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50,000 BCE
prehistory
Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems -
Period: 50,000 BCE to 3500 BCE
prehistory
Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. -
12,000 BCE
Neolithic
The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several parts of the world. -
8000 BCE
Paleolithic
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic, also called the Old Stone Age, is a period in prehistory, distinguished by the original development of stone tools, that covers 99% of the period of human technological prehistory. -
4000 BCE
Antiquity
Antiquity is the aggregate of past events from the beginning of writing and recorded human history and extending as far as late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the Sumerian cuneiform script. -
Period: 4000 BCE to 476
Antiquity
During the time period of ancient history, the world population was already exponentially increasing due to the Neolithic Revolution, which was in full progress. While in 10,000 BCE, the world population stood at 2 million, it rose to 45 million by 3,000 BCE. By the Iron Age in 1000 BCE, the population had risen to 72 million. By the end of the ancient period in 500 CE, the world population is thought to have stood at 209 million. In 10,500 years, the world population increased by 100 times -
Period: 4000 BCE to 476
Middle age
Population decline, counterurbanisation, the collapse of centralized authority, invasions, and mass migrations of tribes, which had begun in Late Antiquity, continued into the Early Middle Ages. -
476
Middle Age
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period lasted approximately from the late 5th to the late 15th centuries, similar to the post-classical period of global history. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. -
1492
Modern age
The early modern period of modern history spans the period after the Late Middle Ages of the post-classical era through the beginning of the Age of Revolutions. -
Period: 1492 to
Modern age
Historians in recent decades have argued that from a worldwide standpoint, the most important feature of the early modern period was its spreading globalizing character. New economies and institutions emerged, becoming more sophisticated and globally articulated over the course of the period. -
Contemporany age
In many periodizations of human history, the late modern period followed the early modern period. It began approximately in the mid-19th century and depending on the author either ended with the beginning of contemporary history after World War II, or includes that period up to the present day. -
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Contemporany age
The Contemporary Age is the historical stage that runs from the French Revolution (1789) to the present.