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It is the period before the beginning of History and covers from the appearance of human beings to the invention of writing. Prehistory is divided into two major stages: The Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic)
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The First writings were found -
The Ancient Age is known as the historical period that witnessed the emergence and development of the first human civilizations (known as ancient civilizations), especially from the invention of writing, an event considered as the end of prehistory and the beginning of the history as such.
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Odoacer, king of the Heruli, overthrows the last emperor of Rome, Romulus Augustulus, on September 4, 476. This event marks the end of the Roman Empire: the western empire disappears while the eastern Byzantine empire survives until the fall of Constantinople. in 1453. -
The Middle Ages is the historical period that spans from the fall of the Western Roman Empire (476) to the Discovery of America (1492). This long historical period, also known as feudalism, was a social, political and economic organization based on land and vassalage.
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May 29, 1453: The capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans ends the Byzantine Empire. After centuries of decline, the fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. The city, renamed Istanbul, became the new capital of the powerful Ottoman dominion -
In this period there were great changes in science and technology, which had enormous repercussions on the work, military and philosophical life of the West. Furthermore, faith in progress, communication and reason was established, new philosophical values that soon dominated the world.
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October 12, 1492, is a date of enormous importance in Western history: It is the day when Christopher Columbus completed his journey across the Atlantic Ocean and arrived in the “New World.” Where Columbus really arrived that October day was to an island he called San Salvador, which is now part of the Bahamas. -
The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, which convulsed the France of the Ancien Regime, and other countries by extension of its implications. -
During the Contemporary Age, industrial revolutions occurred that transformed the forms of production, work relationships and the way of life of a large part of the population.