early modern history
Post-medieval historical period
Early modern history covers the period between the medieval era and modernity proper, roughly 1500 to 1800.
The boundaries are fuzzy, but the era encompasses the Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Exploration, and Enlightenment—ending around the French Revolution and Industrial Revolution.
She specializes in early modern history, focusing on the Atlantic slave trade.
- HumanismMovement centering individual worth
- Scientific RevolutionEarly modern intellectual transformation
- RenaissanceEuropean cultural reawakening
- ReformationReligious movement splitting Christianity
- ProtestantismReformation-era Christian movement
Scholasticism · Age of Reason · Enlightenment · Protestant Reformation · Treaty of Westphalia · Columbian Exchange · spice trade · Peace of Augsburg · Age of Exploration · New World · Ottoman Empire · Ming Dynasty · Thirty Years' War · Holy Roman Empire · divine right · English Civil War · Glorious Revolution · Tudor England
early modern historyancient history
Study of earliest civilizations
prehistory · classical antiquity · antiquity · contemporary history · medieval history
early modern historycurrent events
Recent notable happenings
contemporary history · the here and now · today · modern times
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