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Contemporary era

Era from 1945–present Part of a series onHuman history ↑ Prehistory (Stone Age) (Pleistocene epoch) Holocene TimelinesNeolithic – Contemporary(11,650 BP – present) Age of the human race Recorded history (Common Era) Earliest records Protohistory Proto-writing Ancient Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Axial Age Classical antiquity Late antiquity Africa North America South America Oceania East Asia South Asia Southeast Asia West Asia Europe Postclassical Timeline Africa Americas Oceania East Asia South Asia Southeast Asia West Asia Europe Renaissance Modern Early modern Late modern Contemporary Africa North America South America Oceania East Asia South Asia Southeast Asia West Asia Europe See also Age of Discovery Modernity Postmodernity Futurology Political history ↓ Future vte Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from about 1945 to the present.

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