1, ancient world history (three or four million years ago-about15th century) The ancient world history began with the appearance of human beings three or four million years ago and ended in about15th century. It is divided into two historical periods: ancient and medieval, and experienced primitive society, slave society and feudal society.
2. Modern World History (from around16th century to the beginning of 20th century) Modern World History is the history of the brewing, emergence and development of capitalist social forms from around16th century to the beginning of 20th century. ?
3. Modern World History (from the beginning of the 20th century to the present) The modern world history mainly reflects the basic process of the development of world history since the First World War and the October socialist revolution in Russia. The October Revolution in Russia gave birth to the first socialist country in the world? The October Revolution is generally regarded as the beginning of modern world history.
4. Contemporary history of the world: usually after World War II, but sometimes it is synonymous with modernity.
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Time division of world history
The bipolar world theory divides the world history of nomadic people into three stages, which is a process of three generations. Each generation process has its own dynamic kernel, and each generation kernel is produced under the pressure of the previous generation process. The power core can become the power core because it took the lead in realizing the change of social form in the world at that time, and on this basis, it realized the development of economic or natural practice.
A strong economy enables them to export the power of change to other political and economic entities in the world through military and economic pressure. According to the nature of the power core of each generation, the bipolar world theory summarizes the essential characteristics of the three generations of processes:
The first generation process began with the strength of the first generation of power core feudalism Qin or China, and ended with the rise of the second generation of power core capitalism Britain, whose essential feature was "land tax";
The second generation began with the rise of capitalist Britain and ended with the development of socialist China, the core of the third generation. Its essential feature is "raw material market".
The process of the third generation began with the development of socialist China and ended with the realization of world communism. Its essential feature is "property right cooperation".
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia: World History