Studying the past

  • Period: 9999 BCE to 3500 BCE

    Prehistory

    Prehistory is the longest stage of humanity. Takes place from the appearannce of writing and was about 3.5 millions years ago.
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 476

    Ancient Age

    The Ancient Age is a brood historical period that begins approximately in 4000 B.C and that ends in the year 476 with the fall of Roman Empire. Due to the creation of writing the Ancient Age supposes the closure of another historical stage such as Prehistory.
  • 3500 BCE

    invention of the wheel

    According to archaeologists, the wheel was invented in Mesopotamia more than 6,000 years ago, but it is not known who the inventor was. The first wheel is supposed to have been invented after humans used cylindrical tree trunks to move heavy things.
  • 3100 BCE

    Invention of writing

    It is assumed that the first inventors of writing were the Sumerians who inhabited southern Mesopotamia. The first writing code appeared there in the year 3100 before Jesus, and shortly after writing was inveted again almost 1600kilometers away, in Egypt
  • Period: 476 to Jan 1, 1492

    The Middle Ages

    The Middle Ages is the historical period that covers from the fall of Roman Empire(476) to the Discovery of America(1492). This long historical period, was a social, politic and economic organization.
  • Jan 1, 1346

    The black plague

    The black plague is produced by Yersina Pestis, a bacillus found in rat fleas, when said flea bit a person, or he suffered a cut on the skin of contaminated materials, the bacillus was transmitted and said disease was suffered. illness.
  • Jan 1, 1440

    The invention of the priting press

    The inventor of the printing press is the German Johannes Gutenberg in the year 1440, in the city of Mainz (Germany). This German goldsmith changed the course of humanity since with his invention, the printing press, knowledge could now reach almost everyone
  • Jan 1, 1492

    End of the Reconquest

    The Reconquest ended with the conquest of the emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state in the peninsula, in 1492, the conquest and fall was preceded by the Capitulations of Granada or Treaty of Granada (1491).
  • Period: Jan 1, 1492 to

    The Modern Age

    The Modern Age is the historical stage that takes place between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. In contrast to the Middle Ages, the Modern Age is characterized by cultural progress, discoveries, the creation of States, the development of the world economy and a greater weight of reason against faith
  • Oct 12, 1492

    Discovery of America

    On October 12, 1492, a group of Spaniards led by the Italian Chistopher Columbus arrived on an island called Guanahaní after crossing the Atlantic Ocean. Althoug they thought they were in the Indes(in Asia) they had actually discovered a neww continent: America.
  • The French Revolution

    The French Revolution was a social and political process that took place in France between 1789 and 1799 whose main consequences were the abolition of the absolute monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic, eliminating the economic and social foundations of the Old Regime.
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    The Contemporany Age

    The Contemporary Age is the historical period between the French Revolution (1789) and the present. It is a time characterized by revolutions and by great artistic, demographic, social, political, technological and economic transformations.