Which time period do you like best?

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I like ancient history. One of my favorite books was Technology in the Ancient World by Henry Hodge. I loved studying about the Greeks and Romans, but I think the Sumerians are neat. They are the people who invented the wheel as well as Cuneiform and the base of 60 which one of the reasons why clocks have sixty minutes and sixty seconds and why a circle has 360 degrees. In Sumer there was no standard as to writing left to right or right to left; some people followed and alternating format of left-right, down, right-left, down, left-right, etc.

So what time period do you like the best?

I would've said "Future" but it's not looking so bright.

I went ahead and chose 1900s because I liked living some of it. The 1980s looked cool, even though I never actually saw them.

I find the Victorian age clothing quite lovely.

I love the old west.

History more or less ends around the Roman Empire as far as I'm concerned. I get nothing out of recent history, but seeing Nebuchadnezzar's words on the walls of the Met brought a tear to my eye.

I chose the 1900's due to the turn-of-the-century technological advancements.

Future. Our knowledge will continue to grow in all likelihood, and our capital will continue to increase in all likelihood. Not only that but it is the most uncertain of all times, and thus excites the most curiosity about what will happen. Hopefully postmodernism doesn't get much more powerful and other ideas triumph over the nihilism that seems inherent in postmodernism.

19th and 20th centuries

Every single period of history. It's all very interesting to see how humanity has changed.

I would like to have lived in Andalusian Spain or Vedic-Period India.

I used to have a fascination with the Greco-Roman era, but I've recently become enchanted by the works of the enlightenment so I've got to say

1700's all the way!! !

My favorite time period is between 8 and 10 pm local. If there's nothing good on TV, it's late enough that I can play videogames without feeling guilty because I'm not getting anything done around the house.

Ancient: The Hellenistic Age.

The Library of Alexandria.

It still exists; you can visit it whenever you like. It's the southern third of Spain, called Andalucia, and includes the great palaces of Granada, and Sevilla, aswell as the cathedral inside a mosque of Cordoba.
Did you in fact mean Moorish/Arabian Spain, between 800- 1400AD, when the stunningly beautiful architecture was raised, and religious tolerance and scientific discovery and scholarly activity flourished? I agree, for men may have been a stunning era.

On the contrary i think it is exhilarating and inspirational, and blows fresh air into many hidebound rigid closed systems/assumptions/prejudices, offering great hope for future if anyone would listen to it, and the sense it makes.
It is wonderful, and far from nihilistic, how poststructuralism for instance explores the highly complex system which is language, in such a way as to expose invisible and/or taken for granted power dynamics, which carry on functioning even when people think they are changing the system, and explain why so often apparently radical changes have not had the effect hoped for, or none at all, which causes scepticism, bitterness, and disillusion in so many. Because they don't realise WHY something was so ineffectual.

my favourite time periods; a few months sometime in 12,000BC, ( approx) when humans first ate the new plant wheat, containing gluten. I would like to see what happened!
110 years ago in a parallel universe when Sherlock Holmes existed!!
The future.

I have so many. I'm the biggest history geek ever. :[

I love the Islamic Golden Age, ancient Greece, the Byzantine Empire, the Renaissance (especially the Tudors), Marie Antoinette's France, early Christianity, the history of conspiracy theories (I don't buy into them, I just like reading about them because they're so whacked), the Victorian era, Nazi Germany, the modern age, and the future (well, Futurama's depiction of it). Hell, give me anything about the history of religion and I'm a happy panda.

The 20th Century and The Old West.