era
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a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or eventexamples:medioevothe period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissancerinascimentothe period of European history at the close of the Middle Ages and the rise of the modern world; a cultural rebirth from the 14th through the middle of the 17th centuriesricostruzionethe period after the American Civil War when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union; 1865-1877types:periodo storicoan era of history having some distinctive feature
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a major division of geological time; an era is usually divided into two or more periodssynonyms: era geologica, etàexamples:cenozoicoapproximately the last 63 million yearsmesozoicofrom 230 million to 63 million years agopaleozoicofrom 544 million to about 230 million years ago
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a unit of geological time that is a subdivision of a period and is itself divided into agessynonyms: era geologica, etàexamples:oloceneapproximately the last 10,000 yearspleistocenefrom two million to 11 thousand years ago; extensive glaciation of the northern hemisphere; the time of human evolutionpliocenefrom 13 million to 2 million years ago; growth of mountains; cooling of climate; more and larger mammalsmiocenefrom 25 million to 13 million years ago; appearance of grazing mammalseocenefrom 58 million to 40 million years ago; presence of modern mammals
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An acclaimed science-fiction classic, Kindred tells the story of Dana, an African-American woman in 1970s California who time-travels to the American South before the Civil War.