PREHISTORY

PREHISTORY
 PREHISTORY is the period of time from the
appearance of the first human being to the
invention of writing.
 It started 3 million years ago and lasted to the
3.000 BC (Before Christ)
No writing document exist, so we study that period with material remains: For
example, the human body itself, hunting instruments, paintings, sculptures, etc.
1. STONE AGE
 This age is divided into Paleolithic and Neolithic:

 Paleolithic. During this stage the man was:

 NOMAD: he never lived in the same place, and lived in CAVES.
 HUNTER (animals for food) and COLLECTOR (from plants)
 Invented the FIRE.
 Clothing was made from FUR (skin of the animals).

 Neolithic. During this stage the man was:

 AGRICULTURAL and FARMING: people learned how to grow the food, and
people domesticated animals.
 They were SEDENTARY (lived in the same place) and had
permanent HOUSES. Homes were usually made from wood or
bricks.
 They started to use CLOTHES made by the skin of the animals
(knitting).
2. METAL AGE
 In this period of time in which the use of metal tools appears
along with the use of stone tools.
 First metal used by humans seems to have been COOPER.
BRONZE AGE
This age is the new period in the development of technology when metals
are first used regularly in the development in the certain of tools and weapons.
Bronze was also used in art.

IRON AGE
Iron is the key metal (most important metal) of history.
This age is the new period in the development of industry that begins with
the general use of iron and continues into modern times.
Iron is more common, durable, stranger, and sharper than bronze.
ANCIENT HISTORY
 ANCIENT HISTORY

 Ancient History started when people invented writing.

 In ANCIENT TIMES, all over the world, civilizations appeared,

for example, the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans.

 A civilization can be defined as the way of life of a people and how

they organize themselves into a society.
 ANCIENT HISTORY

 A society is a group of people with a common territory, interaction, and

culture.

 This way, early people joined together to create villages, city-states,

nations and empires.

 First Government were formed.

 People started to TRADE, i.e (that is) to sell or buy things with coins.
 Archaeologists have learned a great deal about these early civilization from the
artifacts(non-made objects) they left behind(created in that time).
 And important constructions were built too, like Egyptian Pyramids, the Greek Parthenon or
Roman theatres.

 Ancient History finished when the Roman Empire ended.

 EGYPTIAN PEOPLE

 Egypt is a dry, hot desert county and ancient life depended

on the waters of the River Nile. People lived beside the Nile
and Egyptian houses were almost all built from bricks of
Nile mud. (The palaces of the Pharaohs were built from
stone.)
 EGYPTIAN PEOPLE

 The richer families in ancient Egypt had houses with beautiful gardens,
looked after by slaves or servants. The Egyptians also enjoyed story-telling,
parties and music. There were a number of great public festivals, such as
the celebration of the resurrection of Osiris(god) where thousands of people
danced to the music of harps and flutes.
 GREEK PEOPLE

 Greek history is an interesting and wonderful era of

human invention, philosophy, art and architecture.

 Public games, sporting, and athletic events were on

important past time, which eventually led to the creation
of the Olympic Games that we celebrate today!
 GREEK PEOPLE
 Greeks adopted and utilized a new alphabet which is very
similar to the one we use today.

 The government and economy were structured into a

form of democracy that we are familiar with today.
 ROMAN PEOPLE
 Education was taken very seriously in school. Students studied
many of the same subjects learned in school today.

 While the kids were in school and the mothers and daughters
tended to the household chores, the fathers spent a few house
working each day.

 At night, Roman used lamps that burned olive oil.