>1400s: Renaissance, fall of Constantinople, discovery of new world>1500s: Colonization of the Americas, Protestant Reformation, Scientific Revolution>1600s: birth of capitalism, Louis XIV, Qing conquest of China>1700s: fucking nothing until the American and French revolutions at the very end>1800s: Industrial Revolution, Napoleon, the Civil War and abolitionism across the west>1900s: WW1, WW2, the Space RaceIs the 18th century the most boring time period?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_the_Spanish_Successionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Years'_WarLet me guess, you need more?
>>18459918You’re forgetting quite a few events>1400s: Hundred Years’ War, War of the Roses>1500s: German Peasants’ War>1600s: Thirty Years’ War, Eighty Years’ War, Time of Troubles, English Civil War, the Deluge, beginning of the Golden Age of Piracy>1700s: the aforementioned War of the Spanish Succession and Seven Years War, end of the Golden Age of Piracy, the Enlightenment, Gunpowder EmpiresAnd a bunch of other minor stuff in too lazy to write about
>>18459922Yea, OP’s point still stands.
>>18459918The early 1700s were comfy apart from random retarded balance of power wars and gave us modern math and early industry. I guess the enlightenment happened too, but honestly the works of the late 17th century are more groud breaking and important than Rousseau's schizo ramblings and G*rman idealism
>>18459918Actually, you're kinda right, if you pick that arbitrary timeframe of the past 600 years. >>18459922>>18459972>but muh Spanish wars>but muh nothingburger 7 years war Literally nobody cares
>>18459918>Is the 18th century the most boring time period?The contrary - the agricultural revolution took place then, which opened the door for the Industrial Revolution, which was the most important secular event in the history of the planet.
>Dzunghar Genocide took place (1st Industrial Holocaust)>Russian conquest of Central Asia/Steppe + Western Interactions with China>Partition of Poland>Catherine and Peter the Great.>Russo/Habsburgs curbstomb The Ottomans>Industrial Revolution>Seven Year's War>1790s onward: Colonial boogaloo + French Revolution. Brits expand, take SA. French take Egypt.>Indian Wars + American Revolution>Decline Gunpowder Empires: Safavids lose power and fall into Civil War. Ottoman decline against the Turks, Habsburgs and French. Mughals lose power. Company Raj founded over India.>Inventions: Steam Engine and Boat, Circular Saw, Thermometer, Sextant, Electric Telegraph, Vaccine for Smallpox, Bicycle, Textile stuff. >Start Electrical Age: Franklin's Lightning Rod and Volta's Battery>Height of Qing Power: Kangxi, Yongzhen, Qianlong Emperors. >Japan: nothing>South America: nothing>Spain: War of Spanish Succession -> Spanish-Italian holdings lost. Then nothing really happens for 100 years. >Portugal: 1755 Lisbon Earthquake annihilates the city, start of decline.>Mass urbanization made possible by technological innovation/enlightenment. >The Great Replacement of the Black Rat by the Grey Rat. No more Bubonic Plague.All and all a very kino century. The Rise of Europe, Decline of Gunpowder Empires, China at its peak, start Independence Americas, Industrial Revolution and Urban-Enlightenment life takes a hold.
