Nothing?

The rise of Sumer. City-states, religious warfare, an insane warlord forging a kingdom. The beginning of agriculture.

Have some wars

Roman Empire, German forests - just atmopsheric

Crusades - important, one of sources of h8 between muslims and christians

Fall of Constantinople - turks gaining ground

Battle of Vienna - turks get pwned

Cortez the Conquistador and conquering the Aztecs - slaughter natives and take their goods. Also rise of colonialism.

Napoleonic War, Waterloo - Napoleon fails. New order in Europe

American Civil War, Shiloh - Dead bodies and shooting. Also war which has shown that napoleonic line battles are kinda slaughters with more modern muskets

Zulu War, Rorke's Drift but only with Men of Harlech - awesome

World War I, Somme - Atmospheric and also the first Industrial war the world has ever seen. Bodies, blood, sickness, gas and shell shock.

Polish-Bolshevik war, Warsaw - commies fail to take Europe

World War II, Stalingrad, Berlin, Some-random-jap-island,

>>12832761
Uruk and Akkadians in mesopotamia. Before the Egypt part. Definitely.

Anything before that though? I know, KISS, but I want to have a list as complete as possible before I make cuts.

>>12832761

Sumerians invented professional warfare, mathematics, and the fucking wheel.

Yeah.

>>12832838

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sumer#Technology

List of badass right there. Considering they were the first to use a lot on that list.

>>12832823
>white ppl only no nigrs allowed

>>12832863
You can be Bwhalah Tohamba-Memba and go spear chucking at opposing tribe's village up till 1900s, so why thou mad?

>Roman Empire, German forests - just atmopsheric
And a piece of local history. There's roman relics all over the place here.
>Crusades - important, one of sources of h8 between muslims and christians
I thought I'd combine it with a Venician episode. Kind of a what we planned - what really happened thing.
>Fall of Constantinople - turks gaining ground
Have to read up on that some more.
>Battle of Vienna - turks get pwned
That too.
>Cortez the Conquistador and conquering the Aztecs - slaughter natives and take their goods. Also rise of colonialism.
Yes, but from the perspective of the natives (Apocalypto).
>Napoleonic War, Waterloo - Napoleon fails. New order in Europe
From enlightenment to the French Revolution, rise of Napoleon, feuding with England, religious wars... This will be big.
>American Civil War, Shiloh - Dead bodies and shooting. Also war which has shown that napoleonic line battles are kinda slaughters with more modern muskets
I was going to base that more on hill people and their individualism.

>Zulu War, Rorke's Drift but only with Men of Harlech - awesome
I know nothing about this. Thank you for the pointer.
>World War I, Somme - Atmospheric and also the first Industrial war the world has ever seen. Bodies, blood, sickness, gas and shell shock.
That hill they undermined and blew up would make a nice episode I think.
>Polish-Bolshevik war, Warsaw - commies fail to take Europe
When was that?
>World War II, Stalingrad, Berlin, Some-random-jap-island,
U-Boot, moddafoggas!

How mythic are you going?

How about the Siege of Troy? Massive war, seeds of the Roman Empire if you believe the stories.

>>12832900
>When was that?
1920's, Lenin said something 'bout taking Europe after killing Poland.

I read up on it in Norman Davies' "White Eagle, Red Star".

You get cavalry slaughtering rifleman. How nice is that?

>>12832903
I like to construct things not quite matching the accounts we have today, but close enough that centuries of telling could shape the plot into that story. So there will be a Greek siege of a city maybe named Troy, and it will be big. But I will not make the tale of Achill literally true.

>>12832943
Fuck, meant to write riflemen

Also

Egyptian Pharaohs' campaigns - usually overlooked, they are quite cool. You march 15 miles more just cause there are some scarabs in your way, and you don't fuck with them (they were holy and shit.)

>>12832943
Sounds great, will definitely look into that.

To get some science your PCs could be the reason an apple fell on Isaac Newtons head.

>>12832991
That myth has been too thoroughly debunked to be more than a trope.
Galilei would make a better herald of physical science I believe.

Ancient China.
Absolute dynasties of decadence and culture. There was a fleet of hundreds of ships coasting along India all the way to Africa. Use that.

stone age
- quest for fire (film)

bronze age
- rise of the sumerian city states, xia dynasty

age of empires
- roman empire, mongol empire, byzantine empire, chinese dynasties

migration period
- nomad tribes (huns, goths, vandals, bulgars, alans, suebi, frisians, franks and other germanic and slavic tribes)

middle ages
- crusades, Islamic golden age, italian renaissance, silk road

early modern age
- colonization of the americas, thirty years war, peak of european witch-hunting, europe's renaissance, scientific revolution, black death

late modern history
- industrial revolution, american and french revolution

contemporary history
- world war I and II, russian revolution, great depression, cold war, space exploration

>>12833181
Excellent!
Thanks.

>>12832863
>Turks
>Muslims
>Aztecs
>Zulu

>White

>>12833239
[DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS]

>>12833222
no problem

some inspirational movies would be
- All Quiet on the Western Front (WW1)
- das Boot (WW2)
- The Crucible (witch hunts)

and you will find this most helpful even though its a kids show
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time..._Man

>>12833528
I wanted to make it a little less cuddly than Once Upon A Time. But the show is awesome.

don't make it too Western focused if you want a real global feel and not just "the history of white people."

Specific Suggestions:

> tribe of hunter-gatherers in Indonesia come into contact with Homo Florensis, conflict ensues

>Neanderthal-Homo Sapiens conflict in continental Europe or the middle east

>the end of the ice age and hunter-gatherers in an age of increasing populations and the first permanent settements

> the Neolithic in all of its glory. The great cities of Malta, Britain, North Africa, Turkey, The New World, or Mesopotamia all come to mind. The first farmers, the first kings, the first wars.

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>>12833729

>The rise of states in Sumer, a little later than the last one. The first real state structures, monumental architecture etc. Metropolitan urban centers that include immigrants from India, Africa and Europe.

>Ancient Egypt, an absolute prerequisite for any history hopping campaign. Pyramids, empire and warfare and religion on a massive scale against the Hittites.

> Bronze Age China, the Zhou dynasty and the warring states period, lots of room for intrigue and combat.

>The rise of buddhism in India, or the period of Indian imperialism under the Mauryans.

>The rise of the Persian empire, the first monotheistic religion, and the first classic imperial state. Massive, decadent and full of wonder. Ethnic, religious and political differences abound, but all subordinated to the will of the emperor.

>The greek golden age, the founding of European civilizations intellectual basis and the flowering of arts and culture followed by disease, warfare and famine

>The Hellenic Age and the first period of European ascendancy over the Western World. Imperialism, cultural change and rapid technological change.

>>12833754
> SPQR, Rome rising as a young and ambitious republic, possibly the Punic Wars

>The Qin dynasty in China, the world's first totalitarian regime thousands of years before its time

> The Empire, Rome as a decaying carcass of what it once was, falling apart from every direction

>The Mayan Classic Age, a flourishing civilization in the middle of the rain forest. Warfare, highly developed religion and a complex political landscape

>Islam, the rise of Islam in Arabia and the Arab expansion and empire. A golden age of learning and culture that owes its success to violence and religious oppression

>Byzantium, political intrigue is fun

> the Mongols fuck shit up across the entire planet, pick any place and theres a good chance they burned it down

>>12833729
>>12833754
>>12833837
Wow. Thanks. Will look into that.

bump

Vikings discovering the new world.

>>12835320
He said things that actually had an effect on history. That didn't.

>>12835320
I was going to make that an icy odyssey, with the new world just on the horizon when the episode ends.