Modern History

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Modern history, also referred to as the modern period or the modern era, is the historiographical approach to the timeframe after the post-classical era (known as the Middle Ages).[1][2] Modern history can be further broken down into the early modern period and the late modern period after the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Contemporary history is the span of historic events that are immediately relevant to the present time. The modern era began approximately in the 16th century.[3][4]
Contents

1 The study of modern history 1.1 Source text 1.2 Terminology and usage 1.2.1 Pre-Modern 1.2.2 Modern 1.2.3 Postmodern and contemporary 2 Modern era 2.1 Significant developments 2.2 Modern as post-medieval 2.2.1 Early modern period 2.2.2 Late modern period 3 Early modern period 3.1 Asia 3.1.1 China 3.1.2 Japan 3.1.3 India 3.2 Europe 3.2.1 Tsardom of Russia 3.2.2 Reason and Enlightenment 3.2.3 Scientific Revolution 3.2.4 The French Revolutions 3.2.5 Italian unification 3.2.6 End of the early modern period 3.3 North America 3.3.1 Decolonization of North and South Americas 4 Late modern period 4.1

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