Wherever you learned to love history, it's valid! ๐
Wherever you learned to love history, it's valid! ๐
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I got a BA in history entirely by accident.
My college had โflat rateโ tuition, so you paid about the same no matter how many classes you took. Iโd throw in classes that seemed fun or interesting, and my college career was a mess too.
On the way to getting the degree I actually intended to pursue, I just took so many 3000/4000 history classes that at some point it was like โoh, I can do the survey classes as an inter session and actually get the degree.โ
I think the most important thing - the thing you lack from things like Assassins Creeds or Civ or Age of Empires - reading primary sources. Especially when so much is online and translated into English. It is so much more enlightening to go direct to the source.
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My college had โflat rateโ tuition, so you paid about the same no matter how many classes you took.
Wow. I would've abused that and dropped my GPA even lower than it was. XD
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I had a couple of 21 hour semesters, 18 hours during the main semester, 3 for intercessions.
I took a two week course on the Vietnam war that kinda โpeakedโ me. I had done a project in high school and learned about My Lai on my own, but then learning that the Gulf of Tonkin was a false flag and how fucked it was that the US was like โyah no, we arenโt going to let you have the sovereignty you wonโ - it eroded any faith I had in the government.
Another fave was a course on Byzantine art. The iconography was gorgeous - I was blessed to visit the Louvre a few years later and goddamn was it amazing to see those ikons.
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I personally learned a LOT about history from civilization games
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Unironically, the civilopedia entries from Civ 2 were one of my introductions to just how vast and different the past really was.
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And the winged hussars arrived!!!!
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killer song and video:
Poltava is pretty good too:
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Your in the snipers siigghhttt, the first kill tonight. Saayy goodbyyeee
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@PugJesus Polandball. It's all Polandball.
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Age of Empires 2 campaigns
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For me, this was the Total War series, particularly the first Rome Total War. I remember my history teacher asking if anyone could point to Carthage on a map and I was the only one in the class who had any idea.
Lots to be learned out there from non-traditional sources if you pay attention!
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Except the history channel, that ain't a valid place to learn history.
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Hey now, some of us grew up on the History Channel.
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So did I, but that was like thirty years ago.
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Historia Civilis
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I hate to be the party pooper, bit I don't think video games, memes and music are valid sources of knowledge. They can be great to spark interest, but should always be validated by further research.
(Your great history teacher might have made mistakes, too.)-
Hence why the title is "Wherever you learned to love history"
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My bad, I missed the 'to love' part. To be fair though, I came across just a few too many people claiming they 'learned history from video games and Sabaton' so maybe we can agree that my comment is meant more general and not targeted at this meme?
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