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Main history articles

History by period

• History of Earth
• Human history
• News

History by chronology

• Chronology of the Universe
• Formation and evolution of the Solar System
• Geological history of Earth
• Evolutionary history of life
• History of the world (see also: World history)
• Universal history
  • Ancient history
    • Prehistory
    • Classical antiquity
  • Post-classical history
  • Modern history
    • Early modern period
    • Late modern period
    • Contemporary history
• Pre-Columbian
  • Mesoamerican chronology
• Renaissance
• Future history

Ages of history

Prehistoric Ages

• Stone Age
  • Paleolithic
    • Lower Paleolithic – (Homo, Stone tools, spread of Homo Erectus to Eurasia, control of fire, and later spears, pigments, constructed shelter)
    • Middle Paleolithic – (Recent African origin of modern humans, Homo sapiens, Homo neanderthalensis; clothing, beads, burial, bedding, bone tools)
    • Upper Paleolithic – (behavioral modernity, atlatl, domestication of dogs)
  • Mesolithic – (microliths, bow, canoes)
  • Neolithic – (domestication, nomadic pastoralism, agriculture, proto-cities)
    • Stone Age Levant
      • Tell Halaf
      • Ubaid period
    • Neolithic Europe – (Linear Pottery, Vinča culture)
    • Neolithic China
    • Neolithic South Asia
      • Mehrgarh
    • Paleo-Indians (Americas)
  • Chalcolithic (Copper Age) – (Yamna culture, Corded Ware)
    • Uruk period
    • Europe – (Metallurgy in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica)

Historic Ages

• Ancient Age
  • Bronze Age
  • Iron Age
• Postclassical Age (Middle Ages)
  • Early Middle Ages
  • High Middle Ages
  • Late Middle Ages
• Modern Age
  • Early modern Age
  • Late Modern Age
  • Contemporary Age

Other Ages

• Axial Age
• Dark Age
• Viking Age
• Age of Discovery
• Age of Reason
• Age of Enlightenment
• Industrial Age
• Atomic Age
• Information Age
• Space Age