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  1. 2020–22The Pandemic YearsThe years the world stayed home — and what it found there.
  2. c. 2007–16A Phone in Every PocketThe decade attention got a new landlord.
  3. c. 2004–06The Participatory WebThe page acquires an edit button, and strangers build the library together.
  4. 1994The Networked AgeDistance stops being the point.
  5. 1989The Wall Comes DownA border falls live on television; the map redraws itself in a winter.
  6. 1969The MoonshotFour hundred thousand people, one promise, eight years.
  7. 1954–1975Vietnam & Its AfterlivesA decolonising civil and international war, remembered very differently by those who lived it.A dive waits here — Begin →
  8. 1947PartitionA border drawn in five weeks.A dive waits here — Begin →
  9. 1945The Atomic AgeOne desert test, and every war after is fought in its shadow.
  10. 1939The Second World WarThe war that reached every front door.A dive waits here — Begin →
  11. 1938The Radio DemagoguesA voice in every kitchen learns what a crowd of millions feels like.
  12. 1929The CrashThe market falls for three years and takes the decade with it.
  13. 1914The Great WarEurope's long peace ends in a single August.A dive waits here — Begin →
  14. 1885The Scramble for AfricaA continent divided in a conference room by men who had mostly never seen it.
  15. 1870The Gilded AgeRailways, trusts, and fortunes too big for the rules that made them.
  16. c. 1840–1877 and afterThe Civil War & Its AfterlivesEmancipation destroyed slavery in law; Reconstruction tested what freedom and citizenship would mean in practice.A dive waits here — Begin →
  17. 1811Industry & the LudditesThe machines came for the craft; the croppers came for the machines.
  18. 1791The Haitian RevolutionThe most unlikely revolution of its age, and the new nation the old world tried to ignore.A dive waits here — Begin →
  19. 1789The French RevolutionA bankrupt kingdom tries every form of government inside twenty-five years.A dive waits here — Begin →
  20. 1610The New SkyA tube of Dutch glass points up, and the sky acquires moons.
  21. 1600Tokugawa JapanA single morning of battle buys two and a half centuries of peace.A dive waits here — Begin →
  22. 1527–1558The Tudor CourtA royal marriage dispute became a break with Rome, a transfer of property and a crisis of conscience.A dive waits here — Begin →
  23. 1519Unequal First ContactA few hundred men, tens of thousands of allies — and a disease ahead of both.A dive waits here — Begin →
  24. c. 1450–1600Print Finds a PublicA machine floods Europe with words.A dive waits here — Begin →
  25. 1405The Treasure FleetsThe greatest fleet afloat chooses to stay home.
  26. 1347The Black DeathThe bell tolls through Europe, and the survivors inherit a different world.
  27. 1206The Mongol MomentThe steppe empties into history — the largest land empire ever, inside one lifetime.
  28. 1135–1154The Cathedral BuildersA disputed crown fractured lordship while religious houses and towns kept long projects alive.A dive waits here — Begin →
  29. 1066The Norman ConquestOne morning at Hastings rewires England for good.
  30. 11th–14th centuriesMedicine & Shared KnowledgeMedical knowledge crossed languages and faiths long before plague tested what it could do.A dive waits here — Begin →
  31. 813The House of WisdomA city of translators sets Greek thought working in Arabic.
  32. 793The Viking AgeShipwrights of the north discover the sea is a road.
  33. 622The Rise of IslamFrom one city, a faith reorders half the known world within a century.
  34. AD 476The Fall of RomeWhat actually ends in 476 — and what quietly carries on.
  35. c. 100 BCThe Fall of the RepublicA republic wins the world and loses itself.A dive waits here — Begin →
  36. c. 221 BCQin UnificationSeven kingdoms become one, and the state learns to standardise everything.
  37. c. 480 BCAthens and the DemosA few thousand citizens try ruling themselves out loud.
  38. c. 600 BCThe Axial AgeWithin three centuries, half the world's lasting questions get asked.
  39. c. 1200 BCThe Bronze CollapseA courier world of copper and kings — gone within a lifetime.
  40. c. 2560 BCThe Pyramid AgeThe largest building the world would see for four thousand years, raised on an idle season.
  41. c. 3200 BCThe Written WordAn accountant's shortcut escapes the ledger.
  42. c. 9000 BCAgricultureThe species that moved with the food decides to stay — ten thousand small choices, one trap.
  43. c. 50,000–30,000 years agoThe First of UsDifferent human populations met, adapted and exchanged genes in a changing climate.A dive waits here — Begin →

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