-
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.
-
Prehistory, the vast period of time before written records or human documentation.
-
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. -
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.
-
In archaeology, rock art is man-made markings placed on natural surfaces, typically vertical stone surfaces. -
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. -
The Old Age is the first stage of history.
-
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. -
The Medieval age, or Middle age is the historical period of Western civilization between the fifth and fifteenth centuries.
-
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. -
The Modern Age is the third of the historical periods in which universal history is conventionally divided, between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries.
-
Christopher Columbus is credited with discovering the Americas. -
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. -
The Contemporary Age is the historical stage that runs from the French Revolution (1789) to the present.
-
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.