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Maximus Vigilus · Wed May 09, 2007 10:27 pm Past Civilizations?

Which past civilization do you like the most? And why? Which do you think was the greatest Empire, etc. of them all?

Roy's Our Boy · Wed May 09, 2007 10:57 pm

I think the Roman Empire was horrible.

Houndstooth · Wed May 09, 2007 11:32 pm

lolatlantis

I like reading about the Romans and the Chinese. The millenia-old sinocentric view is really interesting. The whole "China=Middle Earth" thing.

Bob Frankenberry · Wed May 09, 2007 11:47 pm

Roy's Our Boy wrote: I think the Roman Empire was horrible.

:roll:

I'm actually very interested in the post-Han period in China.

"What is the post-Han period, Mr. Frankenberry?"

Have you ever played Dynasty Warriors or Romance of the Three Kingdoms or heard of a book by the name of the second thing I italicized? That's the post-Han period I'm most interested in. The Three Kingdoms.

Just a shame my world history textbook in high school summed that entire period up in about two sentences.

Redneck · Thu May 10, 2007 5:26 am

Ancient Rome and the Alexanderian era are my favorite eras of history. I'm also getting interested in the Meso-American civilizations of the Southwest, I've been studying some of their ruins in the four corners area and they really had an amazing civilization.

agentkgb · Thu May 17, 2007 8:26 pm

Ancient Greece.