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Noun historic period has 2 senses

period, historic period, historical period - a stage in the history of a culture having a definable place in space and time; "a novel from the Victorian period"
--₁ is a kind of time period, period of time, period

historic period, age - an era of history having some distinctive feature; "we live in a litigious age"
--₂ is a kind of era, epoch
--₂ is a part of history
--₂ has particulars:

Elizabethan age; Victorian age; antiquity; golden age; Middle Ages, Dark Ages; Renaissance; industrial revolution, technological revolution; Reign of Terror; reign; turn of the century; Harlem Renaissance; New Deal; Reconstruction, Reconstruction Period; Restoration