Periode modern awal

Dalam sejarah, periode modern awal dari sejarah modern terjadi setelah akhir Abad Pertengahan dari era pasca-klasik. Meskipun batas-batasan kronologi dari periode tersebut diperdebatkan, frame waktu menjalankan periode tersebut setelah bagian akhir zaman pasca-klasik (akhir tahun 1400-an), yang dikenal sebagai Abad Pertengahan, meskipun permulaan Abad Revolusi (sekitar 1800) dan berbagai batas-batasnnya dibuat oleh sejarawan sebagai permulaan dengan Jatuhnya Konstantinopel pada 1453, dengan periode Renaisans, dan dengan Abad Penemuan (khususnya dengan perjalanan Christopher Columbus yang dimulai pada 1492, tetapi juga dengan penemuan rute laut ke dunia Timur pada 1498), dan berakhir sekitar masa Revolusi Prancis pada 1789.

Bacaan tambahan

• Cavallo, Sandra, and Silvia Evangelisti, eds. A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Early Modern Age (2014)
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• Pomeranz, Kenneth. The great divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy (Princeton University Press, 2000), a highly influential statement
• Wong, R. Bin. China Transformed; Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience (Cornell U.P., 1997)

Pranala luar

• Internet Modern History Sourcebook, fordham.edu

Situs web

• Discussion of the medieval/modern transition from the introduction to the pioneering Cambridge Modern History (1902–1912)
• Society for Renaissance Studies
• Early Modern Culture Diarsipkan 2011-09-25 di Wayback Machine.
• Early Modern Resources

Video

• Int'l Commerce, Snorkeling Camels, and The Indian Ocean Trade di YouTube: Crash Course World History #18 – YouTube
• Venice and the Ottoman Empire di YouTube: Crash Course World History #19 – YouTube
• Columbus, de Gama, and Zheng He! 15th Century Mariners di YouTube. Crash Course: World History #21 – YouTube
• The Columbian Exchange di YouTube: Crash Course World History #23 – YouTube
• The Atlantic Slave Trade di YouTube: Crash Course World History #24 – YouTube
• The Spanish Empire, Silver, & Runaway Inflation di YouTube: Crash Course World History #25 – YouTube
• The Seven Years War di YouTube: Crash Course World History #26 – YouTube
• Tea, Taxes, and The American Revolution di YouTube: Crash Course World History #28 – YouTube