Significant developments Modern history

the modern era includes period, called modern period, lasted c. 1500 around c. 1800 (most 1815). particular facets of modernity include:

the renaissance
the reformation , counter reformation.
the age of discovery
the rise of capitalism
the golden age of piracy

important events in modern period include:

the invention of printing press
the english civil war
the 7 years war

this combination of epoch events totally changed thinking , thought in modern period, , dates serve separate old new modes.

as age of revolutions dawned, beginning revolts in america , france, political changes pushed forward in other countries partly result of upheavals of napoleonic wars , impact on thought , thinking, concepts nationalism organizing armies.

the period ended in time of political , economic change result of mechanization in society, american revolution, first french revolution; other factors included redrawing of map of europe final act of congress of vienna , peace established second treaty of paris ended napoleonic wars.

late

as result of industrial revolution , earlier political revolutions, worldviews of modernism emerged. industrialization of many nations initiated industrialization of britain. particular facets of late modernity period include:

increasing role of science , technology
mass literacy , proliferation of mass media
spread of social movements
institution of representative democracy
individualism
industrialization
urbanization
total fertility rates , ecological collapses occurring @ geometric rates;

other important events in development of late modern period include:

the american revolution
the french revolution
the revolutions of 1848
the russian revolution
the first world war , second world war

our recent era—modern times—begins end of these revolutions in 19th century, , includes world wars era (encompassing world war , world war ii) , emergence of socialist countries led cold war. contemporary era follows shortly afterward explosion of research , increase of knowledge known information age in latter 20th , 21st century. today s postmodern era seen in widespread digitality.