According to historians, a ‘golden age’ is when cultures around the world achieved new heights in science, medicine, literature, economics, philosophy, and a slew of other fields.
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All the gold in the world isn't worth as much as living in a world with clean water, antibiotics, and vaccines.
I still think 21st century Molly is better
Interesting that you didn’t put an end date on the Post WW2 US era. Dead by the early 70s with the oil crisis, high inflation and massive job losses in manufacturing as western economies moved towards more service based industries. I always considered that the post ww2 boom in the US ended immediately after the moon landing. Sadly some Americans still think they live in the best country in the world. But…..
🤔 Makes you wonder where & when the next one will be…
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If you're a white man. Or could say "roman man of nobility". Or a couple others such as "a person with certain levels of power in the land that isn't prejudiced against them" but you always have to qualify it for any time other then right now.
The best time, the golden age, is whatever time you're living in because it will always be the "most advanced". Give or take a bit as it's not a straight line up, it's a trend.
That's kinda the cool thing about time. Everybody got to feel like they were living in the most advanced time ever. It's just the degree to which you saw things advance in your lifetime that changes.
With ur accent i thought Mali was Marley and thought we were ab to talk ab AOT🤣
I had to have my appendix removed when I was 13. So my life would have been kinda short if I'd lived before we knew how to do that routinely and safely.
I still rather live in modern times, with modern homes, plumbing and conveniences.
All but one of the time periods on your list came before the age of penicillin so therefore they are automatically disqualified from my list of possible time travel destinations. Everything was the worst before antibiotics. Death was around every corner.
#5 *unless you were an AA
Pythagoras…the man with a triangle fetish 😜
No time in mericuh🤌
The past was the worst though… 😛
Unites States 1931. My #1 place and time.
Marcus Aurelius died in 180 AD, not BC.
America shouldn't be on this list due to the racial violence during that time
Islamic Renaissance should’ve been #1
You forgot the Western World 1990-2016
Didn't even mention now. Noobs.
Thank you, those who don't care about or learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Best time to be born a Roman citizen was 98 A.D. You would live out the best years of Rome and die relatively old during the Antonine plague or before Commodus came to power.
Simon is now starting to look like a Wizard! I really want him to be dressed like Merlin in a video and be deadly serious and not explain why he's dressed like that watch YouTube break itself 😆😆
Timur! <3
Anyone who has ever needed a dentist knows that this is the best time to be alive.
Most of these I have heard of — should keep the list handy in case time travel opportunities arise — 😂
From the guy who says" History was the worst"
Simon, change your password already
"The golden age is before us, not behind us." — William Shakespeare
America's gold age is a shame wasn't golden if you where black or Asian.
3:19 – your second date (that you call the end) is before your first date (that you call the beginning).
Hah! The "golden age of Islam" wasn't an innovation, it was a "rediscovery" of old knowledge they pillaged from Byzantium and India.
There is nowhere at all in the past better than the modern present. Life was overall worse back then, even for kings.
#10.… The way I heard it was that he went on a buying spree while passing though the country and used gold instead of the local coin and spent so much gold that it depressed the price of gold in turn depressing the economy.
But he sat things right (to an extent) when he passed by again on the way home by buying back most of the gold that he had spent.
I imagined achemenids era would be there too but meh… I was wrong.
Not everyone in Mali was happy. Like the Empire of Ghana it conquered, the economy was based on vast plantations manned by slaves. Mansa Musa's enormous gold reserves were mined by his slaves and his own chronicle states that on his hadj to Mecca in the 1300s, he and his court were accompanied by 20,000 slaves (given the ancients tendency to exaggerate, probably 2,000). His wealth also came from the slave and ivory trades. Of course there were slaves in Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Caliphate and most other civilizations mentioned here. "Golden Ages" were usually golden only for some.
The guptas were disastrous for South Africa
you forgot the Indus Valley – indoor plumbing, private baths, brick houses, shaded streets and a shockingly high level of social equality
Simon repeatedly referred to Renaissance Florence as “Florentine”. I’m pretty sure that it was just Florence then, as it is now. Hold the spinach!
It's interesting how the top 10 'golden' ages will always vary depending on a scholar's bias. The dark side of a one of these eras is that it is usually an era of intense political instability and almost always ended by a conquest or war though sometimes not. The low-hanging fruit of easy or obvious discoveries is just exhausted then it is work, work, work.
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To be alive if you weren't a peasant. It's ridiculous how people are proud to be descended from glorious historical figures, when they are probably the descendants of their slaves and servants.
3:20 Beginning [in 27BC] and ending [in 180BC]. Umm…
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