Wars fought roughly 500 to 1500 CE: the Crusades, the Mongol conquests, the wars of dynastic Europe and the early Islamic caliphates. Belongs here: the wars of the Mongol Empire against the Khwarazmian Empire, the Kingdom of England against the Kingdom of France, the Crusader states against the Ayyubid Sultanate. Does not belong here: a war whose combatants used gunpowder armies and centralized early modern states as their normal way of fighting, which belongs to Early Modern.
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1. War and Military Atlas Periodization (Ruling 761)
InteractiveAtlas owner ruling registerWar and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentence
Boundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).
War and Military DataBrief, SubLabel convention paragraph, boundaries sentence, end-year clause
Boundaries: Ancient below 500 CE, Medieval 500 to 1499, Early Modern 1500 to 1774, Modern 1775 onward (the 1775 cutover, not the round year 1800, matches the American Revolutionary War already being tagged Modern in the live data).
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