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  2. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Middle Ages – Lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and is variously demarcated by historians as ending with the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, or the discovery of America by Columbus in 1492, merging into the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery .

  3. List of archaeological periods - Wikipedia

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    The three-age system has been used in many areas, referring to the prehistorical and historical periods identified by tool manufacture and use, of Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Since these ages are distinguished by the development of technology, it is natural that the dates to which these refer vary in different parts of the ...

  4. Bronze Age - Wikipedia

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    Memphis, in the Early Bronze Age, was the largest city of the time. The Old Kingdom of the regional Bronze Age [12] is the name given to the period in the 3rd millennium BC when Egyptian civilisation attained its first continuous peak of complexity and achievement—the first of three "Kingdom" periods which marked the high points of ...

  5. Maritime timeline - Wikipedia

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    3 Middle Ages. 4 Age of Discovery. 5 ... 1575–1520 BC Dover Bronze Age Boat, ... 1957: Aircraft supplants shipping as the leading mode of passenger Transatlantic ...

  6. Archaeologists Have Uncovered a Bronze Age Civilization ...

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    Satellite images reveal an ancient mega network connecting over 100 Bronze Age sites. Discover the complex civilization beneath Central Europe.

  7. Bronze Age Europe - Wikipedia

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    A study in the journal Antiquity from 2013 reported the discovery of a tin bronze foil from the Pločnik archaeological site dated to c. 4650 BC, as well as 14 other artefacts from Serbia and Bulgaria dated to before 4000 BC, showed that early tin bronze was more common than previously thought and developed independently in Europe 1,500 years before the first tin bronze alloys in the Near East.

  8. ‘Britain’s Pompeii’ reveals Bronze Age village frozen in time

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    An analysis of the exceptionally well preserved remains of a Bronze Age village reveals the cozy domesticity of life in Britain 2,850 years ago. ... referencing the city forever frozen in time by ...

  9. Three-age system - Wikipedia

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    Jōmon pottery, Japanese Stone Age Trundholm sun chariot, Nordic Bronze Age Iron Age house keys Cave of Letters, Nahal Hever Canyon, Israel Museum, Jerusalem. The three-age system is the periodization of human prehistory (with some overlap into the historical periods in a few regions) into three time-periods: the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, [1] [2] although the concept may ...