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Late Antiquity is a period of Eurasian, Mediterranean and Near Eastern history conventionally placed between the third and seventh centuries CE, developed by historians as an alternative to treating the end of the Western Roman Empire as a sharp break between a classical golden age and a medieval dark age. It covers the political transformation of the Roman world, the Christianization of the Mediterranean, and the rise of Islam in the seventh century, and it overlaps substantially with the conventional end of Classical Antiquity and the start of the Post-Classical and Medieval Period. Its exact geographical and chronological scope remains a matter of debate among contemporary scholars, and it is best understood as a rival periodization of the same centuries rather than a settled period with fixed dates of its own.
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Start YearConventionally placed in the third century CE; the exact starting point is disputed and depends on which region and which historian's framework is used. End YearConventionally closed in the seventh century CE; the exact geographical and chronological scope remains a live scholarly debate. Geographic ScopeEurasian, Mediterranean and Near Eastern history, covering the same broad territory as the late Roman and early Byzantine and Islamic worlds. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Classical Antiquity, Eras Why this is disputed. Late Antiquity offers a rival periodization of the same centuries rather than accepting Classical Antiquity's conventional 476 CE close.
The Migration Period, Eras Why this is disputed. Overlapping periodization: the same population movements that end the Western Roman Empire are described by Late Antiquity as continuity and by the Migration Period as rupture.
Why this is disputed. Late Antiquity offers a rival periodization of the same centuries rather than accepting a sharp 476 CE break into the medieval period.
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Late antiquity is a period of Eurasian, Mediterranean, and Near Eastern history.
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the exact geographical and chronological scope of late antiquity remains a matter of debate among contemporary scholars.
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Late antiquity is a period of Eurasian, Mediterranean, and Near Eastern history conventionally placed between the third and seventh centuries CE.
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a period in European history and late antiquity marked by large-scale migrations that saw the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
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