What's your favorite time period in history?

Question

I like the Victorian Era and the Middle Ages myself. You see, people? Yahoo! Answers does need more categories.

Answer 1

My favorite time period in history has to be the 1960's. America (the whole world) was going through a tremendous change then.
Hippies, Civil Rights, student activists, Woodstock, and the space race......wow. My second fave would have to be ancient Egypt, during the time the pyramids were being built.

Answer 2

Personally, I would have to say the 1770's, roughly. Yes, of course, because of the revolutionary war. Not because I am an american, so much as in the history of the world there has really been no other time quite like it. When you put the nations aside, and look at the basic facts, it's really awe-inspiring.

That a group of colonies who could barely agree on anything, would, when push came to shove, organize and stand up against the most powerful empire in the world at the time - and actually win, ushering sweeping knew concepts of what freedom was around the world...

No matter what nation you are from, that is pretty damn inspiring and astounding.

Often romantisized, when you look deeper, you see how truly divided everyone was, the doubts they had. The founding fathers really, honestly, didn't know if any of it would work, or how, or how long it would last, and they didn't set out to start a revolution, the whole thing was really over fair treatment, and just snow-balled into so much more.

Answer 3

Right now--any farther back and my rights as a woman go *swoosh* down the toilet.

I do like what the Enlightenment period did for society in the West, though.

Answer 4

the middle ages too
specially the crusade wars

Answer 5

same here