Studying the Hundred Years War (HYW, 1337-1435) for fun and found several common themes happening in relation to now:

1. Aristocrats arrempting to maintain power

2. Spread of disease from Asia

3. Social unrest among the "peasants"

4. Climate change resulting in colder weather and famine/social unrest

5. People migrating to other areas. (In the HYW it was from the effects of Bubonic and other actual plagues.)

https://www.worldhistory.org/Hundred_Years'_War/

The bigger picture is that we are going through a natural cycle of change.

Resist the aristocracy and there will be changes for the better.