Most of the fanstasy content (books, movies, games etc.) are set in medieval times. Why not in different eras of the humanity? What is so special about medieval era?
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To add to other comments, a lot of it is just how society has chosen to define “fantasy” and the fact that the more the idea of “low technology and possibly magic = fantasy” is cemented in the public mind, the more people don’t consider fantasy that DOESN’T fit into that mold to be fantasy.
For example, a lot of fantasy is called sci-fi if it happens to happen in space, even if there’s very little other themes in the media that fit the science fiction genre.
For example, if you took Star Wars and put it in ANY other setting, it would very obviously be fantasy. But because you replaced swords with light-sabers and horses with x-wings and tie fighters and enemy fortresses with death stars and put it on space instead of on ground, a lot of people see it as sci-fi and not fantasy.
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