Modern world | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-16

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00:01:43 1 Terminology and usage
00:01:54 1.1 Pre-modern
00:02:54 1.2 Modern
00:05:07 1.3 Contemporary
00:06:09 2 Modern era
00:06:18 2.1 Significant developments
00:08:41 2.1.1 Early
00:11:24 2.1.2 Late
00:20:28 3 Early modern period
00:23:50 3.1 Asia
00:23:59 3.1.1 China
00:26:59 3.1.2 Japan
00:29:32 3.1.3 India
00:31:06 3.1.3.1 British and Dutch colonization
00:34:00 3.2 Europe
00:35:07 3.2.1 Tsardom of Russia
00:37:59 3.2.2 Reason and Enlightenment
00:41:37 3.2.3 Scientific Revolution
00:42:52 3.2.4 The French Revolutions
00:44:26 3.2.4.1 National and Legislative Assembly
00:45:19 3.2.4.2 The Directory and Napoleonic Era
00:47:06 3.2.5 Italian unification
00:47:59 3.2.6 End of the early modern period
00:49:12 3.3 North America
00:53:21 3.3.1 Decolonization of North and South Americas
00:55:31 4 Late modern period
00:55:42 4.1 Timeline
00:56:02 4.2 Industrial revolutions
00:58:40 4.2.1 Industrialization
00:59:43 4.2.2 Revolution in manufacture and power
01:01:46 4.2.3 Notable engineers
01:03:27 4.2.4 Social effects and classes
01:04:39 4.2.4.1 Mid-19th-century European revolts
01:05:45 4.2.4.2 Industrial age reformism
01:07:20 4.2.5 Imperial Russia
01:09:52 4.3 European dominance and the 19th century
01:10:33 4.3.1 Imperialism and empires
01:14:32 4.3.2 British Victorian era
01:17:36 4.3.3 French governments and conflicts
01:20:24 4.3.4 Slavery and abolition
01:21:05 4.3.5 African colonization
01:25:51 4.3.6 Meiji Japan
01:29:17 4.4 United States
01:29:27 4.4.1 Antebellum expansion
01:30:49 4.4.2 Civil War and Reconstruction
01:33:16 4.4.3 The Gilded Age and legacy
01:36:14 4.5 Science and philosophy
01:39:48 4.5.1 Notable persons
01:41:09 4.5.2 Social Darwinism
01:42:02 4.5.3 Marxist society
01:43:59 4.6 European decline and the 20th century
01:44:41 4.6.1 Australian Constitution
01:45:35 4.6.2 Revolution and Warlords in China
01:49:04 4.6.3 World Wars era
01:49:13 4.6.3.1 Start of the 20th century
01:52:16 4.6.3.2 Edwardian Britain
01:53:40 4.6.3.3 World War I
02:00:56 4.6.3.4 Revolutions and war in Eurasia
02:07:38 4.6.4 The Early Republic of China
02:10:01 4.6.4.1 Nanjing period in China
02:10:45 4.6.4.2 The 1920s and the Depression
02:16:56 4.6.4.3 The League and crises
02:20:45 4.6.4.4 Tripartite Pact
02:22:07 4.6.4.5 World War II
02:29:50 5 End of the Period – Postwar World
02:32:06 5.1 American Peace
02:32:57 5.2 Cold War era
02:38:03 5.3 Latin America polarization
02:39:18 5.4 Space Age
02:41:14 6 Education and schools
02:41:59 6.1 British education
02:42:35 6.2 Universities
02:43:08 7 See also



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Modern history, the modern period or the modern era, is the linear, global, historiographical approach to the time frame after post-classical history. Modern history can be further broken down into periods:

The early modern period began approximately in the early 16th century; notable historical milestones included the European Renaissance, the Age of Discovery, and the Protestant Reformation.
The late modern period began approximately in the mid-18th century; notable historical milestones included the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the Great Divergence, and the Russian Revolution. It took all of human history up to 1804 for the world's population to reach 1 billion; the next billion came just over a century later, in 1927.
Contemporary history is the span of historic events from approximately 1945 that are immediately relevant to the present time.This article primarily covers the 1800–1950 time period with a brief summary of 1500–1800. For a more in depth article on modern times before 1800, see Early Modern period.