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  • #16
    Best: The American Revolution

    Worst: Some standouts are a) Our involvement in WWI & b) The Banana Wars.

    PS What's so great about the Whisky Rebellion?
    I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
    For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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    • #17
      US -
      Best: Writing the Constitution. The Revolution was swell, but would have been merely a coup d'etat without the Sacred Document.

      Worst: Well, everything to do with slavery, but if a single moment has to be identified I guess I'll go with the striking of all references to slavery from the Declaration of Independence. That or the 3/5 clause, as JohnT mentioned. Very close second: the Trail of Tears.

      Turkey-
      Best: The War for Independence; Turkey fights a 3-front war, kicks French, Italian, and Greek @ss, and establishes the first secular state in the Islamic world.

      Worst: The Armenian genocide (or, as they call it here, the "so-called Armenian genocide" )
      "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

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      • #18
        Belgium:

        The After WWII period:
        -The very fast economical grown.
        -The creation of the very good social security system that even survived until now.
        -The creation by Belgium of the BeNeLux what later growned to the E.U.

        The german occupation of Belgium in WWII:
        -The killing of many jews, like in Antwerp.
        -But even worser: the collaboration of some Belgians with the Germans in doing that, especial in Antwerp.

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        • #19
          Originally posted by kolpo
          The german occupation of Belgium in WWII:
          -The killing of many jews, like in Antwerp.
          -But even worser: the collaboration of some Belgians with the Germans in doing that, especial in Antwerp.
          I'm not trolling, I'm just curious: do you and/or Belgians generally consider this worse than Belgium's atrocities in the Congo?
          "I have as much authority as the pope. I just don't have as many people who believe it." — George Carlin

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          • #20
            Originally posted by Eli
            Worst : It's really hard to think about some very low point... But I'm sure many people here will remind me about those.
            The destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 537 BC?

            The Jewish rebellion against the Romans in 74 AD, which lead to a genocide of 1 million Jews?

            The involvement of the Sanhedrin in the capture and death of a man called Jesus, considered by many (and I mean many) the Christ?

            Hope I helped you, Eli!
            Last edited by Zealot; January 7, 2002, 12:20.
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            • #21
              Worst: 1933 Hitler came to power

              Best: 1989 Fall of the Berlin wall
              Blah

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              • #22
                Argentina:

                Best- The Campaña del Desierto after its completion (1882). It catapulted the conservatives under Roca to power and a period of unparallel growth made Argentina, in 30 years, the 6th world economic power.

                Worst- The Dirty War, 1976-1983. The impunity to kill and repress were never so open.

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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Zealot


                  The destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 537 BC?

                  The Jewish rebellion against the Romans in 74 AD, which lead to a genocide of 1 million Jews?

                  The involvement of the Sinedrium in the capture and death of a man called Jesus, considered by many (and I mean many) the Christ?

                  Hope I helped you, Eli!
                  I dont think we understand "worst" in the same way.
                  "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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                  • #24
                    Originally posted by Eli
                    I dont think we understand "worst" in the same way.
                    Explain your definition of "worst" and I'll see if I can accomodate you.
                    I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                    For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                    • #25
                      My definition is identical to the other posters' definitions. The period when your country was one of the really bad guys. Like US and the slavery and the Finnish civil war. Not the period when your country suffered the most.
                      "Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master" - Commissioner Pravin Lal.

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                      • #26
                        Worst: 1938-1945, for obvious reasons.

                        Best: Difficult to pick... the colonization and melting pot of bavarian, slavic and roman populations from the 8th to the 12th/13th century; the vibrant cultural and intellectual life in the decades leading up to WWI; the slow but steady development from banana republic to respectable democracy since the 1950s.

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                        • #27
                          Originally posted by Eli
                          My definition is identical to the other posters' definitions. The period when your country was one of the really bad guys
                          1) Sanhedrin's "judgement" of Jesus.
                          2) Isreali genocide of the Canaanites.
                          3) Sicarii & Zealot terrorism against Rome.

                          I can go on if you wish.
                          I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                          For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                          • #28
                            Originally posted by BeBro
                            Worst: 1933 Hitler came to power

                            Best: 1989 Fall of the Berlin wall
                            Germans being brief again?

                            I agree on the worst one, and your idea for the best moment came to my mind as well... but there were better moments in our thousand years history

                            18 January, 1871

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                            • #29
                              Originally posted by Roland
                              Worst: 1938-1945, for obvious reasons.
                              We all know who to blame for 1933-1945

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                              • #30
                                Originally posted by DinoDoc
                                1) Sanhedrin's "judgement" of Jesus.
                                Oh, it's written that way in English? I'll correct it ASAP.

                                Originally posted by DinoDoc
                                3) Sicarii & Zealot terrorism against Rome.
                                Zealot terrorism? No way! We're all nice chaps!

                                (I'm just kidding, I know what Zealots were )
                                "BANANA POWAAAAH!!! (exclamation Zopperoni style)" - Mercator, in the OT 'What fruit are you?' thread
                                Join the Civ2 Democratic Game! We have a banana option in every poll just for you to vote for!
                                Many thanks to Zealot for wasting his time on the jobs section at Gamasutra - MarkG in the article SMAC2 IN FULL 3D? http://apolyton.net/misc/
                                Always thought settlers looked like Viking helmets. Took me a while to spot they were supposed to be wagons. - The pirate about Settlers in Civ 1

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