PERIODS OF THE HISTORY

By Teresa Arias Peguero
  • Period: 4600 BCE to 3500 BCE

    PREHISTORY

    2.500.000 BC - 3.500 BC.
    It´s the period of time before written records. It´s divided into three periods; The Stone Age, The Bronze Age and The Iron Age.
  • 4500 BCE

    INVENTION OF THE WHEEL

    It´s and old invent. Most of the authors think the wheel was invented in the fifth century.
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 476

    OLD AGE

    It´s a traditional period, it´s very used in the human story. It´s defined by the development of the first civilizations which had writing.
  • 3500 BCE

    INVENTION OF WRITING

    The earliest known writing was invented there around 3400 BC. in an area called Summer near the Persian Gulf. The development of a Sumerian script was influenced by local materials: clay for tablets...
  • Period: 476 to 1492

    MIDDLE AGE

    It´s the time between the end of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance. This period is known as Feudalism.
  • 1353

    THE BLACK PLAGUE

    It was the worst pandemic of the history.
    The Black Plague was caused by a bacterium.
  • 1440

    INVENTION OF THE PRINTING PRESS

    The prosperous economy, freedom of expression and the invention of printing provided scholars with a good environment.
  • 1492

    DISCOVERY OF AMERICA AND THE END OF THE RECONQUEST

    It´s an historical fact that happened in 12th of October in 1492. It´s discovered by Cristobal Colon.
    This year is the same that the end of Reconquest. The Reconquest ended with the conquest of Granada; the last musulman state in Spain.
  • Period: 1492 to

    MODERN AGE

    It´s the period from the last decade of the 15th century up until the French Revolution.

  • FRENCH REVOLUTION

    It was a social and politic conflict with a lot of violence that affected France and other European nations.
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    CONTEMPORARY AGE

    It´s the period between the Declaration of Independence of the EE.UU o French Revolution and nowdays.