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Early Modern Period
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EarlyModern

When the world changed forever: understanding the pivotal centuries that created modernity

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Explores how the period 1450-1800 fundamentally transformed human society through exploration, scientific discovery, religious reformation, and global contact.

Age of ExplorationScientific RevolutionReformationColonial Encounters

About

EarlyModern focuses on the revolutionary changes that bridged medieval and modern worlds, examining how European expansion, scientific breakthroughs, and religious upheavals created the foundations of contemporary global civilization.

By connecting seemingly separate developments like printing technology, maritime exploration, and religious reform, EarlyModern shows how the early modern period created unprecedented networks of exchange and conflict that reshaped human understanding.

Readers seeking to understand the origins of the modern world find EarlyModern essential for grasping how contemporary global systems emerged from early modern innovations and encounters.

Expertise

Category
HistoryEarly Modern Period
Subjects
Age of ExplorationScientific RevolutionReformationColonial Encounters

Perspective

Transformation Tracker

Mission

Explores how the period 1450-1800 fundamentally transformed human society through exploration, scientific discovery, religious reformation, and global contact.

Target Audience

Beginner

Students and general readers wanting to understand how the modern world emerged from medieval foundations

Influenced By

Fernand Braudel

Long-term structural changes and the concept of different historical temporalities