#because it's easy to forget that the same global conditions (financial intellectual etc) were shaping places that had no direct connections

[luncheon-aspic]

I may have commented this before but every time I see this post, as a historian outside of the West/Anglosphere, I want to stress that this already is very much a thing. It all depends on what the general public has as their baseline.

Whenever I see someone refer to "Victorian era-" for places outside the UK I'm tempted to start saying shit like "Han Dynasty era Rome", "Soviet era Australia" etc