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The Prehistory goes from the appearance of human beings to the invention of writing.
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In the year 500,000 BC. prehistoric people discovered fire -
writing marked the change from prehistory to the ancient age, it was discovered in the year 3500 BC -
The Ancient Age is the period of history that begins with the invention of writing, around 3000 BC. C. and ends with the fall of the Western Roman Empire, in 476 AD. C. During the Ancient Age the first great civilizations emerged such as Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
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The fall of the Western Roman Empire was in the year 476 AD and marked the transition from the ancient age to the middle ages. -
The Middle Ages or Medieval period is the historical period of Western civilization between the 5th and 15th centuries. Its beginning is in the year 476, the year of the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and its end in 1492, the year in which Columbus arrived in America.
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In the year 1453 AD the Eastern Roman Empire fell and the modern age began -
The Modern Age is the historical period that began in 1492 with the discovery of America and ended in 1789 with the French Revolution. It was a time of great economic, political and religious changes.
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The French Revolution was a social and political process that developed 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 bases of the Old Regime. -
Contemporary Age is the name given to the historical period between the Declaration of Independence of the United States or the French Revolution, and the present. It includes, if we start from the French Revolution, a total of 234 years, between 1789 and the present.