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  2. Modern era - 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.

  3. Timelines of modern history - Wikipedia

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    1.2 Late modern period. 1.3 Contemporary period. 1.4 Future. 2 By country. ... c. 1400 – c. 1500, [1] to the present. General timelines. Early modern period

  4. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Early modern period – The chronological limits of this period are open to debate. It emerges from the Late Middle Ages (c. 1500), demarcated by historians as beginning with the fall of Constantinople in 1453, in forms such as the Italian Renaissance in the West, the Ming dynasty in the East, and the rise of the Aztecs in the New World.

  5. Early modern Europe - Wikipedia

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    Early modern Europe, also referred to as the post-medieval period, is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the mid 15th century to the late 18th century.

  6. Early modern period - Wikipedia

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    In general, the early modern period is considered to have lasted from around the start of the 16th century to the start of the 19th century (about 1500–1800). In a European context, it is defined as the period following the Middle Ages and preceding the advent of modernity; but the dates of these boundaries are far from universally agreed.

  7. 1500 - Wikipedia

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    Historically, the year 1500 is also often identified, somewhat arbitrarily, as marking the end of the Middle Ages and beginning of the early modern period. [2] The end of this year marked the halfway point of the 2nd millennium, as there were 500 years before it and 500 years after it.

  8. 1500s (decade) - Wikipedia

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    The 1500s ran from January 1, 1500, to December 31, ... (modern-day Haiti and Dominican Republic). ... Japanese Sengoku period master of the tea ceremony and merchant (d.

  9. 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.