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Obviously, things get pumped up for movies. Whether or not you believe this is an [[Acceptable Break From Reality|acceptable break from reality]] or THE [[They Changed It, Now It Sucks|WORST THING]] [[Ruined FOREVER|TO EVER HAPPEN]] [[Punctuated! forFor! Emphasis!|EVER]] depends on the viewer, not to mention the restraints of time/watch-ability of an event (most filmgoers won't be impressed with a slow, boring event, however world-changing - and this isn't the [[Lowest Common Denominator]] we're talking about - many films have been blasted for this), invoking [[Rule of Drama]] and so on. This isn't restricted to film - ancient plays and literature have been doing this on and on.

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.

'''The most wellvest-known eras of Hollywood History are as follows:'''

* [[The Dark Times]]. A time before the rise of mankind, with the world ruled by dark forces.

* [[Useful Notes/First Australians|First Australians]] (Indigenous Australians)

* [[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.

** [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]]

*** [[The Trojan Cycle (Literature)|The Trojan Cycle]]

** [[Greco -Persian Wars]] (499-449 BC). From the Ionian Revolt to the end of the Wars of the Delian League.

** [[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.

** [[Byzantine Empire]] (330-1453).

** [[Useful Notes/Pre-Columbian Civilizations|Pre-Columbian Civilizations]]

*** [[Anglo -Saxons]] (c. 449-1066)

*** [[Useful Notes/L'État, Etatc'est Cest Moimoi|L Etat Cest Moi]]. Full list and brief introduction of all French monarchs (c. 481-1792, 1804-1848, 1852-1870).

*** [[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.

*** [[Hundred Years' War]] (1337-1453)

*** [[The House of Stuart]] (1371/1603-1714).

** [[Eighty Years' War]] (1568-1648)

** [[The British Empire]] (c. 1576-1949). From the original colonizing efforts to the establishment of [[The Commonwealth]] in its modern form.

** [[Dutch -Portuguese War]] (1602-1640)

** [[Thirty Years' War]] (1618-1648)

** [[Anglo -Dutch Wars]] (1652-1784)

** [[Hanover -Stuart Wars]] (c. 1688-1746).

** [[Seven Years' War]] (1754-1763)

** [[The War of 1812]] (1812-1815)

** [[French Political System]]. Explains the changes in the political system of France, from 1792 onwards.

** [[Crimean War]] (1853-561853–56)

** [[Austro -Prussian War]] (1866)

** [[Franco -Prussian War]] (1870-1871)

** [[Anglo -Zulu War]] (January-JulyJanuary–July 1879)

** [[First Sino -Japanese War]] (1894-1895)

*** [[Russo -Japanese War]] (1904-1905).

*** [[No More Emperors]]. Covers the Republic of China and the Chinese Civil War (1912-1949).

** [[World War OneI]] (1914-1918)

*** [[Red October]] (1917). Also covers the subsequent Russian Civil War.

** [[The Roaring Twenties]] (1920s). Also covers the final years of the 1910s.

*** [[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]]

*** [[Nazi Germany]] (1933-1945).

*** [[Cold War]] (c. 1945-1991)

*** [[Civil Rights Movement]] (c. 1955-1968).

*** [[The Vietnam War]] (c. 1955-1975).

*** [[The Space Race]] (c. 1955-1975).

** [[The Sixties]] (1960s).

*** [[Gulf War]] (1990-1991). Also known as the Second Gulf War, or the First Gulf War.

** [[The War Onon Terror]] (2001-)

** [[Useful Notes/Middle East Uprising 2011|Middle East Uprising 2011]]

** [[Next Sunday ADA.D.]]

** [[Ridiculous Future Sequelisation]]

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