For many its the Roman empire or the Greeks. Similarly ancient Egypt. Or the British empire. Maybe the Japanese, Chinese and Norse as the next 3.
I have deliberately not mentioned time periods there.
These are the most commonly beloved. What are your favourites and why?
I really like the Holy Roman Empire with all its small territories across the European continent. I am especially interested in the modern era though, so let’s say 1618 - 1806. But I am also really interested in the European revolutions in general, from the French to all the little ones in the 1830s, 1848 etc.
My relationship to history is a bit weird in general. I am a person who needs to understand a period of time very well, before I can dig into a period earlier. So I am kind of building my historical concept from today, year by year and epoch and epoch into the past. I just don’t know enough to step into the middle ages yet.
Now that I am thinking about it, that’s true for a lot of other fields… I had many problems with electrical engineering in university, because I couldn’t fully grasp the concept of quantum physics before doing the experiments, and that really stressed me out lol