Early modern period

The early modern period is a term initially used by historians to refer mainly to the post Late Middle Ages period in Western Europe (Early modern Europe), its first colonies marked by the rise of strong centralized governments and the beginnings of recognizable nation states that are the direct antecedents of todays states in what is called Modern times.

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Early Modern warfare Middle Ages Italy Protestant Reformation Industrial Revolution History of Italy (1559-1814) Renaissance Ottoman Empire Politics Commercial Revolution Battle of Castillon Renaissance philosophy Giovanni Pico della Mirandola Early Modern Romania Early Modern Britain Modern era Politics of Europe Early modern Europe Secularity Early Modern English House of Plantagenet Battle of Bosworth Field Calendar era Hundred Years War Humanist Nation state History of technology The Prince Habsburg Spain Late Middle Ages Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Thirty Years War Periodization Johannes Gutenberg Witch-hunt Safavid dynasty Era Charles VIII of France European colonization of the Americas Tudor dynasty

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