Time Period Index (Early Modern)

The Maya are an indigenous people of Mexico and Central America who have continuously inhabited the lands comprising modern-day...

The systematic European colonization of North America unfolded between the first voyages of...

Pirates have gained a reputation for wearing bright and distinctive clothing and accessories during the...

The Columbian exchange is a term coined by Alfred Crosby Jr. in 1972 that is traditionally defined as the transfer of plants...

Elizabethan theatre, sometimes called English Renaissance theatre, refers to that style of performance plays which blossomed...

The Industrial Revolution saw a wave of technological and social changes in many countries of the world...