what historical event interests you the most?

Question

I am doing a survey, and i need to know which is the most popular among people in the world. ( or at least)

Answer 1

The Salem Witch trials- I loved the book The Crucible and think its amazing how hysteria among a couple of individuals can lead to mass ysteria. There are some interesting theories that the trials were a means of weeding out the social undesirables to "better the community" and that one or two wealthy families began the allegations of witch craft in order to gain landholdings from neighbors so that they could increase their crop output. Weird huh?

Answer 2

I like Ancient Mysteries and their link to the development of their civilizations, especially Celtic lore.

I like the Greco Roman period, notably the Persian Wars, Alexander the Grea, Caesar's Gallic Wars, the Punic Wars, Pax Romana, and the post-Constantine Roman Empire (Christianized Rome)

I like The Middle Ages, notably, Charlemagne, the Frankish period, Crusades, the Medieval Popes, the consolidation of the Catholic Church as the key force in Christendom.

I like the Age of Discovery, the intrpid Conquistadores and Spanish missionaries. What they did was gutsy, and mind boggling. There is the Ottoman vs Hapsburg/Spanish clashes of the XVI century, and the Catholic Counter Revolution

As for the Modern Era, I reserve my opinions since it is still fresh and up for revisionism or new discoveries.

Answer 3

Gempei War of Japan, 1180-1185 A.D.

I find this war particularly interesting because it is the event where the nascent Japanese samurai first became aware of the Zen Buddhist principles of Zen meditation, and after this war the Samurai began to apply those principles to their arts of warfare.

The Samurai had to battle against the warrior Buddhist monks of Heian Mountain. The samurai were very impressed at the monks fearlessness and skill in battle. Since Buddhists monks are 'priests' first and warriors last, the professional samurai warrior class eventually prevailed and cut the heads off 2,000 monks.

Yet those samurai inquired into the methodology of those surviving monks, and the philosophical monks began to teach their meditative techniques to develop a 'focused' mind. The monks sought religious enlightenment which Buddhist called Nirvana. The Samurai adapted this principle and called the warrior's form of enlightenment through perfection of weaponry - Satori.

So it was during the Gempei Wars where the Japanese Samurai discovered how to develop their minds and after the war sought 'satori' through the perfection of the various martial skills which led to the development of 'Bushido'.

Answer 4

The historical events surrounding the record of the King James Version Bible fascinate me. A close second is the history of the Roman Empire.

Answer 5

Fall of Rome.
Overall it was coming for a long time, and Rome took a long time to come apart, but the 400's I find very interesting. Rome was sacked in 410, and things were never the same. Rule by the emporers ended in 476, and Europe entered the Dark Ages for 1000 years, after 1000 years of well-organized, well-documented civilization. How that transition occured fascinates me.

Answer 6

I would probably say the invention of the internet. There have been very few inventions that can say they've had such an impact on the world. The internet has changed the way we lived so much that just about everything done now is done online. It's great to be able to have such amounts of information easily accesible.

Answer 7

World War II. I had a grandfather at the battle of Normandy and I also had a grandfather at Pearl Harbor. First hand accounts are better than any movie you can see or text book you could ever read. It is unbelievable what they lived through.

Answer 8

Task Force Ranger... the US Army's involvement in Somalia in like 92-93

Answer 9

event? I'd say the Princes in the Tower & Richard III.
Otherwise, English history 1066-1603

Answer 10

French Revolution - it began the industrial age, and started the idea of ending the monarchy which change the Western World,