historical period

C138
concept

A historical period is a span of time characterized by distinct social, political, cultural, or technological conditions that differentiate it from other eras in history.

All labels observed (163)

Label Occurrences
historical period canonical 703
historical era 69
historical concept 57

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: historical period
Generated description
A historical period is a span of time characterized by distinct social, political, cultural, or technological conditions that differentiate it from other eras in history.

Instances (1,090)

Instance Via concept surface
post-World War II Germany —
Apollo era —
United States in World War II —
German Autumn —
Zand era historical era
Rome (French-occupied) —
Renaissance period —
British South Africa Company rule in Matabeleland —
Pax Americana historical era
Second Era historical era
Postclassic period of Mesoamerica —
First Era historical era
Third Era of Tamriel historical era
Middle Phrygian period —
First Constitutional Era —
Late Phrygian period —
Middle Formative archaeological period
Panchayat era in Nepal —
CN City branding era
Formative Horizon (Andes) archaeological period
Archaic Period in the Andes prehistoric period
Formative Period archaeological period
Early Horizon period of Andean chronology archaeological period
Federal period in American architecture historical period in architecture
World War II (neutral Sweden service) —
Preceramic Period archaeological period
Third Industrial Revolution industrial revolution
Interregnum —
reign of Septimius Severus —
Late Harappan period —
Renaissance medicine historical period of medicine
Qing rule in Jiangnan —
20th-century Los Angeles historical period of a city
Persian period —
Informbiro period —
Neolithic Ireland prehistoric period
Stormaktstiden —
Age of Liberty —
Second Constitutional Era —
Lale Devri —
Age of Tulips —
Medieval French theatre historical period in theatre
Edwardian era —
Restoration-era Paris —
Iron IIA archaeological period
Prohibition in North America —
Prehistoric Estonia —
Seventh Dynasty of Assyria historical concept
Ten’yō Japanese era
Wairajirca phase cultural period