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  • Period: 250,000 BCE to 10,000 BCE

    Paleolithic

    In the Paleolithic period, early humans lived in caves or simple huts or tepees and were hunters and gatherers. They used basic stone and bone tools, as well as crude stone axes, for hunting birds and wild animals.
  • Period: 250,000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    PREHISTORY

    Prehistory, the vast period of time before written records or human documentation.
  • 50,000 BCE

    fire

    fire
    When fire was discovered for the first time, in the sense that it was managed to be tamed, taking advantage of some hot branch after a fire to later maintain and preserve it.
  • Period: 10,000 BCE to 4000 BCE

    Neolithic

    The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is characterized by the beginning of a settled human lifestyle. People learned to cultivate plants and domesticate animals for food, rather than rely solely on hunting and gathering.
  • 5000 BCE

    rock art

    rock art
    In archaeology, rock art is man-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces.
  • 4000 BCE

    writing

    writing
    The first writing techniques.It arose in Egypt, Mesopotamia and China. The system created in the Middle East and Egypt quickly spread to nearby cultural areas and is the origin of most of the world's scripts.
  • Period: 4000 BCE to 476

    ANTIQUITY AGE

    The Old Age is the first stage of history.
  • 476

    fall of the roman empire

    fall of the roman empire
    The Fall of the Western Roman Empire was the period of decline of the Western Roman Empire in which it lost its ruling authority and its vast territory was divided into numerous successor polities.
  • Period: 476 to 1453

    MEDIEVAL AGE

    The Medieval age, or Middle age is the historical period of Western civilization between the fifth and fifteenth centuries.
  • 1440

    printing press

    printing press
    The invention of the printing press is attributed to the German, Johannes Gutenberg. Gutenberg is considered "the father of the printing press", after years trying to dispute the title between the French, Italians, Dutch and Germans.
  • Period: 1453 to

    MODERN AGE

    The Modern Age is the third of the historical periods in which universal history is conventionally divided, between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.
  • 1492

    discovery of America

    discovery of America
    Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering the Americas.

  • french revolution

    french revolution
    The French Revolution was a social and political conflict, with various periods of violence, that convulsed France and, by extension of its implications, other European nations that faced supporters and opponents of the system known as the Old Regime.
  • Period: to

    CONTEMPORANY AGE

    The Contemporary Age is the historical stage that runs from the French Revolution (1789) to the present.

  • telephone

    telephone
    The telettrofono or telephone by the Italian Antonio Meucci. The purpose was simple: to connect his office with the bedroom so that he could talk to his sick wife immobile in bed due to a serious illness.