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Welcome to the History Unplugged Podcast. The unscripted show that celebrates unsung heroes,

mythbusts historical lies, and rediscoveres the forgotten stories that changed our world.

I'm your host, Scott Rank.

Hi everyone, welcome to an in-between-a-so-drancer any question that you have for me about history.

Today's question comes from Anthony Fox. He asks this.

Considering the disruptive effect of the dark ages and that progress relatively speaking has only snowballed over the last few hundred years,

how much difference was there in the day-to-day life of people in the Viking Age, 1000 CE, versus everyday life in the same region in 1000 BCE?

Maybe it's a silly oversimplification, but occurred to me that aside from maybe boats and steel, a time machine could drop people from one time into the other,

and the 1000-year jump would be a smaller adjustment that would be for jump to 100 or even just 60 years.

This is a great question, Anthony, because it's not a simple yes or no. It depends a lot on where you are in the world,

it depends on what time period you're looking at, and it gets into the fundamental questions about intellectual growth, technological growth,

how we see it over time, what causes these factors, and is it growing linearly or logarithmically?

Now you really are onto something here, the idea that technological growth has accelerated in the last few centuries.

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