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Post by worksforme2 on Aug 29, 2019 7:48:48 GMT -5
To clarify, not the modern soaps stuff, but set during the Zhou(Chinese) or Jung(Korean) dynasties. Somewhere between 250 and 1000 BC. I was watching one yesterday and the scene was the Chinese Imperial Palace of the Empress around 650 AD. As I looked across the grounds of the palace setting I could see in the background 2 high speed trains passing. WOW...they were much further along with mass transit than I knew.
EDIT: No replies and almost no looks. I must be the only one that likes this stuff....
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Post by deadzone75 on Aug 30, 2019 16:17:48 GMT -5
I don't know much about those specific dynasties, but I do love history. My place of interest has always been the 19th, 20th dynasties of Egypt. The Egyptians blow my mind.
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Post by Handy on Aug 31, 2019 1:40:40 GMT -5
worksforme2 , I recently watched videos about the country of India from about 500AD until the British left the country and what a mess dividing India and Pakistan was. A couple of years ago I read about how the Muslim empire spread and took over Spain to the west. Then there were articles about how Japan became a dominant player in China and South East Asia until they surrendered at the end of something called WWII. OH, add the bad ass Genghis Khan, that certainly wasn't a picnic for the general population at the time. If I have a difficult time remembering names, the history is less interesting because it becomes work and just pronouncing names and keeping who did what, organized, yea, too much work.
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Post by worksforme2 on Aug 31, 2019 6:35:38 GMT -5
Handy ....What I am watching is really for the most part, fictional in nature, although some of the characters and certainly the dynasties did actually exist. The beauty is I don't feel compelled to try and remember all the characters since there is no test. Unless I find something really noteworthy I just enjoy the program. As a "keeper of odd knowledge" sometimes I get to use something I learned that I otherwise would not have known had I not watched. That makes it a 2fer.
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Post by Handy on Aug 31, 2019 12:35:39 GMT -5
worksforme2, I dip into some history because I want to know what happened to the people, was it good or bad for the common man and woman, how the leaders succeeded in gaining power, and what happened to the area/country in later years.
There have been some powerful countries and men that seemed to have it all and then something happened and it was all lost or only a fraction of what it used to be.
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