08-08-2020, 10:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-08-2020, 11:29 AM by Bob Butler 54.)
(08-08-2020, 09:48 AM)Mikebert Wrote: I understand the sentiment, but then you are throwing out half of the cycles, relying on just three, one of which the authors say was anomalous, leaving little to stand on.
I would take the English Civil War seriously enough, initiating the rural-urban divide and initiating the Cousin's Wars. Prior to that it was more or less Agricultural Age autocrats squabbling. You have to decide the age boundary initiates somewhere. When the issues starting to effect the Industrial Age begin to effect the crisis wars, things get hotter. The Reformation? The Enlightenment? Somewhere around there.
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