Ages and Eras Quiz

Name the different ages/eras/periods from history

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Hint	Dates	Time Period
1) Period in Europe from the fall of the Roman empire to the 1400s	c 500-1450 AD	Middle Ages
2) Period of glacial cooling and colder global temperatures	2.6 million y/a	Ice Age
3) The socio-economical revitalization of the Confederate states	1865-1877	Reconstruction
4) Period of European art, culture and scientific rebirth	c 1300-1650	Renaissance
5) Early Medieval European period marked by the Roman collapse, invasions, and political upheaval	c 470s-1000	Dark Ages
6) US colonies fight for independence from the British empire	1776-1783	American Revolution
7) Period of the 1920s when alcohol was banned	1920-1933	Prohibition
8) Period of early civilization in Mesopotamia and Egypt with the adaption of this metal	3300-1200 BC	Bronze Age
9) Egyptian time period that saw massive construction like the Great Pyramids and the Sphinx	2700-2180 BC	Old Kingdom
10) Marked by the breakup of Pangea and dinosaurs like the stegosaurus	201-145 million y/a	Jurassic

Hint	Dates	Time Period
11) Period during the American South marked by plantation economy and slave labor	1815-1860	Antebellum
12) Period of economic industrialization in Britain, marked by the telegraph, railroads, and urban expansion	1837-1901	Victorian
13) Period of the 1920s that saw the rise of jazz, art, speakeasies and cultural growth	1920-1929	Roaring Twenties
14) Period of economic instability marked by the Stock Market crash of 1929	1929-1939	Great Depression
15) European expansion of the globe that started world trade, marked by navigators like Columbus and Magellan	1400s-1650s	Exploration Age
16) Period of extraterrestrial exploration, including Sputnik and the Apollo missions	c 1957-1980s	Space Age
17) Period of social and political changes in religion in Europe that saw the birth of Protestantism	1517-1648	Reformation
18) Period of early human settlement that saw the change from hunting/gathering to domestication of animals and farming	c 10,000-2200 BC	Neolithic Age
19) Characterized by rapid industrialization, economic growth, and urbanization, as defined by Mark Twain	c 1870-1900	Gilded Age
20) Recent period that saw the boom of technology like the computer and world wide web	1970s-present	Internet Age

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