• five million years ago
• Africa.
• 1.2 and 1.3 m tall

Homo Habilis

•  two million years ago
• left Africa
• 1.3 m. 

 Homo Erectus

• A million and a half of year ago

• Africa, Asia and Oceania.

• discovered fire

• care after weaker companions.

Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis

• 250,000 until 30,000years ago
• Africa, Asia and Europe 
• adaptations to a cold climate: large skull, short builds, large noses
• disappeared 30,000 years ago.

Homo Sapiens Sapiens

• appeared 100,000 years ago
• Africa, Asia, Europe and America.
• Not as strong as the previous species
• abstract reasoning, language, ect 

Prehistory

(when)

5 million years ago

Ancient History

(when)

The Middle Ages

(when)

Early Modern history

(when)

Modern History

(when)

1789-now

•  Palaeolithic
• Neolithic
• Metal Ages

Palaeolithic

Neolithic

10 thousand years ago- 6 thousand years ago

Metal Ages

6 thousand years ago- 3 thousand years ago

Life in Palaeolithic

(7 things)

•  lived on hunting fishing and the gathering
• nomadic: moved from place to place
• lived in caves, outdoors or in cabins
• organised them selves into small tribes
• climate was very cold,
• diseases were very common
• not older than 35 years old

• made tools and objects mainly of stones
• knocked two stones together

• used wood and animals bones

• made harpoons, needles, lances, etc.

• Fire
• a half a millions years ago
• one of the most important discoveries
• heat caves
• light caves
• cook food and
• scare wild animals

• believed in the existence of supernatural forces
• hunting
• prevented children from dying
• made women have more children
• tribes decorated their cave walls with paintings
• made sculptures
• including Venus

Life in Neolithic: Discoveries

• agriculture & cattle raising
• 10,000 years ago
• Middle East,
• a revolution.
• cereals:
• wheat in the Middle East and Europe,
• rice in Asia and
• corn in America
• domesticated animals were horses, dogs, sheep and oxen.

Life in Neolithic

• groups to settled near arable land
• became sedentary
• built villages
• next to rivers
• specialisation of work took place in villages
• Two important technical innovations: fabrics and pottery
•  paintings and scenes began to be represented: groups of people hunting, harvesting vegetables, dancing, etc.
• Figures were very schematic.

Life in Metal Age: Metal

• 7000 years ago
• objects of metal
• first metal they used was copper
• Later they used bronze and iron
•  tools, weapons, jewels, statues, etc.

• 5000 years ago
• Middle East
• wheel, the sail and the plough.
• beginning of trade activities
• improved living conditions
• population grew
• villages became small cities

• Megaliths=monuments of big stone blocks
• menhirs
• dolmens
•  cromlechs