How is periodisation done based on the birth of Jesus Christ?
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Wouldn't it be weird if history textbooks were not written chronologically? If, for example, you learned about the American Civil War, and after that the fall of the Berlin Wall, and then after that the Protestant Reformation? It would be pretty difficult to grasp context. It would be pretty difficult to trace cause and effect between various historical events.
History by nature happens in chronological order, and we normally study history within some degree of chronology. Chronology is simply the sequence of events ranging from first to last, or from beginning to end. For example, in American history, first we had the American Revolution, and after that the Federalist Era, and after that the War of 1812, and after that the Age of Jackson, and then that weird time between the 1830s-1840s that nobody cares about, and then we're moving into the Civil war, and after that Reconstruction, and then into the Gilded Age, and, well, you get the idea. Chronology is vital to the history!
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Periodization is the process or study of categorizing the past into discrete, quantified named blocks of time.