History of the World - E-book - ePub

The world history defines the history of mankind as decided bythe study of archaeological and inscribed archives. The recordedancient history starts when writing was invented. Prehistory ismarked by the Early Stone Age or the Palaeolithic Era whichwas followed by New Stone Age or Neolithic Era. TheAgricultural Revolution was from 8000 and 5000 BCE; it wasduring this time that the humans progressed and startedfarming and animal husbandry and settled down to formvillages and then civilizations.
Expansion of these villagesrequired one to travel and travelling from one place to theother lead to development of transport. Developments of farming also lead to divisions in labours andalso bought lead to division of society in upper class, middleclass and lower class. More and more civilizations came upand the population grew fast spreading all over the world. The history of the old world is specially the Mediterranean andEurope is divided in Antiquity or ancient history till the 476CE, the Middle Ages or Postclassical Ages till 15 century thisage also included the Islamic Golden Age and RenaissancePeriod, the Early Modern Period which lasted from 15thcentury till the 18th century and also comprised of Age ofEnlightenment and Late Modern Period and finally from theIndustrial Revolution till present day also countingContemporary history.
Many important inventions like printing bought an end to theMiddle Ages and heralded the Scientific Revolution in themiddle of the century and growing knowledge and technologyquickly bought about the Industrial Revolution by the 18thcentury. After the 18th century the world has seen quickchanges like increase in population, wars, weapons, commerce, trade, technology, environmental degradation, pollution etc.
Allthis has augmented in generating opportunities and jeopardieswhich now antagonise the planet's mortal communities.