What is the most interesting time period in history to study?

Bronze Age everything.
European Middle Ages.

>>2467412
Late antiquity easily

>Massive migrations that ultimately gave birth to modern Europe
>Fall of WRE, ending antiquity in the West
>Rise of Islam, killing Persia and cutting the balls off the ERE, ending antiquity in the East
>Permanent severing of the Mediterranean cultural unit

It was a monumental paradigm shift whose impact can still be seen today.

World War 1 era

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>>2467412
prehistory

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>>2467503
>TFW Absolutely obsessed with Ancient Rome
>TFW Get uber depressed when reading from the death of Aurelian to the Rise of Islam

It just makes me sad to learn about the fall of the Empire in the West, and the G*rmanic tribes assuming control. I know the current favorite meme of late antiquity is continuation, not collapse, and I'm not even an atheist, but Christianity and the Crisis of the 3rd Century kinda killed much of the flavor of the Roman Identity for me.

The ERE is admittedly quite interesting between Justinian and Heraclius (Basil II gets a special mention though), but once they got assfucked by Islam they kinda seem like a feeble old man of an Empire, somehow surviving blunder after blunder.

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>>2467412
20th century
>All dem ideologies
>All dat cultural change
>All dat scientific and engineering innovation
>All dose computers and cars and planes and rockets n shiet
>All dat literary and artistic talent
>All dat relevance to the present
>All dose violent conflicts resisting, enriching, or attempting to change the course of the modern world
The 20th century was truly the greatest one

>>2467576
I find the melancholy to be a big part of its charm.

Great Romans like Stilicho, Aetius, Majorian, trying to valiantly and desperately put the pieces back together but hamstrung at every turn by incompetent Emperors, conniving court officials, hordes of barbarians, and plain bad luck.

In the East you have Justinian's reconquests cut short by political bickering and the plague, and Heraclius's miraculous comeback against the eternal Persian being for naught with the apocalyptic rise of Islam.

A time of great change, that changed the face of the Earth forever.

>>2467623
Also the most recent and fresh in memory.

Really makes me think.

>>2467639
Try and give me a century that was more cataclysmic, reality warping and chock full of really important-to-humanity stuff than the 1900's. You can't, the 20th century was the most jam packed of all of them in almost every single respect, from fashion to literature to technology to demographics to ideologies and thought systems.

>>2467412
The eurocentric ones?

>>2467648
>fashion
um...
>literature
definitely not like what the fuck are you on about
>technology
give that to you
>ideologies and thought systems
not even a chance. Just because muh civil rights and muh hippies happened doesn't make it the most important time for ideas, that's a false composition.

>>2467679
>um...
For women, you have the typical way people dressed in the 1910's, reminiscent of the 1800's, then you have the flappers, the luxurious and graceful dressed of the 1940's and 50's, the flared pants and other such revealing clothing first tapped into during the 60's and 70's, then onto the brief but stark vision of fashion in the 80's, then onto the way we dressed in the 90's similar to how we do now. The cultural changes of the 1900's radically altered -and frequently- the way people, mostly women, dressed throughout the era. The 1900 was also the century of the suit for men, followed by the casual wear made popular in the latter part of it.

>definitely not like what the fuck are you on about
It would be tedious to list all the authors last century. Hemingway, Steinbeck, London, Vonnegut, Kafka, Capote. Fitzgerald, Lewis, Eliot, Rand. It's astounding how you don't realize that the literary output of 1900's trumps almost every other by a wide margin.
>ideologies and thought systems
The 1900's was the battleground of traditionalism, nationalism, socialism, fascism, communism, capitalism, and all kinds of -isms with multiple sub -isms (Maoism, Falangism, etc). The Imperialism and revolutions of the 1800's can never come close to the massive conflicts and worldwide shake-ups that seemed to come every other decade during that era. Nothing can compete.

>>2467576
This. It's awful seeing all those Roman defeats and collapse of the infrastructure and bureaucracy of the Empire. Honestly, Tiberius's maybe assassination of Germanicus is the start of my sadness over the downfall of Rome.

>>2467750
When I think best literature period I think Ancient Greece. Also almost every one of the ideologies you mentioned don't have foundations in the 20th century, but became relevant only then as more stupid people were becoming literate

>>2467503
care to elaborate on any of these points? Specifically the "severing of the Mediterranean cultural unit" is something I know pretty much nothing about
t. brainlet

>>2467968
>the "severing of the Mediterranean cultural
I think he is referring to the separation I trade, linguistics, religion and government that occurred between Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Northern Africa and the Liddle East had after the infrastructure of Rome fell apart. The Mediterranean Sea was not called "Mare Nostrum" ("our sea") for no reason. Cultures diverged heavily from there.

>>2467968
The Mediterranean had a very common cultural thread before the fall of the Roman Empire, but after that, the cultures began drifting apart or were completely obliterated due to Islamic conquest. The northern coast of Africa culturally wasn't much different than the coast of Knossos or Sicily, but after this, each segment of the Mediterranean world split, The Italians, The Balkan peoples, the Spaniards, the now independent Greeks and the ocean of Arabs constantly threatening them broke apart the unity that was there before.

bump for an interdasting thread

>>2467980
>>2467987
thanks for the clarification that helps a lot

Napoleonic era

1890-1990

>>2467412
Pre-anthropocene
T. Biologist studying socio-ecological systems. Everything else is a homogenous wasteland

12th century renaissance