PRE HISTORY

BEGINNING: The term "prehistory" can refer to the vast span of time since the
beginning of the Universe, but more often it refers to the period since life
appeared on Earth, or even more specifically to the time since human-like beings
appeared.
END: The date marking the end of prehistory in a particular culture or region, that
is, the date when relevant written historical records become a useful academic
resource, varies enormously from region to region.
TIME PERIODS:
Stone Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
STONE AGE
The Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely
used to make implements with a sharp edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
The period lasted roughly 3.4 million years, and ended between 6000 BCE and
2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking
Stone Age Period
Paleolithic" means "Old Stone Age," and begins with the first use of stone tools.
The Paleolithic is the earliest period of the Stone Age.
- early evidence of the homo sapiens, beginning with homo habilis in Afica
- control of fire
- Man are nomadic hunters
Homo Habilis
Homo Erectus erect man
Peking Man
Java Man
Homo Sapien modern humans
Neanderthal
Cro Magnon
Mesolithic
By 20,000 to 18,000 BC the climate and environment had changed, starting a
period of transition.
Neolithic
only Homo sapiens sapiens remained

period of primitive technological and social development

The Neolithic period saw the development of early villages, agriculture, animal
domestication, tools and the onset of the earliest recorded incidents of warfare.
BRONZE AGE
The Bronze Age is the earliest period in which some civilisations have reached
the end of prehistory, by introducing written records. The Bronze Age or parts
thereof are thus considered to be part of prehistory only for the regions and
civilisations who adopted or developed a system of keeping written records
during later periods. The invention of writing coincides in some areas with the
early beginnings of the Bronze Age. Soon after the appearance of writing, people
started creating texts including written accounts of events and records of
administrative matters.
MESSOPOTAMIA
Between two rivers, Euphrates and Tigris

modern-day Iraq and Kuwait

introduction to agriculture
domestication of animals

Mesopotamia included Sumer and the Akkadian, Babylonian,

and Assyrian empires
earliest monumental sculptures and circular stone buildings

The Fertile Crescent (also known as the Cradle of Civilization) is a

crescent-shaped region containing the comparatively moist and fertile
land of otherwise arid and semi-arid Western Asia, the Nile Valley and
Nile Delta.