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Which country has the most interesting/vibrant history? Which country has the most interesting/vibrant history?

09-15-2014 , 01:18 AM
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Originally Posted by AnyTwoWillDo
Has anyone mentioned India or central African countries yet?
India has good history read about it few years ago.
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10-08-2014 , 03:35 PM
Gotta be China or Persia (now Iran) or Egypt. They have had civilisations for 3000 years-plus.
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10-11-2014 , 05:38 PM
"China"
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11-22-2014 , 08:29 AM
idk why but everytime i think about indians, the horse scene comes to my mind (2:02/2:13)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPVfnRzM0Hw

pretty epic
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12-01-2014 , 10:10 AM
Portugal, Spain and Italy

Portugal with the oldest marine in the world. Discover America, India... almost half of the world. Back that time going true the see was like going to the moon. I used to say:

«We given worlds to the world.»

Spain have the second oldest marine and they divided the world in two places. Portugal could navigate one half and Spain the other half.

And Italy have a very old story with the roman empire, the use Latin and the philosophy like Marcus Aurelius.
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12-18-2019 , 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Le Boeuf
This is definitely not intended as a MY COUNTRY IS BEST thread, or even who's history is most influential/important merely which you find most captivating to read and why
I really appreciate this statement of yours. It's objective and open-minded
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06-20-2021 , 04:18 PM
the mayans or very ancient history the genesis would be my first choice
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09-08-2021 , 03:26 PM
I like the history of Turkey, Egypt, Italy, Russia, China, India and of course the United States.
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11-08-2021 , 12:51 PM
France and Italy have the most eventful history in the world. Ancient Rome, Charlemagne, Hundred Years War, Venetian Republic, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Napoleon ... I can write for hours about this
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11-14-2021 , 05:02 PM
Afghanistan, a.k.a. "the graveyard of empires."
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02-24-2023 , 08:52 PM
Polish history is unique.
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08-27-2023 , 04:01 AM
can you classify ancient egypt and that nile as a coutnry or just country?

if its just country than

Italy
UsA
greece
France
China

are prolly the top 5 and the order can be debated I guess USA is too "new" grand scheme of things but still lots there
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08-27-2023 , 11:07 AM
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Originally Posted by the pleasure
can you classify ancient egypt and that nile as a coutnry or just country?

if its just country than

Italy
UsA
greece
France
China

are prolly the top 5 and the order can be debated I guess USA is too "new" grand scheme of things but still lots there
USA shouldn't be anywhere near these lists.
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08-30-2023 , 02:27 PM
No, it shouldn't, but Americans simply cannot think outside their tiny box. Title-holder should be India, probably -- among other things, the decimal number system we call 'Arabic' is actually Indian -- but then there's China, if you accept the Chinese definition of 'interesting', meaning 'cultured but spectacularly terrible', as in the supposed Chinese curse, 'May you live in interesting times.' Or I suppose there's Russia -- all those writers and composers (not so much painters or sculptors for some reason), but then again that staggering roll-call of tyrants and mass murderers. England doesn't quite count, because although its language is spoken everywhere and its law and culture and literature are spread far and wide, and there's no one like Shakespeare, the country's own insular history -- Boudicca, the Wars of the Roses, Cromwell, Pitt the Younger, the Industrial Revolution, the Reform Acts and so on -- are of limited interest to foreigners, who, being foreigners, have parochial preoccupations of their own.

Last edited by 57 On Red; 08-30-2023 at 02:40 PM.
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09-07-2023 , 10:53 AM
This is so insanely subjective a question, even moreso because what we think of as the modern nation-state is very different from what it used to be, and what on earth counts as 'interesting' or 'vibrant' will be very different for everyone. Where history and anthropology have a legitimate claim to be seen as a science, this sort of particularly unscientific question is only really interesting for revealing the underlying tastes of the subject.
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10-05-2023 , 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by 57 On Red
No, it shouldn't, but Americans simply cannot think outside their tiny box. Title-holder should be India, probably -- among other things, the decimal number system we call 'Arabic' is actually Indian -- but then there's China, if you accept the Chinese definition of 'interesting', meaning 'cultured but spectacularly terrible', as in the supposed Chinese curse, 'May you live in interesting times.' Or I suppose there's Russia -- all those writers and composers (not so much painters or sculptors for some reason), but then again that staggering roll-call of tyrants and mass murderers. England doesn't quite count, because although its language is spoken everywhere and its law and culture and literature are spread far and wide, and there's no one like Shakespeare, the country's own insular history -- Boudicca, the Wars of the Roses, Cromwell, Pitt the Younger, the Industrial Revolution, the Reform Acts and so on -- are of limited interest to foreigners, who, being foreigners, have parochial preoccupations of their own.
none of that **** compares to Americans standing up to the great British Empire and DEMOLISHING THEM
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10-05-2023 , 05:30 PM
Yeah the British empire fell cos of the Americans. Oh wait, it totally didn't.
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10-08-2023 , 01:30 AM
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Originally Posted by damian^
none of that **** compares to Americans standing up to the great British Empire and DEMOLISHING THEM
Obvious troll is obvious.

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Originally Posted by diebitter
Yeah the British empire fell cos of the Americans. Oh wait, it totally didn't.
Or not.
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10-08-2023 , 11:54 AM
Can't we troll trolls?
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10-08-2023 , 02:28 PM
countrys with the best foods usually have best history
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11-03-2023 , 06:09 AM
Canada is an exception; just for one example. There are many more.
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11-03-2023 , 12:54 PM
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Originally Posted by IntheFold
countrys with the best foods usually have best history
Colombia must have the worst history then.

Thailand would seem an exception. Great food, but history not too vibrant given that they were mostly able to avoid entanglements with imperialists.
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