The eras of History

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  • Period: 6000 BCE to 3000 BCE

    Prehistory

    Paleolithic Age: nomads, hunters and gatherers. They began to use the first tools and the fire.
    Neolithic: crops and livestock. They became sedentary and built villages. They invented pottery, the loom and the wheel.
    Metal Age: they used metal tools; trade networks.
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 476

    Ancient Times

    Cities on the river valleys of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and India grew. Social organisation, political and religious leaders. Mediterranean cultures were born: the Romans (who conquered the Iberian Peninsula) and the Greeks.
  • Period: 476 to 1453

    Middle Ages

    Fall of the Roman Empire (476 AD). The continent is divided into Germanic Kingdoms with feudal systems. Visigoth Kingdom In Hispania.
    8th C. the Islamic Empire invaded Hispania.
    Al-Andalus: the greatest economic and cultural centre.
    Reconquista: Christians against Muslims.
    Burgeoisie was the centre of urban life.
  • Period: 1453 to

    Modern Age

    Discovery of America (1492).
    Humanism developed.
    Catholic Monarchs: the reigns of Castilla and Aragón (authoritarian Monarchy).
    17th C. crisis of the Hispanic Monarchy.
    18th C. arrival of the House of Bourbon.
  • Period: to

    Contemporary Times

    World population growth.
    Equal rights for everyone.
    Important technological developments.