History as a Progression of Ideas
J.G. Herder: "one must go into the age, into the region, into the whole history, and feel one's way into everything"
Learning History
The Spirit of Our Age
Intellectual History
Annie Besant The Indian Mind Studying History
Astrological History
Living History Timeline
Architecture Timeline
3300 BC
End of Treta Yuga, according to Sadhguru.
Could it have been this: "Neolithic farming communities in Eurasia were overrun by Caucasian nomadic peoples called the Kurgan or Yamnaya."
500 BC
Peak of the Axial Age - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age
400 BC
300 BC
Macedonian Empire
Alexander the Great
100 BC
Cicero
Roman Empire
0 AD
Caesar Augustus
Steiner's Roman History
300 AD
Rome ruled by Constantine, who converts to Christianity. How? Why?
Begins the start of the decline of paganism and non-Christian thought.
325 - First Council of Nicaea establishes the Nicene Creed or Creed of Constantinople
- Steiner says this is highly significant. But what was it exactly?
- See: https://rsarchive.org/Search.php?q=arius
- https://rsarchive.org/Search.php?q=nicaean+council
Emperor Theodosius I (379 - 395) issues a series of anti-pagan edicts including banning sacrifices, closing temples, and criminalizing public pagan rites. Wanted to make Christianity the state religion.
500 AD
Fall of Western Roman Empire
Roman Empire continues as the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire with the capital of Constantinople
Byzantine ruled by Justinian, who wanted to enforce a Christian Theocracy
Justinian orders Temple of Isis at Philae closed
Outlaws Platonism, Hellenistic teachings, and Neoplatonic schools. Closes the Academy of Athens.
- How did the philosophers and Greek mystics react to this?
Dark Ages
Germanic Tribes
How did the Germanic Tribes become Christian?
- The Triumph of Christianity: How a Forbidden Religion Swept the World
- conventional discourse always says it was forced or for political reasons
https://x.com/johnvmcdonnell/status/1762028582782767605?s=20
Read The Inheritance of Rome by Chris Wickham
800 AD
Charlemagne, Holy Roman Empire
1000 AD
Norman Conquest
1400s
Italian Renaissance
1453 - Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire, is taken by the Ottomans, marking the end of the Roman Empire.
1500s
Protestant Reformation
Martin Luther
1600s
Baroque Architecture
Counter-reformation, Catholic evangelizing against protestants
30 years war
In reaction, no more religious debate
John Locke, the enlightenment pseud 2021-12-07
Descartes de-mystifies matter
Leibniz
1700s
Enlightenment and the start of modernity
Start of German Philosophical Boom: Kant 1724, Goethe 1750, Hegel 1770
Goldsmith’s Vicar of Wakefield
French Revolution
French Revolutionary Wars, Declaration of Pillnitz
Napoleonic Wars
1800s
Nietzsche - 1844 - 1900
- Europe returns to monarchy and conservatism, opposing the Enlightenment, glorifying the medieval ages and Napoleon's defeat. There was a return to tradition, classicism, and a glorification of aristocrats.
1823 - Monroe Doctrine (motivation?) - At the same time, we see another reaction to the Enlightenment, Romanticism
1848 - Karl Marx drops the Communist Manifesto
1880 - sound recording reproduction
1895 - Spanish-American War Cuban Independence
1900s
American golden age of doctors and psychologists
William James
Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)
World Wars
Postmodernism, reaction to the myth of progress of modernity, science did not create a utopia
Oswald Spengler Decline of West
1923 - Frankfurt School
1925 - Quantum Mechanics
1947 - India's Independence
1960 - sexual liberation
1961 - Park Chung Hee takes power, start of South Korea Industrialization
1962 - Operation Northwoods - false flag against Cuba
1973 - Arab-Israeli war, OPEC embargo on the US
2000s
Golden age of ?
Library
Emerson on history
R.G Collingwood - the idea of history
World History and the Mysteries In the Light of Anthroposophy
https://history.state.gov/milestones
Fordham sourcebooks - https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/ancient/asbook.asp
https://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
a history of private life - recced by taleb
grand history: Will Durant Story of Civlization, HG Wells outline of history, Arnold Toynbee’s History of the World
Daily Life in Traditional China - Charles Benn
Schiller on history: -
The Revolt of the Netherlands
A History of the Thirty Years' War
On the Barbarian Invasions, Crusaders and Middle Ages
Schiller - To what end do we study universal history?
Churchill - History of the English Speaking People's
Travels in Hyperreality - Umberto Eco, recced by Jesse Michels, on similarity between Medieval times and modern times
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Cl2g2xFTZoAEldxYVzQFg - map movements