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Grouping time into periods is an inexact science, at best. For the sake of convention, the following APPROXIMATE time periods are used to group films and fiction on this site:

 

Prehistory
(before 3500 BC)

Prehistory refers to time periods where no written records are present. The three major time periods below are characterized by the dominant materials used for tools.

  • Stone Age
  • Bronze Age
  • Iron Age


Ancient History
(3500 BC to 500 AD)

Refers to time periods where written records are present, but before the Middle Ages.

  • Mesopotamia: Sumeria, Babylonia, Assyria, Akkadia (3500 -560 BC)
  • Indus Valley (3300 – 1300 BC)
  • Ancient Egypt (3000 – 1300 BC)
  • Ancient India (1500 – 500 BC)
  • Ancient China (1200 – 500 BC)
  • Ancient Rome
  • Ancient Greece (3300 – 31 BC)
  • Ancient Japan (800 BC – 600 AD)
  • Ancient Europe (including the Dark Ages, 200 to 700 AD)


Middle Ages
( 500 to 1500 AD)

The term “Middle Ages” generally refers to Europe and western Asia, but is used here in a general sense to refer to a similar time period for other peoples.

  • Europe (400 to 1400 AD)
  • Scandinavia/Vikings (780 – 1066 AD)
  • Japan (709 – 1605 AD)
  • China (907 – 960 AD)
  • Americas (North, South, and Central)
  • India (280 – 1323 AD)
  • Islam (700 – 1300 AD)


Early Modern Period
(1500 to 1800 AD)

  • Europe
    • Renaissance (1300 to 1700 AD)
    • Age of Discovery (1400 to 1700 AD)
    • Elizabethan (United Kingdom, 1558-1603)
    • Protestant Reformation (1517-1648)
    • Age of Enlightenment (1700-1799)
  • Japan
    • Tokugawa Shogunate
  • China
    • Qing Dynasty (1644-1912)
  • Ottoman Empire (1229-1923)
  • Spanish
  • United States
    • Colonial (1492-1775)
    • Revolution (1763-1815)


Modern Period
(1800 AD to the present)

  • Europe
    • Industrial Revolution
    • Napoleonic Era
    • Victorian Era (United Kingdom, 1837-1901)
    • Romantic Era (United Kingdom)
    • Edwardian Period (United Kingdom, 1901-10)
    • World War I (1914-18)
    • World War II (1939-45)
    • Cold War (1945-89)
    • Space Age (after 1957)
    • Information Age (1971-91)
    • Post Communist (1991 to present)
  • Japan
    • Meiji era (1868-1912)
  • China
  • United States
    • Expansion (1801-1961)
    • Antebellum (1820-55)
    • Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
    • Frontier (1845-1915)
    • Depression (1929-40)
    • Contemporary (1945-present)

 

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