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( Modern period)
The term modern period or modern era (sometimes also modern times) is the period of history that followed the Middle Ages which ended approximately 1500. This terminology is an historical periodization that is applied primarily to European and Western history. The modern era is further divided with an early period, sometimes called the early modern period, which lasted from c. 1500–1800. This period ended in a time of change and upheaval 18th century Enlightenment, Industrial Revolution in Britain, and an Age of Revolutions, beginning with those in America and the France, and then pushed forward in other countries partly as a result of upheavals of the Napoleonic Wars. Our present or contemporary era begins with the end of these revolutions, later in the 19th century, and includes World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. The modern period has been a period of significant development in the fields of science, politics, warfare, and technology. It has also been an age of discovery and globalisation. During this time that the European powers and later their colonies, began a political, economic, and cultural colonization of the rest of the world. By the late 19th and early 20th century, modernist art, politics, science and culture has come to dominate not only Western Europe and North America, but almost every civilized area on the globe, including movements thought of as opposed to the west and globalization. The modern era is closely associated with the development of individualism, capitalism, urbanization and a belief in the positive possibilities of technological and political progress.
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