History Enthusiasts! - What are the most interesting parts of human history?

[Padawanbater2]

One day, when I'm all grow'd up, out on my own, owning my own space for my own shit, I plan on designing a room with a timeline that stretches from one section of the room all around the whole room as long as time continues, so I'd like to get an idea of what some of the most interesting parts of human history (even ancient, or prehistoric history as well, dinosaurs n shit)! I'm going to hand paint an illustration with each individual 'fact' or interesting point, so I'm hoping to end up with hundreds, if not thousands of images by the time I die, as it's sort of a life long continuation type thing to keep me sane as I age. I'd imagine it would be quite valuable by the end, as I'm going to put my motherfucking all into it as I love history! So a sort of timeline from as far back as you feel necessary (big bang?) to now, mooooost interesting shit you an think of?!

 

[ganjames]

the birth of the baby jesus

 

[Hepheastus420]

Big bang. Dates when religions were made. Maybe you can throw in some astronomy above the time line (IDK). First space expedition. The first recorded homo sapien. The years that wiped out the dinosaurs. IDK there's so many things.

 

[Padawanbater2]

-big bang
-creation of hydrogen-helium, etc.
-gravity
-stars
-planets
-moons, asteroids, comets
-organic molecules
-single celled organisms
-multicelled organisms
-evolution
-amoeba
-prehistoric sea life
-prehistoric amphibians
-prehistoric reptiles
-dinosaurs
-Yucatan peninsula meteor impact
-Cambrian explosion
-mammals
-prehistoric apes
-tectonic plates
-language
-altruism
-communal living
-the rise of agriculture
-the domestication of animals
-the rise of human societies
-organized religion
-the dark ages
-the plague
-the middle ages
-the middle ages technology
-the old world
-the new world
-revolution
-French
-American
-expansion
-(American history)
-WWI
-the great depression
-WWII
-economic prosperity
-Korean War
-Vietnam War
-The War on Drugs
-The 1st Gulf War
-9/11
-Iraq/Afghanistan
-...
-...
-???

 

[ganjames]

come on, paint the birth of the baby jesus.

i want to see the holy twat.

 

[Padawanbater2]

come on, paint the birth of the baby jesus.

i want to see the holy twat.

Of course! Unfortunately that's paramount to human history

 

[ganjames]

i bet the holy muff looks like a big pink orchid that emits a mysterious glow.

 

[MrFrance]

that's a big bush. history of drugs, history of death, history of the theatre, history of war.

my suggestions for your wall would be slavery (it's always been that way - yellows, greys, blacks, reds, whites, pick a time and color). Draw how they were enslaved and who they were.

The Spanish Inquisition - good images on google

if you want to work backwards a modern start could be wikileaks (leaking documents). The powerful are lucky no one has been fucking bothered to read through all the leaked documents. And those who have can't be bothered. As someone wrote in TnT a while back (think it as ganjames) :

"a good deed never goes unpunished"

never more true especially when applied to humans. wouldn't worry about things like technological singularity just yet. Most of you are still in the moron phase. It's not your fault though, there was really nothing you could have done.

 

[Shannon Alexander]

The history of slavery is interesting and how different cultures through history utilized slaves, the laws that governed slave ownership, slave rights etc...

 

[MrFrance]

the dalai lama is at war! that would be a nice little inclusion for your wall art.

 

[Blue Wizard]

Ben & Jerry's ice cream 1978

 

[Dislexicmidget2021]

A.D.313-Edict of Milan is issued. Christians are now tolerated in the Roman Empire

A.D.361- Emperor Julian, "The Apostate," tries to return the Empire back to the Pagan religions

A.D.1202- Leonardo Fibonacci publishes "The Book of the Abacus" and revolutionizes mathematics in Europe.

1942, December 2At the University of Chicago Enrico Fermi and friends generate the first self-sustained nuclear reaction.

 

[Johnnyorganic]

Paddy, I appreciate your quest for knowledge. And I like your idea.

As a start I would recommend one book. It starts with gas clouds swirling around in space, and ends up at the 20th Century.

Is is an excellent survey of world history.

It's out of print. And it is huge, but it's very good.

The Columbia History of the World by John Arthur Garraty.

You could definitely find it at a used bookstore, or on EBay.

I read it many years ago, and I will read it again.

 

[MrFrance]

man on the moon

 

[kizphilly]

battle of kursk biggest tank battle in history

 

[cannabineer]

What would interest me is all the stuff that's been lost. The massive troubles when the ice receded and climate changed in a child's lifetime. The history of America's earliest large communities. A comprehensive oral history of 45 thousand years of walking Australia. The earliest languages, and religions. (I imagine they grew side by side.) All the lost parts of our story. cn

 

[Padawanbater2]

You could take up an entire room just on wars/battles throughout history! So much stuff I want to add!

Ideally this would be an awesome room for a future kid to have, imagine the spark it would ignite!

 

[Padawanbater2]

 

[cannabineer]

^awesome mural
cn

 

[Total Head]

i've always thought of the industrial revolution as the ultimate line in the sand between then and now. to me it marked the unofficial end of hunting and gathering and began truly modern times. steam engines, photography, electricity, telephones, transportation, the emergence of modern monopolies, patent beefs, ...kaboom. i know it's fairly modern as far as history is concerned, but by historical standards, that's a hell of a lot of change in such a short period. it could be argued that without the IR, slavery may have continued for a longer time, and without slavery, people may not have been able to afford to invest in industrialization in the first place. were the slaves freed for humanitarian reasons or simply because they were obsolete? or both?

i can see the history nerds shaking their fists at the screen, so i should mention that all this was a direct result of the so-called "age of enlightenment", which was made possible with the invention of the printing press, which came a good 300 years prior to the IR, so really any of this could be considered the same era depending on how you want to look at it. but the IR itself was some crazy shit to be going on, and there are a lot of layers to it and what it meant for the times.