Fifteen Historical Eras and Events I Love

As a History Major, nothing tickles my fancy than the past itself. I am amazed at how people who lived years, decades, centuries and even a millienia lived before my time. There are times I wish time travel were possible so that I could experience these events and witness them first hand. However, as a Science Fiction fan, I understand that doing such a thing could have drastic consequences for the “present” time we live in. Getting back to the topic at hand, as a History Major, I have a select favorite time periods and events I absolutely love and admire because of certain circumstances and obstacles that the people who lived them had to face and overcome. To best summarize these historical events, I have created a list featuring various time periods I certainly admire in no particular order whatsoever:

1. The Cold War

2. Napoleanic Wars

3. World Wars One and Two

4. The Renaissance

5. The Russian Revolution

6. The Middle Ages

7. The American Revolution

8. The American Civil War

9. The 1960s.

10. The 1970s.

11. The 1980s.

12. The 1990s.

13. The Titanic Disaster

14. The Wild West

15. The Three Kingdoms Era of China, set between the Han and Jin Dynasties.

Why are these eras so dear to me? Its because they are so inspiring and so intriging. The heroics, blood, tears, sweat, endurance, power and influnce the people who lived through it. Consider the heroes who fought and died in all of the wars I’ve mentioned. Those people saw that the world, or their nation was engulfed by the fires of a great evil that needed to extinguished as there was no place in their nation or the world for that matter for such evil to exist as it would not have been toleratible for any reason whatsoever.

As for the passion of the sixities, the seventies, the eighties and the ninties, those decades are when pop culture really took off and up and coming teenages finally found a culture to themselves as something they could call their own.

The Titanic Disaster stands alone as the only disaster because of the fact that history is loaded with ironies. Considering that Titanic was deemed unsinkable, yet tragically sank on its maiden voyage, proves that. Also, another lesson needs to be learned from Titanic: even with man at his best at defying the odds, nature has a way of proving all of us wrong.

Lastly, concerning the Middle Ages, The Renaissance and the Wild West. These three eras express the potiential of Humanity to become much more than it is. These events tested men and women in various forms and various ways as these events were about two things that matter most to the people who endured the events and circumstances of these events: survival and betterment.

In closing, I mark with great regret that not many people are as enthusiastic about history as I am. One must be passionate about History to fully truly understand the ordeals the people who lived through them had to put up with as these events not only bred heroes and tested people, they ended up doing what people do just about every single day: make history.