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Originally Posted by dipso

Can you list those? Modern Africa? Modern South America? Modern Asia? Modern Antarctica, help me out here.
Yes, the answer is all of the above. Even ours, but our history as americans is short.
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The early modern period lasted from the end of the 15th century to the middle of the 18th century[1], circa 1450 (moveable type printing press etc) and 1492 (start of European Colonialism) to 1750 (the Enlightenment) and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
Modern Times are generally regarded as the period from the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 18th century and continuing up to today. The documentation of this time period is often called Modern history.
Modernity, based on Modernism, explores the changes of society due to the industrial age.
Postmodernity, Postindustrialism are theories to apply the art movement term of postmodernism (below) to social and cultural history, or to refer to the change of the industrial society during the past fifty years when the industry was no longer the most predominant basis of economy and society; the prefix "post-" implies a reaction to modernity and in that sense does not cover all contemporary history.[2]

So from the late 15th century until the present is all that we can claim as learning from ourselves, before that we didn't exist. In fact our early culture "early modern" is entirely not ours.

Awesome cut & paste! Now can you show me something about ANY culture comparable to Western Europe / America?