Other significant eras of Equestrian History

[Mand'alor Dash 2,224]

FiM's time period seems to be intentionally muddled and confusing. While Apple Loosa seems to be somewhere in the mid-late 19th century, other areas such as Ponyville and Canterlot seem to evoke a confoundingly anachronistic medieval/modern motif. Manehattan appears the most consistently modern, with styles and technologies that evoke the 1930s or 40s, though the only automobile we have seen in the show comes to us courtesy of 1909-era con artists Flim and Flam.

 

Hearth's Warming Eve clues us in by definitively connecting "the ye olden days" to the middle ages (except for the Roman Pegasi), but that only makes it more confusing. Has the majority of Equestrian society advanced that little in those thousands of years since the founding of Equestria? What other formative events must have happened in the interim?

 

Did Equestria ever have a renaissance, or an age of imperialism? What's keeping the tech levels of the realm so drastically disparate? What did the equestrian timeline look like in those strange millennia between the founding and the present day?

[The Awesome One 1,315]

I am guessing that Equestria went through all the major ages that we have had in our world. Only difference with them was that throughout all those ages, Celestia and (for some of the time) Luna remained the leaders. I think that Manehattan is a really new city that's why it is so 30s styled while Canterlot is almost as old as Equestria so it has that medieval look to it.

[sweetolebob18 728]

There have been several threads on these topics.  One on EQ timelines, one on the Crystal Empire.  Sorry, ICR the thread names.  They were all posted in last December or later because I remember seeing them around Xmas, but they are probably buried quite a few pages back. 

 

Consensus seems to be

Ancient Times (G1 & G2 ponies)

Discord's interference w weather causes massive crop failures & collapse of all civilizations

Hearth Warming Eve (maybe after Discord's defeat)

Star Squirrel helps Celestia & Luna acquire Elements of Harmony & Discord's 1st defeat.  They are made rulers of EQ

Luna turns into Nightmare Moon & is banished 

Edited May 25, 2015 by sweetolebob18