History Periods

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  • 4000 BCE

    Palaelolithic period.

    Palaelolithic period.
    The paleolithic period is sometimes called the Old Stone Age (35000 a.C - 10000 a.C).
    They live in caves.
    The Paleolithic (from the Greek παλαιός, palaiós: ‘ancient’, and λίθος, lithos: ‘stone’) etymologically means ancient stone, a term created by archaeologist John Lubbock in 1865 as opposed to Neolithic (new stone). It is the longest period of human existence (in fact it covers 99% of it [citation needed]) and extends from about 2.59 million years ago 1 to about 12,000 years ago.
  • 3000 BCE

    Neolithic period

    Neolithic period
    The Neolithic (from the Greek νεο- neo- 'new' and λιθικός lithikós 'of stone') is the last of the periods in which the Stone Age (stone tools) is considered divided. 1 The term, which means "new stone", refers to the elaborate polished stone tools that characterize that period and differentiate it from the "old" Stone Age, or Paleolithic, with rougher carved stone tools . In American periodization, the Neolithic roughly coincides with the Archaic Period.
  • 500 BCE

    Metal Age

    Metal Age
    The Metal Age is one of the two great technological stages into which Eurasian Prehistory has traditionally been subdivided. By definition, it is the period after the Stone Age and during which humans began to make things out of molten metal1. The existence of metallurgical processes is essential to establish the ascription of an archaeological culture to this stage, since the native metals were worked by hammering from the initial phases of the Neolithic.
  • 536

    Antiquity

    Antiquity
    The antiquity sometimes called the classical era, classical period or classical age (between the 8th century BC and the 6th century AC).
  • 1492

    Middle Ages

    Middle Ages
    The Middle Ages, Middle Ages or Middle Ages is the historical period of Western civilization between the fifth and fifteenth centuries.
  • 1500

    Modern age

    Modern age
    The Modern Age is the third of the historical periods into which world history is conventionally divided, between the 15th and 18th centuries. Chronologically, it houses a period whose beginning can be set in the fall of Constantinople (1453) or the discovery of America (1492), and whose end can be placed in the French Revolution (1789) or at the end of the previous decade, after independence. of the United States (1776).

  • Contemporary age

    Contemporary age
    Contemporary Age is the name that designates the historical period between the Declaration of Independence of the United States or the French Revolution, and today. It includes, if we start from the French Revolution, a total of 231 years, between 1789 and the present.