History Discussion Topics

[Burnoutfigs]

Well I love history and love learning more about all time periods, so I was wondering if maybe we can chose a time period once a week and discuss some history about it.


what do you think?

[Amaz]

fall of the Roman Empire

just watched an interesting document about them..

[The Donz]

Go ahead, am.az. Tell us about it.

[l33tl4m3r]

I'm ready to hear more!

I split the actual topic out in to its own thread -- we'll use this thread for topic discussion.

[Amaz]

lol maybe next week, the Hundred Years War

[l33tl4m3r]

Yeah, that's a good ugly time in history!

[Burnoutfigs]

I watched this show on Discovery about United States Monuments and there secret meanings, like How George Washingtons painting at the top of the Capitol, he is made out to be some sort of GOD.

How most of our monuments have a Freemasons signs in them and the such.

[Amaz]

what's a freemason's sign?

[Danigol of South America]

i guess we can also discuss the founding fathers and the signs they left behind!

[Amaz]

signs of what?

[l33tl4m3r]

I think he means symbols of any kind that represent a belief or sect of people who founded nations or other civilized groups.

[Danigol of South America]

I think he means symbols of any kind that represent a belief or sect of people who founded nations or other civilized groups.

yes thats what i ment

[Amaz]

lol... ok... anybody wanna start??

[Danigol of South America]

arent we discussing the Roman empire already in another thread?

[Amaz]

well... idk if it's ok with anyone else though.

[Chesh]

lol maybe next week, the Hundred Years War

If you like that period read Bernard Cromwell's Holy Grail trilogy or Azincourt (just finishing Azincourt). Although they are historical-fiction and as such stories the amount of fact he puts into his novels and about life as it was is really good. The amount of actual reserach he must do for his books must be amazing. Same with the Sharpe seris really.

[Amaz]

never heard of it, but thanks for the recomendation.

[Burnoutfigs]

Ok i will start a good conversation. You may have to read the history of it, but here it goes.

In your opinion, What would have happened if John Adams decided not to defend the British Soldiers for opening fire in Boston. (known as the Boston Massacre)?

I believe that the British soldiers would have been hanged and the british would have retaliated. The rest of the colonies would have saw this as something that Massachusetts deserved for hanging these soldiers without a fair trial and would not have come to there aid. There would have been no revolution. in my opinion.

[Amaz]

Hanged where and by who??

[Burnoutfigs]

Hanged in Boston, by Bostonians. in there colonial courts