So human history goes from Stone Age to Bronze Age to Iron Age, and then to Ancient Times to Medieval Times to Modern Times, right? But why does the Iron Age end before antiquity? They didn’t stop using iron during antiquity, did they? And how come there’s no “Steel Age” and “Inox Age”?I never quite understood why it is that the Iron Age isn't said to have gone all the way up to like around the year 1855 CE. Then have the Steel Age start at 1855 CE and continue until the present.Or have the Bronze Age get lumped into the Copper Age and have it run from circa 5000 BCE to 1200 BCE. Then have the Iron Age absorb the Steel Age so that we can be said to still be living in the Iron Age.Why not go about it the way geologists have and use various tiers like "eons", "epochs", "eras", "periods", "ages", etc. and use the names of such ages and make them applicable universally instead of using random arbitrary ones like "Middle Ages" and "Renaissance"?
>>16524148It's pretty dumb considering tin-bronze was very rare until the second millennium BC
>>16524148It is assumed to end when the resulting dark age ends, and there are written accounts again. It may not be even real, as artifacts are dated by features, so it could span tens of thousands of years; the Americas were still a mixture of stone and bronze age by the European contact.
>>16524148>why is this arbitrary classification arbitrary? Why don't we replace it with an equally arbitrary system?We already have a fixed and universal way of dividing up eras, if we need to for some reason. We assign each year a distinct number.
>>16524148>Iron Age, and then to Ancient Times to Medieval Times to Modern Times, right? But ? They didn’t stop using iron during antiquity, did they? And how come there’s no “Steel Age” and “Inox Age”?Because inox is worthless.>why does the Iron Age end before antiquityBecause capitalism is not productive. All it does is recycle existing infrastructure which peaked in Egyptian times.
>>16524148>But why does the Iron Age end before antiquity?Three ages terminology is used primarily when discussing events prior to recorded history.After history began being recorded in a region, they start using those different terms, not because of any change in their material capability, but because they started writing events down.
>>16526737The problem with capitalism is that it gets too productive at first, the it starts wasting time on bullshit because everything that is needed and desired is available, but you need to make money to pay the debts. The great depression was a huge opportunity to ditch it, and just ban all further loans, and encourage people to hold their wealth in money. Instead, the opposite was done.
>>16527040Capitalism was never productive at all and is a retard ideology. Living standards peaked in 1850.You're too dumb to find an eviction before 2015. Private property didn't exist before 1950.
>>16527243>>16526737Where do you people come from lol
>>16527376Capitalism is already collapsing so I guess you'll die at last.
>>16527390Define capitalism
>>16527456Peak oil. There's two years left before billions of people die. Organic, non-fake energy peaked in like 10000 bc.
