[@Letter Bee] Yes, all of my yes.

Also, people don't like this era? It's my favorite! There's few eras in history where there's so much intrigue, hypocrisy, and jingoism in the name of some faith that the rulers of the countries barely believe in, forging empires for personal glory while pretending it was their plan all along to kill the evil man. It feels much more organic, more recent history is just too mechanical and pragmatic, there's much less of a person behind the country, and more of just a machine. Think of it this way, medieval history is like a Van Gogh painting, odd and without control, while more modern history is like a Leonardo, every piece is deliberate and put there for a reason. There's no reason to say one is better than the other, it's just some prefer the raw emotion of Van Gogh over the mechanical efficiency of Leonardo, and some prefer medieval history to more modern.

Of course there's the Roman and Hellenic eras, but I feel that because we know so little of them, they're more like an incomplete painting that was turning out well, but just stopped.

Rambling ends here.