Historical Era Classifications - INI

[item.prehistoric-japan]
code=J01
slug=prehistoric-japan
name=Prehistoric Period
description=The era before writing. From the Paleolithic to the Yayoi period.
period=c. 30,000 BCE - mid 3rd century CE
region=japan
subEras=[{"name":"Paleolithic Period","period":"c. 30,000 - 14,000 BCE"},{"name":"Jomon Period","period":"c. 14,000 BCE - 4th century BCE"},{"name":"Yayoi Period","period":"4th century BCE - mid 3rd century CE"}]

[item.ancient-japan]
code=J02
slug=ancient-japan
name=Ancient Period
description=The era of ritsuryo state formation and aristocratic politics.
period=mid 3rd century - 1184 CE
region=japan
subEras=[{"name":"Kofun Period","period":"mid 3rd century - 538 CE"},{"name":"Asuka Period","period":"538 - 710 CE"},{"name":"Nara Period","period":"710 - 794 CE"},{"name":"Heian Period","period":"794 - 1184 CE"}]

[item.medieval-japan]
code=J03
slug=medieval-japan
name=Medieval Period
description=From the establishment of warrior government to the Warring States period.
period=1185 - 1603 CE
region=japan
subEras=[{"name":"Kamakura Period","period":"1185 - 1333 CE"},{"name":"Northern and Southern Courts Period","period":"1336 - 1392 CE"},{"name":"Muromachi Period","period":"1336 - 1573 CE"},{"name":"Sengoku Period","period":"1467 - 1568/1603 CE"},{"name":"Azuchi-Momoyama Period","period":"1573 - 1603 CE"}]

[item.early-modern-japan]
code=J04
slug=early-modern-japan
name=Early Modern Period
description=The 260 years of peace under the Edo shogunate.
period=1603 - 1868 CE
region=japan
subEras=[{"name":"Edo Period","period":"1603 - 1868 CE"}]

[item.modern-japan]
code=J05
slug=modern-japan
name=Modern Period
description=From the Meiji Restoration to the end of World War II.
period=1868 - 1945 CE
region=japan
subEras=[{"name":"Meiji Period","period":"1868 - 1912 CE"},{"name":"Taisho Period","period":"1912 - 1926 CE"},{"name":"Showa Period (Pre-war)","period":"1926 - 1945 CE"}]

[item.contemporary-japan]
code=J06
slug=contemporary-japan
name=Contemporary Period
description=The era of post-war democracy and economic growth.
period=1945 CE - Present
region=japan
subEras=[{"name":"Showa Period (Post-war)","period":"1945 - 1989 CE"},{"name":"Heisei Period","period":"1989 - 2019 CE"},{"name":"Reiwa Period","period":"2019 CE - Present"}]

[item.ancient-world]
code=W01
slug=ancient-world
name=Ancient Period
description=From the birth of civilization to the decline of ancient empires.
period=c. 3500 BCE - 476 CE
region=world
subEras=[{"name":"Prehistoric Age","period":"until c. 3500 BCE"},{"name":"Ancient Orient","period":"c. 3500 BCE -"},{"name":"Ancient Greece","period":"8th century BCE - 323 BCE"},{"name":"Ancient Rome","period":"753 BCE - 476 CE"}]

[item.medieval-world]
code=W02
slug=medieval-world
name=Medieval Period
description=The era of feudal society and the Christian world.
period=476 - 1453/1500 CE
region=world
subEras=[{"name":"Early Middle Ages","period":"476 - c. 1000 CE"},{"name":"High Middle Ages","period":"1000 - 1300 CE"},{"name":"Late Middle Ages","period":"1300 - 1453/1500 CE"}]

[item.early-modern-world]
code=W03
slug=early-modern-world
name=Early Modern Period
description=From the Age of Discovery to the bourgeois revolutions.
period=1453/1500 - 1789 CE
region=world
subEras=[{"name":"Renaissance","period":"14th - 16th centuries"},{"name":"Reformation","period":"1517 CE -"},{"name":"Age of Discovery","period":"15th - 17th centuries"},{"name":"Absolute Monarchy","period":"17th - 18th centuries"}]

[item.modern-world]
code=W04
slug=modern-world
name=Modern Period
description=From the bourgeois revolutions to World War II.
period=1789 - 1945 CE
region=world
subEras=[{"name":"French Revolution","period":"1789 - 1799 CE"},{"name":"Industrial Revolution","period":"late 18th - 19th centuries"},{"name":"Age of Imperialism","period":"late 19th - early 20th centuries"},{"name":"World War I","period":"1914 - 1918 CE"},{"name":"World War II","period":"1939 - 1945 CE"}]

[item.contemporary-world]
code=W05
slug=contemporary-world
name=Contemporary Period
description=From the Cold War to the era of globalization.
period=1945 CE - Present
region=world
subEras=[{"name":"Cold War Era","period":"1947 - 1991 CE"},{"name":"Decolonization","period":"1945 - 1970s"},{"name":"Globalization Era","period":"1991 CE - Present"}]