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A side effect of [[Hollywood History]], these are time periods that rarely, if ever, appear in fiction. Maybe the writers/executives/etc. aren't aware of them. Maybe they fear the [[Viewers
Some periods really lend themselves to fiction - there's just something compelling about [[Ancient Egypt]] and [[Those Wacky Nazis]] that means it's not surprising how often they show up. However, after a while it gets a little baffling why equally fascinating periods get left out. Ancient China was as imperial and decadent as Rome, with the technological progress of Renaissance Europe and ships the size of small castles, but where's their summer blockbuster?
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== Pre-Ancient Times ==
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* After the dinosaurs died out, but before the ice ages and way before humans began migrating. The entire span between the dinosaur extinction and the ice age (a span of some 63 million years full of many prehistoric animals) do not show up in fiction that often, whether magical-based, time-travel, science-based, etc.
* Although the Mesozoic period as a whole is rather well-represented, the Triassic period is left mostly forgotten. The mid-Jurassic and the late-Cretaceous are where most [[Stock Dinosaurs]] come from.
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** ''[[Apocalypto]]'' is about the Maya and it is terribly inaccurate, but does have dialogue ''entirely in Mayan''. For starters, the Mayans are portrayed in warrior-like terms closer to the Aztec and the end has serious Unfortunate Implications, but ah well.
** ''[[Aztec]]'' is one of the most notable examples of a novel about the Aztec before Cortez, even if he appears at the end.
** ''[[The
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*** Implied to be the reason Vera [[Les Yay|turned Hysterica]] into a vampire in ''[[Dance in The Vampire Bund]]''
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*** In a flashback to George's childhood from ''[[
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*** ''[[Twilight (Literature)|Twilight]]'' mentions it as part of why Edward became a vampire, which ''technically'' makes it part of a major pop-culture phenomenon of the 2000s-2010s.
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*** ''Spring Pearl: The Last Flower'' in the discontinued ''[[American Girl|Girls of Many Lands]]'' collection is about a teenage girl during this time.
* '''The [[Russo Japanese War]]''': Rather embarrassing for both participants, who moved toward the much needed strategical alliance before it. Instead, Russia got a major prestige and morale fall (with [[Red October|well-known results]]), while Japan was isolated and eventually forced to enter [[World War II]] (with [[Nuke
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*** The Japanese film 'The Battle of the Japan Sea' covers the naval battle of Tsushima (1905).
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* '''The Barbary Wars'''. You'd think people might be interested in a movie about the US Navy and [[Semper Fi|Marine Corps]] fighting pirates, especially since it's the ''first war ever fought by the newly independent US''. Overshadowed by the Napoleonic Wars.
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*** There is also ''Tripoli'' (1950) with John Payne and [[
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*** They do get a mention in one of the [[Horatio Hornblower]] books, ''Hornblower and the Hotspur'', where the ''Hotspur'' is moored in a harbor not far from the USS ''Constitution'', which is on her way to deal with the Corsairs in Tripoli.
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