What originally sparked your interest in history?

>>1869092
Being a kid and realizing how aesthetic the past was in books and movies and how hideous modernity is, and wondering why.

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History club at school

>>1869095
What's this? A Reddit meeting?

>>1869092

That game + Horrible Histories books.

I tried reading some HH books now (published 20+ years ago) and I don't think I could recommend them now, a lot of things that I know aren't true and then things that aren't even given any citations. Academia got to me.

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>>1869098
Bane?

>>1869095
>dat dorky CIA

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>>1869095
he's a big guy.

Parents giving me DK Eyewitness books and CDs when I was five. Plus a big book from my great uncle called 'When, Where, Why and How It Happened'

>>1869224

4 u

>>1869092
Grandfather's stories of WWII.

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>>1869273
same, always wondered why I was fairer than the other Chilean kids..

I printed a 12 page article from abovetopsecret.com in 1999 when I was 12 that spoke about the Roswell crash. It made references to WWII, Eisenhower, communism, and the like so I ended up getting super interest in the "back story" to the Roswell crash.

Pretty shitty way to get into history, I will admit.

>>1869092
>What originally sparked your interest in history?
An interesting high school history teacher.

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Vikings.

>>1869252
Same with me. Then when i was young my dad took me and my brother to see pearl harbor, and I knew it was on.

>>1869252
Did you ever play this'n

https://youtu.be/POsO9zbnj40

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Read this when I was 9.

>>1869092
At about 6 or so my father decided to lecture me about Greek history, as we were Greek. Unfortunately, his knowledge only extended to modern Greek history and Ancient Greek history, of which he exclusively focused on the Ancient Greek history, with my only knowledge on modern history being "muh Turks". On top of that, he favored the romanticist version of Ancient Greece (which I absolutely hate). Anyways ever since I liked history, and I eventually learned more about Greek history (over a long, long period of time I admit) and from that, I branched out into medieval and late antiquity history, which remains my favored time periods and the ones I'm the most knowledgeable in

>>1869869
So they raided your village and raped you as well?

Wuxia

>>1869095
Goddamn this brings back memories. I was basically this kind of kid throughout middle and high school. So were most of my friends.

>>1869963
I'm so sorry.

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>>1869092
Social isolation and a really high power level.

watching time commanders and then realising there was an actually game of it(rome total war)

>>1869971
Yeah, I am too.

Victoria II

>>1869092
Assassins Creed 2

>>1869092
EU IV

>>1869092
I was always drawn to various cultures, and my love for history only grew as I aged.

>>1869092
Tomb Raider

>>1869092
Mom's "muh Kosovo" rants, coupled with that game.

>>1870115
>Serbs

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>>1869092

Time commanders and time team

>>1869888

Shoo shoo roach nobody will take your bait

>>1869092
aoe 1 and 2 need a reboot, Loved their music.

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

>>1870195
I'm not very nationalistic tho.
My mom on the other hand is the epitome of a sworn American Republican

I've always liked mythological monster, so I wanted to draw webcomics about that. I started with fairies from celtic mythology; but shortly intro drawing the comic I realized I didn't ACTUALLY know what a Celt was besides what I had seen in Rome and Spartacus.

Researching the Celts lead me to researching Rome, when the Middle Ages, and so on and so forth

>>1869095
Is that CIA's son in on the left?

>>1869888
Actually we builded dat shit when we wuz Muslims before whitey made us Christian. Muhammad wuz black

My uncle's Encyclopedia of Indo-European Culture. Got me into linguistics too, but also history.

Channel 4's 1066: The Battle for Middle-Earth sparked my interest in the Anglo-Saxon and Viking periods. Fuck the Normans for destroying a flourishing culture and making English forget about their heritage.

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>>1869092

Once i first learned about the Aztecs in my gr. 8 history class, I was hooked. Don't know why, but the aesthetic of it, and the mass human sacrifice really peaked my edgy teen self and here I am still being a faggot.

>>1869095
>dat qt chick hanging out with the nerds

Why is there always one? Is there something that eludes me about those females? Do they simply fuck everyone in the group, but never let a word get out about it?

>>1871088
When an average kinda homely chick hangs out with a group of male nerds she's treated like a 10/10 overnight.

>>1870211
Are you lookong forward to the return on TC?

>>1871210
Ah alright then. Seems to mirror what it was in my experience, and should you ask me, it was the teeniest bit annoying to glorify any girl who deigned be in our presence all because "she's a gurl xD".

Estelle you weren't even funny.

>>1871273
to have my friends glorify*

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>>1869092
Tomb Raider, Age of Empires II and Commandos.

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>>1869092
Medieval Total War, it really got me interested in it. Books from the library taught me a lot, but the Total War games thereafter always inspired me to research more than any book could.

>>1871250
TC is coming back!?

>>1871545
I got that game when I was 5, it was my first pc game ever and it was amazing

probably school play on Pilgrims/Mayflower/Squanto/first Thanksgiving
I played an Indian. Total white washing and cultural appropriation. Teachers should be ashamed

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>>1869224
uh, you don't get to bring friends

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Reading these over and over again and wanting more.

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>>1871559
Mine was Shogun Total War, but I got it right before Medieval came out. Once I heard there was another total war I had to get it. Having more than 12 units to choose from was mind blowing at the time. Now I play Attila and Warhammer.

dad showing me his book collection

>>1870248
keep the dream alive brother

>>1869092
Greek mythology, I remember reading Aesop's Fables then a collection of stories on heroes like Theseus and Perseus and Heracles. 3rd grader me had a crush on Alexander the Great tbqh

History classes in highschool.
Learning about rome in great detail was very interesting.
>tfw always aced all history tests

>>1869092
Your picture op and smart older cousin who inspired curiosity in the past.

History channel I guess. I had the biggest hard on for Egypt when I was a kid.

Age of Mythology, Imperium III and Age of Empires.
Also lots of old documentaries.

That book 48 Laws of power.

my name
why the fuck mom,not caesar,nor tristan, buth alexander
i even dont like fags

>>1871553
Yup.
Probably December this year.

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>>1871553
Good times are coming bro.

Reading Tanglewood Tales when I was a kid. And then finding out from Dad that those are TRUE STORIES -- sort
of, and if you want to read the original Greek myths why, here's my books from college.

I was a confirmed history nerd by the time I was ten.

>>1869092
miss-clicking /his/ instead of /hc/.

I read meme threads for a laugh

Then I actually got into in

>>1869092
Festivals of Slavs and Vikings in Wolin.
Living there helped in getting interested in history.

>>1869092
This is gonna be embarassing to say, but it was actually Crash Course World History.

I was never taught any history in my school, so I was extremely ignorant about most of it. As shit as I now consider that series to be, I'm grateful it made me realize I was interested in history.

>>1873557
>>1873553
>>1871553
>tfw watching new time commanders with /twg/
top comfy lads.

>>1873643
>>1873557
>>1873553
Made my day.

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>>1873723
>>1873643
You fucking know it son.

Someone pop the kettle on.

An illustrated book about the life of Julius Caesar that was in my Grade 5 classroom. The illustrations were actually really nice, can't remember the name of the book though.

>>1869092

my grandfather. he was from ukraine and was a language teacher. he always liked to talk about ukrainian and european history. he was descended from a local cossack were he came from (berdyansk on the azov sea) and loved talking about cossacks the most.

>>1869898
Only one I didn't play. Had Eyewitness Space, Children Encyclopaedia, My History Explorer, My Human Body. Would love to see new versions. They were great learning tools.

Did anyone remember Adi?

>>1870210
underrated

>>1870008
Same.

Assassin's Creed got me super into the Italian Renaissance, and in turn brought me to world history.

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>>1869092
Everyone was playing Age of Empires while I was the only kid playing Empire Earth.

EE was made me interested in history. Seeing humanity become sophisticated over time fascinated me.

/pol/

Of course after I learned enough about history I realized why /pol/ is pretty dumb.

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>>1869092
this and rome total war

>>1869273
Same here

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All I read when I was a child was asterix comics everyday, I can still remember pretty much every plotline and find myself dropping quotes without even realising it

I was really good at memorizing historical facts but not other types of facts. Realized that it is the case that if I like something I enjoy learning it and that allows me to remember what I learned. Put two and two together and realized I must like history. I do.

>>1869106
WHY DOES HE EAT THE BEANS?

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Crusader Kings 2

>>1875487
I am on a CK2 kick right now and my university offers basically no Medieval history classes. Classics department is great but the only Medieval class is about Judaism. Funny thing is that the university I turned down in favor of this one has a great Medieval program. Fuck :)

I grew up in a medieval village that looked nothing like the normal american or european city and I being surrounded by history had me asking many questions

>>1874362
Empire Earth was cool, I'll always remember Arnold in the future during the trailer. Though number 2 had the best opening, the original was the most fun to play.

>>1876463
Nice to see you've returned.

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This

>>1876467
The albino mods keep trying to stop my message and oppress my speech but the truth will find it's way to the public eventually.

>>1876471
Holy fuck I remember that

What was it called?

>>1876491
Once upon a time...man

>>1876504
I recall the big guy getting shot and killed by arrows in one of the early time periods. Pretty grim for kids desu

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>>1869092
Ron Paul pictures

>>1876509
The exploding Earth at the end of the intro wasn't too cheerful either

We got a family friends computer. they were moving backto the home country and didn't want to bring back there computer so they gave it to us
It had a medieval total war installed on it and I played that for hours and hours

>>1869986
sauce?

>>1869092
this exact game, played it when i was 6

>>1870003
same

>>1869092
Two things, both in sixth grade. First one was seeing a table in a text book with the ancient Greek and Phonecian alphabets next to the Latin one. It was pretty cool in my mind. The second was getting to go to an exhibit of Chinese artifacts with my class. Seeing a jade burial suit just blew my mind, and I've been in love with history ever since.

>>1870210
I remember getting Rome TW as a kid then realizing my family's shitty Compaq desktop would never run it

>>1874362
man i didnt even think many people played this game
this game didnt excatly peeak my intrest in history my obsseion with archery did

>>1869092
Rise of nations vidya game. After that it was reading.
I also have a big thing for atlas' with political borders. I used to draw them even larger and play historical scenarios with "risk" rulesetS. Now I'm more into cars but I can't decide if I want to go get certified as a car technician or major in history.

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Got this book at 5. The pictures were enough to captivate me until I learned to read. I'm definitely giving this shit to my children.

>>1869092
Europa Universalis III

I adore that at least half of the responses in this thread are about vidya in one way or another.

Video games are a force for good.

>>1878000
Be a car technician
Use your income to fuel your interest in history

>>1869988
hehehh

>>1876509
>I recall the big guy getting shot
That sounds extremely painful.

Great Grandfather was in Brynes Battery and got injured during Shiloh. I decides to dig in to history. Mom sold his artillery sword to a museum.

To understand the future you must understand the past. History is a big ass loop.

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>>1869986

> power level

Shouldn't you be shitposting on anothrer certain board right now?

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>>1869092

>>1869095
this is a /tv/ meetup right?

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>>1869092

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When I was in my after school thing (single dad had to work until later) I had this one counselor who would tell us stories about Greek mythology everyday (even better, his name was Jason). From there I would get books from my elementary school, first about Greek mythology, and then other topics. I loved to read, and would read lots of semi-historical fiction. It was all for kids, of course, but still great stuff. Also this game.

>>1869095
This pic makes me happy


Kids taking part in fellow interests and enjoying themselves

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I guess? just read the books in my mothers bookshelves, some of them were historical fiction

Age of empires was definitely a big part of it. Rome total war. Dynasty warriors maybe as well blew my mind when I found out it's based,however loosely off real events and people

>>1869963
>>1869971
>my friends
there are worse ways to go through high school, trust me.
I don't think I talked to anyone through high school except for deflecting approaches

>>1876471
Is that motherfucking Junkrat?

Movies, vidya, and comics taking place in historical settings or making historical references and then finding out that shit is real and not some fantasy shit made up for the movie or comic.

>>1869106

anyone who knows the whereabouts of Atlantis gets to stay in my history club

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>>1869092
I reckon I'm not alone in this.

>>1882223
and then later finding out that most of it is made up stuff loosely based on real stuff

>>1882326
Well yeah but I meant the background shit was real, I already knew that Gladiator and Red Dead Redemption isn't real.

Nothing really. History was just more interesting than most of the other class subjects in school. I read fast, so I'd read the chapter we were on in the textbook and then I'd just keep reading.

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>>1874362
>>1870210
this