mar 29, 1492 - MODERN AGE
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Modern history is often used to refer to the era of enlightenment arisen from the Euro-American culture. It mainly contains social ideas, concepts and developments like
• Rise of the nation state
• Growth of tolerance as a political and social belief
• Industrialization
• Rise of mercantilism and capitalism
• Emergence of socialist countries
• Discovery and colonization of the Non-Western world
• Rise of representative democracy
• Increasing role of science and technology
• Urbanization
• Mass literacy
• Proliferation of mass media
• The Cartesian and Kantian distrust of tradition for autonomous reason
• Emergence of social science and anthropology
• Romanticism and Early Existentialism
Naturalist approaches to art and description
• Evolutionary thinking in geology, biology, politics, and social sciences
• Beginnings of modern psychology
• Growing disenfranchisement of religión
• Emancipation
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- Prehistory
- Ancient
- Postclassical
- Modern
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