The history discussion thread

I hate history class. Mythology is cool. But I honestly get bored to tears sitting through a lesson about the Monroe Doctrine.

Yeah...I am done with history now, being in college in a degree that doesn't require it. But I do remember hating having to remember dates and such. Concepts are great but the actual dates and specifics bore me to death.

I have a Neanderthal fetish. I used to think Finns were Neanderthals...than I read Neanderthals couldn't pronounce vowel sounds...LMAO.

Well i like gothic history(i like the style,but i`m talking about the other gothic thing)
Germans are cool! I love their history
Now I think i`m gonna say that i love very culture (why shouldn`t I?)
But my big love is geography.I`ll stop now.

Fork Ninja wrote:

I have a Neanderthal fetish. I used to think Finns were Neanderthals...than I read Neanderthals couldn't pronounce vowel sounds...LMAO.

LMFAO! You made my day.

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KellieBent wrote:

I'd love to leran more about the eyptians. I love pyramids and ankh's

Ask Sam. I'm sure she'd be able to go on for days about how epic the Ancient Egyptians were

Yeah I could do that especially the eighteenth dynasty which includes the Armarna period (if your wondering the Armarna period was when Tutankhamun's dad was ruling Egypt.. not very well though I might add).

Aswell as Ancient Egyptian history, i'm quite interested in the medieval times and the victorian era and Jack the Ripper, I loved doing that subject in GCSE hisory xD Ooo and not forgetting ways of torture

You got to learn about torture methods??? I'm jealous that'd be really interesting. How grim do I sound now Thats wierd, what exam board was it on? Must of been different to ours.

You can tell me all about Egypt then. I find it really interesting.

Unfortunately no we didn't learn torture methods, I watch programes about them such as surviving history which is great. Apart from that I think we did the same things you did.

What would you like to know?

Anything I just find it all so facinating.

ok ermmm.... how about... the Great Pyramid of Giza took 24 to 27 years to build and it wasn't built by slaves like people think. The Pyramids and tombs were actually built by egyptians themselves and were very well cared for because they had food and a place to stay. Ooo and that the first ever female Pharaoh was called Hatshepsut and was Tutankhamun's ancestor and was thought to have possibly been murdered by her stepson. I could go on all day xD

Sam,can you tell me which pharaoh had more than 100 children?
Because i`ve forgot xD

Sure it was Rameses the second

Thanks
Which of them own Egypt for the most of years?
(Sorry i`m just very intersted about this )

No problem
If you mean the pharaoh that reigned the longest then it would be Rameses the second or great again because he reigned for at least 60 years and he died in his 90's which was pretty damn good for an ancient egyptian as the mortality for men in the ancient egyptian times was 40/45

Okay thank you so much!
You`re even better than my history teacher xD
Is it real that Imhotep(spelled wrong?)was an alien?Sorry i`ve read a SF book about that and her might have been an alien..but it`s just a myth i guess

Very interesting Sam. I really need to buy Lilith's Dream the last book for The Hunger stuff. I know it's set in Egypt. Not to say any of it will be real but then I may have some questions.

XxfrozenbutterflyxX wrote:

Okay thank you so much!
You`re even better than my history teacher xD
Is it real that Imhotep(spelled wrong?)was an alien?Sorry i`ve read a SF book about that and her might have been an alien..but it`s just a myth i guess

Imhotep was a real person he was the architect (sp?) of the first ever pyramid also known as the step pyramid, he was a scientist... he did loads of things, he was seen as a god and actually worshiped by some egyptians after he passed ove to the after life (another words died). Did you know the egyptian characters in The Mummy films were actually names of real ancient egyptian people but for the film they mixed them around, because in real life Anck Su Namun wasn't due to be Seti's wife like in the film but was actually Tutankhamun's wife and in a different dynasty than Pharaoh Seti

Thanks Is it? I never knew that, i'm going to have to see what that's like I mean I have some Ancient Egyptian themed books, I've read one but it's the third in a set of four or five I think. The books are by Wilbur Smith and the one i've read is pretty good so I can't wait to read the others lol that's alright I don't mind answering questions

Thaks again Sam
Another passion of mine is SF books,and I once read a SF book about the myteries of Egypt and how they built pyramids..and stuff...and it was combined with extraterrestials and other stuff weird but intersting
That book was alao about other cultures and mytseries
I`m not sure what is the original title of the book but the author is Daniel Schmidt

No problem I can imagine One theory that some people have about the pyramids is that they were built by aliens, but the ancient egyptians were very advanced

^That`s what the book it`s about.It`s very intersting

Cool! I wouldn't mind a book like that I have quite a few books about ancient Egypt though, but most of them is about Tutankhamun.. I would love a book about Akhenaten.

Well Lilith's Dream is the third book by Whitley Strieber. They are about vampires really, although the word vampire is never mentioned. I found the books after watching The Hunger which is one of my favourite films, although it is really wierd. And the last book Lilith's Dream is set in Egypt pretty much I think. They are good books I'll have to get it actually.

It's amazing how advanced Egyptians were though, must of been such hard and long gruelling work to build those pyramids. What was there view on afterlife then?

Oh right they sound quite good

Yeah it is yeah it probably was but at least they were looked after, I mean they had surgery if anything ws broken like an arm or something during building, but the workers actually worked only for a few months and then they would go back to their farms or where ever they originally worked, and other people would come and take over Well they saw the afterlife as being like thier lives while they were living but better if you know what I mean, beacuse in tombs there are images over the walls of the person working in fields but in their best clothing, showing that everything in the afterlife is better.

Oh wow Thanks. You're full of knowledge I didn't know they did surgery and stuff, thats amazing.

No problem lol yeah thanks to all the programmes I watch Yeah they come across bones where they'd had arms and legs sawn of and skulls with holes in where they've had brain surgery and the people actually lived a couple of months after