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- Dictionaryera/ˈɪərə/
noun
- 1. a long and distinct period of history: "his death marked the end of an era"
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5 days ago · Calculating an era helps us make sense of the vast timeline of human history by dividing it into smaller and more manageable periods. By understanding the characteristics of each era, we can better appreciate the factors that shaped societies and civilizations throughout time.
3 days ago · The Renaissance was a period in European civilization that immediately followed the Middle Ages and reached its height in the 15th century. It is conventionally held to have been characterized by a surge of interest in Classical scholarship and values.
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- Renaissance is a French word meaning “rebirth.” It refers to a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning a...
- There is some debate over when exactly the Renaissance began. However, it is generally believed to have begun in Italy during the 14th century, aft...
- Prominent figures of the Renaissance, understood as a broadly European era, include philosopher and statesman Niccolò Machiavelli, known for the po...
- One of the fields that embodied the Renaissance was fine art, especially painting and sculpture. Renaissance art was inspired by Classical Greek an...
- The idea of a Renaissance man developed in Italy and derived from Leon Battista Alberti’s notion that “a man can do all things if he will.” The ide...
3 days ago · Indo-European speaking peoples began to spread into India about 1500 BC. The Rigveda, in Sanskrit, dates to this period and begins a period often known as the Vedic period. [91] Between 1500 and 500 BC these peoples spread throughout most of India and had begun to found small cities. [92]
1 day ago · Called the Siècle des Lumières, the philosophical movement of the Enlightenment had already started by the early 18th century, when Pierre Bayle launched the popular and scholarly Enlightenment critique of religion. As a skeptic Bayle only partially accepted the philosophy and principles of rationality.
6 days ago · The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological dating that uses chronostratigraphy (the process of relating strata to time) and geochronology (a scientific branch of geology that aims to determine the age of rocks).
5 days ago · Bronze Age, third phase in the development of material culture among the ancient peoples of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, following the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods (Old Stone Age and New Stone Age, respectively). The term also denotes the first period in which metal was used.
5 days ago · The Neolithic Period, also called the New Stone Age, is the final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans. The stage is characterized by stone tools shaped by polishing or grinding, dependence on domesticated plants or animals , settlement in permanent villages, and the appearance of such crafts as ...
