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  2. Modern era - Wikipedia

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    3.2.1 Age of Enlightenment and early Age of Revolution (ca. 1700–1800) ... The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human ...

  3. Timelines of modern history - Wikipedia

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    The following are timelines of modern history, from the end of the Middle Ages, c. 1400 – c. 1500, [1] to the present. General timelines. Early modern period For a ...

  4. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Chalcolithic (or "Eneolithic", "Copper Age") Ancient history (The Bronze and Iron Ages are not part of prehistory for all regions and civilizations who had adopted or developed a writing system.) Bronze Age; Iron Age; Late Middle Ages. Renaissance; Early modern history; Modern history. Industrial Age (1760–1970) Machine Age (1880–1945) Age ...

  5. Human history - Wikipedia

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    Human history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers.They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.

  6. Early modern period - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Age of Piracy is a designation given to one or more outbursts of piracy in the early modern period, spanning from the mid-17th century to the mid-18th century. The buccaneering period covers approximately the late 17th century.

  7. Portal:Modern history - Wikipedia

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    The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history. It was originally applied to the history of Europe and Western history for events that came after the Middle Ages , often from around the year 1500, like the Reformation in Germany giving rise to Protestantism .

  8. Modernity - Wikipedia

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    Modern art therefore belongs only to the later phases of modernity. [73] For this reason art history keeps the term modernity distinct from the terms Modern Age and Modernism – as a discrete "term applied to the cultural condition in which the seemingly absolute necessity of innovation becomes a primary fact of life, work, and thought". And ...

  9. Information Age - Wikipedia

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    The Information Age [a] is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century. ... This was a breakthrough that laid the foundations for modern technology. [2]