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One of the earliest known humans is Homo habilis, or “handy man,” who lived about 2.4 million to 1.4 million years ago in Eastern and Southern Africa.
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The prehistory begins with the first humans until the invention of writing
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The Paleolithic is the prehistoric period that inaugurates the Stone Age
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It is the period of human history in which agriculture and animal grazing appeared and became widespread, giving rise to agrarian societies.
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The Age of Metals is the period of Prehistory approximately between the IV and I millennium BC in Spain.
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The Sumerian archaic (pre-cuneiform) writing and Egyptian hieroglyphs are generally considered the earliest true writing systems, both emerging out of their ancestral proto-literate symbol systems from 3400 to 3100 BCE, with earliest coherent texts from about 2600 BCE.
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Ancient History begins with the invention of writing until the fall of the Roman Empire
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It was the Egyptians who built the pyramids. The Great Pyramid is dated with all the evidence, I'm telling you now to 4,600 years, the reign of Khufu. The Great Pyramid of Khufu is one of 104 pyramids in Egypt with superstructure.
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In 476, the Germanic barbarian king Odoacer deposed the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire in Italy, Romulus Augustulus, and the Senate sent the imperial insignia to the Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno.
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The Middle Ages begin with the fall of the Roman Empire until the discovery of America
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Explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) is known for his 1492 'discovery' of the 'new world' of the Americas on board his ship Santa Maria
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The modern age begins with the discovery of America until the French Revolution
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The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire on November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
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The contemporary age begins with the French Revolution until the present