Template:Human history

Human history; This box: view • talk • edit
	↑ before Homo (Pliocene)
	Three-age system prehistory
	Stone Age; >> Lower Paleolithic: Homo, Homo erectus, >> Middle Paleolithic: early Homo sapiens >> Upper Paleolithic: behavioral modernity >> Neolithic: civilization Bronze Age; >> Near East \| India • Europe • China • Korea Iron Age; >> Bronze Age collapse • Ancient Near East • India • Europe • China • Japan • Korea • Nigeria
	History
	Earliest records (2500–500 BCE); Antiquity (500 BCE–500 CE); Middle Ages (500–1500); Early modern (1500–1800); Modern (1800 to present);
	see also: Modernity, Futurology
	↓Future