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Three thousand years

  1. Ancient Near East13
  2. Archaic Greece5
  3. Classical Greece54
  4. Hellenistic and Roman Republic18
  5. Roman Empire33
  6. Late Antiquity9
  7. Medieval42
  8. Renaissance54
  9. Seventeenth Century79
  10. Enlightenment84
  11. Nineteenth Century152
  12. Twentieth Century143
  13. Twenty-First Century3

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