HISTORY PERIODS

  • Period: 230,000 BCE to 8000 BCE

    PREHISTORY: Paleolithic period

    The Paleolithic began more than 2 million years ago.
    2.300.000 BC.➡Homo habilis ➡ tools
    1.900.000 BC ➡ Homo erectus ➡fire
    150.000 BC➡ Homo neandenthalensis ➡ first burials
    120.000 BC ➡Homo sapiens sapiens➡ firts examples of art
  • Period: 8000 BCE to 5000 BCE

    PREHISTORY: Neolithic period

    8.000 BC➡ Agriculture
    7.000 BC➡ Pottery and cloth
    5.500 BC➡ First Neolithic comunities on the Iberian Peninsula
  • Period: 5000 BCE to 3500 BCE

    PREHISTORY: Metal age

    ➡Birth of metallurgy (copper, bronze, iron)
    ➡Advances in agriculture
    ➡Invention of the wheel
    ➡Birth of commerce and navigation
    ➡There are social classes
    ➡Invention of the solar calendar
  • Period: 3500 BCE to 476

    HISTORY: Antiquity

    3.500 BC➡ Origin of wrinting
    Creation of the first civilizations, great empires and cities
    (Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece and Roman Empire)
    ➡Emergence of religions and social hierarchies
    ➡First laws
    ➡Fall Roman Empire (year 476)
  • Period: 476 to Dec 31, 1453

    HISTORY: Middle age

    ➡Feudalism
    ➡Theocentrism (power of the clergy
    ➡Crossed
    ➡Cultural and artistic manifestations
  • Period: Jan 1, 1453 to

    HISTORY: Modern age

    ➡Great discoveries
    ➡Political and social revolution
    ➡Discovery of America
    ➡Starts Industrial Revolution
    ➡Religious, philosophical and artistic changes
    ➡Birth of mercantilism and capitalism
    ➡Colonial expansion
  • Period: to

    HISTORY: Contemporary age

    ➡French Revolution
    ➡Time of many wars (2 world wars, Spanish civil war ...)
    ➡Great scientific discoveries
    ➡Man reaches the moon
    ➡Russian revolution and communism
    ➡Great economic depression
    ➡Era of technology