STUDYING THE PAST

By JOSEANTONIOROMAN
  • Period: 250,000 BCE to 3500 BCE

    PREHISTORY

    It began 2.5 million years ago. It finished with the invention of written history. Here we have 2 ages: Stone Age and Metal Age.
    Inside the Stone Age, there is the Paleolithic Period (nomads, hunt, fishing, simple tools...) and the Neolithic Period (lived in one place, grow crops, complex tools...)
  • 3500 BCE

    Written History began

    The history of writing traces the development of expressing language by systems of markings
  • 3500 BCE

    The Invention of the Wheel

    The oldest wheel found in archeological excavations was discovered in what was Mesopotamia and is believed to be over 5,500 years old The wheel actually arrived after the invention of agriculture, boats, woven cloth, and pottery. It was invented sometime around 3,500 BCE.
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 476

    ANCIENT HISTORY

    It began 3500 bc. (written history). It finished: the 476 ad. (fall of the roman empire). There were 3 civilisations: Greeks, Egyptians (Hieroglyphics) and Romans (Latin)
  • 3100 BCE

    Egyptian civilisation

  • 500 BCE

    Ancient Greek civilisation

  • 218 BCE

    Romans in the Iberian Peninsula

  • 27 BCE

    Roman Empire was established

  • 476

    Fall of the Roman Empire

  • Period: 476 to 1492

    THE MIDDLE AGES

    It began during the Fall ff the Roman Empire. It finished in the 15th Century, the Discovery of America (1492). It was the time of war between kingdoms and people built castles to defend the territory.
    There were 2 different cultures: Muslims and Christians.
  • Period: 722 to 1492

    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: 1346 to 1353

    THE BLACK DEATH

    It was the most fatal pandemic recorded in human history, causing the death of 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa
  • 1436

    THE PRINTING PRESS

    A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium that transfer the ink. It was invented by Johannes Gutenberg around 1436
  • 1492

    The Discovery of America

    In 1492, the navigator Christopher Columbus, funded by the Spanish Crown, sailed westward from Spain in hopes of finding a new sea route to South and Southeast Asia.
  • Period: 1492 to

    THE MODERN AGE

    It began with the Discovery of America by Colon (1492). It finished in French Revolution (1789)
  • Period: to

    THE FRENCH REVOLUTION

    It was a period of radical political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the formation of the French Consulate in November 1799. Many of its ideas are considered fundamental principles of liberal democracy.
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    THE CONTEMPORARY AGE

    It started in 1789 until now (currently).
    The period is generally said to have begun in the latter half of the 20th century, though the particular date varies. The term began its use around the late 1980s and early 1990s, and has been used up to the present with the availability of the Internet.