History 2

THE PERIODS OF HISTORY

  • 3000 BCE

    Prehistory

    3 millions years ago - 5,000 years ago the first stone tools, the invention of writing systems. Devided into a three age system.
    Protohistory
    Eurocentric - Eurasia and North Africa.
  • 2000 BCE

    Stone Age

    3.4 millions year - 8700 to 20000 BCE, first use of stone tools, metalworking, subdivided by the types os stone tools used, contemporaneous with the evolution of the genus Homo.
  • 200 BCE

    Lower Paleolithic

    Is the "Late Stone Age" and they learn to control fire acheulean manufacture.
  • 30 BCE

    Middle Paleolitgic

    Hunting and gathering, homo erectus coexisted with Neanderthals.
  • 10 BCE

    Upper Paleolithic

    Homo sapiens thrived and Neanderthals extinguished, sedentism and end of the final glaciation.
  • 8 BCE

    Mesolithic

    Homo and Canis begin to coexist in symbiosis and Humans started to domesticate plants and animals.
  • 7 BCE

    Neolithic

    Pottery manufacture, polished stone tools, neolithic revolution / Agricultural Revolution.