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It's fine, future historians will just label this the Late Iron Age or the Steel Age or the Silicon Age.
like how World War 1 and 2 are gonna get covered as a single event, or how the US is gonna be mistaken for latter half of the British Empire.
Historians like Enzo Traverso or Losurdo already argue this, that WWI and WWII are actually a long Second Thirty Years War
The late revival of the roman empire.
I mean the world wars and the interwar period is basically a 30 years war situation.
WWI is pretty intimately linked with the race for Africa and the colonial wars. There’s definitely a telling of 20th century history where you treat the two world wars as discrete events, with WWI marking the end of the colonial wars, and WWII marking the beginning of the Cold War and decolonization.
Is WWII not just an extension of these colonial wars by the powers that "lost" in the race for colonies? Japan attempts to take the Asian colonial possessions of the British and the Americans, the Italians attempt to take the North African colonial possessions of mainly France and Britain (as well as their own colonial war in Ethiopia), and Germany attempts to apply colonialism as well as colonial tactics of control and genocide to Eastern Europe in its mission to create colonial "living space".
Yes Germany, Italy and Japan were the upcoming revisionist powers that tried to disrupt the old world order of the Anglosphere and France. The United States had already supplanted Britan pre-bellum as the largest economy and the internal closed market of the british empire was threatened to be opened to the dollar by south africa. While Russia was seen as a threat due to its (potential) and later realized industrialization.
Thats why Lenin predicted the Pacific war from Japan against the United states, before it happened.
nah, this is the age of petroleum and microplastics.
The age of PFAS and Covid
We should do a bad job of record keeping so they call it the second dark age.
with how easily digital records decay i've seen it argued that this could be the case
I think they might have a reason other than our records keeping to call our time the second dark age
later bronze age collapse
The right angle age. Cause all of our buildings are boring squares instead of shapes that work with the environment