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The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
c. 1500 BC: Settlers from Crete, Greece move to Miletus, Turkey. c. 1500 BC: Early traces of Maya civilization developing in Belize. c. 1500 BC: The Phoenicians develop an alphabet—see Timeline of communication technology. c. 1500 BC: Indo-Aryan migration is often dated to the 17th to 16th centuries. 1500 BC–500 BC—Vedas are composed.
800–1500: Mississippian culture spawns powerful chiefdoms of great agricultural Moundbuilders throughout the Eastern woodlands. 875: Patayan people begin farming along the Colorado River valley in western Arizona and eastern California. 900: Earliest event recorded in the Battiste Good (1821–22, Sicangu Lakota) Winter count. [5]
c. 1490 BC: Cranaus, legendary King of Athens, is deposed after a reign of 10 years by his son-in-law Amphictyon of Thessaly, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha. [citation needed] 1487 BC: Amphictyon, son of Deucalion and Pyrrha and legendary King of Athens, dies after a reign of 10 years and is succeeded by Erichthonius I of Athens, a grandson of ...
5) Bronze Age (c. 3100 – 1100 BCE) see Indus Valley civilization. 6) Iron Age (c. 1100 - 500 BCE). i) Proto-history (c.1500 - 500 BCE) known as Vedic period. ii) Historical period after 500 BCE. East Asia East Asia Periods: Neolithic c. 7500 BCE Pengtoushan culture: North Asia North Asia Periods: Korea Korean Periods: Paleolithic c. 40,000/ ...
Before Homo sapiens, Homo erectus had already spread throughout Africa and non-Arctic Eurasia by about one million years ago. The oldest known evidence for anatomically modern humans (as of 2017) are fossils found at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, dated about 360,000 years old. [2]
The 15th century was the century which spans the Julian calendar dates from 1 January 1401 (represented by the Roman numerals MCDI) to 31 December 1500 (MD). In Europe , the 15th century includes parts of the Late Middle Ages , the Early Renaissance , and the early modern period .
The early human migrations in the Lower Paleolithic saw Homo erectus spread across Eurasia 1.8 million years ago. [5] Evidence for the use of fire has been dated as early as 1.8 million years ago, a date which is contested, [ 6 ] with generally accepted evidence for the controlled use of fire dating to 780,000 years ago.