- 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...
- In historiography,
periodization is the
process or
study of
categorizing the past into discrete, quantified, and
named blocks of time for the purpose...
- 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
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...
- The Nara
period (奈良時代, Nara jidai) of the
history of ****an
covers the
years from 710 to 794.
Empress Genmei established the
capital of Heijō-kyō (present-day...
- In
classical antiquity, the ****enistic
period covers the time in Gr****
history after classical Greece,
between the
death of
Alexander the
Great in 323...
- 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...
- The
Sengoku period (戦国時代,
Sengoku jidai, lit. 'Warring
States period') is the
period in ****anese
history in
which civil wars and
social upheavals took...
- 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...
- 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...
