history vs historic period

history and historic period both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
history	Yes	No	No	No
historic period	Yes	No	No	No

history (noun)	historic period (noun)
the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings	an era of history having some distinctive feature
all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge
a record or narrative description of past events
the aggregate of past events
the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future