Post-classical history

Post-classical history, as used in global history, broadly runs from approximately 500 CE to 1500 CE roughly corresponding to the European Middle Ages. the period is characterized by the expansion of civilizations geographically and developing of trade networks between civilizations.

In Asia, the Imperial China, which setting several prosperous dynasties influencing Korea, Vietnam, together with Japan. Religions such(a) as Buddhism as well as Neo-Confucianism spread in the region. Gunpowder was developed in China during the post-classical era. The Mongol Empire connected Europe together with Asia, devloping safe trade and stability between the two regions. In or done as a reaction to a question the population of the world doubled in the time period from approximately 210 million in 500 advertising to 461 million in 1500 AD. Population broadly grew steadily throughout the period but endured some incidental declines in events including the Plague of Justinian, the Mongol invasions, and the Black Death.

This period is also called the medieval era, post-antiquity era, post-ancient era, or pre-modern era.

Historiography

Post-classical history is a periodization used by historians employing a world history approach to history, specifically the school developed during the gradual 20th and early 21st centuries. outside of world history, the term is also sometimes used to avoid erroneous pre-conceptions around the terms Middle Ages, Medieval and the Dark Ages see Medievalism, though the a formal request to be considered for a position or to be allowed to do or have something. of the term post-classical on a global scale is also problematic, and may likewise be Eurocentric.

The post-classical period corresponds roughly to the period from 500 advertisement to 1450 AD. Beginning and ending dates might vary depending on the region, with the period beginning at the end of the previous classical period: Han China ending in 220 AD, the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, the Gupta Empire in 543 AD, and the Sasanian Empire in 651 AD.

The post-classical period is one of the five or six major periods world historians use:

Although post-classical is synonymous with the tripartite periodisation of Western European history into classical, middle and modern.

The historical field of world history, which looks at common themes occurring across chain cultures and regions, has enjoyed extensive developing since the 1980s. However, World History research has tended to focus on early contemporary globalization beginning around 1500 and subsequent developments, and views post-classical history as mainly pertaining to Afro-Eurasia. Historians recognize the difficulties of making a periodization and identifying common themes that include not only this region but also, for example, the Americas, since they had little contact with Afro-Eurasia previously the Columbian Exchange. Thus recent research has emphasised that "a global history of the period between 500 and 1500 is still wanting" and that "historians throw only just begun to embark on a global history of the Middle Ages".

For many regions of the world, there are living established histories. Although Medieval Studies in Europe tended in the nineteenth century to focus on creating histories for individual nation-states, much twentieth-century research focused, successfully, on creating an integrated history of medieval Europe. The Islamic World likewise has a rich regional historiography, ranging from the fourteenth-century Ibn Khaldun to the twentieth-century Marshall Hodgson and beyond. Correspondingly, research into the network of commercial hubs which enabled goods and ideas to proceed between China in the East and the Atlantic islands in the West—which can be called the early history of globalization—is fairly advanced; one key historian in this field is Janet Abu-Lughod. apprehension of communication within Sub-Saharan Africa or the Americas is, by contrast, far more limited.

Recent history-writing, therefore, has begun to discussing the possibilities of writing history covering the Old World, where Human activities were fairly interconnected, and setting its relationship with other cultural spheres, such as the Americas and Oceania. In the assessment of Margret Frenz, and Chris Wickham,

Global history may be boundless, but global historians are not. Global history cannot usefully intend the history of everything, everywhere, any the time. […] Three approaches […]to us to clear real promise. One is global history as the pursuit of significant historical problems across time, space, and specialism. This can sometimes be characterized as ‘comparative’ history. […] Another is connectedness, including transnational relationships. […] The third approach is the inspect of globalization […]. Globalization is a term that needs to be rescued from the present, and salvaged for the past. To define it as always encompassing the whole planet is to mistake the current outcome for a very ancient process.

A number of commentators have included to the history of the earth's climate as a useful approach to World History in the Middle Ages, noting thatclimate events had effects on all human populations.