WordNet
n. a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period" [syn: period, historic period]
Usage examples of "historical period".
We would, however, expect the differences to be less between Sumer and Egypt, which were in regular contact with each other during the historical period, than between the two Middle Eastern cultures and the cultures of far-off Central America, which enjoyed at most only haphazard, slight and intermittent contacts prior to the ‘.
The Aryans in Europe have dwelt there apparently since the close of the Stone Age, if not before it, while the movements of the Aryans in Asia are within the Historical Period, and they appear as intrusive stocks, forming a high caste amid a vast population of a different race.
The theatre of my tale is this earth, the one in which we now live, but the historical period is imaginary.
Of whatever nationality and historical period the main characters are represented as being, the lower classes are always portrayed as Englishmen of Shakespeare's own time.
He perfunctorily acknowledges the faults of that historical period—.
The animal was never known in America during the historical period as anything but buffalo, and most westerners from 1750 to this day would be astonished to find that their regional symbol was really a bison.
You see, Commander, it has been suspected for a long time that human racial vitality has been diminishing throughout a vast historical period.
The historical period of China does not ascend above the Greek Olympiads.
There must be something to show the development from the pre-historical to the historical period.
The second alternative has trouble on other counts, for instance that in the historical period usually assigned to these cultures, glacial cover was more extensive.
Nicole had only once read the three Henry plays, and that had been years before, but she was well aware of the historical period because of her lifelong fascination with Joan of Arc.
But what's really important is the world view of each historical period, what the people were feeling and thinking.
Being a beauty always means constellating some ideal related to the historical period where it appears, and Mary-Jacobine, now known as Jacko Cornish, was a Beauty of the Twenties.