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That's so odd to me because of how much the previous periods influenced what came next. Like how much of the absolute monarchical power and economic imbalance and (relatively) free access to information caused the peasant classes to rise up in the French Revolution.
I'm not criticising or anything just seems to me to be topsy-turvy.
Let me try to explain... It is impossible to understand WW2 if you do not understand the Weimar Republic and WW1 for example. That's why I try to understand an epoch and as soon as I "run out of explanations" I go to the events that influenced it.
The other way would be to start at the "beginning of history" but that is clearly impossible to define.
Just looking at a single event somewhere between 1520 and 1530 however is an island without context, I fail to understand without knowing what was around.