Historical Eras 1-20
19 entries in the Historical Eras compendium.
Heian periodA period of peace, cultural flowering, and Fujiwara dominance.Hellenistic periodEra of Greek cultural expansion after Alexander the Great's conquests.Iron AgeFinal epoch of the three historical Metal Ages.Jōmon periodPrehistoric Japanese hunter-gatherers known for cord-marked pottery.Late antiquityPeriod of transformation from classical antiquity to medieval worlds.Late modern periodHistorical period from 1789, possibly ending in 1945 or continuing.Lower PaleolithicEarliest subdivision of the Old Stone Age, defined by first stone tools.MesolithicIntermediate hunter-gatherer period between Paleolithic and Neolithic.Middle AgesThe middle epoch between classical antiquity and the modern period.Middle Kingdom of EgyptPeriod of reunification and stability after the First Intermediate Period.Middle PaleolithicSecond subdivision of the Paleolithic, defined by the coexistence of archaic and anatomicaMigration PeriodEra of large-scale migrations reshaping post-Roman Europe.Mississippian period (archaeology)Archaeological era of theocratic mound-building societies in the Eastern Woodlands.New Kingdom of EgyptThe most prosperous and powerful era of ancient Egypt.Old Kingdom of EgyptFirst sustained peak of ancient Egyptian civilization.PaleolithicThe Old Stone Age of human prehistory.Pax RomanaA roughly 200-year Roman golden age of relative peace and stability.Post-classical historyPeriod of global expansion, trade, and religious spread.ReformationA 16th-century movement that challenged Catholic authority and birthed Protestantism.
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