Early modern Europe Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
period in the history of Europe which spanned the centuries between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the late 15th century to the late 18th century
About Early modern Europe
Periodization of history is, by necessity, an abstraction made by posterity. The termearly moderncame into widespread use only in the 1990s, to include periods which have been known as theRenaissance, theAge of Discoveryand thecolonial era. In Europe, the early modern period was marked by the rise ofProtestant Reformation, centralized empires with mercantilist economy, the bourgeois, thescientific revolutionand gunpowder farfare, and those institutions' challenge to the Catholic church and feudal systems based aroundcastles. As regions of Europe developed differently, the early modern period has no universal year limit. One candidate for the year that ended the Middle Ages would be 1453; as the Hundred Years' War ended, and theOttoman EmpireseizedConstantinoplewith cannons, ending theByzan
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