What Pre-1900 Topic do you specialise in?

I can talk about these things intelligently, but I may or may not know everything.

Dutch Golden Age.

England from Henry VIII through Cromwell.

Wars of Religion(French and 30 Years War)

American Revolution.

French Revolution.

Roman History.

Changes and Continuities between Hellenistic and Roman Culture.

Neolithic Revolution.

Karl Marx and Communist thought.

Nietzsche.

Things I'm interested in, but I may not be able to speak in depth;

Civil War.

Chinese History.

Islamic/Arabic History.

Middle Ages.

Russian History.

New World/First Nations.

Eastern Philosophy; IE Lao Tzu, Legalism and Confucius.

Capitalism.

Industrial Revolution.

African History.
 
West North East and South African/Aboriginal and Melanesian/Polynesian migration, genetics, material culture, agriculture, nation building, religion

Colonialism and the Black Atlantic

Horner/Arabia Felix/Transjordan dynamics, migration, genetics, material culture, agriculture, nation building, religion

Vegecultural societies globally

Ethnobotany and human-plant dynamics globally/domestication of animals and plants

Creole societies and populations globally

Ocean currents/watercraft development

Lots of random things in between but quite frankly I'm waiting for people who know about Africa beyond the first page results of a Google search. Those are the rarest, can't say I've seen one here yet.
 
My strong points:

The East Roman Empire during the Crusades(although I don't specialize in what happens after 1204)
Late Classical period,I did a lot of reading on it,but I must admit that there are a lot of people on this site with much more in depth knowledge of the period than me.
Medieval European history
Colonial history in general,especially Atlantic Colonialism and the period before the 18th century.

Areas where I know a general history but not in depth
Chinese history(a lot of people like Southern Intransigence are probably better than me at this subject,but I am able to read a lot in regards to Chinese history through the internet,I'm just not sure whether the sources are credible.)
Classical history in general
The history of the ERE in general
Early modern European history
 
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Strong Points:
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Medieval and early modern military history, especially pike-and-shot. Mostly the nitty-gritty parts like organization, equipment and tactics, not big-picture stuff.

Weak points:
Basically everything else, especially political history.
 
quite frankly I'm waiting for people who know about Africa beyond the first page results of a Google search. Those are the rarest, can't say I've seen one here yet.

Have you read any of Jonathan Edelstein's work? If you're looking for knowledge of Africa you'd probably like it.

Anyhow...

My main area of expertise is the development of submarine civilizations of Nephropidae.

I also know a bit about Central Asia and pretend to have a good grasp on all of world history so as to get away with writing a timeline.

My favorite subjects of late are religious history and the Greek successor states, but I don't claim any special knowledge on those subjects.
 
My strong spots:

Canadian history from 1800-1919

The turbulent decade as I call it, 1860-1870 and the events thereof

Areas of General Interest:

Early Christian history

New Imperialism

Brazilian history

Byzantine history

Medieval England
 
My core points are the Holy Roman Empire, Pre-Habsburg Hungary and Brazil.
Have some knowledge in Medieval Europe, Sassanian Persia, Victorian Era Europe, Spain and World War I.
Recently have started studying Post-Ming China (Qing, RoC and PRC) and basic economics.
 
I'm not the biggest and the best here, but some I like:

- Late Muslim Spain and the early Reconquista.
- The medieval Papacy.
- The War of 1812, especially the Canadian and First Nations perspective.
- The Roman Empire before Constantine.

I used to have a lot of specialized knowledge in Roman coinage but it's started to slip away from me and I can't come off the top of my head with it anymore.
 
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Have you read any of Jonathan Edelstein's work? If you're looking for knowledge of Africa you'd probably like it.

Anyhow...

My main area of expertise is the development of submarine civilizations of Nephropidae.

I also know a bit about Central Asia and pretend to have a good grasp on all of world history so as to get away with writing a timeline.

My favorite subjects of late are religious history and the Greek successor states, but I don't claim any special knowledge on those subjects.

I have, I appreciate that he stated several times he was probably wrong, he was certainly in many ways but from what I've seen he's literally the only one here who took the time to research at any real depth.
 
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Some knowledge of Ancient Rome and Greece, plenty of prehistorical stuff.

Specialized in Venice and the Italian region from 1350+ moving out to a general knowledge of the world 1350+.

Lots of knowledge on early industrial techniques, organization, and political economy.
 
My academic knowledge is Ivan the Terrible's Russia and the Oprichnina in particular.

Non-academically, I have knowledge of the Sengoku period of Japan.
 
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