Examples of periodization in the following topics:
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- The Eastern Zhou period was divided into two halves.
- The first period of Zhou rule, which lasted from 1046 - 771 BCE and was referred to as the Western Zhou period, had been characterized mostly by unified, peaceful rule.
- Thus, the assassination marked the end of the Western Zhou period and the beginning of the Eastern Zhou period
- This period lasted from about 771 - 476 BCE.
- This map shows the Warring States late in the period.
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- It also laid the groundwork for the classical period,
both politically and culturally.
- Historians do have access
to rich archaeological evidence from this period though that help to inform our
understanding of Greek life during the Archaic period.
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the polis did not become the dominant form of sociopolitical organization
throughout Greece during the Archaic period, and in the north and west of the
country it did not become dominant until later in the classical period.
- In the Archaic period, the Greek word tyrannos did
not have the negative connotations it had later in the classical period.
- The Iliad, however, has been placed
immediately following the Greek Dark Age period.
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- The Eastern Han period was a time of reunification and prosperity and also saw the perfection of paper and porcelain.
- When the Western Han period ended in 9 CE, the regent to the prior emperor, Wang Mang, proclaimed his own new dynasty, the Xin Dynasty.
- A new Han emperor, Emperor Guangwu, took control and ruled from Luoyang, in eastern China—thus began the Eastern Han period, which lasted from 25 - 220 CE.
- It was also in this period that paper, one of China's most important inventions, emerged.
- This ended the Han Dynasty, and started a period of conflict between these three states, called Cao Wei, Eastern Wu and Shu Han.
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- The Warring States period saw technological and philosophical development and the emergence of the Qin Dynasty.
- The second part of the Eastern Zhou period, during which these few remaining states battled each other for total power, is known as the Warring States period.
- This period also saw the further development of the philosophical movements that originated in the Hundred Schools of Thought of the Spring and Autumn period.
- The Rise of the Qin State and Resolution of the Warring States Period
- Demonstrate understanding of the main characteristics of the Warring States period
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- To the extent that history is continuous and cannot be generalized, all systems of periodization are arbitrary.
- Moreover, determining the precise beginning and ending to any period is also a matter of arbitrary decisions.
- For example, the history of Asia or Africa cannot be neatly categorized following these periods.
- Some historians have also noted that the 1960s, as a descriptive historical period, actually began in the late 1950s and ended in the early 1970s, because the cultural and economic conditions that define the meaning of the period dominated longer than the actual decade of the 1960s.
- The periodization of world history, as imperfect and biased as it is, serves as a way to organize and systematize knowledge.