Editing 2nd millennium (section)

===Early Modern period===
{{main|Early Modern period}}
{{further|Age of Discovery|European Colonization of the Americas|Great Divergence|label2=Colonial Era}}
{{further|List of sovereign states in 1528|List of sovereign states in 1648|List of sovereign states in 1660|List of sovereign states in 1777}}

====Europe====
{{further|Early modern Europe|Thirty Years' War}}
{{further|European wars of religion|French Revolution|Napoleonic wars|Monarchies_in_Europe#Early_Modern_Europe}}
* [[Kingdom of Poland (1385–1569)|Kingdom of Poland]] <!--([[1271]]–[[1569]])-->
* [[Holy Roman Empire]] (see [[German Renaissance]], [[early modern Germany]] )
* [[Kingdom of France]], (see [[early modern France]] )
* [[Kingdom of England]]  (before 1707)
* [[Kingdom of Scotland]]  (before 1707)
* [[Kingdom of Great Britain]] (1707–1801)
* [[Habsburg monarchy|Habsburg Empire]] (1526–1867)

====[[Colonial empires]]====
* [[Cuba–Mexico relations|Spanish Empire]] (1492–1976)
* [[Angola–Brazil relations|Portuguese Empire]] (1415–2002)
* [[Indonesia–Suriname relations|Dutch Empire]] (1602–1975)
* [[Hong Kong–United Kingdom relations|British Empire]] (1583–1997)  
* [[Algeria–France relations|French Empire]] (1534–1980)
* [[Haiti–United States relations|American Empire]] (1898–1994) 
* [[Belgium–Democratic Republic of the Congo relations|Belgian Empire]] (1908–1962)

====Asia====
* [[Ottoman Empire]] (1299–1922) 
* [[Safavid Persia]] (1501–1736)
* [[Portuguese Macau]] (1557–1999)
* [[Zand dynasty]] (1750–1794)
* [[Tokugawa shogunate|Edo shogunate]] (1603–1868)
* [[Qing Dynasty]] (1644–1912)
* [[Afsharid dynasty]] (1736–1796)
* [[Mughal Empire]] (1526–1858)
* [[Sikh Empire]] (1799–1849)

====Sub-Saharan Africa====
* [[Zulu Kingdom]]
* [[Kingdom of Kongo]]