Before the modern period, wars were just part of life, like taxes and sickness.
However, this is not an exhibition that delves into how Cleopatra has been imagined (and romanticised and vilified) in the modern period.
Paul Cezanne, for example, was the greatest painter of the modern period but not one of his many masterpieces would be considered an icon.
Merchant power waxed and waned throughout most of the pre-modern period, always dependent on protection from the warrior caste.
The research contributes to a more complex picture that has been emerging of humankind during the Late Pleistocene, the period when modern humans left Africa and started to colonise the rest of the world.
The year is also closing with another notable record: the longest period in modern aviation without a single fatal airliner accident, according to Harro Ranter, president of the Aviation Safety Network, a nonprofit organization that tracks accidents and incidents.
He relates, at length, the story of the Little Ice Age, the five-hundred-year period, in the early modern age, when Europe was colder than it has been since or was before.
Our team has achieved great things during the most turbulent period in modern media history.
Two built works of this period are landmarks of the modern movement -- the German Pavilion at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona, demolished in 1930 and rebuilt in 1986, and the 1930 Tugendhat house, which survives in Brno in the Czech Republic.
Few would argue, however, with Mr Rough's analysis that the implosion heralded the "worst period of capital destruction in modern financial market history".
"While EU countries are struggling in crisis, our country is experiencing the most democratic, prosperous, modern and transparent period in its history, " he said.
After 1800, however, living standards began to increase, first in the West, as stagnant economies transitioned to the industrial revolution and to a period of modern economic growth where living standards double every 35 years.
The Victorian exhibition is organized by the period's main themes-mythological and classical subjects, landscapes and modern scenes.
After the incident, Tate Modern was shut for a short period.
So what did some of the modern technical tools tell us about the market during this period?
The team found that the genetic signatures of people from the Early Neolithic period were either rare or absent from modern populations.
This trend accompanied a steady decline in prices for modern, impressionist, and old masters over the same time period, according to artnet.
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But I think the modern history really dates to the Watergate hearings where, for a period of months, people around the country and the world were riveted to their screens to see how the news was advanced every single day.
In a letter on August 23rd to Darrell Issa, a congressman who had raised concerns about the Facebook IPO, she agreed there should be a review of the quiet period in light of recent changes to financial markets and modern communications technology.
His congested street and sinister, motley swarm which includes parodies of Leopold's retinue, brutally racist caricatures and even a Congo mask that may allude to his reign's imperial ambitions shatter one of the period's most cherished pictorial schemas by transforming the modern city into a maelstrom of disorder, alienation and hypocrisy.
Whether 18th century or midcentury modern, the task at hand is usually an issue of craft and not period.
The English conductor Harry Bicket is well known for his skill at making modern-instrument orchestras like the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago sound like period-instrument ensembles.
Rooms are split between elegant, period-furnished doubles in the castle, and smaller rooms in the more modern annexe.
Whereas the thrust of modern Christian history has been toward decentralization, Sunni Islam has undergone a rapid period of theological consolidation.
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After losing ground against other countries for nearly two centuries, China entered its period of modern economic growth in 1978 and is now rapidly catching up to the rest of the world.
Located in the heart of historic Ballard, this charming hotel has 16 elegantly appointed rooms with period furnishings and modern amenities.
"There is no way in this modern world that you can guarantee a job for any period of time in any part of the world, " he told me.
The year is 1665, and the period reconstruction, for those who are aroused by such things, is apart from a few modern lines of dialogue formidably detailed.
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