/int/ - International

Roman history is a double-edged sword for me. On the one hand, it's crazy how much of our modern society can be found in Roman history. They feel so far away, yet are just like us. On the other hand, they were imperialist dick holes. Do you know the story of Cato and the figs? He brought fresh figs to the senate and claimed that they were from Carthage. His point was "look at how fresh they are, that's how close the enemy is". However, this was most likely a lie and the figs were probably from Rome. Anyway, Cato was successful in convincing the senate to then commit a genocide against Carthage. Fascinating, yet infuriating history.

High Middle Ages. It's so vastly different from modernity that it holds much charme and many wonders for us moderns.

I like Early to High Middle Ages, basically from the fall of the Western Rome to the Mongol invasion. Like the other anon said, it just feels unique, genuine and different, almost cryptic and hidden due to how the Modernity, Enlightenment and Renaissance relied on creating a completely false imaginary askew retarded version of it simply to feel better about themselves. I also like Pleistocene, because it is a primordial cradle of every human civilisation. It stretches from the Palaeolithic, before the first ethnic cultures in the modern sense even existed, to the Bronze Age Collapse, which is another part of human history that feels almost alien, borderline forgotten as if it either never happened, or was just made up in some fantasy fiction, while in reality there existed amazing deeply complicated and well-developed cultures with cities and thousands upon thousands of people, living their every day lives.

>>5487 >Bronze age collapse Did they ever find out who the sea peoples were? >>5477 Empires gonna empire, I really love how much cool shit Rome had like the aqueducts, public fountains, sewers, public baths >>5481 Tell a little about high middle ages, the most interesting things. I know nothing.

For the longest time I've been absorbed in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modernity up to the Peace of Westphalia. Purely from a Swiss-German POV it bothers me that we know so much about it, have countless visual and literary sources about it yet the average citizen has a completely skewed/19th Century romantic view of it. That's why we'd rather celebrate a semi-fictional guy with a crossbow from a German play than the documented people who actually laid the foundation of our country. As for the Thirty Years War, it's extremely depressing, but also full of interesting personalities.

>>5498 >That's why we'd rather celebrate a semi-fictional guy with a crossbow from a German play than the documented people who actually laid the foundation of our country. The guy with the crossbow is simply easier to celebrate. He's a hero, not a historical figure. Historical figures are multi-faceted and depending on the source material, not all things are clear about them. With William Tell, we can just not give a fuck about accuracy and just say he was a chad and his picture is on our 5 franc coin (it was never supposed to be him, but who cares?)

>>5500 God damn it this looks so good. I hate the modern gEisenhower-homo money.

>>5501 I don't see a big difference, tbh.

I like the 1990s. All the bad stuff of the previous ages (and there's a fucking lot of it) was solved and it felt like the world would only get better every day.

Hellenistic period. The subsuming of Greek civilization under the Roman feels like somewhat of a tragedy, considering the latter's hegemony over the Mediterranean ushered in a period of permanent stagnation from the very beginning, whereas the Greeks were the more dynamic and sophisticated of the two. Except in matters of war, where Roman supremacy is self-evident.

I keep having phases and having different autism tier obcesssion with certain periods and places. I probably never made a woman as dry as when I was obsessed golden age colonial Netherlands.

>>5498 The average person doesn't know anything about the fact that a french noble invaded the swiss confederacy during the hundred years war in what is called the guglerkrieg... Smh fam fr

>>5682 Yeah, Enguerrand VII de Coucy, last of his line. Unfortunately the only depiction of it is from the Spiez Chronicle a century later.

1600-1800 ? scientific revolution and the renaissance. freedom & liberty (and mass genocide)

Pre-classical Antiquity is of course by far the most interesting, but Classical Antiquity is also fascinating

Mesopotamia and the ancient levant, or any place where civilization started, though none other seems to be as well documented, the first cities and empires surrounded literal cavemen and the stuff they arbitrarily decided popping up time and time again to this day

>>5683 What he wanted? He didn't had any claims on Alpine lands.

>>5878 He was related to the Habsburgs through his mother and tried to press a claim on some of their lands.

2003 when I was still a happi boi

>>5473 The Fall of Cadia.

>>5888 What went wrong Polan?