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  2. Anachronism - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek Orpheus with a violin (invented in the 16th century) rather than a lyre.A 17th-century painting by Cesare Gennari. An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods.

  3. Periodization - Wikipedia

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    There is a gradual change in the courses taught and books published to correspond to the change in period nomenclature, which in part reflects differences between social history and cultural history. The new nomenclature suggests a broader geographical coverage and a growing attention to the relationships between Europe and the wider world.

  4. Period - Wikipedia

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    Unit of time or timeframe Period (geology), a subdivision of geologic time; Period (physics), the duration of time of one cycle in a repeating event; Orbital period, the time needed for one object to complete an orbit around another; Rotation period, the time needed for one object to complete a revolution; Wavelength, the spatial period of a ...

  5. Epoch - Wikipedia

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    The "epoch" serves as a reference point from which time is measured. The moment of epoch is usually decided by congruity, or by following conventions understood from the epoch in question. The epoch moment or date is usually defined from a specific, clear event of change, an epoch event.

  6. Post hoc ergo propter hoc - Wikipedia

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    A logical fallacy of the questionable cause variety, it is subtly different from the fallacy cum hoc ergo propter hoc ('with this, therefore because of this'), in which two events occur simultaneously or the chronological ordering is insignificant or unknown. Post hoc is a logical fallacy in which one event seems to be the cause of a later ...

  7. Event (relativity) - Wikipedia

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    An event in the universe is caused by the set of events in its causal past. An event contributes to the occurrence of events in its causal future. Upon choosing a frame of reference, one can assign coordinates to the event: three spatial coordinates = (,,) to describe the location and one time coordinate to specify the moment at which the event ...

  8. Late modern period - Wikipedia

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    The interwar period was the period between the end of the First World War and the beginning of the Second World War. This period was marked by turmoil in much of the world, as Europe struggled to recover from the devastation of the First World War. [citation needed] An American flapper girl. In the 1920s, women experienced a degree of liberation.

  9. Post-classical history - Wikipedia

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    At the beginning of the time period Buddhism was predominant throughout the area with the short-lived Pala Empire on the Indo-Gangetic Plain sponsoring the faith's institutions. One such institution was the Buddhist Nalanda mahavihara in modern-day Bihar , a center of scholarship that brought the divided South Asia onto the global intellectual ...