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
Kenmu Restoration
Twilight War
Confederation period historical era
Late Horizon archaeological period
Fourth Republic of Nigeria period in Nigerian history
Late Formative period cultural period
English Reformation Parliament era historical era
Vormärz
New Gilded Age historical era
Late Horizon period archaeological period
Late Period of Egypt
Ottoman period historical era
Dictatorship of Primo de Rivera
Bourbon Restoration in Spain
Golden Age of MGM musicals
Azuchi–Momoyama period
Aragonese Interregnum
World War II in Slovakia
Fragmentation of Poland
Northern Renaissance
English Renaissance
United Kingdom in World War II
Bengali Renaissance
Reign of Casimir III the Great
Hargreaves
surface form: Industrial Revolution
Napoleonic Italy
Normalization in Czechoslovakia
Early Enlightenment
Second Era of Tamriel historical era
Augustan literature literary period
feudal Japan
surface form: Feudal Japan
Nahda
Italian rule in the Dodecanese
Restoration France
Sukhothai period
High Renaissance artistic period
Tulip Era
Tulip Era of the Ottoman Empire
Spanish colonial period in the Marianas
New Amsterdam period
Divided Monarchy period
Iron Age II
Formative Horizon archaeological period
French Renaissance
United States home front during World War II
Paramara period (9th–14th century)
Maratha–Holkar rule (18th–19th century)
postwar America
surface form: Postwar America
Pleistocene epoch geological epoch
French Third Republic