essay on problems of periodization
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01. Problems of PeriodizationOverview
Periodization refers to the way that historians divide the past into distinct eras.Like storytelling, history writing requires a structure, and periodization is one of the maintechniques used by historians to create structure. Yet the past is fluid, complex, andcontinuous, so any attempt to divide it into neat chronological chunks is bound to beartificial. Periodization always does violence to the complex reality of the past, and eventhe most careful and most honest attempts at dividing up the past involve some distortion.Any scheme must compromise between the often contradictory demands of clarity,coherence, accuracy, and honesty.The challenge of finding an appropriate scheme of periodization is particularlycomplex in world history, which tries to construct a coherent account of the history of allhuman societies.
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