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Topic Late Modern Period
The contemporary period extends from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present day. Many historians place its beginning in 1789 or at the Congress of Vienna in 1815), which marks the end of the Napoleonic period. In Europe, these two centuries are characterized by phenomena and events of an unprecedented magnitude: demographic growth, industrialization and productivism, political revolutions, globalization of crises, colonialist extensions and collapses, nationalisms, wars, etc., along with the extension of democracy, totalitarian episodes, mass education, the decline of Christianity, agriculture, progress in medicine, etc.
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