Was there ever a period in history that was worse off then the previous one? In terms of everything including daily life, scientific advancement, military.
>inb4 Dark Ages
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>>1104420
everything just gets worse over time
The Great Depression
>>1104420
The post boomer US
The Greek Dark Ages, or all Post Bronze Age Collapse civilizations
Whatever happened to the Indus Valley Civilization
Everything after agriculture.
>>1104420
Fall of the Late Bronze Age at around 1250-1150 bc. Especially in Greece. Near East empires all collapsed or were severely weakened.
>>1104451
This.
Adam and Eve is all about how learning how to farm is far less awesome than just lounging around all day, fucking and eating berries.
The world after you were born
I dunno about worse, but theres like a 100 year period in China when shit is just hitting the fan
The Fall of the Qing, Yuan Shikai, The Warlord Era, Chiang Kai Shek, the Sino Japanese War, Mao Tse Tung.
It's just tragedy after tragedy
The world today is statistically the most safe and peaceful ever
The 1700s were, in a way, a worse time than the middle ages.
the time between 400 and 1200
>>1104420
1900s. Literally everything went global and went shit
>>1104420
i remember one of my teachers saying life was better in 1400s sweden than in 1600s sweden
>>1104573
Warring states period. Le Dynasty Warriors era, the Islamic incursions, the Mongol conquest, etc. China's history is filled with tragedies.
Germany after the 30 years' war
The average German was more affluent at the time of Luther than in the age of Goethe (hence Romanticism)
Market crash of 2008
>>1104424
Only in Russia
