Prehistoric timeline for session 9 act.3 by Selin Özpınar https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen Marking the important steps en-us 2021-12-13 09:06:31 UTC 2021-12-13 10:02:22 UTC hello@padlet.com PREHISTORY selinozpinar540 https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944031929 Prehistory is any time that occurred before Human societies developed writing systems. Because different cultures across the world developed writing at different times, prehistory ends at different points in history depending on location.

Prehistory is made up of every point in time since the beginning of the universe, though for world history it is usually used to refer to the span of time between the evolution of the first Humans to the development of writing. In Egypt, prehistory is thought to have ended around 3200 BC.

Historians use a three-age system to divide up the ages of Human progress in Eurasia.

]]> 2021-12-13 09:17:40 UTC https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944031929 THE STONE AGE selinozpinar540 https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944065701 The Stone Age was the prehistoric cultural stage, or level of human development, that was characterized by the creation and use of stone tools. It began some 3.3 million years ago. The Stone Age is divided into three separate periods, namely the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age), and Neolithic (New Stone Age). Each period is based on the degree of sophistication used by humans to fashion and use stone tools.]]> 2021-12-13 09:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944065701 Paleolithic selinozpinar540 https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944071094 The Paleolithic Period is an ancient cultural stage of human technological development, characterized by the creation and use of rudimentary chipped stone tools. These included simple pebble tools (rock shaped by the pounding of another stone to produce tools with a serrated crest that served as a chopping blade), hand adzes (tools shaped from a block of stone to create a rounded butt and a single-bevel straight or curved cutting edge), stone scrapers, cleavers, and points. Such tools were also made of bone and wood. The Paleolithic Period was also characterized by the manufacture of small sculptures (e.g., carved stone statuettes of women, clay figurines of animals, and other bone and ivory carvings) and paintings, incised designs, and reliefs on cave walls.]]> 2021-12-13 09:43:35 UTC https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944071094 Mesolithic selinozpinar540 https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944076845 Mesolithic, also called Middle Stone Age, ancient cultural stage that existed between the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), with its chipped stone tools, and the Neolithic (New Stone Age), with its polished stone tools. Most often used to describe archaeological assemblages from the Eastern Hemisphere, the Mesolithic is broadly analogous to the Archaic culture of the Western Hemisphere. Mesolithic material culture is characterized by greater innovation and diversity than is found in the Paleolithic. Among the new forms of chipped stone tools were microliths, very small stone tools intended for mounting together on a shaft to produce a serrated edge.]]> 2021-12-13 09:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944076845 Neolithic selinozpinar540 https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944079018 The Neolithic Age is sometimes called the New Stone Age. Neolithic humans used stone tools like their earlier Stone Age ancestors, who eked out a marginal existence in small bands of hunter-gatherers during the last Ice Age.]]> 2021-12-13 09:48:59 UTC https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944079018 THE METAL AGES selinozpinar540 https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944089326 The Metal Ages, which may be further divided into stages, of approximate dates as shown: the Bronze Age (2300–700 BCE) and the Iron Age (700–1 BCE), which followed a less distinctly defined Copper Age (c. 3200–2300 BCE). At this time, societies in Europe began consciously to produce metals. Simultaneous with these technological innovations were changes in settlement organization, ritual life, and the interaction between the different societies in Europe. These developments and their remarkable reflections in the material culture make the period appear as a series of dramatic changes.]]> 2021-12-13 09:55:53 UTC https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944089326 Copper Age selinozpinar540 https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944093847 The Copper Age

Also known as the Chalcolithic or Eneolithic Period, the Copper Age was a time of diffuse and sporadic use of copper for a limited number of small tools and personal ornaments. If the age is defined simply as the time when copper first began to be used, then localized Copper Age cultures existed in southeastern Europe from the 5th millennium BCE. On the other hand, if it is defined as the time when copper was an established element in the material culture, then it must be dated from about 3200 BCE in the Carpathian Basin and southeastern Europe, slightly later in the Aegean, and later still in Iberia.

]]> 2021-12-13 09:58:51 UTC https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944093847 Bronze Age selinozpinar540 https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944097859 The Bronze Age lasted approximately from about 4,000 B.C. to 1,200 B.C. During this period everything from weapons to agricultural tools to hairpins was made with bronze (a copper-tin alloy). Weapons and tools made from bronze replaced crude implements of stone, wood, bone, and copper. Bronze knives are considerable sharper than copper ones. Bronze is much stronger than copper. It is credited with making war as we know it today possible. Bronze sword, bronze shield and bronze armored chariots gave those who had it a military advantage over those who didn't have it.]]> 2021-12-13 10:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944097859 Iron Age selinozpinar540 https://padlet.com/selinozpinar540/67058qurejk16qen/wish/1944099341 The Iron Age began around 1,500 B.C. It followed the Stone Age, Copper Age and Bronze Age. North of Alps it was from 800 to 50 B.C. Iron was used in 2000 B.C. Iron was made around 1500 B.C. Iron smelting was first developed by the Hittites and Africans in Termit, Niger around 1500 B.C. Improved iron working from the Hittites became wide spread by 1200 B.C.

 Iron---a metal a that is harder, stronger and keeps an edge better than bronze---proved to be an ideal material for improving weapons and armor as well as plows (land with soil previously to hard to cultivate was able to be farmed for the first time). Although it is found all over the world, iron was developed after bronze because virtually the only source of pure iron is meteorites and iron ore is much more difficult to smelt (extract the metal from rock) than copper or tin.

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