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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. -
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Contemporary Times
World population growth.
Equal rights for everyone.
Important technological developments.