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Message: <blockquote data-quote="garrowolf" data-source="post: 6165358" data-attributes="member: 31900">This is what I ended up with:   [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]TL 4:  Gunpowder Age (1300 – 1730 CE)[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]    Gunpowder supplants Steel as the weapon of the day. Muskets and Cannons make armor useless.  This includes what is normally classified as the Late Middle Ages since this is when gunpowder was first introduced to Europe. The Late Middle Ages has more in common with the rest of the Gunpowder Age then the Early and High Middle Ages. [/FONT]   [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]TL 5: Industrial Revolution (1730 – 1870 CE)[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]    Heavier materials from the gunpowder age are finally capable of the higher grades necessary to build complex machinery. This allows steam tech to work. This includes the American Revolution, Civil War, and the Old West.[/FONT]  [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]TL 6: Pulp Age (1870 – 1929 CE)[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]    This is the time of the second industrial revolution in America. Electricity became a major technology and factories and huge cities sprang up. Population levels increased from growth and from huge immigration after the Civil War.  Technology was seen as a positive force. This era includes World War 1 and a major shift in warfare. [/FONT]   [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]TL 7: Global Age (1929 – 1945 CE)[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]    This includes the Great Depression and World War 2. Technology seemed much darker. [/FONT]   [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]TL 8: Atomic Age (1952 – 1980 CE)[/FONT] [FONT=Verdana, sans-serif]    This includes the space race, the Korean and Vietnam Wars, and the Civil Rights Movement. America came out of the previous era richer and a global superpower. [/FONT]</blockquote>

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