Modern Age (periodical) Puns

It was published in 1843, so the Victorian London we associate with the story was actually the world in which Dickens lived his everyday life.

I wonder if it would work half as well if Dickens had been alive to write it today?

Hello. So we were tasked to make a mise-en-abyme art panels that depicts similar ideas/forms of artworks across different time periods. I am having trouble finding artworks in ancient greece/rome to renaissance that has this sort of idea of being rebuilt or transcending one's humanity. Any thoughts and ideas would be great! It can be a painting, sculpture, architecture, etc as long as its traditionally seen as a visual artwork.

Did those who tried to invade regions with rough terrain sometimes find themselves resisted by guerillas/guerilla organizations? If so, how did the guerillas go about it? How did they organize themselves (if they organized themselves). What kinds of tactics they used?

Title says it all.

My dad once told me a few months ago women didn't start having periods until 100-200 years ago. He said because they all worked in the fields doing manual labor all day they didn't get them at all and periods are a modern thing. I didn't know what to say. Like every word was wrong. Wife said I should share that story.

The warhound is seen in a bunch of different artistic depictions from the periods and I'm curious about how they were obtained. Did armies just pick them up from towns/cities they visited with breeders present? How pricey were they? Could the common soldier even afford them, or was it only richer nobles with connections who get ahold of one?

How do you or other people define the Industrial Revolution?

For me its the following things that happened in 1800s Britain:

-Factories, Steam power/engines and Railroads

-Mass-production of high-quality steel, copper and other metals

-Production of new tools that multiplied worker productivity

(I know there are other aspects but these are the ones I focus on)

Early Modern Era is 1500s to 1800s, crossing with the Age of Sail and other events. How would an Industrial Revolution in the 1500s change the fate of the Native Americans, Muslims, Asians and Africans?

How different would the Bronze Age Hittites and Assyrians be if they were Industrialized?

Would Ancient Israel Industrialize if its neighbors did, even if it means changing everything, or resist and face earlier destruction than in our history?

Does the Persian Empire curbstomped the Greeks if both groups were Industrialized due to the formers unity, better administration and larger economic/population?

Which nations/civilizations/tribes in each region/subcontinent in each time period would be most suited for an Industrial Revolution with the help of a Time-traveler?

Does Industrialization pre-1800s allow small nations or tribes to curbstomp their bigger neighbors? To blob up into large empires?

Do these Industrialized nations convince the slaves of their enemies to revolt in exchange for becoming their citizens?

Would a pre-1800s Industrial Revolution cause many nations to be hyper-expansionist?

Does Early Modern, Medieval and/or Ancient China become ultra-expansionist, semi-egalitarian and more multi-cultural if they were Industrialized?

What other rammifications would there be for an earlier Industrial Revolution?

After Valheim (praise the Viking godes for that game!) showed me how relaxing and challenging survival games can be, I of course immediately started looking for more games like it.

Thanks for to Mack from "Worthabuy", I have stumbled upon Vintage Story. As someone who really favours realistic games (usually military simulations), I really appreciate what VS is trying to achieve.

However, one things holds me back: I would really appreciate it if there was a survival game that extends to the modern ages (from 1600 AD up to now, meaning: gunpowder, steel etc.). In fact, just like what Rust does but slower and without all the PvP toxicity.

Now that I see that VS has already extended its timeline into the medieval ages, is it fair to assume that we will get gunpowder etc. one day?

I had heard that in some medieval or early modern Jewish writing, that a distinction was made between a living Jewish God and a dead Christian God, but I have not been able to find any more about it online. If you're able to answer the title question but don't know the specific reference I'm mentioning that's fine too. I'm most curious about how Jewish writers in this period described other religions generally.

One of the things I'm looking forward to in the current manga arc is learning more about the Golden Age of Jujutsu--the Heian Period sorcerers, their powers and techniques. At the same time, something about hyping these long dead characters as stronger than modern day sorcerers, their superiors, rubs me the wrong way. It feels like a thematic disconnect from JJK's message of progressivism. The promise and potential of youth, striving towards the future, down with calcified traditions and narrow-minded conservatism, the standard shounen trope of reaching the level of and surpassing previous generations; all of this seems contrary to the idea that the people and world of today don't measure up to that of the past, which is ultimately rooted in nostalgia and an attitude that change is bad, new is lesser.

This is not to say I think there aren't areas where Heian sorcerers are better than their modern counterparts. For example, domain expansion being a more common technique (ch. 164). Additionally, there were probably simply more sorcerers relative to the population in jujutsu's heyday, due to a combination of factors: historical increased spiritualism; cultural and political acceptance of such, with groups like the onmyouji holding official positions in the imperial court; the rise of science improving the lives of Muggles to the point where they quickly outnumbered sorcerers and curses alike. And as a consequence of more sorcerers, presumably more influential clans as well, and open involvement in worldly affairs, I'd expect more conflict between those sorcerers. Which in turn translates to more combat experience on average, perhaps stronger fundamentals, sharper instincts, if not more refined skill through practice.

How then could the modern era compete, with jujutsu sidelined as a sort of weird occult hobby or niche religion? The clans are in decline, and the clinging of the higher-ups to outmoded traditions contributed to this fall, IMO. Like diehard old generals, they've been fighting the last war--possibly even in reaction to whatever happened with Sukuna back in the day--dismissing how the world's changed, for both better (technology, globalization = more information faster, diversification) and worse (more cursed energy, more curses; fewer sorcerers). Devaluing techniques like Hakari's that don't fit their ideas of jujutsu instead of welcoming innovation about says it all, TBH.

I believe, at any rate, where modern society has ye good olde days beat

The technological advancements over centuries are often hard to grasp. Sometimes I like to wonder if a basic tool, such as a kitchen knife would be a good benchmark for it.

If we consider an OK everyday knife, e.g. Ikea https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/ikea-365-3-piece-knife-set-90341170/ worth ~$20, would it roughly compare to an european medieval knife in terms of quality and durability? (except for stainless steel material). How large portion of household's wealth would it be?

A very broad question but History as a influence in our lives is interesting and to what extent do the events of history change our thinking today is something that intrigues me.

Have we learnt from past mistakes? - Do the same events with similar contexts occur in the modern age like they did in the past?

Is history simply a long tale of the same stories set in slightly different time contextual periods- After all - human emotion is no doubt something all of our ancestors share with us in the modern age

In Western Europe during the Middle Ages, slavery was rare and mostly replaced with serfdom (yes I am aware that serfdom was probably no better than slavery). However as the Middle Ages drew to a close and gave way to the Early Modern Period, slavery seemed to undergo a revival as the amount of slave trading activity, especially of slaves coming from Africa, increased. What happened? Why, after a time when slavery was incredibly rare, did slavery and slave trading revive and become acceptable again in Western Europe as the Middle Ages gave way to the Early Modern Period?

How did women deal with periods in the past before the 19th and 20th centuries?

So many issues!

An Example of Play

Shortly before this example begins, three player characters fought a skirmish with a wererat (a creature similar to a werewolf but which becomes an enormous rat insntead of a wolf). The wererat was wounded and fled down a tunnel. The characters are in pursuit. The group includes two fighters and a cleric. Fighter 1 is the group’s leader.

• DM: You’ve been following this tunnel for about 120 yards. The water on the floor is ankle deep and very cold. Now and then you feel something brush against your foot. The smell of decay is getting stronger. The tunnel is gradually filling with a cold mist.
• Fighter 1: I don’t like this at all. Can we see anything up ahead that looks like a doorway, or a branch in the tunnel?
• DM: Within the range of your torchlight, the tunnel is more or less straight. You don’t see any branches or doorways.
• Cleric: The wererat we hit had to come this way. There’s nowhere else to go.
• Fighter 1: Unless we missed a hidden door along the way. I hate this place; it gives me the creeps.
• Fighter 2: We have to track down that wererat. I say we keep going.
• Fighter 1: OK. We keep moving down the tunnel. But keep your eyes open for anything that might be a door.
• DM: Another 30 or 35 yards down the tunnel, you find a stone block on the floor.
• Fighter 1: A block? I take a closer look.
• DM: It’s a cut block, about 12 inches by 16 incheas, and 18 inches or so high. It looks like a different kind of rock than the rest of the tunnel.
• Fighter 2: Where is it? Is it in the center of the tunnel or off to the side?
• DM: It’s right up against the side.
• Fighter 1: Can I move it?
• DM (checking the character’s Strength score): Yeah, you can push it around without too much trouble.
• Fighter 1: Hmmm. This is obviously a marker of some sort. I want to check this area for secret doors. Spread out and examine the walls.
• DM (rolls several dice behind his rule book, where players can’t see the results): Nobody finds anything unusual along the walls.
• Fighter 1: It has to be here somewhere. What about the ceiling?
• DM: You can’t reach the ceiling. It’s about a foot beyond your reach.
• Cleric: Of course! That block isn’t a marker, it’s a step. I climb up on the block and start prodding the ceiling.
• DM (rolling a few more dice): You poke around for 20 seconds or so, then suddenly part of the runnel roof shifts. You’ve found a panel that lifts away.
• Fighter 1: Open it very carefully.
• Cleric

A lot of historians disagree on how to divide up eras, and where one ends and the other begins. I think we can divide it up into 4 parts: Classical - Medieval - Modern - End of History?

The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way. The Way is wordless. Words are illusions. They're no different from things that appear in your dreams at night, be they palaces or carriages, forested parks or lakeside dandelions. Don't conceive any delight for such things. They're all cradles of rebirth. Keep this in mind when you approach death.

Don't cling to appearances, and you'll break through all barriers. A moment's hesitation and you'll be under the spell of devils. Your real body is pure and impervious. But because of delusions you're unaware of it. And because of this you suffer karma in vain. Wherever you find delight, you find bondage. But once you awaken to your original body and mind, you're no longer bound by attachments.

Bodhidharma [The first patriarch of Zen, died 532]

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Commentary and questions: I'm one hundred percent ready to get downvoted to oblivion for sharing my opinions on this, but I literally don't care because the truth has to be said by someone in here, and if I can reach even one person today with this then this post will be worthwhile.

In the ancient days, spirituality was a very serious thing because life was often brutal and short. Spirituality and religion practically had to be relied on in order to retain one's sanity and to try to make sense of things in such a harsh and unforgiving world. There was far more starvation, pestilence, war brought on from neighboring countries and even civil war in many cases, higher rates of crimes like murder, and also the constant threat of disease or illness with no real medical system to actually help people in any realistic way. Even the laws wouldn't help you in most cases, and the "rights" of most people of the world were outright pitiful. It's obvious that the brutality of every day life in the past would quite literally require spiritual and religious fortitude for most people in order to just get by day to day.

Flash forward to what is going on now. Although there are many of the same problems of course, these problems have lessened in severity and overall percentage in comparison to the growth of the population. Sure, there are still many problems that humanity needs to solve and eradicate to continue to make things better, but it can be reasonably and rationally argued that the vast majority of us have it p

He continues to pump gem after gem out seamlessly blending the melodic and hard tech styles

Hard voxx tech may be one of my most favorite trance songs ever. So unique, and that vocal/vocal effect is incredible

This is something I'm putting forward in this subreddit as a possible inspiration for post-apocalyptic scenarios.

What we call the Holocene epoch (aka the current epoch) is really one of several interglacial periods that have occurred between the various "ice ages" of the Quarternary period. These interglacials typically last around 10,000 years, whereas the ice ages themselves can last between 70,000 to 90,000 years.

Let us assume that, for the sake of argument, human beings cease their dependence on fossil fuels, switch to nuclear and/or renewable sources of energy, and therefore put an end to anthropogenic climate change once and for all within the current interglacial. What would happen to modern industrialized civilizations once the planet plunges into the next ice age on its own accord after a few more millennia?

This paper from 2001 argues that modern humans would have been unable to develop agriculture during the last ice age as a result of the harsh and unstable global climate. If this is the case, could this have implications for the ability of current agricultural systems to survive into the next ice age? Could these systems end up collapsing, therefore forcing humanity to revert to hunter-gatherer lifestyles? And what would the ecological ramifications of this be?

Does someone have a suggestion like ''Rites of Peace'' by Zamoyiski or ''The Thirty Years War - Europes Great Tragedy'' by Professor Wilson?

The book doesn't need to be Europe focused; books abouts Asia and Africa in that period are welcomed.

I'm not looking for something like Hobsbawn's ''The age of'', though.

Thanks in advance! :)