"HISTORY IS NOT THE PAST BUT A

MAP OF THE PAST, DRAWN FROM

EN G LAN D A PARTICULAR POINT OF VIEW, TO
STONEHENGE BE USEFUL TO THE MODERN
TRAVELLER.”
Henry Glassie, US historian (1941)

C Z E CH R E P U B L I C

PRAGUE

G R E ECE

ATHENS

Joemare F. Tumaob

VAN GOGH

STARRY NI GHT
PAI NTI NG
 Let the time travel begin!
THE MODERN AGE, OR
THE GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARIES FOR MODERNITY, IS THE
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES TODAY WERE POSTMEDIEVAL ERA, A WIDE
ESTABLISHED DURING THE MIDDLE AGES. SPAN OF TIME MARKED IN
THIS WAS A PERIOD THAT HERALDED PART BY TECHNOLOGICAL
THE FORMATION AND RISE OF INNOVATIONS,
UNIVERSITIES, THE ESTABLISHMENT OF URBANIZATION, SCIENTIFIC
THE RULE OF LAW, NUMEROUS PERIODS DISCOVERIES, AND
OF ECCLESIASTICAL REFORM AND THE GLOBALIZATION. THE MODERN
BIRTH OF THE TOURISM INDUSTRY. AGE IS GENERALLY SPLIT INTO

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CALENDAR
TWO PARTS: THE EARLY AND
THE LATE MODERN PERIODS.

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STUDYING ANCIENT HISTORY ALLOWS ASTROLABE

US TO UNDERSTAND WHERE WE HAVE
COME FROM AND WHY WE ARE HERE,
AND BY DOING SO, SHOWS US HOW
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THE ANCIENTS' ATTEMPTS TO SHAPE GUNPOWDER
COMPASS
THEIR FUTURES RELATE TO OUR OWN
ACTIONS IN THE PRESENT DAY.