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* The end of the Second Punic War marked the end of Carthage's status as a major power, and also marked the end of any major power that could seriously challenge Rome for dominance in the Mediterean for centuries. While later Roman wars would invoke the threat of invasion during later wars, these were just warnings meant to rile up the public to justify wars, as no major power was seriously capable of attacking Italy by sea.
* The Crisis of the Third Century marked the end of centuries of Roman domination and security, while also marking the start of the powerful barbarian tribes that would ultimately end the Western Roman Empire two centuries later.
* The reign of Justinian I, while acknowledged as a golden age for the Byzantine Empire, is unanimously regarded as the last of many eras.
* The severe losses the Eastern Roman Empire suffered in the 7th century against the Muslim Caliphates is unanimously agreed to have ended the age of antiquity. The severe loss of territory, wealth, and manpower marked the end of large armies, and armies would now only number a few thousand. It also marked the end of a distinctly Roman identity, as the Byzantines began to start seeing themselves as Greeks rather than Romans or Latins. This would contribute to the end of harmonious relations between the Byzantines and Western Europe, to be replaced with religious rivalries centuries later.▼
** Justinian's reign was the last time the Byzantine Empire was truly a Roman empire. Justinian was the last emperor who spoke Latin as a first language, and Greek would soon become the defacto official language of the Empire after his death, with several Roman offices effectively abandoned and replaced by Greek ones, before the change was made official in the seventh century.
** The last time the Meditterean was a Roman lake. After losing control of the Meditterean to the Vandals, the conquests of the Vandallic Kingdom by Belisarius marked the return of uncontested Roman control of the sea, since none of the other barbarian kingdoms would prove effective at sea. Following Justinian's death. and the Arab capture of Syria and Egypt, the Byzantines would constantly be in a war for dominance in the Eastern Medditerean.
** The last time the Byzantine Empire would undertake serious ambitions in the West. While the Eastern Roman Empire had longed considered undertaking military adventures in the West, especially in regards to the Vandals, they had always been derailed by the Sassanids or internal turmoil. Justinian would prove to be different, conquering North Africa, Italy and Pannonia for the Eastern Roman Empire, but the overstretched empire lacked the money or resources for such an extensive gain, and many of these gain were lost, in some instances, shortly after Justinian's death. The emergence of the Arabic Caliphates meant that unless it was to send reinforcements to any remaining provinces, any Byzantine interest in launching an invasion in the West was utterly implausible.
▲* The severe losses the Eastern Roman Empire suffered in the 7th century against the Muslim Caliphates is unanimously agreed to have ended the age of antiquity. The severe loss of territory, wealth, and manpower marked the end of large armies, and armies would now usually only number a few thousand. It also marked the end of a distinctly Roman identity, as the Byzantines began to start seeing themselves as Greeks rather than Romans or Latins. This would contribute to the end of harmonious relations between the Byzantines and Western Europe, to be replaced with religious rivalries centuries later.
=== Dark Ages ===
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* Periodically, and especially from 2000 onwards, commentators within and abroad say that this is approaching for the [[United States]]. And [[Rule of Cautious Editing Judgment|that is all we are going to say about that]].
** Perhaps more precisely, many commentators suggested that the Global Financial Crisis of 2007 could have been heralding the beginning of the end of Wall Street's dominance. Seven years later (as of this writing) it doesn't look like it. Yet.
* For the early history of the Internet and computer gaming, real time strategy gaming was often the preferred mode of gameplay, since it required a minimal amount of voice work, or plots, and did not take very long to play to get used to in addition to being the best possible things on the early computer graphics. However, beginning in the mid 2000s and especially in the 2010s, real time strategy took a dive, as the advances in graphics now meant that it was possible for video games to have genuinally compelling plots and have complex characters, and the reliance of real time strategy on repetitive and simplistic plots caused the genre to crash. While there are still some major RTS series still out there, they are from franchises before the decline began and are still therefore given a pass, while new games have rarely used the real time strategy formula, instead focusing on third or first person games.
* For decades, kids shows in the West were largely forbidden from making things too violent or getting too serious. However, the rise of the Internet increasingly made this implausible and thus several kids shows in the 2010s really began to push the envelope with mature themes like war, discrimination, ethical and moral dilemmas and the like. While not devoid of funny or amusing moments, they are a lot more rarer.
* The [[Alien Invasion]] has greatly fallen out of favor, in large part due to overuse, and also due to some really bad films. As a result, this type of film is never used seriously or very rarely, to the point that unless its a parody, or is a throwback to prior eras, the use of the alien invasion film seems set to become a part
of the past.
=== Other/Multiple Periods ===
* Chinese scholars have described China as this since the time of [[Confucius]] himself, if not before. This hasn't been affected by the fact that China's had at least three Golden Ages since unification.
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** [[Nostalgia Filter|The brain is more or less "use it or lose it", and people often don't rehash unpleasant memories, meaning they forget the bad things and remember the past as being better than it was.]]
** ''[[The Daily Show]]'' lampooned this and said it was because everything seems less complicated when you're a child.
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