ages of history
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HISTORY
ANCIENT HISTORY • 3.200 BC to 476 AC
• Since the appearance of writing until the fall of the Roman Empire.
ANCIENT HISTORY • 3.200 BC Starts with the appearance of
writing
ANCIENT HISTORY • During this period the earliest
civilizations developed in the East and the Mediterranean: Egypt, Greece, Roma
ANCIENT HISTORY• They were predominantly agrarian
societies.
• Unified politically in empires.
• Had a hierarchical social organization.
• There was slavery.
ANCIENT HISTORY • 476 AC Ends with the fall of the Roman
Empire.
MIDDLE/MEDIEVAL/POSTCLASSICAL HISTORY
• 476 to 1492
• Since the fall of the Roman Empire until the discovery of America
MIDDLE/MEDIEVAL/POSTCLASSICAL HISTORY• 476 AC Starts with the fall of the
Roman Empire
MIDDLE/MEDIEVAL/POSTCLASSICAL HISTORY
•Without emperors, feudal kings got greater importance in each locality.
• The only universal and unified power was the catholic church.
• The economy was based on agriculture developed by the serfs who got only the minimum to survive.
MIDDLE/MEDIEVAL/POSTCLASSICAL HISTORY• 1492 AC Ends with the discovery of
America.
MODERN HISTORY• 1492 AC to 1789 AC
• Since the discovery of America until the French Revolution.
MODERN HISTORY• 1492 AC Starts with the discovery of
America
MODERN HISTORY• Many geographic discoveries took
place.
• International commerce increased.
• The first modern factories appeared.
• Burgeoisie became a powerful social and economic group
NOBILITYRoyaltyUpper Class
CLERGYChurch Officials
COMMONERSBURGEOIS: : Merchants, Doctors, Lawyers and Artisans BEGARSPEASANTS
MODERN HISTORY• 1789 AC Ends with the French
Revolution.
CONTEMPORARY AGE
•1789 to 2015• Since the French Revolution to our
days.
CONTEMPORARY AGE
• Industrial revolution.
•American independence.
•World war I.
•World war II.
CONTEMPORARY AGE
•Development of the republican democracies.
•Socialism.
•Capitalism
CONTEMPORARY AGE
•Progress of science and technology
CONTEMPORARY AGE
•2015 Continues