The era began in the wake of the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event ( K-Pg event ) at the end of the Cretaceous that saw the demise of the last non-avian dinosaurs ( as well as other terrestrial and marine flora and fauna ) at the end of the Mesozoic.

The Six Dynasties era saw the rise of the Xuanxue philosophical school and the maturation of Chinese Buddhism, which had entered China from India during the Late Han Dynasties.

The 1920s saw gangsters, including Al Capone, battle law enforcement and each other on the streets of Chicago during the Prohibition era.

Domitian's government exhibited totalitarian characteristics ; he saw himself as the new Augustus, an enlightened despot destined to guide the Roman Empire into a new era of brilliance.

As Emperor, he saw himself as the new Augustus, an enlightened despot destined to guide the Roman Empire into a new era of Flavian renaissance.

The 14th century saw the start of what would prove to be a long era of foreign encroachment in the Faroese economy.

2011 saw the release of Michel Hazanavicius ' The Artist, a silent film shot in black and white that reflected on the end of Hollywood's silent era.

The era saw the Demographic Transition take place in Germany.

The era saw great industrialization, urbanization ( including the massive rebuilding of Paris by Baron Haussmann ) and economic growth, but Napoleon III's foreign policies were not so successful.

This scramble coincided with a new era in global colonial expansion known as " the New Imperialism ," which saw a shift in focus from trade and indirect rule to formal colonial control of vast overseas territories ruled as political extensions of their mother countries.

The loss marked the end of an era that saw the Jaguars make the playoffs in four of the team's first five years and would be the team's last playoff appearance until the 2005 season.

"' Forever Changes ' is also an album that heralds the last days of a golden age and anticipates the growing ugliness that would dominate the counterculture in 1968 and 1969 ... ' Forever Changes ' is inarguably Love's masterpiece and an album of enduring beauty, but it's also one of the few major works of its era that saw the dark clouds looming on the cultural horizon, and the result was music that was as prescient as it was compelling.

The era also saw significant changes in membership.

He saw a need for an architecture expressive of and in harmony with his epoch, just as Gothic architecture was for an era of spiritualism.

The computer mainframe era saw many applications running in legacy mode.

This era saw musical stars become household names, including Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, Ann Miller, Donald O ' Connor, Cyd Charisse, Mickey Rooney, Vera-Ellen, Jane Powell, Howard Keel, and Kathryn Grayson.

Mercantilists felt that to maximize a nation's power all land and resources had to be used to their utmost, and this era thus saw projects like the draining of The Fens.

The Stalinist era saw the introduction of a system of forced labour of convicts and political dissidents, the Gulag system, of that created in the early 1930s.

Political instability was extreme in the Liberal era, which saw twenty-one governments in thirty-six years.

The Abbasid era ( 750-1258 ) saw the rise of several settlements, including Murwab.

The 1970s were an era of quality engineering and the 1990s saw quality systems as an emerging field.

The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human spaceflight.

On the other hand, many historians now point out that most of the negative social factors popularly associated with the medieval period – poverty, warfare, religious and political persecution, for example – seem to have worsened in this era which saw the rise of Machiavellian politics, the Wars of Religion, the corrupt Borgia Popes, and the intensified witch-hunts of the 16th century.

The Menzies era saw Australia become an increasingly affluent society, with average weekly earnings in 1965 50 % higher in real terms than in 1945.

Interest in the history of these events was revived during the English Renaissance and led to a resurgence of Boudica's legendary fame during the Victorian era, when Queen Victoria was portrayed as her ' namesake '.

However, developments in genetic, genomic, and reproductive technologies at the end of the 20th century have raised many new questions and concerns about the meaning of eugenics and its ethical and moral status in the modern era, effectively creating a resurgence of interest in eugenics.

The policy called for an end to the abnormal era of the Great War, along with a call to reflect three trends of the time: a renewed isolationism in reaction to the War, a resurgence of nativism, and a turning away from government activism.

She experienced a resurgence in another era of uneasy change, the final days of publicly-sanctioned Paganism, between the late-fourth-century emperors Julian and Theodosius I who definitively closed the temples.

The modern era has seen a resurgence of interest in binaural, specifically within the audiophile community, partially due to the widespread availability of headphones, and cheaper methods of recording.

A resurgence of the genre began in the late 1990s ( particularly in the United States ) and the early 2000s, that helped usher in what is now referred to as the " nu-gaze " era.

The era of manned trips to the moon in 1969 and the 1970s saw a resurgence of interest in the science fiction film.

The Safavid era saw a resurgence of Shahnameh productions.

During their relatively short tenure, the Ayyubids ushered in an era of economic prosperity in the lands they ruled and the facilities and patronage provided by the Ayyubids led to a resurgence in intellectual activity in the Islamic world.

During their relatively short-lived tenure, the Ayyubids ushered in an era of economic prosperity in the lands they ruled and the facilities and patronage provided by the Ayyubids led to a resurgence in intellectual activity in the Islamic world.

A product of the post-World War II artistic resurgence of expressionism in America and more specifically New York City, action painting developed in an era where quantum mechanics and psychoanalysis were beginning to flourish and were changing peoples perception of the physical and psychological world ; and civilization ’ s understanding of the world through heightened self-consciousness and awareness.

Since the independence of Georgia in 1991, a cultural resurgence has taken place, albeit somewhat hampered by the country's economic and political difficulties in the post-Soviet era.

It has had a resurgence of popularity in the Orthodox Jewish community in the modern era.

Warren G. Harding ran on a promise to " return to normalcy ", a term he coined, which reflected three trends of his time: a renewed isolationism in reaction to World War I, a resurgence of nativism, and turning away from the government activism of the reform era.

This formed the context in which he would analyze the resurgence of finance capital in the post-war era.

In February 2007 he wrote in Time about the post-Religious Right era and the resurgence of mainstream Christianity, with evangelicals " deserting the Religious Right in droves ".

After the collapse of the Mauryan empire the region saw the resurgence of the Tribal republic of the Yaudheyas to be subdued again by the invading Indo-Greeks, Sakas and Kushanas before the beginning of the Christian era.

However, with the beginning of the Shōwa era, the apparent collapse of the world economic order with the Great Depression starting in 1929, coupled with the imposition of trade barriers by western nations and an increasing radicalism in Japanese politics including issues of domestic terrorist violence ( including an assassination attempt on the emperor in 1932 and a number of attempted coups d ' état by ultra-nationalist secret societies ) led to a resurgence of jingoistic patriotism, a weakening of democratic forces and a belief that the military could solve all threats both domestic and foreign.

She had a brief career resurgence during the disco era: as a member of the Philadelphia International All Stars ( which also included Lou Rawls, Billy Paul, Teddy Pendergrass, The O ' Jays and Archie Bell ) she had a minor hit with " Let's Clean Up the Ghetto.

A significant song in the feminist era of the 1960s, it has enjoyed a resurgence in recent years, played every Friday on The Randi Rhodes Show at the beginning of the program.

The government tried to ensure this by temporarily banning the manufacture of spirits from domestic grain ; there was a resurgence of gin consumption during the Victorian era, with numerous ' Gin Palaces ' appearing.

The Australian New Wave ( also known as the " Australian Film Revival " and the " Australian Film Renaissance ") was an era of resurgence in worldwide popularity of Australian cinema ( particularly in the United States ).

The era of manned trips to the Moon saw a resurgence of interest in the science fiction film in the 1970s.

The first modern attempt at revival of ancient Germanic religion took place in the 19th century during the late Romantic Period amidst a general resurgence of interest in traditional Germanic culture, in particular in connection with romantic nationalism in Scandinavia and the related Viking revival in Victorian era Britain — the latter having associations with earlier Romanticism.