Really sweet. It's delicious.

And that is why most history is BS but I still find history very entertaining.

I like reading about history, but almost always I am very much horrified by it, for example the bombings of Cambodia,Vietnam or Laos, the leveling of North Korea,the Phoenix Programm, the Rape of Nanking,Unit 731, basically all of WW2 is unbelievably nightmarish.
Positive side of it is that you can laugh about fictional horror movies and how harmless they are compared to what people did to each other in reality.

So what I like about is history is maybe when bad things end, like when Clinton ended his support for the genocide in East Timor,too late,but still.

I love history, especially how aliens have interacted with us and guided us through it.

Perhaps it did or perhaps it didn't. It's actually very hard to confirm that something definitely happened and even harder to know the way it happened and the reasons it happened and what the heck it all means. A lot of history you learn at school is just "best guesses" (well actually, as noted above, a lot of what you learn in school is just flat out wrong but that's beside my point).

Even in the modern era, where things are recorded and written down, there can still be a lot of uncertainty.

History is, usually, a big mess that seems more often determined by chance that by causality.

But sometimes, very rarely, a good and lucky storis is able to find the "red thread" that unites events seemingly distant in time and space.

This is what I love in history: being able to untangle and find order even in the most confusing events.

Try reading about China under Mao. Kinda makes everything else you mentioned look boring...

I tried, just another dictator mistreating his people.

On a scale never before seen in the history of humanity...

Ancient Rome fascinates me more than most other periods. I find it amazing that so much ingenuity came together in Italy all at the same time, and that it happened again in the Renaissance.

Its a big country, so the numbers will obviously be higher. Does not compare to slaughtering 30% of the population in East Timor or North Korea.


Not really, way more interesting about history is that everyone always thinks they are doing good things, from the commie chairman to the fascist generalissimo.

World War 2, when Capitalism, Communism and Fascism met face to face, the backstabs, the hidden agendas, the atrocities committed, the tanks, the battleships and carrier naval battles, the struggle of the Soviet Union and its incredible rise to power after the defeat of the German 6th Army.

After that, mostly on China's ancient times, the wars between their unified dynasties especially the 3 Kingdoms era and the Warring States during which Sun Tsu wrote the Art of War.
That and also medieval Europe. Crusades and such, thank you Age of Empires 2 and Medieval Total War.

Dude... There were more than 100.000.000 deaths ! And BTW, East Timor has a small population, so obviously the percentages are gonna be higher...

Unit 731 is by far the worst thing I've ever found out about. When even the Nazis tell u to ease up on the atrocities, you'd know you're horrible.

That's just a horrible inhuman thing to say. Not to mention illogical and wrong.