. Iron Curtain.
Cultural revolution in China. Present day North Korea.
The 2000s.

[jazzrawr]

I like ancient stuff. I don't particularly like newer history, like all the big wars and stuff.
I love ancient greece, rome, egypt, china and stuff like that. Medival history is really cool aswell. And the sort of Shakespeare-england time era was interesting. :)

[Bryan90]

Early Modern Mediterranean. The Habsburgs and The Ottomans - major interest. Though I am still interested in the Classical Age (Greek and Romans), I find it very hard to discern between "history" and "myth-history" when reading about them. The Middle Ages - Early Modern Period have relatively reliable source. My span of interest stops at the year 1875.

[MonsieurGodiva]

Aside from early Asian history, ancient Egypt, and the Roman Empire, my favorite history topic is the French Revolution.