Scientific and technological development in the history of mankind

Antiquity

3000 BCE

It is the period in which both Greek and Roman societies flourished and wielded huge influence throughout much of Europe, Northern Africa, and Western Asia.
It is taken to begin with the earliest-recorded Epic Greek poetry of Homer, and continues through the emergence of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire. It ends with the decline of classical culture during Late antiquity, a period overlapping with the Early Middle Ages.

The Prehistory

2800 BCE

Prehistory, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins c.3.3 million years ago and the invention of writing systems. The use of symbols, marks, and images appears very early among humans, but the earliest known writing systems appeared c.5000 years ago and it took many years for writing systems to be widely adopted. In some human cultures, writing systems were not used until the 19th century and, in a few, are not even used until the present.

The Middle Ages

1500

The Middle Ages lasted approximately from the 5th to the late 15th centuries. It began with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and transitioned into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. The Middle Ages is the middle period of the three traditional divisions of Western history: classical antiquity, the medieval period, and the modern period. The medieval period is itself divide into the Early, High, and Late Middle Ages. In 1347 and 1350, the Black Death killed about a third of Europeans.