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The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
1991: The first sim card is developed by Munich smart-card maker Giesecke & Devrient. 1993: IBM created the first mobile app with SIMON; it had 10 built-in apps from Email to Calendar. 1994: IBM Simon, the world's first smartphone, is developed by IBM. 1994: First generation of Bluetooth is developed by Ericsson Mobile. A form of data ...
Dikika [10] 3.39 Hadar, Ethiopia East Africa A. afarensis (presumed) Cut marks on bone Controversial [11] [12] [13] Lomekwi 3 [14] 3.3 West Turkana, Kenya East Africa Stone tools Mode 0 or Pre-Mode 1 stone tools are named after this site - see Stone tool: Nyayanga [15] 3.0–2.6 Nyayanga, Kenya East Africa Paranthropus (associated) Hominin ...
Herodotus believed that the Phoenicians originated from Bahrain, [16] [17] a view shared centuries later by the historian Strabo. [18] This theory was accepted by the 19th-century German classicist Arnold Heeren, who noted that Greek geographers described "two islands, named Tyrus or Tylos, and Aradus, which boasted that they were the mother country of the Phoenicians, and exhibited relics of ...
Some inventions that are credited to the ancient Greeks are the following: bronze casting techniques, water organ (hydraulis), and the torsion siege engine. Many of these inventions occurred late in the Hellenistic period, often inspired by the need to improve weapons and tactics in war.
The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon. They developed a maritime civilization which expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their culture stretching from Arwad in modern ...
Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History, originally published as Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History is a wallchart which graphically depicts a Biblical genealogy alongside a timeline composed of historic sources from the history of humanity from 4004 BC to modern times.
The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic group of people who lived in the Phoenician city-states along a coastal strip in the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily modern Lebanon [4]. They developed a maritime civilization which expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their culture stretching from Arwad in ...