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*the early modern period of modern history follows the ‘late middle ages’ of the ‘post-classical era’*
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(although the chronological limits of the period are open to debate, the timeframe spans the period after the late portion of the ‘post-classical age’ (c. 1500), known as the ‘Middle Ages’, through the beginning of the ‘Age of Revolutions’ (c. 1800) and is variously demarcated by historians as beginning with the ‘Fall of Constantinople’ in 1453, with the ‘Renaissance’ period, and with the ‘Age of Discovery’ (especially with the voyages of Christopher Columbus beginning in 1492, but also with Vasco da Gama’s discovery of the sea route to the East in 1498), and ending around the ‘French Revolution’ in 1789)
(historians in recent decades have argued that from a worldwide standpoint, the most important feature of the ‘early modern period’ was its ‘globalizing’ character)
(the period witnessed the exploration and colonization of the ‘Americas’ and the rise of sustained contacts between previously isolated parts of the globe)
(the historical powers became involved in ‘global trade’, as the exchange of goods, plants, animals, and food crops extended to the ‘Old World’ and the ‘New World’)
(the ‘Columbian Exchange’ greatly affected the human environment)
(new economies and institutions emerged, becoming more sophisticated and globally articulated over the course of the ‘early modern period’)
(this process began in the medieval North Italian city-states, particularly ‘Genoa’, ‘Venice’, and ‘Milan’)
(the ‘early modern period’ also included the rise of the dominance of the economic theory of ‘mercantilism’)
(the European colonization of the ‘Americas’, ‘Asia’, and ‘Africa’ occurred during the 15th to 19th centuries, and spread ‘Christianity’ around the world)
(the early modern trends in various regions of the world represented a shift away from medieval modes of organization, politically and economically)
(‘feudalism’ declined in Europe, while the period also included the ‘Protestant Reformation’, the disastrous ‘Thirty Years’ War’, the ‘Commercial Revolution’, the European colonization of the ‘Americas’, and the ‘Golden Age of Piracy’)
(by the 16th century the economy under the ‘Ming Dynasty’ was stimulated by trade with the ‘Portuguese’, the ‘Spanish’, and the ‘Dutch’, while ‘Japan’ engaged in the Nanban trade after the arrival of the first European Portuguese during the ‘Azuchi-Momoyama’ period)
(other notable trends of the ‘early modern period’ include the development of ‘experimental science’, accelerated travel due to improvements in ‘mapping’ and ‘ship design’, increasingly rapid ‘technological progress’, secularized civic politics, and the emergence of ‘nation states’)
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*historians typically date the end of the early modern period when the ‘French Revolution’ of the 1790s began the “modern” period*
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