What was the Zenith of your countries history?

D. Pedro II reign.

15000~ years ago at maximum phase of last great ice age with lowest sea levels. australoids

-55
>not 76-82
Let me guess, you think your golden era was from 2003 to 2015, right?

USA
Andrew Jackson

In terms of literature and richness of culture, probably the Tudor period here in the UK.
Runner up, and the high point for political dominance, is the 100 year period between 1815 and 1914.

My home is a tiny village in southern Germany, on the borders of several principalities and usually owned by a free city of the Empire. We have always been poor, heavily taxed, and actually exploited when industrialisation rolled in. And now, due to urbanisation and rapid population growth (immigrants fuck yeah), we're probably going to be rolled up by suburbs and commercial districts within the next thirty years.

Our history only ever goes downhill.

Alright, you insist on a bigger country? HRE then. And once again, it only ever went downhill. It didn't start well and then it got worse.

Indonesia
Suharto's reign actually. Utter shit human rights and freedom of speech, but it was the first time the country was actually stable as a united and independent nation.

Canada
1950's, the decade we were most relevant.

India
Gupta empire or alternately Nehruvian India for completely different reasons.

Italy
>pic related
If you 're gonna say that doesn't count, then I'm partial to the 1454-1494 period, following the peace of Lodi; also known as the height of the Reinassance.

Philippines 1974. We have been relevant for a short time then the Martial Law Purge began the dictator started to kill his opponents and feed his own coffers thus our downfall. The guy in the picture is the asshole who did it.

>Czech Republic

either 14th century when we wuz Holy Roman Emperors

or the interwar period when we were a modest industrial-democratic state that could easily be considered Western Europe

This, or right after WWII when we had a huge military and Mackenzie King as PM

sometimes I wish Germany did invade Britain cause the Royal Family would have fled here...I live near a castle that would have been their home if they did

>Australia

Now

>Netherlands
>Dutch Golden Age is the late 17th to early 18th century

>Indonesia
>Suharto's reign actually. Utter shit human rights and freedom of speech, but it was the first time the country was actually stable as a united and independent nation.
:^)

>Mining boom is over
>Property bubble about to burst
>8 Greens senators

Don't know what country you live in but it's not mine

DELETE THIS

youre a moron desu senpai

>srivijayan empire
>majapahit empire

just pick one you like the most

New Zealand. Still hasn't happen really.

Just before Black Death rolled in, killed off the prime nobility, and then The Little Ice Age prevented a massive population growth.

In a lot of ways, the period after 997 really started it. Country had been somewhat unified for a time. We had started importing technology & religion. A Saint managed to Christian the country, somewhat.
As the economy, trade, population and nobility grew, so did the demand for increasing the countries position.
In 1103, Lund(Denmark) gained Archdiocese, essentially controlling the Scandinavian mission.
So in 1151, the Archdiocese of Nidaros was installed.
It should be noted that Sweden did get a Archdioconese in 1164(Uppsala), but they didn't get independence from Lund until 1274.

Being a Archdiocese was so important, that even after the reformation, copies of important works was stored in Trondheim, simply because it had the status of Archdiocese before reformation.
Reformation also was done in such a way, that the successors did still go to Central Europa, and kept the bonds alive.

But then the period ended.
First came Black Death, killed of most of the population and nobility.
Then came Little Ice Age, meaning population could never grow the same again.
Then Norway after some Royal shenigans with Marriage, became a Danish province.
It wasn't that bad, since a no nobility culture was cooler than a nobility culture.

>baiting this hard

Jesus, you sound like my leftycuck uncle.

Slovenia
658 - 828

Australia
We're in it now

"Bubble" he says

My family came from Galicia to portugal during the Early years of the iberian union. So I'll post a map of the iberian union at its hight.

400 years later Im still carrying the name of the town of my ancestors.

Pretty based desu

Russia
Never. And never be

1930-1945
Vargas Era

why did he suicide

Serbia, Nemanjić dynasty. Opened up mines which made us rich fought back the Bulgarians and byzantines.
More modern time is actually communist times, life was good for the average person

Right fucking now, stay salty Eurofags
t. American

This was the height of our Empire
But then Willy had to fuck our shit up

>Lithuania
>Mid 1970's
>relevant
>existing

This isn't funny, user

He was about to be ousted from office by the military, but he rather go out on his own terms, and it worked, since you will hardly find a Brazilian with a negative opinion about Vargas.
However, there is a teory that he was murdered rather than having killed himself, mostly because he shot himself trough the heart, and that is an unusual way to kill himself and because his suicide note was written on a typewritter and Vargas was known to hate typewritters.

Anyway, on his own words as far as we know:"Nothing remains except my blood. I gave you my life, now I give you my death. I choose this way to defend you, for my soul will be with you, my name shall be a flag for your struggle.(...) Serenely, I take my first step on the road to eternity and I leave life to enter History."

>Ay Germany what you want?
>just fuck Serbia up senpai

>Russia
Fucking hell, I don't know.
18-19th century probably

Rome hit it's zenith after Hardian solidified the borders and led to a cultural and economic golden age

>b-b-but muh territory
Meaningless in fact a detriment if you look at how hard it is to protect and control

>Not the USSR
No matter how you feel about Gommunism it was the only time you were truly internationally and scientifically relevant.

>19th century
>not relevant
Excuse me?

US
>1900-1970
>Industrial Power
>Won 2 World Wars, Made leaps in Civil Rights, Technically didn't lose in Vietnam yet, Beat Russians to the moon

>Romania
Not even communist but
1965-1980
>economic development
>no unemployment
>country had good diplomacy and was courted by the West
>good image abroad
>sense of pride and relevance
>In4 gommunism
Yeas, that many things were bad, not saying it was perfect or even good,

Need you even ask...

>Britain
>France
>USA
>Germany

Just a few countries that had more relevant centuries.

That anti-gommie bullshit of your gemeration's gotta stop. There's a reason all the old people miss the Soviet Unuon

>en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_War

Indeed

>anything related to nehru
>zenith

14th century, we wuz empire n shieet, and rich too
And then Turks came and oppressed us

>Nehru India
My dad was bought up in that time and according to him it was bad and didn't get better till the time of narasimha rao and eventual economic liberalization of india. That is 4 fucking decades into his life did the shitstain that Nehru made of India slowly changed.

Italy
The 80s?

Greece:
1975 - roughly 2007 if you only count the nation state of Greece. Otherwise I'd say Greeks peaked during the Hellenistic ages.

Chile: 1974-1989
Free market libertarian capitalism as its best.

Tizio ma che cazzo spari? Seriously consider suicide if you're so ignorant about your own country ->

USA
The Louisiana Purchase

I'd say the American zenith was the second half of the 20th century, or maybe in between 1880 and 1930

Bolivar's fatherland.

1819-1830, my bad

Coglione è stato un picco della nostra storia

That posts makes me sad as fuck without really knowing why

Fucking abomination.

t. Camões

Belgium
late 19th/turn of the century

things were good before the trice damned germans came during the great war

>Argentina
>Good epoch
Choose one

Gli 80? Gli 80 picco della nostra storia? Gesù, ma tu sei da ricovero ospedaliero. Cos'era picco, la debolezza politica che porta ad una de facto preminenza dei socialisti? Il fatto che craxi ha quintuplicato il debito estero? Il lungo strascico degli anni di piombo, con omicidi eccellenti e magistrati che si licenziavano piuttosto che presiedere processi antimafia? Ah no aspetta, abbiamo vinto i mondiali. Beh allora picco.

>eurocucktries not even worth naming
Why the fuck are landlocked countries allowed to exist? Especially all those small worthless ones

>north africa has a few mud huts

Good man, I'm fed up with all these Wehraboos trying to deny that 2nd Reich is Best Reich

Croatia
Pic related

I like this bait.

That was a period with a shitton of issues (besides the human rights stuff... but really, who was stupid enough to die for defending something that FUCKED UP your own country in a period as brief as 3 years?) that shaped the problems that affects us the most now. Still, a decent period if you weren't a lazy motherfucker.

The actual zenith of Chile is now, we have a shitty government, but so does the rest of the world. Comfiest country in south-america and we are bffs with all the countries that matter.

The post war of the pacific period was also a good time for chile, but it lasted too little and it was just your average industrial revolution epoch.

Not bait.
Yes, the human rights stuff wasn't cool, that's fair. It was still a great period despite that.
What kind of problems that can be attributed to that period today? The AFPs themselves are not bad, just in case. They just happened to be implemented at the worst time possible. Oh, I just thought of a problem of the period! People won't vote for right wing parties for being associated with the dictatorship. That's a real problem.

Right now? Definitely not. Things got really shitty after Bachelet's second term. Before that it was alright. Also, we are the comfiest SA country now for a reason, and it's not because of the Concertacion.

Also 15th century for Flanders (Ghent was as big as Paris) and 16th century for Brabant.

USA
2001-2008

True true, that period contributed to us not being shit-tier, no matter what people say or think about it. The educational system was poorly implemented during that period as well, and the AFP stuff it's actually a real fucking problem. But here's the thing, the concertacion is directly guilty of not updating and fixing things that were products of their time.

Glad to agree with you after your explanation, still, this is the best period of Chile on all of its history (and we can thank the dictatorship period for that). Maybe we could be even better if the change to democracy hadn't left us in the hands of inepts.

>gato negro wine
Worst shit i ever drank. It's cheap as fuck for a reason.

>Macedonia
Does being part of Yugoslavia count?

We are going through it right now.

Russia
1917-1992

>Not the 1980s/1990s when we were unparalleled in almost all meaningful categories

Bump

1600s

What's wrong with the education system?
Like I said before, the AFPs themselves are not a problem, but the conditions that followed it's implementation (which are not related by anything other than coincidence).
What did they need to fix? To be honest, during their first years they did take care of poverty a lot, that's very nice (although there is no data available on poverty for Chile before 1990, so I wouldn't know if their efforts were good or not).
You could argue the best time for almost any country is today, really, but golden Era seems more like the best the country could be at the time and achieving it.

Bump

More like five years ago during the mining boom, now is just shitty politics with heartless leaders.

USA
1880-1930, peaking particularly in the 1920s

1815 - 1914

>Switzerland
Now? Or before the Euro/Pound went to shit, I guess?

>materialism>values

K

Exactly. In the 1950s we were fear-ridden, morally divided, and on the brink of tearing each other apart over the issues of ideology. In the 1990s, we had a resurgence of that economic gain and moral superiority without the sticky issue of partial citizenship and communist paranoia. The liberal world order stood as the clear winner and we had total optimism.

Unless by "values" you mean petty social issues like interracial marriage, gay rights, and insolent youth. By those standards, fine, the 50s were more stable.

Ireland
1013

it's been pretty shit all the way up to now

Probably 6000BC or something similarly ancient. We had a slight cultural resurgence in the early to mid 50s but then socialism happened.

Probably 6000BC or something similarly ancient. We had a slight cultural resurgence in the early to mid 1900s but then socialism happened.

...

Early dark ages. Ireland.

Monks from Ireland founded monasteries which educated people and made documents for future generations. They also went abroad preaching. Great times for Ireland.

Sweden

As a powerful nation, probably just before the death of Charles XI, when the Swedish Empire was at it's peak.

In reality, perhaps the early 2010's before the refugees, when our (and the other Scandinavian nations) economy and living standards were almost unmatched.