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Prehistory is, according to the traditional definition, the period of time since the appearance of the first hominins, ancestors of Homo sapiens.
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It is assumed that the first inventors of writing were the Sumerians, who lived in southern Mesopotamia. The first writing code appeared there in the year 3100 BC, and shortly after writing was invented again almost 1600 kilometers away, in Egypt. -
Antiquity, also called Ancient Age or Ancient Period depending on the context, is a historical period between the end of prehistory
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Odoacer, king of the Heruli, overthrows the last emperor of Rome, Romulus Augustulus, on September 4, 476. This event marks the end of the Roman Empire -
The Middle Ages, Middle Ages or Middle Ages is the historical period of Western civilization between the 5th and 15th centuries.
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The Western Empire disappears while the Eastern Byzantine Empire survives until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. -
The Modern Age is the third of the historical periods into which universal history is conventionally divided, between the 15th and 18th centuries.
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The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, which convulsed the France of the Ancien Regime, and other countries by extension of its implications. -
The Contemporary Age is the name given to the historical period between the Declaration of Independence of the United States, the French Revolution or the Spanish-American Wars of Independence, and the present day.