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Period: 4000 BCE to 3500 BCE
prehistory
Human prehistory is the period between the use of the first stone tools c. 3.3 million years ago by hominins and the invention of writing systems -
Period: 3500 BCE to 476
Ancient Age
Ancient history is all the events we know about between the invention of writing and the start of the Middle Ages. ... It was invented after the Neolithic revolution in which people settled in small towns and started agriculture. Writing dates from about 3,300 BC, which is over 5000 years ago, in the Middle East. -
476
Fall of the Roman Empire
The Middle Ages is also known as the medieval era. It was the time between the fall of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the modern world. Medieval life centered around the church. The church held worship services and took care of the sick, poor, elderly, and orphans. -
Period: 500 to 1000
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or medieval period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself subdivided into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. -
1492
Modern Age
Modern history is the history of the world beginning after the Middle Ages. Generally the term "modern history" refers to the history of the world since the advent of the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment in the 17th and 18th centuries and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. -
Period: 1495 to
Contemporary Age
The contemporary history includes the span of historical events starting from 1945. These events are most relevant to the present time and scenario. Many historians describe the early modern period as the time frame between 1500 and 1800. This period mainly follows the Late Middle Ages period.
