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

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.

Dark Ages
Germanic Tribes
How did the Germanic Tribes become Christian?

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

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

Muqqaddimah

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

Indian History

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Cl2g2xFTZoAEldxYVzQFg - map movements