historical period
segment of time in history
World War II
1939–1945 global conflict
Qin dynasty
dynasty that ruled in China from 221 to 206 BC
Nazi Germany
Germany from 1933 to 1945 while under control of the Nazi Party
Byzantine Empire
Roman Empire during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
Vikings
Norse people, farmers, merchants, explorers, raiders and pirates
Pre-Islamic Arabia
Arabic civilization which existed in the Arabian Peninsula before the rise of Islam in the 630s
Unification of Italy
creation of the politically and administratively integrated nation of Italy (1815–1871)
Burgundian Netherlands
The portion of the Low Countries ruled by the Dukes of Burgundy in the period from 1384 to 1482
Colombian conflict
low-intensity asymmetric war, beginning in 1964, between Colombian governments, paramilitary groups, crime syndicates and far-left guerrillas (FARC, ELN, etc.)
Victorian era
period of British history encompassing Queen Victoria's reign (1837-1901)
Reign of Terror
Period in France following the French Revolution
Fourth Brazilian Republic
period of Brazilian history from 1946 to 1964
High Middle Ages
period in European history from 1000-1250 CE
Second Industrial Revolution
phase of rapid industrialization in the final third of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th
Kamakura period
period of Japanese history
Archaic Greece
period of ancient Greek history
Crisis of the Third Century
Roman Imperial government crisis (235–284)
Taiwan under Qing dynasty rule
Taiwan's dynasty history
Hellenistic period
period of Mediterranean history from 323 to 31 BC
Protohistory
period between prehistory and written history
Later Three Kingdoms
period of Korean history (892–936), during which the southern Korean peninsula was fragmented into three states (Taebong, Hubaekje, and Silla), until they were eventually reunified by Goryeo
North South States Period
period in Korean history (698–926) when Silla and Balhae coexisted in the south and north of the peninsula, respectively
West Germany
Federal Republic of Germany in the period between its formation on 23 May 1949 and German reunification on 3 October 1990
Berlin Republic
historic period of reunited Germany after 1990
Proto-Renaissance
cultural movement preceding the Italian Renaissance
Modern animation in the United States
period of U.S. animation when the animation medium experienced a revival
postwar Japan
historical period
Spanish colonization of the Americas
overseas expansion under the Crown of Castile
Nanjing Decade
historical period (1927–1937) in China
Apostolic Age
period of early Christian history dated from 33 AD to 100 AD
Tulip period
periodization
Dutch Ceylon
period of Dutch control of Ceylon
Second Czechoslovak Republic
1938–1939 republic in Central/Eastern Europe
Tudor period
historical era in England coinciding with the rule of the Tudor dynasty
Mongol-Tatar yoke
system of political and tributary dependence of the Russian principalities on the Mongol Empire from 1242 to the end of the 15th century
Third Czechoslovak Republic
republic in Central-Eastern Europe between 1945–1948
The Ruin
tumultuous period in Ukrainian history from 1659 to 1686
Byzantine Greece
historical period of Greece
Second Temple period
period in Jewish history lasting between 516 BCE and 70 CE
Estonia under Swedish rule
period in history of the territory of present-day Estonia (historically divided between Swedish Estonia and Swedish Livonia)
Collapse of the Georgian realm
political and territorial fragmentation of the Georgian kingdom
Khmer Rouge rule of Cambodia
the rule of Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen, Khieu Samphan and the Communist Party of Kampuchea over Cambodia
Areopagite constitution
period in Athenian governance
Byzantine Empire under the Justinian dynasty
Byzantine Empire from 518 to 602
Late Imperial China
Era in Chinese history
Marshall Court
period of the US Supreme Court from 1801 to 1835