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3 days ago · The era known as Classical Antiquity partially overlapped with the Iron Age; it went from the 8th century B.C.E. to the 5th century C.E., containing the sensational rise and fall of both Ancient Greece and Rome.
4 days ago · The Information Age (also known as the Third Industrial Revolution, Computer Age, Digital Age, Silicon Age, New Media Age, Internet Age, or the Digital Revolution [1]) is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century to the early 21st century. It is characterized by a rapid shift from traditional industries, as established during the ...
2 days ago · In the history of the Americas, the pre-Columbian era, also known as the pre-contact era, spans from the original peopling of the Americas in the Upper Paleolithic to European colonization, which began with Christopher Columbus 's voyage of 1492. Usually, the era covers the history of Indigenous cultures until significant influence by Europeans ...
3 days ago · t. e. In United States history, the Gilded Age is described as the period from about the 1870s to the late 1890s, which occurred between the Reconstruction Era and the Progressive Era. It was named after an 1873 Mark Twain novel by historians in the 1920s who saw this interval of economic expansion as an era of materialistic excesses combined ...
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3 days ago · The northern lights have fascinated mankind since at least 957 B.C., more than 2,000 years before Galileo coined the term "aurora borealis."
5 days ago · In the first millennium of the Common Era (CE), paleoproxy records become more sparse 10, introducing biases in reconstructions of global mean temperatures 11,12.
5 days ago · Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others. As a reviewer who regards himself as a pioneer in the study of medieval sexuality, I judge this book as the best short introduction to medieval sexuality that I have read. The first chapter is an outstanding examination of the problems of writing about sex in medieval Europe.
