History’s my special interest and I’ve been EXTREMELY interested in it, take a history class whenever I get a chance and I actually have one this semester. We just moved onto learning about the Romans. Like we started learning about them yesterday.
My dad and I also have a lot of historical conversations.
One of the things I learned recently was about the Punic Wars and how by the third war, the romans basically destroyed the city of Carthage and killed almost everyone there; on the last day they took 50,000 prisoners but sold them all into slavery. Think “We’ll wipe you out of existence” has some literal meaning here.
I don’t really have a favourite history thing because like I said it’s my special interest. So many things to think about.
I like learning about hiroshima and nagasaki. Its a terrible part of history, but its extremely fascinating.
So do I. It’s the only time atomic bombs have been used in war, and hopefully it never happens again. There’s a few movies I’ve watched about that section in history, about life in those cities when and after the bombs dropped. All of them super sad as well.
Something notable about that as well is that I guess in August of 1945 when they were informing the public they asked Americans if they approved of the use of the atomic bombs and around 85% said yes. Nowadays, media and the internet allows us to know about things quite literally minutes after they happen and a lot of the details too. Something tells me if something similar happened today that percentage would be a bit lower, especially since we have way more information available to the public about what radiation does to the body.
Fun fact: when they were testing the bombs, there was a fear that they would ignite the atmosphere. That didn’t happen seeing as how we’re still around today, but I remember reading something that a few of those who were around to witness the test saying that there was a fear that was like oh no, did it happen?
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