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Early Contemporary Times (The eras of History (Paleolithic age: the humans…
Early Contemporary Times
Studying history.
Historycal Sources: These are a historican gathers evidence from the past in order to identify where it comes from and what it means.
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Causes and effects of historical events . The historical events do not happen in isolation; they form a sequence linked by causes an effects.
Causes.: To understand a historical event we need to know the reason why caused it. these causes are diverse,so we have to find out an analyse the events that happened before.
Effects. the historical events also produced effects of itd own . These effects cause new historical events .
Units to mesure time
In order to understand history better , we put events in chronological order.
These are the units to measure the time: year, decade, century, millennium.
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The eras of History
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Neolithic age : humans learn to raise crops and livestock and became sedentary. They build villages.They invented too pottery, the loom and the weel.
The Metal age: human discovered how to make metal tools, and the first trade networks developed between villages.
The Ancient times: These cities:Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and india grew thanks to the trade in the Metal age. In these cities the social organisatioin and comunication emerged , like writing. They were political and religious leaders,and all people not were equally.This were the first civilisations. Later on, mediterranean cultures like the Greeks and the Romans developed. They founded colonies called provinces with big cities and left a great cultural legacy.
The middle ages: At the beginning of the Middle Ages, urban life has declined. After the Fall of the Roman empire in the 5th century, the continent was divided into Germanic kingdoms with feudal systems. One of these kingdoms was the Visigoth Kingdom of Toledo,in Hispania. In the 8th century, the Islamic empire invaded Hispania and controlled the peninsula.They founded Al - Andalus. the Chiristians rose up against the Muslism to win back the territory in the Reconquista, that ended in the 15th century.This period saw a return of commerce and cultural expansion. The bourgeoisie took the control.
The eras of History
The modern age: the fall of Constantinople to the Turks and the Discovery of America in 1.492 marked the beggining of a new era. In this time, developed the Humanism. Through the Modern age ;Kings,queens and emperors ruled with few limits on their power.The new autoritarian monarchies took power away from the feudal nobles and gave privileges to the bourgeoisie. The Catholic monarch were the first example of autoritarian monarchie.During their kingdom ended the reconquista and conqured new lands. The Habsburg king Carlos 1 and Felipe 2 inhereted a great Empire, in the 16th and 17th centuries. The crisis of Hispanic Monarchy came in the 17th century under the rule of the last Habsburg Kings. The monarchy recovered with arrival of the house of Bourbon in the 18th century.