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<p>[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2296446, member: 76194"]Ancient is an ever changing notion. The 475CE cut off line came during the Reinasance. To them something from 1000+ years before seemed pretty ancient. Well, now the Reinasance seems like a pretty long time to us, and I think a lot of people would consider anything through the early middle ages to be ancient. Eventually, given enough time, we will all be considered ancient too. I doubt a historian 1000 years from now would consider 2015 as the modern era. By that time probably anything pre-2000CE would be ancient, and 2015 would be in that grey line between ancient and non-ancient.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] is a man ahead of his time, calling himself ancient before someone 1000 years from now does the same for all of us <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sallent, post: 2296446, member: 76194"]Ancient is an ever changing notion. The 475CE cut off line came during the Reinasance. To them something from 1000+ years before seemed pretty ancient. Well, now the Reinasance seems like a pretty long time to us, and I think a lot of people would consider anything through the early middle ages to be ancient. Eventually, given enough time, we will all be considered ancient too. I doubt a historian 1000 years from now would consider 2015 as the modern era. By that time probably anything pre-2000CE would be ancient, and 2015 would be in that grey line between ancient and non-ancient. [USER=44357]@AncientJoe[/USER] is a man ahead of his time, calling himself ancient before someone 1000 years from now does the same for all of us :) ;)[/QUOTE]
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