For many its the Roman empire or the Greeks. Similarly ancient Egypt. Or the British empire. Maybe the Japanese, Chinese and Norse as the next 3.

I have deliberately not mentioned time periods there.

These are the most commonly beloved. What are your favourites and why?

  • gigachad@piefed.socialEnglish
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    1 day ago

    Let me try to explain… It is impossible to understand WW2 if you do not understand the Weimar Republic and WW1 for example. That’s why I try to understand an epoch and as soon as I “run out of explanations” I go to the events that influenced it.
    The other way would be to start at the “beginning of history” but that is clearly impossible to define.

    Just looking at a single event somewhere between 1520 and 1530 however is an island without context, I fail to understand without knowing what was around.