What Country Has The Most Interesting History?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
If you look at the entire world, Europe was just a backwater spot, until 1800's or so.

WTF??

[Winston]

Most interesting to me is England, Egypt, Japan, China, India, Denmark. A country like Poland also has an interesting history.

[Drake Tungsten]

Originally posted by MrFun
WTF??

You have to look at world history from the UR perspective to understand such ridiculous statements. China didn't get the **** kicked out of it by the Europeans until the 1800's, so before that point (after which even UR can no longer deny European superiority to China) China was obviously the greatest country on Earth and all those European powers who had been exploring and conquering the world for centuries were just a backwater that should have been paying tribute to the Middle Kingdom. Completely laughable, but logical in its own sick fashion...

[Winston]

Marx' entering the scene at that time might also play a part.

[Kidlicious]

England

[Wycoff]

I find German history fascinating... its the country that I have studied the most.

[Ted Striker]

Italy, UK, and Turkey

Mainly all the lands of the former Roman Empire which spawned off the great Eurocom empires

Spain is also interesting in this mix

Victorian Britain is especially interesting when the Pommies went down to Africa and all the fantastic stories about the heroes and villains that the time produced.

Rhodes

Most boring history would be China, Russia, and Japan

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
China was obviously the greatest country on Earth and all those European powers who had been exploring and conquering the world for centuries were just a backwater that should have been paying tribute to the Middle Kingdom.

Exploring? Done that. Conquering? Done that. Next.

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Completely laughable, but logical in its own sick fashion..

Own goal.

[Tripledoc]

Maybe Poland. Conquered and divided three times and still there. How can that be?

Egypt and the Aztec empire were really weird in terms their culture, totally alien even to the observers of the time.

I wonder why the aborigines of Australia managed to stay sane for so long and reject agriculture and subseqent social stratification and hard labour.

Saudi Arabia. Made quite an impact from a very bad starting position.

[David Floyd]

England.

[MrFun]

Yes -- the history of how fishermen went out, and took over the world and painted large parts of it imperial pink is interesting.

[Barinthus]

Italy - a country that lets a porn star become a member of its parliment is definitely interesting.

The person I'm referring to is IIona Staller aka Cicciolina. Some choice quotes...

"I am available to make love with Saddam Hussein to achieve peace in the Middle East." Sept 1990 then again Oct 2002

"My breasts have never done anyone any harm, while bin Laden's war has caused thousands of victims." -- October 2002

[Nubclear]

Originally posted by Ted Striker
Most boring history would be China, Russia, and Japan

Recreational drugs are illegal in the US

[Frozzy]

Yes -- the history of how fishermen went out, and took over the world and painted large parts of it imperial pink is interesting.

It is indeed. The whole fighting eachother changing its people quicker than an Sudanese village is interesting.

[Az]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


That's too Euro-centric. If you look at the entire world, Europe was just a backwater spot, until 1800's or so.