For many its the Roman empire or the Greeks. Similarly ancient Egypt. Or the British empire. Maybe the Japanese, Chinese and Norse as the next 3.

I have deliberately not mentioned time periods there.

These are the most commonly beloved. What are your favourites and why?

  • Denjin@feddit.uk
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    1 day ago

    So I am kind of building my historical concept from today, year by year and epoch and epoch into the past.

    That’s so odd to me because of how much the previous periods influenced what came next. Like how much of the absolute monarchical power and economic imbalance and (relatively) free access to information caused the peasant classes to rise up in the French Revolution.

    I’m not criticising or anything just seems to me to be topsy-turvy.

    • gigachad@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Let me try to explain… It is impossible to understand WW2 if you do not understand the Weimar Republic and WW1 for example. That’s why I try to understand an epoch and as soon as I “run out of explanations” I go to the events that influenced it.
      The other way would be to start at the “beginning of history” but that is clearly impossible to define.

      Just looking at a single event somewhere between 1520 and 1530 however is an island without context, I fail to understand without knowing what was around.