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  2. 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.

  3. Timeline of ancient history - Wikipedia

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    The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...

  4. Timeline of web search engines - Wikipedia

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    WHOis [1] [2] Elizabeth Feinler and her team (who had created the Resource Directory for ARPANET) were responsible for creating the first WHOIS directory in the early 1970s. [3] Feinler set up a server in Stanford's Network Information Center (NIC) which acted as a directory that could retrieve relevant information about people or entities. [4]

  5. Timeline of operating systems - Wikipedia

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    VAX VMM [39] – TCSEC A1-class, VMM for VAX computers (limited use before cancellation) 1989 Army Secure Operating System (ASOS) [40] – TCSEC A1-class secure, real-time OS for Ada applications; EPOC (EPOC16) NeXTSTEP (1.0) OS/2 (1.2) RISC OS (First release was to be called Arthur 2, but was renamed to RISC OS 2, and was first sold as RISC OS ...

  6. Common Era - Wikipedia

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    Common Era (CE) and Before the Common Era (BCE) are year notations for the Gregorian calendar (and its predecessor, the Julian calendar), the world's most widely used calendar era. Common Era and Before the Common Era are alternatives to the original Anno Domini (AD) and Before Christ (BC) notations used for the same calendar era.

  7. Timeline of prehistory - Wikipedia

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    Early farmers dig canals that transform the swamp into arable land. They domesticate bananas, sugarcane, taro, lesser yam, and raise cassowaries from captured eggs (which had been done as early as 18,000 years ago). [117] [118] 7000 BC: Jiahu culture begins in China. 7000 BC: First large-scale fish fermentation in southern Sweden. [119]

  8. Before Present - Wikipedia

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    Conversion from Gregorian calendar years to Before Present years is by starting with the 1950-01-01 epoch of the Gregorian calendar and increasing the BP year count with each year into the past from that Gregorian date. For example, 1000 BP corresponds to 950 AD, 1949 BP corresponds to 1 AD, 1950 BP corresponds to 1 BC, 2000 BP corresponds to ...

  9. List of wars: before 1000 - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of wars that began before 1000 AD. ... Early estimate Late estimate Location Associated culture 17000 BC. 15000 BC. Wadi Kubbaniya: Unknown 16650 BC.