A Comm for Historymemes

I got a BA in history entirely by accident.

My college had “flat rate” tuition, so you paid about the same no matter how many classes you took. I’d 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 “oh, I can do the survey classes as an inter session and actually get the degree.”

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.

I personally learned a LOT about history from civilization games

And the winged hussars arrived!!!!

Age of Empires 2 campaigns

@PugJesus Polandball. It's all Polandball.

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!

Except the history channel, that ain't a valid place to learn history.

Historia Civilis