User:Arkuat/Prehistory and history
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[edit] Outline
- Quaternary Period
- Gelasian
- Pleistocene = Paleolithic = Ice age = almost all of the Quaternary.
- Ending: All three periods end suddenly and simultaneously at the end of the Younger Dryas in the 10th millennium BCE.
- Beginning: Actually, the period of glaciations extends back into the late Pliocene, although apparently the intent was to set the Pliocene/Pleistocene border at the point of onset of the glaciations.
- Holocene (possibly an interglacial pause in the Pleistocene pattern)
- Epipaleolithic and Mesolithic, two localized and transitory conditions.
- Neolithic = most of the Holocene, in many locations
- Chalcolithic, around ancient Near East roughly 4th millennium BCE (5 to 6 kiloyears ago)
- Bronze Age: from 35 thousand years ago (in Near East, starts later or is entirely bypassed elsewhere) to 14 thousand years ago
- Iron Age: from 14 thousand years ago (same caveat) to some arbitrary endpoint
- contemporary (last thousand years or so)
- History of the world
- Scientific revolution
- Commercial revolution
- Age of exploration
- Age of discovery
- French revolution
- Industrial revolution
- Colonialism
- Imperialism
- Protestant reformation
- History of Islam
- History of Africa
- History of South America
- History of Latin America
- History of Central America
- History of Asia
- History of Oceania
The problem with technology-based chronological terms such as Bronze Age, Iron Age, etc., is that the phenomena involved have locations as well as periods. Thus the Anatolian Iron Age starts around fifteen or fourteen thousand years ago but the Chinese Iron Age starts a few centuries later. (The particulars are disputed, and this is only an example. The point would be the same if the use of iron originated in China and spread to the west, or were independently discovered later in the west.)
[edit] List of millennia
- 10th millennium BCE (End of the Younger Dryas)
- 9th millennium BCE
- 8th millennium BCE
- 7th millennium BCE
- 6th millennium BCE (Black Sea flooded with saltwater at 5600 BCE?)
- 5th millennium BCE
- 4th millennium BCE (sudden drastic climate change at 3200 BCE?)
- 3rd millennium BCE
- 2nd millennium BCE
- 1st millennium BCE
- 1st millennium
- 2nd millennium
- 3rd millennium
[edit] See also
Stone Age, Logarithmic timeline, Orders of magnitude (time), Prehistory, History, Three-age system, Periodization, Archaeology, Historiography, History of the world, History of Earth
