4. :The Stone Age is a broad prehistoric
period during which stone was widely
used to make implements with a sharp
edge, a point, or a percussion surface.
The period lasted roughly 3.4 million
years, and ended between 6000 BCE and
2000 BCE with the advent of metalworking.
5.
6. The Bronze Age is a time
period characterized by the
use of bronze, proto-writing,
and other early features of
urban civilization. The Bronze
Age is the second principal
period of the three-age Stone-
Bronze-Iron system, as
proposed in modern times
by Christian Jorgensen
Thomsen, for classifying and
studying ancient societies.
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8. The Kassites were an ancient Near
Eastern people who
controlled Babylonia after the fall of the Old
Babylonian Empire ca. 1531 BC and until
ca. 1155 BC (short chronology).
The Kassites gained control
of Babylonia after the Hittite sack of the city
in 1595 BC (i.e. 1531 BC per the short
chronology), and established a dynasty
based in Dur-Kurigalzu.
9.
10. Timeline of ancient Greece. This is
a timeline of Ancient Greece from
800 BC to 146 BC. For earlier
times, see Greek Dark Ages,
Aegean civilizations and
Mycenaean Greece. For later times
see Roman Greece, Byzantine
Empire and Ottoman Greece.