The problem with today’s historiographical narrative is that it is punctually leadership-vision oriented. The eras, as we do study them today, whether in high school or college, tend to be studied as the product of the actions of leaders. Eras are marked by Xerxes, Caesar, Augustus, Charlemagne, Peter the Great, Frederick II, Napoleon, Hitler and so on. For us, leaders are the architects of the collective, and therefore it was the leaders who transformed the realities around them, it was the leaders who brought their nation to collapse or triumph, and it was to them that the eras were radically changed.
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