Time Period Index (Early Modern)

Clothes in the Elizabethan era (1558-1603 CE) became much more colourful, elaborate, and flamboyant than in previous...

Bacon’s Rebellion (1676) was the first full-scale armed insurrection in Colonial America pitting the landowner Nathaniel Bacon...

In this gallery of 10 maps on European history, we explore the dynamic borders and the fragile quest for peace on the...

The encomienda was a system where Spanish adventurers and settlers were granted the legal right to extract forced labour from indigenous...

Buddhism is a non-theistic religion (no belief in a creator god), also considered a philosophy and a moral discipline, originating in...

The European colonization of the Americas was the process by which European settlers populated the regions of...