ancient era
Long-gone historical period
Ancient era refers to the earliest period of recorded human history, typically spanning from the emergence of writing systems around 3000 BCE to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 CE.
The term encompasses civilizations like Egypt, Greece, Rome, Mesopotamia, and China.
In gaming and strategy contexts, the ancient era often names an early technological or developmental stage: We're still in the ancient era, so our units are pretty weak.
- antiquityGreat age, ancient era
- civilizationAdvanced organized human society
- lost civilizationAncient society now gone
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
- templesHoly places or head sides
pharaohs · empire · mythology · scrolls · pyramids · toga · bronze · bronze age · iron · Roman Empire · chariot · senate · dynasty · silk road · hieroglyphs · oracle · gladiator · acropolis
- historical erasStone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance
- olden timesantiquity, Middle Ages, Dark Ages, Bronze Age, Iron Age
- literary periodsRenaissance, medieval, Victorian, modern, contemporary
- historical forcescultural shifts, political change, social progress, economic development, technological change
- military erasWorld War I, Vietnam War, Korean War, Hundred Years War, Thirty Years War
- Asian ErasTang Dynasty, Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty, Muromachi period, Three Kingdoms
ancient eramodern times
The contemporary era
modern era · contemporary era · modern age · the present · modern period
ancient eramodern era
Current historical period
information age · digital age · industrial era · space age · atomic age
ancient eramodern era
Current historical period
contemporary era · modern period · new age · end times · modern history