Editing Periodization (section)

== World history ==
[[File:Timeline of World History.png|thumb|600x600px|Example of periodizations in history]]
Several major periods that English-speaking and Germanic historians may use are:
# [[Prehistory]]
# [[Ancient history]]
# [[Late antiquity]]
# [[Post-classical history]]
# [[Early modern period]]
# [[Modern history]]<ref name="weller-stearns">{{cite book |editor=R. Charles Weller |title=21st-Century Narratives of World History: Global and Multidisciplinary Perspectives |publisher=Palgrave |chapter=Periodization in World History: Challenges and Opportunities |last=Stearns |first=Peter N. |author-link=Peter N. Stearns |year=2017 |isbn=978-3-319-62077-0}}</ref> (sometimes the nineteenth century and modern are combined)<ref name="weller-stearns" />
# [[Contemporary history]]

In [[French historiography|French]] and Romance-language historiography, the early modern period is labelled "modern" ({{langx|es|edad moderna}}) and the [[late modern period|late modern]] and [[contemporary history|contemporary]] periods are grouped as "contemporary" ({{langx|es|edad contemporánea}}).<ref name="Martínez">{{cite journal |last1=Martínez Carreras |first1=José Urbano |title=Historia del Mundo Contemporáneo : concepto, caracteres y periodización |journal=Revista de bachillerato |date=1980 |issue=14 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/11162/72870 |access-date=11 March 2025 |language=es |issn=0210-4687
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|quote=[...] el concepto de Edad Contemporánea. Así el profesor JOVER (4) expone cómo este nuevo concepto historiográfico de origen francés se extendió fácilmente en la historiografía francesa y latina-y en este caso se encuentra la española-donde tuvo general aceptación, mientras que por el contrario encontró una clara resistencia a su adaptación por parte de la historiografía anglosajona y germana que no acabó por asimilar totalmente la noción de «contemporaneidad» tal como era formulada.
|trans-quote=[...] the concept of Contemporary Age. Thus professor Jover (4) explains how this new historiographic concept of French provenance spread easily in French and Romance historiography-including in this case the Spanish one-where it was generally accepted, while, contrarily it met clear resistance to its adaptation by a part of English-speaking and Germanic historiography, which did not quite assimilate the notion of "contemporararity" as it was formulated.}}</ref>

Although ''post-classical'' is synonymous with the [[Middle Ages]] of Western Europe, the term ''post-classical'' is not necessarily a member of the traditional [[Late Middle Ages#Historiography and periodization|tripartite periodization]] of Western European history into 'classical', 'middle' and 'modern'.

Some popularized periodizations using the terms long or short by historians are:

* [[Long eighteenth century]]
* [[Long nineteenth century]]
* [[Short twentieth century]]