Things that got you interested in history

Wikipedia

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National Socialism

meh, just an autistic obsession taking root in my early adolescence

its my main passion now desu

>>1524664
Howard Zinn's People's History of the United States of America

>>1524664
Crusader Kings 2
No lie, im a fucking plebian

Total war games

Historical themed LEGO product lines. The Pirate sets got me interested in colonial and Napoleonic history.

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I read a lot of these when I was a kid. I liked them, even if they were a tad Anglocentric at times. I didn't even know they wrote one about my country (Ireland) until I looked it up just now.

>>1524748
this desu

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>>1524664
This.

/k/

The first age of empires when I was in preschool. Kept getting detentions for pretending I was a warrior on a chariot slaying unmounted plebs. Probably why ancient history has always been my biggest interest.

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taking AP hstory classes for dat college credit and then getting a lot more interested in it than I initially thought I would be

pic hardly related

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Unterganging in 2010-12 got me into Nazi history, and it spread from there

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>>1524834
>The first age of empires when I was in preschool. Kept getting detentions for pretending I was a warrior on a chariot slaying unmounted plebs

I know that phase, it had to be a scythed chariot though

At 5 years old i came home from my first history class unable to shut the fuck up about the olden days.

It's just genetic for me.

WOLOLO

I got converted to black
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86d0r-3fmxg

Christianity tbph
Also, the Europa Universalis games

my teacher :)

>>1525036
Any stories? Description of him/her? Genuinely interested. It would be a break from the usual crap that gets posted here

Traveling as a kid. My dad encouraged it a lot by buying me books/artifacts as a kid.

>tfw I was a carthagoboo as a kid and my best friend was a romeboo

>>1525053
Somewhat same situation here. My older brother was an ancient Greekboo while I was a Romeboo

>>1525061
Well, I still am a Romeboo. My brother became more interested in planes and aviation stuff, while I remained a history sperg

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I'm actually serious.

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>>1524664
this

>>1524664
probably this

>>1524664
One of my first books was about Alexander the Great's conquests. History Channel and my friends made it worse, somehow.

Video games like Civilization, Europa Universalis 3 and rome total war. Then I got into war movies and after movies I started to question everything so I started reading a bunch of books. Now I listen to podcasts and occasionally read while at work and I play games every once in a while, history is pretty fucking sweet and I wish more people would give it a shot.

>>1525042
A funny bald guy. The way he explained everything was great and made you genuinely interested in what you were learning. He was always making jokes too (to make the retards pay attention). I even thought of becoming a history teacher because of him but then I became a literal autist who cant into public speaking. He taught us for a few months and then left the school. Lots of rumors started circulating about him (I went to an all-girls school, you can imagine what those rumors said) which I totally believe kek.

Anti Japanese propaganda posters

>>1525148
Wtf be my gf pls

>>1524888
Funny, AP History Class is probably the one singular entity that turned me off from history for a long time.

>>1525148
Similar story except he wasn't bald

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>>1524664
It was those DK Eyewitness books

I history? My Dad.
In Roman History? Total War probably.

>>1525224
>wanting to date a chink-looking white spic

Im also a tomboy who may or may not be a lesbian. Subscribe to my blog for more info

>>1525247
You too huh? Fuck those books were awesome.

Civ revolution

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Dear America, Dear Canada, and whatever the "boy" journals were called

>>1525263
Link?

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>>1525244
I can see how that would happen tBh.

I was lucky that my history teachers were cool af. they do this trip every year in the summer where they take like 9 students out west (colorado/montana/etc) to some national parks to hike and learn about the areas and stuff. I went twice, my first year we went to Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park, the second year we went to Glacier. So I was already pretty good "friends" with the teachers before I even had them, so we got along well, and they did a lot in class to make it engaging.

so yeah, I can see how it could turn you off to history, but ig I just got extremely lucky by having some really cool history teachers

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i went to the battlefields at Lexington and Concord and all the historical stuff in Boston when I was little, and saw archeological sites and all the cool stuff and I bought a souvenir reproduction pic related and over the years I spend a lot of time looking at it thinkint it was soo cool. I still have it too, like 28 years later.

>>1525338
Mah nigga

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Legend of the Galactic Heroes

When I finished it I was crazy for more stories in a similar style and tone, and asked 4chan for recommendations. I was told Honor Harrington, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and real history. I didn't care much for the last option, but then I started reading Norwich's The Popes, a subject that I knew practically nothing about except some stories about gay popes and popes that died having sex, and I wanted to ser just how true that really was, which led to discover that I didn't actually know anything at all, everything I thought about history was complete BS and the past was nothing like I imagined, which got me reading more and more on various subjects.

>>1524664
A Song of Ice and Fire books and learning how much of real history inspired them

Documentaries on the Apollo missions and American Revolution.

>>1524664
I know this is super standard and not what you are probobly looking for but: my sophomore history teacher. He was pretty boring to everyone else and people sometimes slept through his classes. To me he was an interesting guy amd made me want to be a teacher for some time. I think he's dead now.

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>>1525495

You know, it usually goes that people like LOGH because they enjoy history and it's told in a similar format to a historical account. Never heard it happening the other way around, good for you.

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Fine, I'll be that guy.

>>1524664
hahahahahaha, seriously? what a MORON. just kill yourself

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>>1524664
My dad, he had a bachelors in history in Harvard, (even though he was in finance) and frequently told me stories about History (usually 20th century wars) in a very exaggerated and comedic way which basically triggered my Aspergers to have an obsessive craving for all things historical all the way into adulthood, currently working on my Masters in World History and planning on getting a PHD and becoming a Professor. Better than getting obsessed with Sonic. It also didn't hurt that my mother gave me Percy Jackson books instead of Harry Potter books which sparked an interest in Greek myth as well.

Paradox games, mostly Victoria 2 and CK2.

[spoiler]pls don't laugh[/spoiler]

The first thing I was obsessed with were dinosaurs. I used to memorize the names and recite them because I thought they sounded awesome, read every book about dinosaurs in the public library when I was real little. After that I sort of segued into history & geography which really go hand in hand. Had a 'illustrated history of the world' book I used to thumb through. Played AoE, Civilization & Rome: Total War too. Went as Hannibal Barca to a "living museum" presentation in middle school when everyone else was doing Lincoln, Florence Nightengale, Washington, Johnny Cash, Davy Crockett etc...Nobody knew who I was.

I also had a great Junior year highschool history teacher. He was a real old guy. So old that he walked with two canes because he had Polio as a child. He lectured like a college professor when other teachers did worksheets and reading out of the textbook. He knew everything by heart his lectures often went off on tangents as he got lost in talking about people places and things or answering questions. He radiated his passion for history and that was inspiring.

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Literally the Goat

rome total war

>>1524664
My Grandfather basically.

>Experienced and survived WWII as a child laborer in the Philippines. Nips rounded him and his friends up to pave an airfield a la Colin Farrel in Empire of the Sun. When I was a child he told me of his life during the war.
>Became a machinist and was sent as part of the PHILCAG military advisory forces in Vietnam.
>By teens, told me of the kinks women had in his time.

>>1526177
holy shit are you me?


allosaurus is still my favorite dinosaur, even after all these. God bless Walking With Dinosaurs.

Unironically, the holocaust

Idk why I always have, started out by sperging out over mythology (Egyptian in particular) pretty much as soon as I learned to read, then grew from mythology to Egyptian History, and from that onto something else.
Atm i'm fascinated by 19thC France and the story of Paris in particular.

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Tbh

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this my dudes, it is the sole reason for my obsession with the vietnam war (which in turn made me interested in other wars which spiraled into my modern history interest).
Its also the reason why i love film so much

>>1526622
>>1526355
My niggers

>>1524664
Age of Empires without a shadow of a doubt. Both 1 and 2 and the following expansion packs. AOE3 was a disappointment and I never really played it.

Political Economy

All you LARPing faggots can kill yourselves.

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Pity his latest is pretty much the worst book I've tried to read

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Dynasty Boys

>>1524910

Please, all they ever do is to ramble about aliens, pawn shops and ice road truckers.

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I didn't even know that I needed to have an interest in history. It seemed like a natural prerequisite of being a knowledgeable person. Same with literature.

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Roblox WWII groups sadly.

>>1525053
Ancient Egyboo when I was like 8.

>>1526192
this

>>1524664
History class, grandparents' stories on revolution then world wars, artifacts being dug out in our town when I was kid.

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> Going through that horrible edgy teenage atheist phase
> Buy some Hitchens books
> Never read anything except the god stuff
> Few years later go through the books and read some of the essays he wrote about history

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While I'm sure there were a bunch of different little things that were brewing underneath the surface that would have eventually lead me to my love of history. I've always pinpointed the exact moment it happened to when I found my brother's Axis and Allies board game in 5th grade:

>Bored one day on Christmas break
>Go downstairs and see my brother left some unopened WW2 board game he got as a gift on the kitchen counter
>Open up out of curiosity
>Filled with all kinds of tiny little army pieces that nerdy little 11yr old me would love playing with
>Find giant rule book filled with all kinds of extra information on WW2, what the pieces were supposed to be for each country, along with special optional rules in the back to mix the game up that all had real historical explanations for what they were (e.g. German fighter planes could move an extra territory because jet engines or something.)
>End up devouring almost every single book on WW2 I could get my hands on over the next few years
>Fall in love with learning history in general at that point
>Decided right around then that I'd really like to teach history some day

Just finished up my first year teaching incidentally.

Assassins Creed

>>1526051
me too m8
I pretty sure their most recent was zombie vs vampire or some dumb shit like that, it's sad

>>1527999
His short autobiography on Jefferson is really good.

Ancient Aliens lmao

I know a lot about Bronze Age Medditerranean and I'm a religious studies + anthropology major

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Hate to admit it, but it's the truth.

>>1525244
Funny, I had to ask my principal to be placed in AP World History after they stuck me in the regular class for the first semester. I loved that course.

So much so that I thought it would be great to take AP US Hist & AP Euro in the same year. Not my greatest idea, but for some reason it didn't kill my interest in history.

>>1530052
>Rome Total War

Pretty much this, but I was 13 years old at the time so it's acceptable.

>>1526647
in the boat with this guy

guns

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Pic (and it's pre MW3 sequels), BF1942, Medal of Honor, and the History Channel. Also, those Eyewitness Books on various things. the Soldier, WW1, WW2, Russia, and ACW ones were always my favorites.

>>1526989
>>1526192
Fuck yes to both of these.

>>1525495
Oh man, are you still here anon?

I'm the one who recommended Honor Harrington and I want to know what you think.

>>1524664
Modern History class in school.

Probably the least interesting way to get into it.

>>1524664
History channel
Library
Total War

>>1526921
History channel was good in the 90's.

>>1525053
>not murdering him and burning down his house

Call of Duty: Finest Hour when I was little.

I remember taking a field trip to a history museum and the tour guide was surprised at how much I knew about WW2 era weapons. He even took me aside and we talked about the M1 Garand for a while. Pretty cool dude.

/pol/

>>1524664
Age of Empires II

>>1524664
I will judge you of i want.
You are pathetic.

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I would play while I watch history documentaries.

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>>1524664
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnbMJH-drwA

>>1524664
Childhood, playing with toy soldiers.

>>1524664
aoe1 demo
aok
aoe series
friends and family - wwii, tanks manufac etc
horrible histories
gogs
shit like that, culture, media, family, society

(aus /w military family)

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>>1524664
GOT & ASOIAF

Fucking weird isn't it

>>1530864
>>1530876
>>1530878
These three and books that my dad had

>>1530880
not really

>>1525263
LONDON
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>>1528130
Its hard to find people with long enough attention spans to sit through a whole game of A&A

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I was raised in a crazy Catholic family.

>>1529182
>autobiography on Jefferson
u wot m8

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>>1524785
Oh hell yes, I was looking for this answer. Those books are amazing and funny as fuck.

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>>1530962
To be honest I've only finished a handful of games myself, like I said though, I did love playing with the pieces as a kid, I remember that Jenga blocks worked really well for creating walls and broken down buildings to use for the little infantry. Tried to recreate a mini-Stalingrad battle on my bedroom floor once in 6th grade.

>>1530052
This, My parents got the game for me when I was 7 and I couldn't stop playing it

>>1526921
You must be 18+ to use this website.>>1526958

>>1531063
I didn't mean to quote the second anon.


Anyways for me it probably started reading those books that would provide a cross section of castles, tanks, jets, ships, etc. Then games like Risk, and Total War basically sealed the deal.

>>1524664
So you're 12?

>>1525053
>>tfw I was a carthagoboo as a kid and my best friend was a romeboo
My friend was Sinoboo and I was a Weeaboo. We spend the day fighting and telling each others stories from WWII. I remember him telling me of this Chinaman who fought hand on hand with Japanese men in fighting demonstrations to win bags of rice. Loved that story, but forgot the name of the individual, he was a kung-fu master of some shit before the war.

I met my (only) friend in highschool while having dinner, he started chatting because I had a copy of the Silmarillion with me and he started talking about it. Casually, we were the only guys interested in history and we were both Catholics.

>>1524664
My cunt of a history teacher always used to deprecate me in his class, so I took it upon myself to blow each and every one of his assignments out of the water. The extent of the research I went into got me interested in history and years later I still love it.

>>1531155
>Ip Man

KEK

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Wild fuckin Bill.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2MNAz6Xx4s

>>1524664
My grandpa was always talking about history and my grandma about Hitler fucking up Europe while she was a little child.

>>1530139
How old r u m8 ? I played the same games when I was a kid/teen. Can't beat CoD2 and BF1942.

10th grade World History class.

>control f 'Spywatch'
>0 results

You disappoint me britfags
Watching that show on a battered TV in school inspired a love of history that burns to this day

I had always really liked a lot of ancient and classical history (largely Greeks, Romans and Egyptians) from a very early age because I'd read picture books about them and I'd get absolutely enthralled, also Horrible Histories once I was about 6 which probably had a massive influence on me actively going out of my way to find out new things about history. Also, my dad (despite being a mathematician working in finance) was based as fuck and read me bits of Gibbon's Decline and Fall, explaining what the tricky words meant, when I was about 7. He also encouraged me to start reading proper history books, and he'd make a point of picking out some which were at my reading level. Also, I got Rome: Total War around the same time, started watching a ton of WW2 movies and went out of my way to have discussions with my teachers about the history topics they were teaching.

>>1524990
>>1524834
rogan?

Vidya James
OG History Channel
Movies

>>1524664
i heard guys who know about history get alot of pussy

>>1526995
Are you me?

Massive Greekboo when I was 10-11-12 years old

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>>1526921
It's used to be about a lot of stuff back in the day.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random/#/random

Born with it

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This is what got me really into WW2, and I kind of branched out into different time periods from there

>>1525041
My niqqa. That game was literally my childhood. Got in trouble at school for recreating the battles I was playing during art class

Age of Empires 2

Middle Ages is still my favourite era to this day.

>>1532397
Same really.

>>1524664
A totally historically accurate game without a trace of science fiction called return to castle wolfenstein.

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>>1524910
>tfw no more modern marvels or actual history documentaries
even the the hitler fetish shows would be preferable to its current line up

>>1524743
yep

>>1524664

My dad was world champion at this WW2 hex and chit wargame. I grew up with it in my basement, and naturally, I was curious about the game.

So I started up looking real WW2, hoping to appear at least a little bit knowledgeable to Dad and some of his gaming buddies, and that's how the road got started for me.

As a kid probably the background fluff for Warhammer 40k, especially the Imperial Guard. I got interested in WWII from then on. Also more recently the War Nerd columns in the Exile got me interested in geopolitics as a whole, I started with the modern Middle East then got obsessed with reading as much history as possible.

>>1529161
This, surprised it hasn't been mentioned more.

For me Assassins Creed 2 got me hooked.

>>1524748
this also AoE III
and eu4

>>1532515
Is that johan from paradox?

Rome: Total War.

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This right here.

Can't recommend it enough, especially to those with interest in ancient history.

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Horrible Histories at first, then I played Pharaoh and Zeus: Master of Olympus (GOAT).
And finally CoD2 got me interested in both WWs.

>>1524888
That tank's not such a bad idea desu. Good luck trying to get a shell to pierce that.

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>>1526622
Children of the Nile was better.

>>1534561
no fuck you

>>1524664
My father refers to all Central European cities with their Old German names and hates France with a burning passion. I do the same now as well.

My history teacher managed to make history seem fun.

being in history classes full of retards made me a smug cunt. made me interested in the only subject i thought i was good at.

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My dad's a huge fucking nerd who gave me his literally hundreds of airfix plastic soldiers and was very interested in war history, got a book series about the three year war and the war of 1864 for bed time stories and took me to the place where the decisive battle of 1864 was fought since he grew up in the area and my granddad still lived there. Supposedly my great great or great grea great granddad used the retreat from Als to pick up chicks, namely my corresponding amount of greats grandma.

My childhood was fucking based.

>>1534627
What else were you good at ? Also where r u from ?

>>1526177
>>1526360

Im with these guys. Fucking Walking with Dinosaurs. My fav is still Iguanodon. Also, I devoured those DK illustrated encyclopaedias and basically lived off Encarta as a kid. God, I miss being the nerdy kid who could point out discrepancies to her friends and classmates.

>>1535168
LONDON
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>>1535189

Not even close buddy.

>>1535168

>Encarta
>you now remember the dungeon maze thing where you had to answer trivia questions to progress

Lord of the Rings
movies came out when I was in grade 3, read about Tolkien and how he studied Anglo-Saxons and all that shit and so pretty much any history project I did I tried to do on them.
Also things like Horrible Histories and Wishbone. My favourite Wishbone book and episode was The Odyssey and so I got an early interest and understanding of Greek myth and legends.

>>1524785
fuck i loved those so much :3

>>1535232
BANGKOK
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>>1526177
Tell us more about your teacher. I love inspiring ppl like that.

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These books probably. After that it was the history channel and using my legos in a historical context.

>>1524755
The only right oldfag answer.

>>1524743
Reddit tier

ctrl + f hetalia
0 results
Huh, kinda expected one or two

>>1526359
By Jove, tell us more about the kinks.

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>>1524743

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Video games. I would play the WW2 shooters like CoD WaW and then i wanted to go learn more about ww2. Eventually I played HoI, Total war, Victoria 2, and EU4. They made me want to learn even more and fill in the gaps of what I knew. I started by watching a lot of documentaries and videos online. Eventually I had seen them all on YouTube and started reading books.

I also used to watch a lot of history channel documentaries as a kid, back when they showed actually documentaries.

>>1532391
>Got in trouble for drawing cool battles.
Figurative nigger teacher.
Upload some drawings if u got em.

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Cadfael

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A lot of things (age of empires, horrible histories, early History channel, fantasy games and books, etc), but being driven around the countryside visiting old ruined monasteries and castles as a child is probably what sealed the deal for me.

>>1524910
Probably this, watched history channel from a very young age up until it became the pawn stars channel

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>>1536290
I agree with all of these, especially seeing things like dolmens and growing up with my granny telling us tales of Irish rebels and heroes.

>>1524664
hey. nice.

>>1524743
I read this years ago and thought it was ok. I dont really remember much from it now, but why do people hate it? Curious

>>1535692
literally this desu

except Victoria 2 that shit was difficult

civilization 2

>>1524743

Currently reading; not bad at all. :DD

>>1531674
19 senpai. I was the little faggot screaming into his mic in multiplayer.

>>1535534
My mother fucking nigga

Horrible histories and my father listening to history audiobooks while i was im the room when i was younger, my mums love of selectively talking about history and my love of arguing with her and the tv show Rome.

>>1536238
My nigga

I just finished "I, Claudius," wherein Derek Jacobi (Cadfael) also plays Claudius. Good shit

My grandfather a Cuban Revolutionary war veteran encouraged me a lot to read books and he'd sit down with me to watch Indiana Jones and Zulu over and over.

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>>1524664

this and fun books on knights and castles I had as a kid before we even had a computer

>>1524743
me too

knock it once you've read it haters

>>1526177
Oh shit you're me

>>1535670
Funny story. He said that in the 50's in the Philippines, Oral Sex was like a huge taboo (think, Corpophilia today...or ever really). For both sexes. I mean, we're a Catholic country, but today, bj/cunny is no biggie, but our forebears were more Catholic. He said -and I don't know if this is a big fish story- that he became notorious and popular with his then GF and her circle of friends because he's the only man they knew that licked da pussy. Her friends were so curious that my grandad even got offers from some of them (which he never honored, upstanding lad that he was.).

>>1524664
A really big fat book about world history and american history from my school. It was a childrens book it had a lot of nice photos and illustrations. Also ancient egyptian get a kid to read about old civilizations and there hooked.

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My interest for WW2 probably comes from them, I try to remember something else but this show is probably the first thing in a historic setting that I watched. Also Ridley Scott films and Total War games. Shogun2 got me interested in Nip history and back then I wasn't even a weeb and the only film I saw was Last Samurai. Now I watch tons of animu and have loads of Kurosawa films. Feels like I got into Nip stuff the totally opposite way.

>>1536704
Because the author has massive bias and tries to rewrite the entirety of American History (and do mean every historical event worth noting) as a class struggle.

Needless to say, this is not a very honest depiction of history.

>>1524748

This and AOE 2.

>>1528130
Dude that's great, im about to go to college to for that major, any tips?

For me it started with Dinosaurs, I was always really interested in them and wanted to be a paleontologist, but as I grew up I learned more and more about things that disappeared without a trace like whole civilizations and so I got really into ancient histories and started to learn more about those before moving on to all kinds of histories and now I'm going to college to teach High school world history until i can save up enough to go back for a pHD and teach college as a professor. I want to do some sort of eastern history whether it be in Asia or the Middle East, and I also want to learn the language of that country and go there when I write my research papers.

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>>1524664
I always like it, but after I started using knowledge of it to troll other smart people as a kid I got really interested. My favorite thing to do was knowledgably argue as a contrarian with adults that knew less than me. I was always the kid that would write essays in defence of a North Korean-style command economy in macroeconomics classes and defend the Ottomans or the Soviets' post-WW2 meddlings in Europe.

>>1524755
this t b h f a m

>>1524664
Alternate history.

>>1525247
Those and the tv show were the shit.

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Got the first edition of this book after "graduating" elementary school. Also all the DK eyewitness books and Civ IV piqued my interest in elementary.

>>1524664
My history teacher during my last high school year.
He was a member of the "Académie Française" and basically told us : screw the program I'm gonna teach you true History.

His classes where incredible and I ended up reading most of his books

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>>1524729
Same

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This show. Also Asterix got me into Roman history.

>>1541980
>based Charity not holding a dumb letter sign like the plebs

fuck that potato baby thing
i wish that show had been more realistic than silly
even as a kid i would have appreciated that

>>1524748

>>1532515
dude i fucking loved modern marvels while it was on history channel

>>1526746
This desu

>>1526989
Damn dude, I played roblox as a kid and that kinda shit was made nearly a decade after. This voard is filled with shotacons.

I wonder if the site will ever age. When I came here in 2009, a bunch of people said they left, and then 2014 happened. Now the average user on the site is 15-22 years old still. I guess its not that supriding after all.

>>1529178
Yeah it was awful, it doesn't make sense even if you accept doing a monster battle. If one side needs a massive numbers advantage to be a threat, then the other fighter is clearly deadliest.

>>1526921
I take you were born in the last ten years right?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfnLa4B-Pbg

THAT INTRO FUCKKK

>>1540850
My sub-saharan comrade

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I like learning I guess.
So probably my mother reading me books n shit. Even though I only had her read science books and animal encyclopedias, I think it translated into a general love of learning.
Thanks mom

>>1526160
liquor

>>1524664
The movie of Juan Luna. It's surprising to read about pre-America Philippines.

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>>1524910
>>1525086
>History and Discovery used to be more than pawn stores, bike shops and village life in Alaska.

Time Commanders

Black and white photos and nostalgia when reading about historical events

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>>1540757
For your history major its all going to be writing. If you can't write essays and short research papers well you are screwed. Learn how to easily find the books and journals necessary for your research and then figure out how to seamlessly work those points into your papers. Anyone who's made it through high school should know how to easily spit out a thesis-driven essay once they've done their research so I doubt it'll be too difficult.

For the education major the only advice I can really give you is to always keep up with whatever writing or documentation your Edu course is forcing you to do that semester, you don't want to be sitting there on finals week having to BS your way through an entire semesters worth of lesson plans or field work observations. Education courses are jokes and until you get to the ones that teach methods you're going to be bored out of your mind.

>>1528130
>Dad loved A&A
>Never felt like playing
>He died early and we never got to
Go away feels, you've made your point

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being born near a huge kraut cemetery and becoming possessed by a recently deceased nazi.

>>1535534
>These books probably.
my 12 year old daughter would agree with that wholeheartedly.