Editing Periodization (section)

==Historiography==
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Some events or short periods of change have such a drastic effect on the cultures they affect that they form a natural break in history. These are often marked by the widespread use of both ''pre-'' and ''post-'' phrases centered on the event, as in ''pre-Reformation'' and ''post-Reformation'', or ''pre-colonial'' and ''post-colonial''. Both [[wikt:pre-war|pre-war]] and [[post-war]] are still understood to refer to [[World War II]], though at some future point the phrases will need to be altered to make that clear.