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Originally Posted by Johnny1A.2
...S&H don't posit that big wars only come in their proposed Crisis periods, they maintain that they get more likely then. They can also happen in the 'Awakening' stage at the opposite pole of the cycle, as S&H characterize the English Civil War. I partly disagree with their analysis there, I think the ECW was part of a larger Europe/Western Civilization wide religious upheaval that transcended generational dynamics.
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I would argue the ECW was a revolution and followed in the tradition of the Dutch indepedence in 1599-1601 (iirc).
Religious freedoms can be see as national struggles against the domination of the Catholic Church. The right to have sermons read and written in your own language was at the roots or these movements. From the Lollards to the Reformation.
I see what you are getting at but where do we demarcate these cylces. The world has uneven development and there could be a lot of overlapping cycles.
What about history in different periods? Would that count as a cycle?