Human history and prehistory

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↑ before Homo (Pliocene)
Three-age system prehistory
Stone Age Lower Paleolithic: Homo, Homo erectus, Middle Paleolithic: early Homo sapiens Upper Paleolithic: behavioral modernity Neolithic: civilization Bronze Age Near East | India • Europe • China • Korea Iron Age Bronze Age collapse • Ancient Near East • India • Europe • China • Japan • Korea • Nigeria
History
Earliest records (2500 - 500 BCE) Antiquity (500 BCE - 500 CE) Middle Ages (500 - 1492) Early modern (1492 - 1789) Modern (1789 - 1989) Contemporary (1989 - present)
see also: Modernity, Futurology
↓Future