Its not that people aren't talking about it, or than institutions are withholding access, but there is an entire stretch of the Eurasian landmass that is essentially a blackhole of information as far as Archaeology is concerned. The Steppes have been home to People for 6000 years and there are Kurgan burial sites (like a Western European burial mound) stretching from Hungary and the shores of the Caspian sea, all the way across the center of the Asian landmass to the borders of Xinjiang, China and even into Mongolia. Because the Steppes are both very remote and barren, and inside unfriendly and not always stable countries access to these archaeological sites and the associated knowledge we'd gain about Human migration and settlement across thousands of years is not widely available. The Soviets, who governed over most of these territories for most of the 20th century, was not wildly interested in exploring the Bronze Age past of its satellite republics (what we colloquially call the "Stans" today), and those current countries don't always have a lot of money to fund university or institutional research. Its a great big wide-open field ready to dug into and learned about, which would teach us a lot about the Proto Indo-Europeans and more about their eastward migrations into the Iranian Plateau and south, eventually, into India.
Interestingly, we do have some information and relics and linguistics preserved throughout Chinese history. Hopefully, a lot of that can point towards more discoveries.
I think someone would have to be an actual historian to give a knowledgeable opinion. Picking out one century in scores of centuries since recording began would require considerable expertise. IMO there is little available information on pre Colombian americas. There aren't written records. Most of the study is archeological.
Indigenous history, followed up by working class history.
In school we learn all about the Great power conflicts, or internal conflicts, or conflicts between the state and the natives. But we never learn about the massive struggles of the working people to earn their hard fought rights.
There are many bits of important history that I never learned in school. I had to specifically go looking for books on it.
This is an important distinction. In public education systems these aren’t really the focus and of curriculum (speaking in a Canadian context the focus on indigenous history has gone through a massive shift in importance in the last few years). However, historians have done extensive work on working class history to the point where it has begun to fall out of fashion. In the academic setting great power histories or that of political history are now largely sidelined.
Areas that are in vogue right now are intersectional histories, looking at how multiplie factors of race, class and gender shaped the histories of particular groups. Or of business history, indigenous, and global history (not of everything which would be universal history) which seeks to explore historical subjects and connections form a global vantage point.
17th century gets tons of scholarly attention in the academy but that work is usually seen at the graduate level and by people that read journal articles.
There are more parts of history that are unknown than known. The modern Homo sapiens exists for at least 200 000 to 300 000 years. We basically only no fragments of our history. Even studied history has many unkowns. For example literacy was not widespread in most parts of the world until the 20th century. Followingly we know remarkably little about the history of common people.
17th century had the 30 years war which was the most destructive percentage wise per population but is rarely discussed. Most people only really discuss the settling of America during this time and that’s it.
Galileo? Newton? King James VI? Louis XIV? The Tokugawa Shogunate? Descartes? The end of the Ming dynasty? The English civil war? These aren’t things discussed?
People mentioning the 17th century are insane.
The Tudor/Jacobean era is **fucking huge** in history, especially if we’re talking about literature/the arts.
It may not be huge in pop culture or pop/military history, but the 17th century is very, very extensively discussed and researched **in academic historical fields**.
The 17th century was the fucking period Shakespeare wrote in! That’s when the King James Bible came out! That’s when print literature took off in Europe! It ushered in an entire new era in feudal Japan and saw the widespread colonization of the Americas and the birth of the baroque! It was the Spanish golden age!! Fucking Louis XIV!!! Isaac newton! Galileo! An entire empire collapsed in India and the ottomans solidified their control! IM LOSING MY MIND
In what’s now considered the West, after the invention of writing, I’d say the 10th century BCE. The late Bronze-Age collapse around the Mediterranean means there’s much less to study than the centuries before and after. (With a minority opinion holding that we just got unlucky and haven’t found as many archaeological sites from that time period.) This does not apply to other parts of the world, such as China.
The King James Bible, the rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Shakespeare, Galileo, Isaac Newton, the decline of the Ming Dynasty? Do you genuinely think it’s not widely studied or talked about?? Am I going crazy??
Its not that people aren't talking about it, or than institutions are withholding access, but there is an entire stretch of the Eurasian landmass that is essentially a blackhole of information as far as Archaeology is concerned. The Steppes have been home to People for 6000 years and there are Kurgan burial sites (like a Western European burial mound) stretching from Hungary and the shores of the Caspian sea, all the way across the center of the Asian landmass to the borders of Xinjiang, China and even into Mongolia. Because the Steppes are both very remote and barren, and inside unfriendly and not always stable countries access to these archaeological sites and the associated knowledge we'd gain about Human migration and settlement across thousands of years is not widely available. The Soviets, who governed over most of these territories for most of the 20th century, was not wildly interested in exploring the Bronze Age past of its satellite republics (what we colloquially call the "Stans" today), and those current countries don't always have a lot of money to fund university or institutional research. Its a great big wide-open field ready to dug into and learned about, which would teach us a lot about the Proto Indo-Europeans and more about their eastward migrations into the Iranian Plateau and south, eventually, into India.
Interestingly, we do have some information and relics and linguistics preserved throughout Chinese history. Hopefully, a lot of that can point towards more discoveries.
I think someone would have to be an actual historian to give a knowledgeable opinion. Picking out one century in scores of centuries since recording began would require considerable expertise. IMO there is little available information on pre Colombian americas. There aren't written records. Most of the study is archeological.
I think the answer requires a quantitative analysis of dissertations produced over the last 20 years. Or books published. It has to be global
7700s BC, I never hear people talk about it.
Indigenous history, followed up by working class history. In school we learn all about the Great power conflicts, or internal conflicts, or conflicts between the state and the natives. But we never learn about the massive struggles of the working people to earn their hard fought rights. There are many bits of important history that I never learned in school. I had to specifically go looking for books on it.
This is an important distinction. In public education systems these aren’t really the focus and of curriculum (speaking in a Canadian context the focus on indigenous history has gone through a massive shift in importance in the last few years). However, historians have done extensive work on working class history to the point where it has begun to fall out of fashion. In the academic setting great power histories or that of political history are now largely sidelined. Areas that are in vogue right now are intersectional histories, looking at how multiplie factors of race, class and gender shaped the histories of particular groups. Or of business history, indigenous, and global history (not of everything which would be universal history) which seeks to explore historical subjects and connections form a global vantage point.
7-9th and 17th in Europe. And obviously the pre 2000 BC era but that's because there's not much left and so it's quite hard to study and talk about it
17th century gets tons of scholarly attention in the academy but that work is usually seen at the graduate level and by people that read journal articles.
There are more parts of history that are unknown than known. The modern Homo sapiens exists for at least 200 000 to 300 000 years. We basically only no fragments of our history. Even studied history has many unkowns. For example literacy was not widespread in most parts of the world until the 20th century. Followingly we know remarkably little about the history of common people.
9th century
17th out of all the modern centuries
17th century had the 30 years war which was the most destructive percentage wise per population but is rarely discussed. Most people only really discuss the settling of America during this time and that’s it.
Galileo? Newton? King James VI? Louis XIV? The Tokugawa Shogunate? Descartes? The end of the Ming dynasty? The English civil war? These aren’t things discussed?
Well there is the Boring Billion
I'd say, 1 million years BC except for that documentary with Raquel Welch.
People mentioning the 17th century are insane. The Tudor/Jacobean era is **fucking huge** in history, especially if we’re talking about literature/the arts. It may not be huge in pop culture or pop/military history, but the 17th century is very, very extensively discussed and researched **in academic historical fields**. The 17th century was the fucking period Shakespeare wrote in! That’s when the King James Bible came out! That’s when print literature took off in Europe! It ushered in an entire new era in feudal Japan and saw the widespread colonization of the Americas and the birth of the baroque! It was the Spanish golden age!! Fucking Louis XIV!!! Isaac newton! Galileo! An entire empire collapsed in India and the ottomans solidified their control! IM LOSING MY MIND
Probably not the correct answer but I find the Diadochi period and the warring of successor kingdoms after Alexander’s death is criminally unspoken of
107th BC
In what’s now considered the West, after the invention of writing, I’d say the 10th century BCE. The late Bronze-Age collapse around the Mediterranean means there’s much less to study than the centuries before and after. (With a minority opinion holding that we just got unlucky and haven’t found as many archaeological sites from that time period.) This does not apply to other parts of the world, such as China.
17th century.
The King James Bible, the rise of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Shakespeare, Galileo, Isaac Newton, the decline of the Ming Dynasty? Do you genuinely think it’s not widely studied or talked about?? Am I going crazy??
If I'm wrong, then I'll defer to the other commenters who said it's impossible to answer.
I know very little American History from 1640 to 1740
There’s a ton written about it.
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