World History I

World History I

World History IUnit One Block Four Lecture(Ages of History)Make sure that you are viewing this in Slide Show format. Click on Slide Show and push from beginning. Move through the presentation by pushing on the up and down arrows on your keyboardClick me

An Age or period is is a large interval of time with a definite characteristic.

Unfortunately, Ages do not neatly line up with eras. There are several points in history where an age overlaps two eras.

What is an Age?Click meIron Age

Prehistoric is time before when humans kept written records (usually anything before 3300 BCE/BC)

Prehistoric Eras and Ages are identical!

Old Stone Age = Paleolithic era (2,000,000 to 10,000 BCE/BC).New Stone Age = Neolithic Era 10,000 BCE/BC to 3300 BCE/BC

Prehistoric AgesClick Here

The Bronze age ushers in civilization!

Bronze Age - 3300 BCE/BC to 1200 BCE/BC (Mesopotamia to early Greece) Bronze technology (weapons and tools) change the way we live

Iron Age 1200 BCE/BC to 500 CE/AD (Early Greece to the very end of Rome). Iron is the metal upon which civilization rises and falls.

The Bronze and Iron AgesClick here

Things take time to fall apart and to rebuild

Dark Age 400 CE/AD to 1000 CE/AD (Church is in charge and its very bad in Europe)

Middle Age/High Middle 1000 to 1300 CE/AD (growth of European kingdoms (France, England, Spain, Portugal and Germany)).Medieval AgesClick here

The Renaissance is the first age in the modern era. This is the rebirth of civilization.

The Renaissance - 1300 CE/AD to 1500 CE/AD (rebirth of culture, city-states form in Italy, art, literature, thought, music and science begin to flourish).The beginning of the Modern EraClick here