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Usually, modern history in this sense begins with the Rennaisance (~13th-15th cen). 2,000 years encompasses the Middle Ages, which are held up as nadir of histo
by wolverine876 4y ago
Usually, modern history in this sense begins with the Rennaisance (~13th-15th cen). 2,000 years encompasses the Middle Ages, which are held up as nadir of history.
- defrost 4y ago> 2,000 years encompasses the Middle Ages Err, ~ 850 years, maybe 1,000 years at most, from the fall of Rome ( ~470 CE ) to the beginning of the 14th Century (1301 CE) perhaps to 1501 CE depending on your historian of choice. > held up as nadir of history. Not so much a low point of human activity, but definitely a low point in the human activity of recording history.
- unmole 4y ago> encompasses the Middle Ages, which are held up as nadir of history If you think only Europe matters, sure.
- UncleMeat 4y agoIt is still wrong even if you think only Europe matters!
- cbfrench 4y ago>the Middle Ages, which are held up as a nadir of history. Mostly as a result of Renaissance- and Enlightenment-era propagandizing. I think we’ve mostly moved beyond that reading of history, thankfully.
- wolverine876 4y agoI've seen people say that many times, without addressing the merits of the issue. And I've seen many strawperson arguments - i.e., the Middle Ages weren't uniformly awful - but nothing that compares the track records of before and after. It seems straightforward - most of what we have is post-Middle Ages, from our political systems to our economies, science, technology, arts; and the results are orders of magnitude better.