• bricklove@midwest.social
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    5 days ago

    History is kind of the opposite. When someone says they like history I’ll get excited and ask what period is their favorite. If they say “Romans” without any qualifiers like Early Republic or Late Eastern Empire, I get a bad feeling and they usually follow up with “and WWII”

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works
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      5 days ago

      my answer is “mesopotamian” because I like their goofy little sculptures
      archeology is cool, humans are just little goblins that really like to live on hills for some reason

      • PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 days ago

        Them dudes is wild though! They achieved so many recorded firsts and shaped so much of our culture that we often don’t even recognize how huge they were!

        I still yearn for the day we can move to a sexagesimal nubering system.

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      5 days ago

      Curious what is says about me that my answer has always been “the Cold War.”

      … Other than the fact that history feels far too present these days.

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        5 days ago

        you grew up during The Cold War? That’s about it unless you get more specific for example Im interested in the decline of the USSR and the rise of the CIS.

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          5 days ago

          I was actually born at the “end” of it. I generally am interested in US-Soviet relations and how the Cold War/Communism became a major factor in political campaigns after WWII, specifically the Dewey-Truman upset.

          It’s funny, all through college I had either older people looking askance at me about why I’d be interested in “ancient” history or peers teasing me about being a Russian asset just for the interest… I just never thought the Cold War actually ended, and when I was in college in the late 2000s, that was a wild take to have lmao