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Lot's of history buffs out there, which country do you believe has the most interesting history? And explain why you think so.


Also, Which country has the least interesting history?

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United States of course

JK.

I'd say England.

least interesting? not sure. Maybe Switzerland. They never fight in any wars.

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Italy, France, Germany, Russia, China.

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I'm not exactly a history buff, but I'd say Israel.

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Probably England. There was a lot of fun wrangling over who gets the monarchy and with Henry VIII, you had religious back and forth bickering and then with colonialism, many other issues came into play about administration of the Empire.

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China, probably, just through sheer amount.

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If by "country" you mean nation-state, I'd have to go with the UK, followed closely by Germany, France and Russia.

If you mean it more in a geographic sense, undoubtedly Mesopotamia, followed closely by China and the Italian peninsula.

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Japan, Germany, China, Italy/Rome

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Italy, Germany, Japan and China

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Good choices Monkspider

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not really. Japan's history is boring. Germany's history is too short. Though what little of it, there was, was quite interesting.

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Japan's history was quite long in fact, and so was Korea's. So do quite a number of SE Asian countries, e.g. the history behind Angkor Wat.

I think the histories of ancient American cultures are interesting, too. Just that we don't know much about them.

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China, Britain, "Italy" maybe.

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Most interesting? The Germans, especially from 1450-1945.

Least interesting? Has anything important ever happened in Finland?

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Important like the Winter War? Or Santa Claus?

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Least interesting? Has anything important ever happened in Finland?


They once supported Nazi Germany and its murdering machine so that they could have independence

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Germany/Hungry area for sure

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They once supported Nazi Germany and its murdering machine so that they could have independence


Independence from the Communists. Hobson's choice, anyone?

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Independence from the Communists. Hobson's choice, anyone?


And, instead of choosing to save millions of lives...

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Fine.

I change my vote for Germany/Hungry

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Most interesting: Rome, Germany, England
Least interesting: New Zealand

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Japan, Germany, China, Italy/Rome


Those would be my choices as well.

Add Greece, Egypt and Spain to them, and you'd get my full list.


Least interesting would have to be Australia.

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Mess-o-potamia/Sumer, Egypt/Nile, and China.

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Least interesting: New Zealand

You'd be surprised.

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Fine.

I change my vote for Germany/Hungry

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most interesting: Germany/Russia

least interesting: Korea

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Anyways, Most interesting? Difficult to say.. so many interesting histories.. I'd say Rome. So Italy. But I just like the whole Rome thing so much, endless stories and things, it's very interesting to me. Oh yeah and lots of battles! How can you not fall in love with Rome?

Then.. Well few European countries have long and interesting histories.. I like the whole England vs France thing, and their separate histories, though I don't know TOO much about it.. I should learn more. I find them interesting as well. And Germany as well.

Finland is also interesting, it's just that none of you fools never really read about it so you don't know about it. There are interesting events.. not a lot of fighting and wars, but other things. Like .. pots and pans. And... uh.

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What I mean is, Finnish history, it's as interesting as any other country's history. It doesn't involve a lot of meddling with other countries, so it's mostly just what happens in Finland only, inside of it. Important changes and events in Finland, concerning only Finland. But I think that's pretty interesting. But I'm not good at telling about it, my way of writing stuff can get a bit boorish, especially if it's history. Plus I could have few holes in my explanations, forget something too, so you really need to have some accomplished and good history writer and then read that.. because it's a small place, so the events are small to you, so you need to understand exactly what it's about, and why, when and how. Other histories you don't need to know so much details, because the things are so much bigger, so you are likely not to miss the whole point.

Least interesting history.. again, difficult to say.

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Least interesting: Australia before the British

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I agree -- naked brown guys chasing kangaroos is not interesting.

 
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