A Rosetta Key for History

<p>This work explores the use of a time chart based on generations as a way to understand history. A sole reliance on yearly dating tends to obscure the historical reality and deter us from further exploration. However patterns are revealed if we number generations and we become intrigued by the connections and hypotheses raised. The author uses 15-year intervals to date events and mark when people turn 30 and tend to enter history. The 15-year generational interval was first used by the medieval historian Bede and later advocated by Ortega E Gasset a leading Spanish philosopher of the 20th century. In brief the phases of history found are: 1) A partly invisible beginning phase; 0-15 generations; 2) An establishment phase at 15/20 generations; 3) A consolidating and opening up stage at 30 generations; 4) A crisis and creativity phase at 40 generations; 5) An empire and inclusionary phase at 50 generations; and 6) Renewal or rigidification phase at the 60 generational node. Importantly special attention is given to the often neglected 30th generational period in which an openess to beauty and light prevade. Interestingly these phases also resonate with the human life cycle. The tour of cultures covered includes ancient Egypt Israel-Judah Rome and the Medieval-Modern. Taking us into contemporary times America/United States is addressed in a second volume to this work.You are invited to go on an intriguing journey in which generational patterning becomes a Rosetta key for understanding history. </p><p> </p>