Originally Posted by Sly

I like it all. It isn't so much a time period that I'm particularly interested in, its the happenings that led up to the big events. I find WWII extremely interesting, but I don't find it even half as interesting as what led to WWII throughout the whole world in every individual country.

The ancient Romans are always fun to hear about. It always puzzles me how they had such great technology and then for over 1000 years the advancement of technology just died.