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Period: 99,999 BCE to 3500 BCE
Prehistory
The evolutionary leap of the hominids in which the first humans learned to control the fire they used, both to scare away wild animals and to keep warm when they slept in caves. -
3500 BCE
Written Texts Appear
They were the Sumerians, the ancient people who lived in southern Mesopotamia -
Period: 3500 BCE to 476
Ancient History
The historical period that witnessed the emergence and development of the first human civilizations is known as the Ancient Age. -
476
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
Odoacer, king of the Heruli, overthrows the last emperor of Rome, Romulus Augustulus, on September 4, 476. -
Period: 476 to 1453
The Middle Ages
This long historical period, also known as feudalism, was a social, political and economic organization based on land and vassalage. -
1453
Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire
It was a division of the Roman Empire that survived during the Middle Ages, and was located on the eastern coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. -
Period: 1453 to
The Modern Age
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. -
French Revolution
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. -
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The Contemporany Age
The Contemporary Age is the historical period that spans from the beginning of the French Revolution in 1789 to the present. -
Contemporary age
The Contemporary Age is the name given to the historical period between the Declaration of Independence of the United States, the French Revolution or the Spanish-American Wars of Independence, and the present.