I'm not sure if I've ever heard of the "Edwardian Era," but I knew enough about English monarchs to guess it correctly, meaning the only one I missed was the Gay Nineties. Sounds like a good time, though.
Me neither, maybe only in his country and not the rest of europe? We (in the netherlands) do have "the golden century" referring to the 17th century.
apparently in germany the twenties were called golden 20s (looked it up) but not in the rest of europe (as far as I know personally and can find info about)
You want to live in a world where black people and woman had less rights, and then you want to die of a curable disease or air pollution at the age of 40?
Many areas of the world had less air pollution in the Gay Nineties than today. Also, I like the idea of living in a 'gay' decade (provided that the word means its original definitions).
I think most people don't know that gay used to mean cheerfull (I always think of someone cheerfully twirling and skiping along the fields with a smile and birds landing on them)
I've done this quiz twice now. I always fail the same question, about baseball. And everytime I expect it to be something like "Greats Era" or "Golden Era" or maybe the "Southpaw Era" and instead the answer is sad and disreputable.
Missed the 1865-1877 one... and I've taught HS US History for 34 years! I was thrown by the dates. Reconstruction did not begin until the Civil War was over.... and ended with the election of Rutherford Hayes and the Compromise of 1877.
It's the only one I missed, but it's because I somehow read the dates as 1765-1777 and I tried Revolutionary, Independence, Colonial, British, and then gave up. Why does my brain do that???
I absolutely love this quiz! The variety in defining characteristics, including geology, politics, human innovation, pop culture, and sports, makes it particularly interesting.
i would say that the so-called "Space Age," which was defined by the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union, ended in the early 1970's.
For the first question, I typed in "Dark" without really reading the question properly, and it accepted it. That's simply wrong. The Dark Ages should not be accepted, as that is only a small part of the Middle Ages, and certainly didn't go up to 1500! Some of the things accepted on Jetpunk can be weird at times (like not needing regnal numbers when being asked for specific monarchs).
No he doesnt, only the ones that have a suggestion in them and the checkbox marked. Though maybe he gets bored sometimes and reads more ;) but he has enough on his hands as it is.
Gotta love P.C. It's "offensive" to say Dark Ages now. They're now the "Early Middle Ages" even though the Middle Ages were so named because they occurred as a bridge between the Dark Ages and the Renaissance when learning and (re)discovery really took off again with ever weakening counter strikes from the Church.
Yes, it's confusing and frustrating when the sociologists and other "experts" change that which we know to be historically correct to psycho babble in their effort to be "politically correct". By the time the "correction" to all historical events is made, we will all be living in the morass of Orwell's "1984".
It's also offensive to call anything a dialect now, according to some. So they just call everything a distinct language, even though they obviously are not.
Nationalism has inspired the countries that used Serbo-Croatian language to insist they are different languages depending on where you are (eg., It's Serbian in Serbia and Croatian in Croatia), but they're really the same language. Then one side will claim the other "stole" or corrupted their language. It's a bunch of needless distinctions and juvenile posturing.
None of those examples have anything to do with PC, and everything with using more precise language to avoid popular misconceptions. PC-Theory really is the modern anti-intellectualism.
Indeed. "Dark Ages" are not offensive, just incorrect. Language/dialect has always been a very political distinction and it's always been problematic. Norwegian and Danish are about as close as Croatian and Serbian standard.
There are plenty of leading intellectuals who call out PC culture for the baloney it is and often to be politically correct means using *less* precise or at least less correct language or to intentionally obfuscate. There's a mixture. But calling different Serbo-Croatian languages all distinct languages is a good example of this. It would be more precise to call (at least some of) them dialects of the same language. But because dialect is now seen as some kind of pejorative, and to avoid hurt feelings or to inflate pride or arbitrary divisions, many have switched to using *less* precise language and calling these different dialects different languages. It may be true that politics factored in to decisions to label different dialects different languages in the past - that doesn't mean that we should welcome the injection of more politics into these decisions in the future, or that the distinctions should simply be abandoned. Leave such decisions to linguists and leave politics out of it
^which is the whole objection to PC language. When words and definitions become politicized then there is a loss of meaning, not a net gain. Though there are, of course, some criticisms that are inaccurate or go too far and sometimes more precise terms do get incorrectly labeled as "PC" when they're not. A blanket condemnation of those who have pointed out the flaws in PC culture is just as anti-intellectual as anyone who rejects any change in language, even those that are not politically motivated, as being "PC"
What term would you use for the first 3.5 to 4 billion years of earth's "history," if not historical? Of course, an even bigger number applies to the universe. Humans can don't necessarily need to bear witness to these "ages and eras," to classify them as such.
If you want to get pedantic, you cóuld say it isnt history. History is considered to be the recorded past. Anything before writing systems is considered prehistory. But people generally call everything in the past history though. Things not to do with people is called natural history.
It's the date range which would stop Tudor being a type in, the dates given are for when Elizabeth I was on the throne only, and not for when Henry VII, VIII, Edward & Mary were ruling.
But the Georgian period was from 1717 to the 1830s, covering the reigns of George I, George II, George III, and George IV (and sometimes including William IV, thus the ambiguity in the ending date). Even if you wanted to limit it to the reign of just one of the Georges, none of them match up to 1799-1815, which happened entirely within the reign of George III (reigned 1760-1820), and includes part of the Regency era of 1811-1820. In addition, it says it's an era for Europe, not for Great Britain/the UK, while Napoleon's empire affected a very large portion of the continent.
If you wanted to add another answer from outside of Europe and the Americas you could maybe put in the Meiji Era/Period or the Meiji Restoration. Perhaps also the Three Kingdoms Period of Chinese history. Or the Middle Kingdom or New Kingdom of Egypt. Or the Second Temple Period of Jewish history. Or the Arab Spring.
apparently in germany the twenties were called golden 20s (looked it up) but not in the rest of europe (as far as I know personally and can find info about)
What does this have to do with nationalism?