modern era

(Europe, 18th century – 20th century) Industrial Revolution, Napoleonic Era, Georgian Era, Victorian era, Edwardian period (UK), Meiji era (Japan), Machine Age, World War I, Interwar period, World War II

early modern period

14th – 18th century
The Renaissance, Age of Discovery, Elizabethan period (United Kingdom), The Protestant Reformation, Jacobean Era (UK), The Age of Enlightenment (Europe), Tokugawa shogunate (Japan)

middle ages

classical antiquity

ancient Greece and Rome

ancient history

« past from the beginning of human history until the Early Middle Ages.
Prehistory, Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. Prominent civilizations of ancient history : ancient Mesopotamia, Persia, Phoenicia, Armenia, Arabia, Egypt, India, East Asia, the Americas ( Aztecs, Incas, Mayans, Mississippian culture, Native America..) »