Ancient Modern Modern Contemporary Difference

Ancient:

Historically, it usually refers to the era of slavery. It also generally includes the era of primitive communalism. There is no uniform time frame in the world due to the unevenness of historical development. Egypt, the two river valleys, China, India, Persia, etc., when about the thirtieth century BC to the early centuries AD (the situation varies from country to country). For Greece and Rome, it was from the eighth century B.C. to the fifth century A.D. (476 A.D.). But in Chinese historiography, ancient China also includes feudal society.

Modern:

China's modern history covers the period from the Opium War of 1840 to the founding of the People's Republic of China*** and the State of China in 1949, which is the history of China's semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. China's modern history is divided into two stages, from the Opium War in 1840 to the eve of the May Fourth Movement in 1919, is the old democratic revolution stage; from the May Fourth Movement in 1919 to the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, is the new democratic revolution stage. is the stage of the New Democratic Revolution

Modern:

Modern, refers to the period from May 4, 1919 (the May Fourth Movement) to the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on October 1, 1949, and refers to the period from May 4, 1919 (the May Fourth Movement) to the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) on October 1, 1949.

Contemporary:

The period from the founding of the People's Republic of China (中华人民****和国国) to the present is the contemporary period.

[Yuan] Li Zhi, Jingzhai Gujinjian, Volume 5:

"Those who argued that the three ancient times are distinct from each other in the past, from what they have seen, so they are different. However, my body from today's view, the flood is also too extreme, shall not be named ancient and modern. Roughly since Xi, Nong to Yao, Shun, for the ancient; three generations of the world, for the ancient; since the Warring States to before today, all the lower ancient also."

European history books, generally from the emergence of the earliest countries to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D. this period of history, called the ancient history. Europe was in a slave society during this period, so the Upper Antiquity is also referred to as a slave society. If we talk about the whole world, it is not exactly the same, for example, we, China, entered the feudal society much earlier than Europe.

The term Middle Ages is used in the history of Western civilization to refer to a thousand years of European history, from about 500 to 1500 AD. The beginning of the Middle Ages marked the fall of the Western Roman Empire, where the ancient history of the classical period came to an end; and the end of the Middle Ages.