good question. I hated history in school. I guess it depends on
what's important to you. I enjoy it now.
War history never impressed me. I didn't care about rulers. All
politics and land grabbing bullshit. Don't like it today, don't
care for it with history.
But i *do* like people. Regular, everyday people. What were they
like?*
I assume that politics is politics as it always was. It's people
who have power that don't want to lose it, or want power and
grab to get it. Yawnie-yawn yawn.
But what I *do* find interesting is attitudes. I ask myself, "If
I was a regular person in 11th Century Byzantium, what would my
day be like? When I look up at the sky, what do I see?"
Or ancient Greece. Or whenever. What were they teaching me? What
was my bed like when I slept at night? What did I do for a
living?
For me, I have to put myself there. I don't buy the crap when
they say that "this period of time in history was horrible" all
because some awful event was happening.
Thing is: regular people are regular people and have to carry on
each day as best they can.
Not everybody is a soldier on the battlefield. Not everybody is
a prince or a queen or a religious leader.
But moms still have to raise kids. Communities have mentors that
teach the young, raise them up, encourage them. You still have
to bicker over money, and pay the tax man when he comes or hide
from him.
Or go off on an adventure with friends to explore where you
live.
