historical period
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concept
A historical period is a span of time characterized by distinct social, political, cultural, or technological conditions that differentiate it from other eras in history.
Aliases (50)
- historical era ×21
- artistic period ×9
- archaeological period ×8
- geologic period ×7
- geological period ×6
- period of Japanese history ×6
- historical concept ×5
- Japanese historical era ×4
- cultural period ×4
- literary period ×4
- prehistoric period ×4
- Japanese era ×3
- calendar era ×3
- cultural era ×3
- era of British history ×3
- era of European history ×3
- geological epoch ×3
- ancient Egyptian period ×2
- civilization phase ×2
- economic period ×2
- era of ancient Greek history ×2
- period of British history ×2
- period of Soviet history ×2
- stage of the Great Vowel Shift ×2
- 20th-century era ×1
- African-American history topic ×1
- Chinese history period ×1
- European historical era ×1
- Gilded Age estate ×1
- Web era ×1
- Western cultural era ×1
- ancient Indian period ×1
- architectural period ×1
- art historical period ×1
- chronological era ×1
- civilizational era ×1
- colonial era ×1
- colonial period ×1
- cultural event period ×1
- decade ×1
- diplomatic era ×1
- division of Precambrian time ×1
- era in Egyptian history ×1
- era of Scandinavian history ×1
- era of human history ×1
- era of imperialism ×1
- halakhic era ×1
- historical era of English drama ×1
- historical film period ×1
- historical government period ×1
Instances (328)
- Edwardian era
- Second Industrial Revolution
- American Enlightenment
- Early Republic of the United States
- Second Temple Judaism ("period of Judaism")
- Bronze Age
- Classical Greek philosophy ("historical period of philosophy")
- Iron Age
- Herodian period
- Dutch Golden Age cartography ("historical period in cartography")
- Heisei ("Japanese era")
- Heian period
- Return to Zion
- Edo period
- Anno Mundi ("calendar era")
- Spanish colonization of Equatorial Guinea ("colonial period")
- Reconstruction era
- Second Spanish Republic ("historical period of Spain")
- Cretaceous ("geological period")
- Viking Age
- Carolingian Renaissance
- Avignon Papacy
- Holocene ("geological epoch")
- Islamic Golden Age
- Locarno Era
- Washington Naval Conference period
- Late Antiquity
- Reign of Terror
- Napoleonic era
- High Middle Ages
- Late Middle Ages
- Kennedy administration ("historical government period")
- Hundred Days
- Roaring Twenties
- Pharaonic Egypt
- Scramble for Africa ("period of colonization")
- British home front during World War II
- Bourbon Spain
- Vedic period
- Fourth Industrial Revolution ("historical era")
- Tanzimat
- American Century ("historical concept")
- English Renaissance drama ("literary period")
- Ancien Régime
- Arab Winter
- Web 1.0 ("Web era")
- Hollywood Golden Age ("historical film period")
- Meiji era ("historical era")
- Korea under Japanese rule
- Counter-Reformation
- United States home front during World War I
- Industrial Revolution
- Restoration
- Classical period
- Post-Impressionism ("art historical period")
- Wirtschaftswunder
- Dutch Golden Age
- Gilded Age
- Eleven Years' Tyranny
- Roman Kingdom ("period of ancient Rome")
- Dead-ball era
- Late Baroque ("artistic period")
- Agricultural Revolution in Britain
- Prohibition era in the United States
- Interwar period
- Middle Ages
- Early Dynastic Egypt
- Chicago Black Renaissance
- Twilight War
- English Reformation Parliament era ("historical era")
- Late Period of Egypt
- Northern Renaissance
- English Renaissance
- Bengali Renaissance
- Augustan literature ("literary period")
- High Renaissance ("artistic period")
- French Renaissance
- United States home front during World War II
- Pleistocene epoch ("geological epoch")
- French Third Republic
- Web 2.0 ("technological era")
- Scientific Revolution
- Spanish Renaissance ("artistic period")
- Quaternary period ("geologic period")
- Age of Sail ("historical era")
- Blue Period ("artistic period")
- Picasso's Blue Period ("artistic period")
- Tang dynasty ("historical era")
- Three Kingdoms period
- Warring States period
- Rose Period ("artistic period")
- African art–influenced Period ("artistic period")
- Personal Rule (1629–1640)
- Stuart period ("historical era")
- Belle Époque
- Atlantic world ("historical concept")
- Hellenistic period
- Italian Risorgimento
- Aegean Bronze Age
- Late Byzantine period
- Elizabethan era (second Elizabethan age)
- Late Roman Republic
- Classical Greece
- Taisho era ("historical era")
- Taiwan under Japanese rule
- Triassic ("geologic period")
- McCarthyism
- Baroque
- Golden Age of Science Fiction ("literary period")
- Space Age
- Hungary in World War II
- White Nights ("cultural event period")
- Redemption (end of Reconstruction governments)
- War Communism
- Paleo-Indian period ("archaeological period")
- Archaic period in the Americas ("prehistoric period")
- Townshend Acts era ("historical era")
- La Reforma (liberal reforms in Mexico) ("historical period in Mexico")
- Modern era
- Classic period in Mesoamerica
- Dominate
- Sitzkrieg ("military historical term")
- cut-out period ("artistic period")
- Silurian ("geologic period")
- Wild West
- First Bourbon Restoration
- Predynastic Egypt
- Les Cent-Jours
- Second Bourbon Restoration
- Era of Good Feelings
- Carboniferous period ("geological period")
- Georgian era ("historical era")
- Age of Imperialism
- Antebellum period ("historical era")
- Middle Kingdom of Egypt
- New Kingdom of Egypt
- Smutnoye vremya
- World War I home front in the Russian Empire
- Renaissance
- Samarra period
- First Intermediate Period of Egypt
- Spanish Golden Age ("cultural period")
- Neogene ("geologic period")
- Early Middle Ages
- Pliocene epoch ("geological epoch")
- Yamato period
- Archaic Greece
- Nara period
- Ptolemaic–Roman Egypt
- American Revolutionary era ("historical era")
- Kofun period
- Deutsche Aufklärung
- Original Six era
- Showa era ("historical era")
- Company rule in India
- Enlightenment philosophy
- Biennio Rosso
- Kushite period
- Muromachi period
- Sengoku period
- French Enlightenment
- Imperial China
- New England Way ("historical concept")
- Great Vowel Shift (early phase) ("stage of the Great Vowel Shift")
- Jurassic ("geologic period")
- Napoleon I as ruler of Parma (Napoleonic administration)
- Reiwa ("Japanese era")
- Russian Enlightenment
- Biedermeier ("cultural period")
- Pre-Columbian era
- First Party System ("historical era")
- British Enlightenment
- Early Modern period
- Stone Age ("prehistoric period")
- British colonial period in Jamaica
- Presidency of Thomas Jefferson
- Proterozoic Eon ("division of Precambrian time")
- Classical period
- Crisis of the Third Century
- Presidency of James Monroe
- Stalin era
- Hundred Days
- Old West ("historical era")
- Age of Exploration
- Soviet period ("historical era")
- Principate
- July Monarchy
- Bourbon Restoration
- Classical Athens ("historical period of Athens")
- Age of Pericles
- Dirty Thirties
- Germanic Iron Age ("prehistoric period")
- Ottonian Renaissance
- Petrine era
- pontificate of Clement V
- pontificate of Innocent VI
- pontificate of Gregory XI
- Colonial America
- Byzantine Iconoclasm
- Renaissance papacy
- Arles period of Vincent van Gogh ("artistic period")
- Tannaitic period
- Amoraic period
- Progressive Era ("historical era")
- Acharonim ("halakhic era")
- Geonic period
- Late Bronze Age
- Early Horizon ("archaeological period")
- Black Power movement ("African-American history topic")
- Age of Enlightenment
- Lost Decades of Japan ("economic period")
- Shivat Tzion ("historical concept")
- Processo Revolucionário em Curso
- Anglo-Saxon England
- Scottish Enlightenment
- Greek Antiquity
- Victorian era
- Beria period of the NKVD
- early Ottoman period
- Common Era ("calendar era")
- Turco-Mongol ("historical concept")
- Cold War
- Marshall Court era ("historical era")
- Time of Troubles
- Great Inflation ("economic period")
- Great Moderation ("macroeconomic period")
- Great Acceleration
- Pax Mongolica ("historical era")
- Old Kingdom of Egypt
- Cambrian Period ("geologic period")
- Early Intermediate Period ("archaeological period")
- Paleogene ("geologic period")
- Jacksonian era ("historical era")
- Exile of the Stuart royal family in the Dutch Republic
- Ordovician Period ("geological period")
- Interwar architecture ("historical period in architecture")
- Great Vowel Shift (late phase) ("stage of the Great Vowel Shift")
- Devonian Period ("geological period")
- Kamakura period
- Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site ("Gilded Age estate")
- Permian Period ("geological period")
- Bulgarian National Revival
- Roman Antiquity
- John Marshall Court
- Brezhnev stagnation
- Jurassic Period ("geological period")
- Restoration theatre ("theatrical period")
- German Enlightenment
- British occupation of Egypt
- Victorian literature ("literary period")
- Early Islamic period