MODERNHISTORY
Modern history
Modern history, also referred to as the modern period or the modern era, is the historiographical approach to the timeframe after the post-classical era . Modern history can be further broken down into the early modern period and the late modern period after the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Contemporary history is the span of historic events that are immediately relevant to the present time. The modern era began approximately in the 16th century.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Modern history
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