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GOT observation
Posted on 6/6/15 at 12:54 pm
Posted on 6/6/15 at 12:54 pm
Has anyone noticed that when it comes to science and technology, the civilization in GOT has barely moved forward in thousands of years? Even our own dark ages only lasted a few hundred years. But the time from the fall of the western Roman empire to the Age of Reason only lasted a thousand years.
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Posted on 6/6/15 at 12:58 pm to prplhze2000
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dark ages
Didn't exist
Posted on 6/6/15 at 12:59 pm to prplhze2000
Well, the Valyrians were pretty advanced, but the world fell into a dark age after the Valyrians fell.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 1:18 pm to prplhze2000
So let's say that Valyria is analogous to the Roman Empire. I just looked up the dates on AWOIAF. It's been about 400 years since the fall of Valyria. So that puts us right in the middle of the European dark ages. The timeline is probably not coincidentally all that different than the European timeline.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 1:21 pm to prplhze2000
Based on Qyburns final words to Cersei before he left the dungeon, "the work continues" -- I have a strong feeling you'll get your advancement in Technology, The Mountain will return and the High Sparrow's shite will hit the fan.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 1:27 pm to SpiderY2Bannana
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Based on Qyburns final words to Cersei before he left the dungeon, "the work continues" -- I have a strong feeling you'll get your advancement in Technology, The Mountain will return and the High Sparrow's shite will hit the fan.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 1:28 pm to SpiderY2Bannana
I thought last week that it seems they would have developed gunpowder and musketball guns by now. I thought it was about time for guns.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 2:08 pm to Peazey
Valyria = Ancient Egypt
It's on different continent that has a bunch deserts
It's on different continent that has a bunch deserts
Posted on 6/6/15 at 2:28 pm to Peazey
quote:
So let's say that Valyria is analogous to the Roman Empire. I just looked up the dates on AWOIAF. It's been about 400 years since the fall of Valyria. So that puts us right in the middle of the European dark ages. The timeline is probably not coincidentally all that different than the European timeline.
Pretty much this.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 2:33 pm to prplhze2000
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Has anyone noticed that when it comes to science and technology, the civilization in GOT has barely moved forward in thousands of years? Even our own dark ages only lasted a few hundred years. But the time from the fall of the western Roman empire to the Age of Reason only lasted a thousand years.
I would think that a world run through forms of magic would have a difficult time realigning itself and developing technology quickly.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 2:35 pm to prplhze2000
To be fair, in our Dark Ages you didn't have to deal with dragons and White Walkers.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 2:40 pm to PsychTiger
Yeah but we had the Bubonic.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 2:42 pm to prplhze2000
GRRM is a brilliant theif tbh. He uses times and stories and brings them together brilliantly.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 2:43 pm to prplhze2000
Make your own fan fiction set in 1915 AL. You can create their version of WWI complete with Dragonfire flamethrowers and Valyrian bullets.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 3:07 pm to davesdawgs
Well, but in the books, it seems like nothing has changed for thousands of years. I think the tv show shortened things
Posted on 6/6/15 at 3:12 pm to Cdawg
You say Bubonic, I say Grayscale.
Posted on 6/6/15 at 3:17 pm to BowlJackson
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Valyria = Ancient Egypt It's on different continent that has a bunch deserts
No, Valyria isn't in the middle of a desert. Mereen is, but Valyria is across from the Gulf of Grief. Valyria is more a mix of Rome and Atlantis, while the cities of Slaver's Bay are based largely on Egypt.
This post was edited on 6/6/15 at 3:21 pm
Posted on 6/6/15 at 3:51 pm to Superior Pariah
Posted on 6/6/15 at 4:07 pm to ladytiger118
agree with the op ... it's curious why they don't have mass produced books when they can build massive monuments and elaborate castles ...
This post was edited on 6/6/15 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 6/6/15 at 4:12 pm to prplhze2000
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Well, but in the books, it seems like nothing has changed for thousands of years.
I don't think so. Some of the events roughly mirror what I think is true history. I think the First Men were bronze age people. The Andals were either iron or steel age. These sorts of developments happened over the course of thousands of years in real history too.
This post was edited on 6/6/15 at 4:13 pm
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