Current Events > Lets say I suddenly wanted to become a history buff....where do I start?

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Topic?

read history.

U know I have a big test coming up when Im super distracted on CE and suddenly interested in the randomest things. As soon as I'm done with the test I'll go back to drinking and playing FIFA every night.

Completely up to you.

Is there a specific aspect of history you want to specialize in? War, economics, government, customs, you get the idea.

If so I'd probably start at the origin of that aspect. If not, I'd either choose a specific culture/country and start at the beginning or choose a time period and fill that in to your liking before moving on to a new one.

For reference I choose to start with feudalism. From there I pretty much jumped all over the place. I think I went Renaissance era and then went into events like war of the roses and the fall of Rome, which interested me enough to just go through all of Rome again. So on and so forth.
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Wikipedia.
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I'd recommend starting in the past, tbh.
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Zeeak4444 posted...

Completely up to you.

Is there a specific aspect of history you want to specialize in? War, economics, government, customs, you get the idea.

If so I'd probably start at the origin of that aspect. If not, I'd either choose a specific culture/country and start at the beginning or choose a time period and fill that in to your liking before moving on to a new one.

For reference I choose to start with feudalism. From there I pretty much jumped all over the place. I think I went Renaissance era and then went into events like war of the roses and the fall of Rome, which interested me enough to just go through all of Rome again. So on and so forth.

All of it, no specialization

As much as academics will criticize it, Wikipedia is a great place to figure out what topics or time frames or areas may interest you in history. From there, take out books or look for sources online to learn more and form an opinion on an event, place, people, etc.
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DanHarenChamp posted...

Zeeak4444 posted...

Completely up to you.

Is there a specific aspect of history you want to specialize in? War, economics, government, customs, you get the idea.

If so I'd probably start at the origin of that aspect. If not, I'd either choose a specific culture/country and start at the beginning or choose a time period and fill that in to your liking before moving on to a new one.

For reference I choose to start with feudalism. From there I pretty much jumped all over the place. I think I went Renaissance era and then went into events like war of the roses and the fall of Rome, which interested me enough to just go through all of Rome again. So on and so forth.

All of it, no specialization

Okay, I recommend starting with the history of paperclips.
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199936765
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The Bible
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The Big Bang.
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just become a meme historican

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/ezjmva/meme-historians-are-an-inevitability
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DanHarenChamp posted...

Zeeak4444 posted...

Completely up to you.

Is there a specific aspect of history you want to specialize in? War, economics, government, customs, you get the idea.

If so I'd probably start at the origin of that aspect. If not, I'd either choose a specific culture/country and start at the beginning or choose a time period and fill that in to your liking before moving on to a new one.

For reference I choose to start with feudalism. From there I pretty much jumped all over the place. I think I went Renaissance era and then went into events like war of the roses and the fall of Rome, which interested me enough to just go through all of Rome again. So on and so forth.

All of it, no specialization

Ya I'd decide if you wanna structure it or jump around then.

Structure would be good because you stick to a period or event until you have it down and it often makes things easy because you can link connections in your brain making them easier to refer back to.

I personally just chose a random subject each day and dive in. If I don't finish I'll continue the next day and if I do I'll probably start something completely unrelated.

I blame tvtropes...
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ScottSweatshirt posted...

The Bible

He said history, not fantasy.

*starts making popcorn*
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Parappa09 posted...

just become a meme historican

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/ezjmva/meme-historians-are-an-inevitability

I like to pretend you write all the vice articles you post
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You could start anywhere. You could start at the beginning of recorded history and work your way forward (which would be incredibly daunting and hard to keep track of, and probably boring) or you could find a topic or event in history you're interested in and branch out from there. Research things related to the things you're already interested in. Just be warned that it's a rabbit hole that you'll never find the bottom of even if you devoted your entire life it researching it.

Jet_Enduro101 posted...

You could start anywhere. You could start at the beginning of recorded history and work your way forward (which would be incredibly daunting and hard to keep track of, and probably boring) or you could find a topic or event in history you're interested in and branch out from there. Research things related to the things you're already interested in. Just be warned that it's a rabbit hole that you'll never find the bottom of even if you devoted your entire life it researching it.

QFT
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The past.
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prince_leo posted...

Parappa09 posted...

just become a meme historican

https://www.vice.com/en_au/article/ezjmva/meme-historians-are-an-inevitability

I like to pretend you write all the vice articles you post

hahaha i do dream of one day writing an article, but my writing skills are weak
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