The right answer is b.modern era. The period between 1453, with the fall of the Roman Empire of the West, until 1789, with the French Revolution. The Modern Age is a period of transformation in the culture, religion, politics, and economy of Medieval Europe. As the Middle Ages had been an obscure period of history (with a limitation of thought and intellectual domination of the Church), the Modern Age had come to fill this gap, especially in the cultural field.