"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been 200 years"

It's a garbage theory easily disproved by facts. Critical thinking skills are sadly lacking.

 

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Yes, this, a thousand times. To be fair, the dates for Persia are good for the Achaemenids, though it's not like no other great Persian empire would ever exist (*cough* Sasanians *cough*). The cutoff of 880 for the "Arab Empire" is about when the Abbasid Caliphate started to fracture, so there was a loss of political unity and non-Arab-ruled Muslim states emerged, but the Islamic world as a whole was still going strong, with a great deal of cultural unity even if it wasn't all under one dude any more. The start date for Spain of 1500 is about right (the Reconquista and Columbus both happening in 1492), but 1750 is dodgy- the Spanish empire really collapsed with the Latin American wars of Independence in the 1820s-30s, which adds nearly 100 years. The problems with the dates for "Greece" and the Roman Republic and Empire should be obvious to most readers here. Probably the other dates could be picked apart by someone who knows more.

 

http://www.mrbrklyn.com/docs/westerntraditon.xspf

 

Huh.....

 

People have been moving goalposts since long before goalposts were invented.

 

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