European Middle Ages 500-1500 are about 3x more packed with future-shaping potential per year/per square mile than any other time or place. Call it psychohistorical energy density. 1 Seldon = 1 hist/sq mile. No wonder it gave birth to global modernity. It was the MVP.
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It is very illegible, compared to its neighbors like contemporary Islam. Hence the informal Dark Age term. But perhaps Febrile Age is a better term.
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The Black Death definitely is the climactic point. Not until the wiping out of native Americans would a comparable clean slate exist anywhere in world history. You can track all the key MVP features locking into place in 14th century Europe. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1255170726878834695?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1255170726878834695 …
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Nothing of interest happened in northern Europe between 500 and 1066. Persuade_me_otherwise.meme
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always viewed it as the mud within which the seeds of the enlightenment pushed their way through.
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How does Britain stand on its own? 900-1900, maybe?
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