What was the period before the enlightenment called?
multipleQAs
Within the early modern period, what was before the enlightenment? What period came before the period containing the enlightenment?
Petrine Era
Middle Ages
List of time periods
What was the period before the enlightenment called?
List of time periods Age of Enlightenment History by period Education in the Age of Enlightenment Dark Ages (historiography) Georgian era Romanticism Early modern period Science in the Age of Enlightenment Enlightened absolutism
The categorization of the past into discrete, quantified <b>named</b> blocks of time is 
<b>called</b> ... <b>Pre</b>-History – <b>Period</b> between the appearance of Homo (&quot;humans&quot;; first 
stone ... 1689 – 1725); <b>Age</b> of <b>Enlightenment</b> (or Reason) (Europe, 18th century)
&nbsp;... The <b>Age</b> of <b>Enlightenment</b> was an intellectual and philosophical movement that 
dominated the ... These rulers are <b>called</b> &quot;<b>enlightened</b> despots&quot; by historians. ... 
expressed <b>Enlightenment</b> ideals, but was in effect for only one year <b>before</b> the&nbsp;... This history by <b>period</b> summarizes significant eras in the history of the world, from 
the ancient ... The Iron <b>Age</b> is often <b>called</b> Antiquity or the Classical <b>Era</b>, but these 
<b>periods</b> more commonly refer to only one region. It begins around 1000 ... BCE is 
an abbreviation for <b>Before</b> Common <b>Era</b>, and BC for <b>Before</b> Christ. AD is Anno&nbsp;... The <b>Age</b> of <b>Enlightenment</b> dominated advanced thought in Europe from about the 
1650s to the ... In philosophy, it <b>called</b> into question traditional ways of thinking. ... 
<b>Before the Enlightenment</b>, European educational systems were principally&nbsp;... Yet just as Petrarch, seeing himself at the cusp of a &quot;new <b>age</b>&quot;, was criticising the 
centuries <b>before</b> his own time, so too were <b>Enlightenment</b> writers. The Georgian <b>era</b> is a <b>period</b> in British history from 1714 to c. 1830–37, <b>named</b> 
after the ... The Scottish <b>Enlightenment</b> influenced England and the American 
colonies, and to a lesser ... The making of modern England, 1783–1867: The <b>age</b> 
of the improvement (1959); Evans, E.J. Britain <b>before</b> the Reform Act: politics and
&nbsp;... Romanticism was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that 
originated in ... In contrast to the usually very social art of the <b>Enlightenment</b>, 
Romantics were ... The <b>period</b> typically <b>called</b> Romantic varies greatly between 
different ... nature and purpose of art, above all the <b>pre</b>-eminent importance of 
originality,&nbsp;... The early modern <b>period</b> of modern history follows the late Middle Ages of the 
post-classical <b>era</b>. Although the chronological limits of the <b>period</b> are open to 
debate, the timeframe spans the <b>period</b> after the late portion of the post-classical 
<b>age</b> (c. 1500), <b>known as</b> the Middle Ages, through the beginning of the <b>Age</b> of ... 
In the Americas, <b>Pre</b>-Columbian peoples had built a large and varied&nbsp;... The history of science during the <b>Age</b> of <b>Enlightenment</b> traces developments in 
science and ... <b>Before</b> the 18th century, science courses were taught almost 
exclusively through formal ... The propositions were never put into action, but they 
represent the growing <b>calls</b> for institutional reform in the later part of the 18th 
century. Governmental responses to the <b>Age</b> of <b>Enlightenment</b> varied widely. In several 
nations with powerful rulers, <b>called</b> &quot;<b>enlightened</b> despots&quot; by historians, leaders&nbsp;...
Middle Ages
List of time periods