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12_func_multi_tool's avatar

Will you name some societal era's for me?

Asked by 12_func_multi_tool (803points) December 25th, 2009

For example the Enlightenment, Victorian, etc. hopefully in order?

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Cotton101's avatar

Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Protestant Reformation, Age of Enlightenment, Renaissance, Victorian, etc…don’t know if the order is correct.

Cotton101's avatar

loll you could be correct PandoraBoxx! but, on Christmas Day!

proXXi's avatar

Dark Ages: Decline of Roman Empire to 15th century.

Global Warming Derangement Era: 1990’s to Present.

Likeradar's avatar

Age of technology/internet, civil rights era (hopefully still going on).

Kelly_Obrien's avatar

Industrial Revolution
Roaring Twenties
Great Depression
WWI
WWII
The 60s

filmfann's avatar

1950’s: The Beat decade
1960’s: The Now decade
1970’s: The Me decade

and of course
1980’s: the Beat Me Now decade

Merry Christmas Herb Cain, whereever you are

mammal's avatar

There are three epochs, the supernatural, the natural and the unnatural.

Dr_Dredd's avatar

I’d add the Cold War to the eras that have been said so far.

proXXi's avatar

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has this to say on the subject:

“The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.

“For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?”

gailcalled's avatar

If it’s homework, then it’s eras.

proXXi's avatar

The so-called Progressive Era- 1960’s to Present.

Ugh…

gailcalled's avatar

I grew up in the 50s. It was the Eisenhower conservative era. By the mid-sixties, the free speech movement had moved from the west to the east coast. It was hippies, burn-the -bra-and draftcard, sex, drugs, rock and roll, war protests and Woodstock.

The Beat Generation applies to the writers and artists who emerged in the fifties but not the common folk, like me.

proXXi's avatar

OOH! I nearly forgot!

I theorize there is a fourth phase to civilization’s history.

The Sexual Phase

Characterized by the question ”Who shall we eat?”

YARNLADY's avatar

Gold Rush Era
Exploration Age (first world round voyage, etc)

gailcalled's avatar

@proXXi ( Sorry, but if you are determined to eat people (anthropophagy), it’s Whom.)

Nullo's avatar

The Nineties. Never has a perfect storm of phenomena been so neatly encapsulated into a decade.

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