Historical Time Periods

The historical time period begins from the time when earth was going through evolution. Each historical time period is categorized as a periodization. These major categories of history by period is divided into geological, historical and cosmological. The ancient history by period is based on the ancient written records, archeological findings and stories of bygone eras being told over the ages. The historical time periods begins from the early Stonehenge. But, we shall not go so deep into the past and have a quick sneak preview of the list of historical time periods.

List of Historical Time Periods
The following list begins from the early Bronze Age. This was an era that gave way to the development of great civilizations and empires.

Historical Time Period	Period	History by Period Information
Ancient Period
Iron Age
Mesopotamia	3500 BC - 559 BC
Indus Valley Civilization	3300 BC - 1300 BC
Old Kingdom (Egypt)	3000 BC - 2000 BC
Middle Kingdom of Egypt Middle Kingdoms of India Middle Kingdoms of China	2000 BC - 1300 BC
Shang Dynasty	1800 BC - 1200 BC	China
Vedic period	1500 BC - 500 BC	India
New Kingdom, Egypt	1300 BC - 700 BC
Zhou Dynasty	1200 BC - 500 BC	China
Ancient Greece	c. 3300 BC - 31 BC
Jomon period	800 BC - 400 BC	Japan
Ancient Rome	509 BC - AD 476
Yayoi period	400 BC - AD 300	Japan
Kofun period	300 - 600	Japan
Migration period	200 - 700	Europe
Coptic period	300 - 900	Egypt
Middle Ages
Dark Age (Europe, 4th century - 900) Viking Age (Scandinavia, Europe, 793 - 1066)	AD 500 - 1000
Asuka period Nara period Heian period Kamakura period Muromachi period Azuchi-Momoyama period	538 - 1603	Japan
Southern and Northern Dynasties Sui Dynasty Tang Dynasty Period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms	420 - 960	China
Liao Dynasty Song Dynasty Jin Dynasty	1115 - 1234	China
Western Xia Dynasty Yuan Dynasty Ming Dynasty	220 - 1644	China.
Classic and Postclassic eras	200 - 1519	Central America
Gupta Empire Pala Empire Rashtrakuta Hoysala Empire Kakatiya Empire	280 - 1323	India
Islamic Golden Age	700 - 1300	Middle East
High Middle Ages (Feudalism) European military expansion	1000 - 1450
Srivijaya	3rd century to 14th century	Indonesia
Tarumanagara	358 - 723
Sailendra	8th & 9th centuries
Kingdom of Sunda	669 - 1579
Kingdom of Mataram	752 - 1045
Kediri	1045 - 1221
Singhasari	1222 - 1292
Majapahit	293 -1500
Chenla	630 - 802	Cambodia
Khmer Empire	802 - 1432
Anterior Lý Dynasty and Triệu Việt Vương Third Chinese domination Khúc Family Dương Đình Nghệ Kiều Công Tiễn Ngô Dynasty The 12 Lords Rebellion Đinh Dynasty Prior Lê Dynasty Lý Dynasty Trần Dynasty Hồ Dynasty Fourth Chinese domination	544 - 1427	Vietnam
Early Intermediate Middle Horizon Late Intermediate Late Horizon	200 - 1534	Peru
The Renaissance Period	1300 - 1500	Italy
Early Modern Period
Age of Discovery (or Exploration)	15th century - 17th century	Europe
Elizabethan period	1558 - 1603	United Kingdom
The Protestant Reformation	16th century	Europe
Jacobean Era	1603 - 1625	United Kingdom
The Age of Enlightenment (or Reason)	18th century	Europe
Tokugawa shogunate	1603 - 1868	Japan
Mughal Empire	1526 - 1857	India
Ottoman Empire	1299 - 1923
Qing dynasty	1644 - 1912	China
Spanish hegemony	Americas: 16th century - 1820s Europe: 16th and 17th century Philippines: 1525 - 1898
Modern era
Petrine Era, Russia	1689 - 1725
Industrial Revolution	18th and 19th centuries
Napoleonic Era	1799 - 1815
Georgian Era	1714 - 1830	United Kingdom
Victorian era	1837 - 1901	United Kingdom
Romantic Era	1850 - 1920
Gilded Age	late 19th century	United States
Edwardian period	1901 - 1910	United Kingdom
Meiji period	1868 - 1912	Japan
Progressive era	1880s to the 1920s	United States
Machine Age	1900 - 1945
Age of Oil	after 1901
World War I	1914 - 1918
Interwar period	1918 - 1939 or 1937
World War II	1939 - 1945
Atomic Age	after 1945
Post-war era	1946 - 1962
The Sixties	1960 - 1969
Cold War	1945 - 1989 or 1991	Soviet Union and United States, and their allies.
Space Age	after 1957
Post-Modern Age
Information Age	1970 - circa 2025
The Seventies	1970 - 1979
The Eighties	1980 - 1989
The Nineties	1990 - 1999
The Noughties	2000 - 2009
The Tens	2010 - 2019

This was a bit about the historical time periods. The world history is very vast and it will takes ages to explain each event in detail. There were many wars and battles fought that helped shaped the world today. Hope the above information on historical time period has helped you get a fair idea of the important events that took place throughout history.