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Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 5:38 pm
if Star trek does stop swimming in the past and does go to the future of the future, will we reach the point where people refer to Kirk as the ancient Klingon enemy.
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Using Voyager rules, or normal rules?Beelzquill wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:21 pm When should we consider something "ancient" anyway? A thousand years old? That would mean William the Conqueror's invasion of England would be set to be "officially Ancient" in just 45 years. Do we have a term for something centuries old but not "ancient"?
Historians call the period Post-Classical, or to use a less fashionable term, the Middle Ages. Right now, basically historians divide history in five or six parts:Beelzquill wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:21 pm When should we consider something "ancient" anyway? A thousand years old? That would mean William the Conqueror's invasion of England would be set to be "officially Ancient" in just 45 years. Do we have a term for something centuries old but not "ancient"?
Is this the proper catalogue? I ask because the section of Post-Classical but not a Classical seems odd. Or did Classical get nixed like Pluto's planethood?TGLS wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 11:34 pmHistorians call the period Post-Classical, or to use a less fashionable term, the Middle Ages. Right now, basically historians divide history in five or six parts:Beelzquill wrote: ↑Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:21 pm When should we consider something "ancient" anyway? A thousand years old? That would mean William the Conqueror's invasion of England would be set to be "officially Ancient" in just 45 years. Do we have a term for something centuries old but not "ancient"?
1) Prehistory (i.e. Everything before writing)
2) Ancient (i.e. Starting from Sumeria and earliest written documents)
3) Post-Classical (i.e. Starting from a date between the fall of West Rome and the Rise of Charlemagne, in Europe)
4) Early Modern (i.e. Starting from a date between the fall of Constantinople and the beginning of the Age of Discovery)
5) Late Modern (i.e. Starting from a date between the Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution)
6) Contemporary (i.e. Starting from a date between WW1 and the end of WW2)
Some merge 5 and 6 together, and where post-classical begins is a bit tricky because it varies a lot more widely because most regions didn't have that period of history seriously impacted by Europeans showing up.