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![Hellenistic Period](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/14355.png?v=1715151363)
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Hellenistic Period
The Hellenistic Period is a part of the Ancient Period for the European and Near Asian space. The use of this period is justified by the extent of the Hellenic culture in most of these areas, due to the Greek political presence especially...
![Third Intermediate Period of Egypt](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5853.jpg?v=1699827663)
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Third Intermediate Period of Egypt
The Third Intermediate Period (c. 1069-525 BCE) is the era following the New Kingdom of Egypt (c. 1570-c.1069 BCE) and preceding the Late Period (c.525-332 BCE). Egyptian history was divided into eras of 'kingdoms' and 'intermediate periods'...
![The Three Estates of Pre-Revolutionary France](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/15305.jpg?v=1709529364)
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The Three Estates of Pre-Revolutionary France
Society in the Kingdom of France in the period of the Ancien Regime was broken up into three separate estates, or social classes: the clergy, the nobility, and the commoners. These classes and their accompanying power dynamics, originating...
![Yayoi Period](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4615.jpg?v=1721550127)
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Yayoi Period
The Yayoi Period is one of the oldest historical periods of Japan spanning from c. 300 BCE to c. 250 CE, preceded by the Jomon Period and followed by the Kofun Period. The name Yayoi comes from the district in Tokyo where the first artifacts...
![First Intermediate Period of Egypt](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5746.jpg?v=1696153089)
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First Intermediate Period of Egypt
The First Intermediate Period of Egypt (2181-2040 BCE) is the era which followed the Old Kingdom (c. 2613-2181 BCE) and preceded the Middle Kingdom (2040-1782 BCE) periods of Egyptian history. The name was given to the era by 19th-century...
![Late Period of Ancient Egypt](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5356.jpg?v=1717770609)
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Late Period of Ancient Egypt
The Late Period of Egypt (525-332 BCE) is the era following the Third Intermediate Period (1069-525) and preceding the brief Hellenistic Period (332-323 BCE) when Egypt was ruled by the Argead officials installed by Alexander the Great prior...
![Unified Silla & Balhae Kingdoms](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/5839.gif?v=1705612689)
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Unified Silla & Balhae Kingdoms
A map showing the territory of the Unified Silla Kingdom (668- 935 CE) and Balhae (Parhae) Kingdom (698-926 CE), which controlled parts of Manchuria.
![Asuka Period](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/6505.jpg?v=1721550126)
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Asuka Period
The Asuka Period (Asuka Jidai) of ancient Japan covers the period from 538 CE to 710 CE and, following on from the Kofun Period (c. 250-538 CE), so constitutes the latter part of the Yamato Period (c. 250-710 CE). For some scholars the period...
![Jomon Period](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/6656.jpg?v=1636182003)
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Jomon Period
The Jomon Period is the earliest historical era of Japanese history which began around 14500 BCE, coinciding with the Neolithic Period in Europe and Asia, and ended around 300 BCE when the Yayoi Period began. The name Jomon, meaning 'cord...
![Predynastic Period in Egypt](https://www.worldhistory.org/img/c/p/360x202/4413.jpg?v=1721383969-1721383989)
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Predynastic Period in Egypt
The Predynastic Period in Ancient Egypt is the time before recorded history from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic Age and on to the rise of the First Dynasty and is generally recognized as spanning the era from c. 6000-3150 BCE (though physical...