ages of history

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