- Look up
period or
periodic in Wiktionary,
the free dictionary.
Period may
refer to:
Period (punctuation) Era, a
length or span of time Menstruation, commonly...
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The Edo
period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also
known as
the Tokugawa period (徳川時代,
Tokugawa jidai), is
the period between 1603 and 1868 in
the history of ****an...
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The Sengoku period (****anese: 戦国時代, Hepburn:
Sengoku Jidai, lit. 'Warring
States period') is
the period in ****anese
history in
which civil wars and social...
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The orbital period (also
revolution period) is
the amount of time a
given astronomical object takes to
complete one
orbit around another object. In astronomy...
- historiography,
periodization is
the process or
study of
categorizing the past into discrete, quantified, and
named blocks of time for
the purpose of study...
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the ****enistic
period covers the time in
Mediterranean history after classical Greece,
between the death of
Alexander the Great in 323 BC and
the death...
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The Vedic period, or
the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is
the period in
the late
Bronze Age and
early Iron Age of
the history of
India when
the Vedic...
- on
the other hand, are
periods of
warmer climate between glacial periods.
The Last
Glacial Period ended about 15,000
years ago.
The Holocene is
the current...
- In
the history of
the 20th century,
the interwar period (or interbellum)
lasted from 11 November 1918 to 1 September 1939 (20 years, 9 months, 21 days)...
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The Ubaid period (c. 5500–3700 BC) is a
prehistoric period of Mesopotamia.
The name
derives from Tell al-'Ubaid
where the earliest large excavation of...
