Bittersweet Candy Bowl

Whats your favorite moment in history? How come? When did it happen? and feel free to add any facts about it that you wish.

I’ll tell my favorite moment:

1989 just 1989! there was so much that happened in that one year from tiananmen square to the fall of the berlin wall I just love the fact in one year so many people threw away their repressing governemt!

either ancient greece and rome or world war 2
the best humanity ever got and the worst humanity ever got

Ancient rome was pretty horrible. It’s just been romanticised to the max.

The Battle of Thermopyle is certainly up there for sheer badassery.

However, my favorite moment in history took place on February 22nd, 2017.

Ancient Greece wasn’t exactly all democracy and philosophy either, as I understand it. It was a pretty misogynistic bunch of city states, even for its time. Then there was Sparta….

Where to even begin. You know the movie 300? You probably already understand that it was a romanticized account, but do you know just how much? The reason that the Spartans were so warlike wasn’t because they were an expansive people or just wanted to be tough and glorious. It was because they had a massive slave population that outnumbered the number of free men by several times. They had to structure their entire society as an ultra-strict military oligarchy, actively practice infanticide, and generally be merciless jerkwads to everyone else, just to keep the slaves in line.

There was a reason Hitler liked their policies. Take everything the Spartans thought was normal and practiced on a regular basis, and guess what? We made a movie glorifying a people who were basically ancient Nazis.

Anyway, that’s my understanding of the situation. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong.

@Rasputin~hmm….I knew most of that already but didn’t think of them as ancient Nazis…….oh my god it all makes sense now!

anyway, my favorite time was the end of the Victorian era (or whichever one it was) the the information age (now). I know this is like a 100-250 year time frame, but so much happened! before it was about 500-1000 years of little to no scientific, or industrial growth in any society, then BAM the industrial revolution happened, and suddenly everything is advancing faster then we can distribute it! In the last 150 years alone we have done what we only dreamed of for 2,000 years. 1800’s through 2000’s; the golden age of man. Sure there are problems, some bigger than the ones 200 years ago, but we’ve come so far it’s almost irrelevant. technology FTW.

2010 for the win. If I’d been born a decade or two decades earlier, I’d be dead right now.

i want to write a big text wall about how despite the petty wars and other bullshit at that time we as a society advanced so rapidly during that time/ place and the philosophies developed at the time were the basis for humanism and all the other great ideas during the renaissance and how alexander almost united the world and aaa dfjghdhttd but i am very tired and dont want to make that kind of an effort so please imagine a very convincing argument

I’m convinced.

wow there are a lot things people like for there favorite moment in history that I have absolutely no clue about…..TO WIKIPEDIA!

You know Tienanmen Square didn’t end with the PRC being overthrown, right? The ending, it was not happy.

I know the over throwing part I ment in eastern europe,what happened in china was terrible and what is still going on is

That time in the 20’s when theater stars fought demons in steam powered robot suits

Or back in 1812, when the Russians took over France while riding drunk, on drunken Grizzly Bears.

My favorite would have to be 1938, because that was when the Japanese Military tried to take over the Ninja (Ninjas to you silly English people) and use them as their own special forces. The Military failed miserably and the Ninja remained “neutral” (read: worked for highest bidder as usual) for the duration of World War II.

Fun times.

@randomninja that actaully sounds epically awsome

It was.

well then ninjas are more awsome

My favorite moment in history was when I was watching some gameshow and the guy had to figure out which of the four presidents they listed was the first. He, being the great genius he was, could not figure this out. So he used his “Phone A Friend” option. His friend starts mumbling on the other side of the phone for the first 20 seconds of the 30 second limit. The guy on the show said, “You’ve got 10 seconds left, please hurry.” His friend on the phone went, “Wait, what?” and the phone hung up. The man who had phoned his friend had not gotten an answer and then had to guess. Needless to say, he got it wrong and lost about $7,000 or so.
Yeah.

Battle of Baghdad 1258, well not really so much of a favorite moment (rather depressing one actually) but certainly an interesting and important one. The Mongols attack the heart of the Muslim faith, level the city burning its mosques and its great library to the ground, filling in the roads, destroying the irrigation systems that had sustained agriculture in modern day Iraq for thousands of years, and slaughtering most of the cities inhabitants. Baghdad took hundreds of years to recover and culturally the once fairly open Muslim faith was never quite the same again.

The Atomic Age

The Aztecs interest me the most as a civilization, except the part where they all caught small pox and died. Still, I’m glad they can translate Nahuatl.

Woodstock.