^^ well... i've noticed that a few time here or on chat we've talked about History... so here this is! a History thread! lol so here you can talk about some historical events in whatever continent or country you want... though i don't know what to start with... any suggestions?

just as long as we avoid stuff like the world wars and holocaust etc, it's too depressing and i hate nazis, i think they should all burn in hell!

currently Im study the history of the knights templars and the connection with the holy grail.
A decent book an the subject is "Holy Blood Holy Grail" although you must take it with a grain of salt due to the fact that some of it is not factual, but opinion based

any other suggestions or ideas on this matter would be greatly appreciated!

ah well... i wasn't exactly thinking about the holocaust of that sort of stuff during the 2nd world war papa.... :sheep:

ah yea the templar subject sounds nice, i've heard a little about them.... they existed in the XII/XII century ne?

i really like the more ancient type histories, like back in feudal Japan or the time of the Great Wall of China etc

just imagine when the Philippines was conqured by Japan back in 1942. Or imagine what would the Philippines be like if the Americans colonizes all of the islands back in the 1900's.

ah yes... it's true Japan conquered a big part of the Pacific islands during 2nd world war... these teritories were conquered back by the US who gave their freedom back... hmm... i'm getting a little mixed up i think... because their were also some europeen colonies in the Pacific... and i forgot if they were given back as europeen colonies or as independent countries... hmm... ah no i think those concerned were given back to their colonizers... mostly England and France, and Netherlands too i think...

but i don't think the Philippines would ever have become american colonies because that would be against their constitution i think... that would be against the Democratic priniple... or something like that.

oh Im really bad with this portion of history (I think I slept through my world wars portion of high school)

i never liked the histories with regard to colonisations etc, too depressing and its basically countries bullying other countries! very bad!

well sure i egree with you papa... but at that time, it didn't really shock as much as i might today...

http://www-scf.usc.edu/~yucekus/AsiaColonization_map.jpg
http://www-scf.usc.edu/~yucekus/AfricaColonialism_map.jpg

but the thing is... with colonization, most ex-colonies have adopted the language and other axes of the occupant's culture... but of course, these countries are much less industrialized than Northern countries... that's sad...

to me, if our land was conqured by the US, then our economy will rise up and Appliances will not gonna be expensive.

If Japan conqured us, then I'll gonna be lucky!!! :bg: :bg:

:shooks his head:

no! bad....baaaaad!!

every country has a right to be itself! thats the whole point of diversity and striving for a world where ppl of different countries, races etc can live in happiness and peace together!

yea i suppose, theat's probably why there are so many problems in Irak for example... or maybe i'm wrong but, irakis (is that the word for citizens of Irak? or is it irakian?) or more than fed up with the american ocupation... or no sorry, i'm giving a wrong example... :sheep: Palestine/Israël might be better... since the creation of the israëlian territory in..... 1945? palestinians have been craving for their own territory as well...

oh and papa? race isn't a very apropriate word when you come to talk about human beings... black, white, green, blue, yellow.... whatever the color of the skin, doesn't make diferent human races... actually, the color of the skin is only because of a diferent amount of melanine i think... and that's certainly not enough to seperate the human race in diferent races.... types maybe if you want... but not races...

i know morphee, im not being rascist or anything but you know what i mean. anyway if the world is truly united and living in peace together then the word different races will no longer be such a big deal. i think the whole world should unite and diversity of the human race is a wonderful thing!

'civilization' can be another term for 'race'. :bg: