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The wheel was invented in the 4th millennium BC in Lower Mesopotamia(modern-day Iraq), where the Sumerian people inserted rotating axles into solid discs of wood. It was only in 2000 BC that the discs began to be hollowed out to make a lighter wheel. This innovation led to major advances in two main areas.
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Writing appeared almost 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia. Early pictorial signs were gradually substituted by a complex system of characters representing the sounds of Sumerian (the language of Sumer in Southern Mesopotamia) and other languages.
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The ANCIENT HISTORY began 3500 BC with the written history and finish AD 476 with the fall of the roman empire. The civilisations its divided into three stages: GREEKS, EGYPTIANS (who used hieroglyphycs, invented by the ancient egyptians), and ROMANS (who spoke Latin)
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In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned 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.
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Prehistory is the time before written records. This is how prehistory began 2.5 million years ago and finish with the invention of written history. Prehistory is divided into two stages: STONE AGE and METAL AGE
The persons who lived in the Prehistory, was NOMADS. They COLLECTED FRUIT, HUNTED AND FISHED, STARTED TO USE FIRE, SIMPLE TOOLS, PAINTED IN CAVES... -
The Black Death was the most devastating plague pandemic in human history, affecting Eurasia in the 14th century and reaching a peak between 1347 and 1353.
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Johannes Gutenberg is credited with inventing the printing press around 1436, although he was far from the first to automate the book-printing process.
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October 12, 1492 marks an event that would forever change life on both sides of the Atlantic; this date represents the discovery of America. In 1492, navigator Christopher Columbus, sailed west from Spain hoping to find a new sea route to South and Southeast Asia.
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The modern age. It is characterized by cultural progress, discoveries, the creation of States, the development of the world economy and a greater weight of reason against faith.
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The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its impressions, other European nations that faced reactivation and opponents of the system known as the Old Regime.
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Reconquest is called the period of the history of the Iberian Peninsula of approximately 780 years. this complete conquest of Granada marks the end of the period.
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Contemporary history, in English-language historiography, is a subset of modern history that describes the historical period from approximately 1945 to the present.