historical period

C138
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.

All labels observed (163)

Label Occurrences
historical period canonical 703
historical era 69
historical concept 57

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: historical period
Generated description
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.

Instances (1,090)

Instance Via concept surface
"Reasoned Brightness" or "Great Light"
surface form: Reasoned Brightness
historical period name
Dutch Golden Age of hydraulic engineering
Metapolitefsi political period
British Empire in South Africa
Swinging Sixties
Hellenistic Athens historical period of Athens
Third Hellenic Republic period of Greek history
French Enlightenment
Imperial China
Late Classic period
Renaissance Scotland
New England Way historical concept
Great Vowel Shift (early phase) stage of the Great Vowel Shift
Venetian rule in Cyprus
Guided Democracy period
regency of Ras Tafari Makonnen
surface form: Regency of Ras Tafari Makonnen
Saite Renaissance
Saeculum Obscurum
Age of Absolutism
American Civil War and Reconstruction era
Jurassic geologic period
Heavy and Chemical Industrialization era of South Korea historical era
Nadir of American race relations
Golden Age of Aviation
The Mansion Gilded Age estate
Constantinian period
jazz age
surface form: Jazz Age
cultural era
Napoleon I as ruler of Parma (Napoleonic administration)
Old Order (Orde Lama)
surface form: Old Order
Ansei
Man’en Japanese era
Keiō Japanese era
Napatan period
Indonesian National Awakening
Reiwa Japanese era
Nayaka period
presidency of Charles de Gaulle
New Cold War
Cold War II historical period concept
Cham period historical era
Saka era calendar era
Byzantine period
Sangam period
Restoration in the Italian states
Gusuku period
Hidden Christian period
Preclassic period (Maya civilization)
the Great Confinement
surface form: Great Confinement
historical concept
late 19th-century Australia
Bangabda era calendar era