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Traditionally, we understand prehistory as the period of time that goes from the appearance of the first human species to the appearance of the first complex societies of the latter and, above all, to the invention of writing, an event that occurred around the year 3300 BC.
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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. -
Writing was created in Mesopotamia around 300 BC. The Sumerians created it to express their ideas. The first thing that appeared were the pictograms and then the hieroglyphs and then the cave paintings. -
The birth of writing marks the beginning of the Ancient Age. Each culture developed particular types of writing, such as the Egyptian, which represents objects through symbols, (Hieroglyphs) With the fall of the Roman Empire, the Ancient Age ended and the great empires disappeared.
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The medieval period in Europe extended from the 5th century to the 15th century, differing in two stages: high Middle Ages and low Middle Ages. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire.In addition, in our country there have been monuments such as the wire fence of Granada.
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The black plague is an infectious, potentially fatal disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, which lives in animals, especially rodents, and more specifically in the fleas that carry these on their fur. It was transmitted by rats because at that time there was little hygiene -
After years of secret research and testing, Johannes Gutenberg came up with the invention of the printing press in1440, a system that would transform the spread of knowledge in Europe. The printing press in the Middle Ages was a revolution: books could be copied with a speed never seen before and its impact was incalculable. -
At the end of the 15th century, Christopher Columbus (who was a learned man in geography, astronomy, history and theology, and who also had extensive experience at sea) believed that he could reach Asia by tracing a route through the Atlantic Ocean. And he ran into America, which at that time was a continent unknown to almost everyone. He also brought food such as tomatoes or chocolate. -
The period of the history of the Iberian Peninsula of approximately 780 years between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania in 711 and the fall of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada in 1492 before the expanding Christian kingdoms is called the Reconquest: this complete conquest of Granada marks the end of the period. -
In this historical period, the bourgeoisie will acquire an increasing importance in society. And it is that, the power of the bourgeoisie was increasing thanks to the fact that it became rich due to its growing power over trade. On the other hand, the States will create their own laws, which will no longer be subject to the moral norms of the Church.
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The fundamental objective of the French Revolution was to end the absolutism of the monarchy led by King Louis XVI; which would allow the establishment of a democratic regime where all men were equal. Ideals created from the illustration that allowed establishing the rights of man. -
The Contemporary Age is the historical period between the French Revolution (1789) and the present. It is a time characterized by revolutions and great artistic, demographic, social, political, technological and economic transformations. Science and technology progresses, the automobile, the plane and the media appear.