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Period: 99,999 BCE to 3500 BCE
Prehistory
In this period started since the first human until first writing. Men were nomads. They lived in caves in small tribes and made cave paintings. As the years went by, they discovered agriculture and livestock and the first towns appeared. -
3500 BCE
Written texts appear
The clay tablet and cuneiform writing were the first known book and writing. -
Period: 3500 BCE to 476
Ancient History
This period that witnessed the emergence and development of the first human civilizations. -
476
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
In that year, the last Western Roman emperor, Romulus Augustulus, was deposed, marking this event, for many historians, the end of the Roman Empire. -
Period: 476 to 1453
The Middle Ages
This long period, also known as feudalism, was a social, political and economic organization based on land and vassalage. -
1453
Fall of the Eastern Roman Empire
The capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans puts an end to the Byzantine Empire. After centuries of decline, the fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. The city, renamed Istanbul, became the new capital of the powerful Ottoman dominion. -
Period: 1453 to
The Modern Age
During this period the conquest and colonization of America, the Lutheran Reformation, and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution took place. In the cultural aspect, the movements of Humanism, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Baroque spread. -
French Revolution
It was a social and political process and the main consequences were the abolition of the absolute monarchy and the proclamation of the Republic, eliminating the economic and social bases of the Old Regime. -
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The Contemporany Age
It is an era characterized by revolutions and great artistic, demographic, social, political, technological and economic transformations. With the Industrial Revolution, a new class society emerged presided over by the bourgeoisie and the labor movement developed.