"The Roman Empire never fell, DEBATE ME" Though seriously, thanks for writing this up. This is a great explanation of how periodization says more about the "pe

"The Roman Empire never fell, DEBATE ME" Though seriously, thanks for writing this up. This is a great explanation of how periodization says more about the "periodizer" than it represents some sort of objective truth about history, magically divorced from the political reality of successive historical writers. Debunking bad history is important... in this field (CS) I've definitely met my share of so-called "STEMacists" whose mental model of history sometimes seems to be derived from Deus Vult memes... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯