history periods timeline

  • 40,000 BCE

    paleolithic period

    paleolithic period
    The Paleolithic Age covers the period from when stone tools were first used by man to the beginning of the Mesolithic Age.
  • 10,000 BCE

    neolithic period

    neolithic period
    the neolithic period was where farming began and when humans settled in permanent villages for the first time.Its also when stone tools first appeared .and people may have been religious
  • 4500 BCE

    metal age

    metal age
    The Metal Age is divided into three stages: the Copper Age, the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. During the Metal Ages, people made a variety of metal objects. The metal age its also the last period of the prehistory
  • 3000 BCE

    The age of antiquity

    The age of antiquity
    Classical antiquity is the period in which Greek and Roman literature (such as Aeschylus, Ovid, Homer and others) flourished
  • 476 BCE

    Middle ages

    Middle ages
    the medieval period began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery.
  • Contemporary age

    Contemporary age
    The early modern period began approximately at the beginning of the 16th century and the late modern period started in the mid of 18th century. This period mainly follows the Late Middle Ages period.