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''For the actual history of Hollywood, click [[History of Hollywood|here]].''
In the real world, each era of time throughout history has its own distinctive style and ''zeitgeist'', based on what came before it. It also leaves an indelible mark in all of the eras that come ''after'' it. In this way, all periods of history are inextricably linked, and in order to thoroughly comprehend one, one must endeavor to study and understand them all.
Obviously, things get pumped up for movies. Whether or not you believe this is an [[Acceptable Break From Reality
It should be noted that popular entertainments, whether TV, film or print literature, are products of their times and cater to an audience of that time; thus, they will always bear more resemblance to the society that produces them than to the actual period. For instance, ''[[Happy Days]]'', set in the 1950s, looks far more like the 1970s, the decade when it was produced, than does ''[[That '70s Show]]'', produced in the early 2000s. Even Homer's Illiad depicts homoeroticism among the Acheans because that was what was expected of manly figures in his day, despite that it probably wasn't as big a fad at the time of the Trojan War. It's also why speculative fiction has such widely varying pictures of "[[The Future]]", and why ''[[The Jetsons]]'' portrays a future of technological marvels, but still assumes the push-button kitchen of tomorrow will be presided over by an apron-wearing housewife; it was beyond comprehension that automation in the home would result in women having lives outside it.
Note that many of these apply to Europe and the United States. Feel free to add the historical eras of other regions.
Compare and contrast with [[:Category:Useful Notes/History]].
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* [[The Dark Times]]. A time before the rise of mankind, with the world ruled by dark forces.
* [[One Million BC]]
** [[Inventing the Wheel]]
** [[Prehistoria]]
* [[
** [[Australian Aborigines]]
** [[Torres Strait Islanders]]
* [[The Time of Myths]]. The setting for tales of a distant past, real or imagined. When gods, demons, and monsters walk the earth. Inspired by actual [[Oral Tradition]] or modern takes on it.
** [[Sword and Sandal]]. Setting covering Mythological tales, Biblical Epics, Ancient Greece, and Ancient Rome in film.
* [[Bible Times]]
** [[
* [[Ancient Egypt]]
* [[Ancient Greece]]
** [[The Trojan War]] (approximately 1194-1184 BC)
*** [[
** [[Greco
** [[Peloponnesian War]] (431-404 BC)
** [[Macedonian Succession Wars]] (323/322-272 BC). From the death of [[Alexander the Great]] to the start of a stable period under the Antogonid dynasty in Macedon. The rest of the Hellenistic kingdoms were more-or-less stable.
** [[Maccabean Revolt]] (167/166-129 BC)
* [[Ancient Rome]] (753 BC-476 AD)
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** [[The Roman Empire]] (27 BC -476/480/1453)
*** [[Jewish Revolts]] (66-73, 115-117, 132-136)
** [[Byzantine Empire]] (330-1453).
* [[Ancient Grome]] (an amalgamation of the two above)
* [[Imperial China]]
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** [[Ancient Africa]]
* [[Mayincatec]]
** [[
*** [[Useful Notes/Native Americans|Native Americans]]
* [[The Middle Ages]] (Fall of Rome to Discovery of America)
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** [[The Low Middle Ages]] (c. 400-1050 AD)
*** [[Dark Age Europe]] (c 400-600 AD)
*** [[Anglo
**** [[History of English]]
*** [[
*** [[Papal States]] (754-1870)
*** [[Horny Vikings]] (c. 787-1066)
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** [[The High Middle Ages]] (c. 1050-1320 AD)
*** [[The House of Normandy]] (1066-1154)
*** [[The Crusades]] (1095/1096-1291). Subsequent Crusades were actually called, but fought far from the Holy Land.
*** [[The Knights Hospitallers]] (c. 1099-1798). Also known as Knights of Cyprus, Knights of Rhodes, and Knights of Malta. Based on the location of their headquarters at various points.
*** [[The Knights Templar]] (c. 1119-1307/1314)
*** [[The House of Plantagenet]] (1154-1485)
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*** [[Useful Notes/The Sound of Martial Music|The Habsburg Empire]] (Holy Roman Empire 1273-1291, 1298-1308, 1314-1330, 1438-1740, 1745-1806, Austrian Empire/Austria-Hungary 1804-1918)
** [[The Late Middle Ages]] (c. 1320-1500 AD)
*** [[Hundred Years' War]] (1337-1453)
*** [[The House of Stuart]] (1371/1603-1714).
*** [[Fall of Constantinople]] (1453)
*** [[Wars of the Roses]] (1455-1487)
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** [[Italian Wars]] (1494-1559)
** [[Tsarist Russia]] (1547-1917)
** [[Eighty Years' War]] (1568-1648)
** [[Battle of Lepanto]] (1571)
* [[Wooden Ships and Iron Men]] (The Age of Sail, roughly mid-1400s to the late 1800s)
** [[The British Empire]] (c. 1576-1949). From the original colonizing efforts to the establishment of [[The Commonwealth]] in its modern form.
* [[The Cavalier Years]] (c. 1600-1790 AD) (Europe)
** [[Dutch
** [[Thirty Years' War]] (1618-1648)
** [[English Civil War]] (1642-1649), a part of the Three Kingdoms Wars (1639-1653)
** [[Anglo
** [[Useful Notes/Siege of Vienna|Siege of Vienna]] (1683)
** [[Hanover
** [[Great Northern War]] (1700-1721)
** [[War of the Spanish Succession]] (1701-1714)
** [[The House of Hanover]] (1714-1901)
** [[War of the Austrian Succession]] (1740-1748)
** [[Seven Years' War]] (1754-1763)
* [[The Colonial Period]] (c. 1600-1790 AD) (America)
* [[The American Revolution]] (c. 1770-1787)
* [[Antebellum America]] (c. 1787-1861)
** [[The War of 1812]] (1812-1815)
* [[The French Revolution]] (c. 1789-1804)
** [[Vive La Revolution]] (timeline of the Revolution, 1789-1799)
** [[French Political System]]. Explains the changes in the political system of France, from 1792 onwards.
** [[Napoleonic Wars]] (1798-1815)
* 19th century
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** [[Mexican-American War]] (1846-1848)
** [[Wars of Italian Independence]] (1848-1866)
** [[Crimean War]] (
** [[The Raj]] (1858-1947)
** [[The American Civil War]] (c. 1861-1865)
** [[Chincha Islands War]] (1864-1866)
** [[War of the Triple Alliance]] (1864-1870)
** [[Austro
** [[Imperial Japan]] (1868-1945/1947)
** [[Franco
** [[Imperial Germany]] (1871-1918)
** [[Anglo
** [[War of the Pacific]] (1879-1883)
** [[The Gay Nineties]] (1890s)
** [[Twilight of the Old West]] (1890-1920)
** [[First Sino
** [[Second Boer War]] (1899-1902)
* [[The Twentieth Century]]
** [[The Edwardian Era]] (1901-1910/1914).
*** [[The House of Windsor]] (1901/1917-)
*** [[Russo
*** [[Romanovs and Revolutions]] (1905-1917)
*** [[The Tunguska Event]] (1908)
*** [[Mexican Revolution]] (1910-c. 1920)
*** [[No More Emperors]]. Covers the Republic of China and the Chinese Civil War (1912-1949).
** [[World War
*** [[Red October]] (1917). Also covers the subsequent Russian Civil War.
** [[The Roaring Twenties]] (1920s). Also covers the final years of the 1910s.
*** [[Weimar Republic]] (1918/1919-1933)
*** [[Yugoslavia]] (1918/1929-1992/2003)
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*** [[Polish Soviet War]] (1919-1921)
*** [[Irish Revolution]] (War of Independence 1919-1921, Civil War 1922-1923)
*** [[Fascist Italy]] (Kingdom of Italy 1922-1943, Italian Social Republic 1943-1945).
*** [[Soviet Russia, Ukraine, and So On]] (a basic guide to the USSR, 1922-1991)
**** [[History of the USSR]]
**** [[Glorious Mother Russia]]
**** [[The Soviet Twenties]]
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** [[The Great Depression]] (1929-1939/1941)
*** [[Chaco War]] (1932-1935)
*** [[Nazi Germany]] (1933-1945).
*** [[Spanish Civil War]] (1936-1939)
**** [[The Franco Regime]] (1939-1975)
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*** [[America Wins the War]] (1944-1945)
** [[The Forties]] (1940s)
*** [[Cold War]] (c. 1945-1991)
**** [[History of the Cold War]]
**** [[Republican Italy]] (post-1946)
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** [[The Fifties]] (1950s)
*** [[The Korean War]] (1950-1953)
*** [[Civil Rights Movement]] (c. 1955-1968).
*** [[The Vietnam War]] (c. 1955-1975).
*** [[The Space Race]] (c. 1955-1975).
** [[The Sixties]] (1960s).
*** [[Bay of Pigs Invasion]] (1961)
*** [[The Troubles]] (1968/1969-1998)
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*** [[Operation Urgent Fury]] (1983)
** [[The Nineties]] (1990s)
*** [[Gulf War]] (1990-1991). Also known as the Second Gulf War, or the First Gulf War.
*** [[The Berlin Republic]] (Post-1990 Germany)
*** [[The New Russia]] (Post-1991 Russia)
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*** [[Congo Wars]] (1996-1997, 1998-)
* [[Turn of the Millennium]] (2000s)
** [[The War
* [[The New Tens]] (2010s)
** [[
* [[The Present Day]]
** [[The New Twenties]] (the COVID-19 pandemic - )
** [[Next Sunday
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]]
* [[World War III]]
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** [[Raygun Gothic]]
** [[Everything Is an iPod In The Future]]
** [[Ridiculous Future Sequelisation]]
** [[Crystal Spires and Togas]]
** [[Zombie Apocalypse]]
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[[Category:Artistic License]]
[[Category:Hollywood Style]]
[[Category:Narrative Tropes]]
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