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shì jì mò yǐ lái，
yǐ dì lǐ dà fā xiàn、
zōng jiào gǎi gé、
mín zú guó jiā de jué qǐ wéi biāo zhì，
ōu zhōu jìn rù jìn dài shí qī。。
jìn dài bāo kuò cóng zhōng shì jì dào gōng yè gé mìng wéi zhǐ de sān gè shì jì，
dà yuē cóng 1500
zhì 1800
nián，
huò zhě cóng 1492
nián fā xiàn xīn shì jiè dào 1789
nián fǎ guó dà gé mìng wéi zhǐ。
zhè gè shí qī de tè diǎn shì kē xué de zhòng yào xìng shàng shēng，
jì shù jìn bù tū fēi měng jìn，
shì sú gōng mín zhèng zhì hé mín zú guó jiā yì jūn tū qǐ。
zī běn zhù yì jīng jì cóng yì dà lì běi bù zhū gòng hé zhèng tǐ rú rè nà yà děng kāi shǐ méng yá fā zhǎn。
jìn dài yě jiàn zhèng liǎo zhòng shāng zhù yì jīng jì lǐ lùn de fā zhǎn jí zhàn jù zhù dǎo。
zì rán，
jìn dài yě dài biǎo liǎo zài dà bù fēn '
ōu zhōu dì qū fēng jiàn shè huì、
nóng nú zhì yǐ jí luó mǎ tiān zhù jiào huì de quán wēi de shuāi luò yǔ zuì zhōng xiāo shī。
zhè yī shí qī yě bāo kuò liǎo xīn jiào gǎi gé、
zāinàn xìng de sān shí nián zhàn zhēng、
ōu zhōu duì měi zhōu zhí mín hé '
ōu zhōu liè shā nǚ wū huó dòng。
The Early Modern period spans the centuries between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution, roughly from 1500 to 1800, or from the discovery of the New World in 1492 to the French Revolution in 1789. The period is characterized by the rise to importance of science and increasingly rapid technological progress, secularized civic politics and the nation state. Capitalist economies began their rise, beginning in northern Italian republics such as Genoa. The early modern period also saw the rise and dominance of the economic theory of mercantilism. As such, the early modern period represents the decline and eventual disappearance, in much of the European sphere, of feudalism, serfdom and the power of the Catholic Church. The period includes the Protestant Reformation, the disastrous Thirty Years' War, the European colonization of the Americas and the European witch-hunts.