Ancient history refers to the time period in which scientists have found the ear

Ancient history refers to the time period in which scientists have found the earliest remains of human activity, approximately 60 000 BC.

It ends with the fall of several significant empires, such as the Western Roman Empire in the Mediterranean, the Han Dynasty in China, and the Gupta Empire in India, collectively around 650 AD.

STONE AGE EUROPE

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COPPER AGE EUROPE

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BRONZE AGE EUROPE

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CLASSICAL

Classical Antiquity /Classical Period (The Mediterranean Period) ~1000 years The Iron Age

1) Archaic period (c.8th to c.6th centuries BC)

… Phoenicians and Carthaginians

… Greece

… Iron Age Italy

… Roman Kingdom

2) Classical Greece (5th to 4th centuries BC)

… Hellenistic period (323 BC to 146 BC)

… Roman Republic (5th to 1st centuries BC)

3) Roman Empire (1st century BC to 5th century AD)

MEDIEVAL

Medieval Period 500-1500 (Continental Period) ~1000 years,

1) Early Medieval Period: 500-1000

2) High Medieval Period: 1000-1300

3) Late Medieval Period: 1300-1500

MODERN

Modern Period 1500-1945 (Atlantic Period) ~500 years, The Steel Age

1) Pre-modern: 1500-1800 (the groundwork for the Western domination is laid)

2) Modern: 1800-1910 (the West dominates the modern-looking world)

3) WW: 1910-1945 (the West’s domination crumbles as it wars with itself)

LATE MODERN PERIOD (NOW)

1) Cold War: 1945-1990 (the West is now divided along the ideological rather than purely national lines)

2) Contemporary: 1990-now (many interrelated issues seems critical now, but we will know which were truly important only when this period ends)

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