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“That’s ancient history, Pops.” In American movies from the 1930s through the 1950s, a teenage character often says something like that to an adult, thus dismissing an event that the adult remembers as being too long ago to matter. Ancient is another relative term, like recent, modern, and medieval. To a person born in 2021, the teenager in that 1950s movie will seem beyond ancient.

In history, ancient has more specific meanings. Wells defined it as “From the World Before Man to the Rise of the Roman Empire,” and he considered the modern period to have begun in 1567.