- Look up
period or
periodic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Period may
refer to:
Period (punctuation) Era, a
length or span of time Menstruation, commonly...
- The Edo
period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also
known as the
Tokugawa period (徳川時代,
Tokugawa jidai), is the
period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history...
- The
Heian period (平安時代,
Heian jidai) is the last
division of
classical ****anese history,
running from 794 to 1185. It
followed the Nara
period, beginning...
- The
orbital period (also
revolution period) is the
amount of time a
given astronomical object takes to
complete one
orbit around another object. In astronomy...
- In
classical antiquity, the ****enistic
period covers the time in Gr****
history after classical Greece,
between the
death of
Alexander the
Great in 323...
- In ****anese history, the Jōmon
period (縄文時代, Jōmon jidai) is the time
between c. 14,000 and 300 BC,
during which ****an was
inhabited by a
diverse hunter-gatherer...
- The
Vedic period, or the
Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the
period in the late
Bronze Age and
early Iron Age of the
history of
India when the Vedic...
- The
Muromachi period or
Muromachi era (室町時代,
Muromachi jidai), also
known as the
Ashikaga period or
Ashikaga era (足利時代,
Ashikaga jidai), is a division...
- In historiography,
periodization is the
process or
study of
categorizing the past into discrete, quantified, and
named blocks of time for the purpose...
- A
glacial period (alternatively
glacial or glaciation) is an
interval of time (thousands of years)
within an ice age that is
marked by
colder temperatures...
