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510 BC - 323 BC:
Classical Greek period
323 BC - 146 BC:
Hellenistic Greek period
27 BC - 5th century:
Roman Empire
worldwide pandemics
165:
Antonine Plague
541:
Plague of Justinian
1300s:
Black Death
1855 - 1950:
Third Pandemic
1918 - 1920:
Spanish flu
, coincident with WWI
5th - 16th centuries:
Middle Ages
11th - 13th centuries:
High Middle Ages
, high population in Europe that wouldn't be matched again until the Early Modern period
14th century:
Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
, population crash
11th - 13th centuries:
High Middle Ages
1095 - 1272:
Crusades
14th - 17th centuries:
Renaissance
pan-European wars
1618 - 1648:
Thirty Years' War
1803 - 1815:
Napoleonic Wars
1914-1918, 1939-1945:
WW I and WW II
1775 - 1840:
Industrial Revolution
1929 - 1933:
Great Depression