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THE INVENTION OF THE WHEEL

3500 BCE

In its primitive form, a wheel is a circular block of a hard and durable material at whose center has been bored a circular hole through which is placed an axle bearing about which the wheel rotates when a moment is applied by gravity or torque to the wheel about its axis, thereby making together one of the six simple machines. This makes it possible to transport heavy loads.Is connected to a crank or engine, a wheel can store, release, or transmit energy (e.g. the flywheel).

THE STARTING OF THE WRITING

3500 BCE

Writing is a method of human communication that is realized through visual signs that constitute a system, that may or may not unambiguously express everything that a certain language can say. The domain of writing and reading associated is called alphabetism. The person who is professionally engaged in writing is a writer and the art of writing is literature.

THE HISTORY OF WRITING

3500 BCE

Writing has existed for about 5,300 years. It appeared in different forms at least in five or six focuses of civilizations with a long dominion of agriculture: in Mesopotamia around 3300 BC, in Egypt 3200 BC, in Cyprus 2200 BC, in Crete 1900 BC, in China 1400 BC and in L 'Central America circa 900 BC. These writings gave rise to almost all the graphical systems at the moment known. [6] The first alphabet appeared around 2000 BCE and the first written language was the Sumerian.

CHALCOLITHIC ON THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

2500 BCE

The Calcolithic in the Iberian Peninsula singularizes this phase of Prehistory (also called the Copper Age or Eneolithic) in a specific geographical area, the peninsular. This moment corresponds to a clear increase in the social complexity shown by the preceding period, the Neolithic, announcing the subsequent changes that occurred during the Bronze and Iron Age. Researchers subdivide it into Initial, Full and Final Chalcolithic.

ARGOS (GREECE)

2000 BCE

Argos is a Greek city of the Peloponnese, in the outlying unit of Argolida, located near the capital, Nafplio, which is its historic port. In 2011 the city of Argos had 22,209 inhabitants.
Its foundation dates from c. 2000 BC. It was a thriving city that took part in many of the major events of the history of Greece in antiquity and tradition regarded it as the homeland of numerous characters of Greek mythology, particularly those who took part in the epic of Los seven against.

CÉCROPE

1506 BCE

In Greek mythology, Cécrope was the first king to have the city-state of Athens.1 According to Pausanias and Herodotus,2 was also known as Erecteo. He is said to have been born directly from Gea, so he is counted as one of the Greek natives. His supernatural birth was the cause of the lower part of his body being shaped like a snake.

PHOENICIANS

1000 BCE

The Iberian Peninsula has always been a cube where a number of civilizations have ended up that have gradually shaped the way of being of the inhabitants of this, making its cultural richness enormous.A people who brought with them a series of advances to the peoples that were in these lands, forming a new society, which has been called Tatsian.

THE RECONQUEST OF THE IBERIAN PENINSULA

780 BCE

The period of the history of the Iberian Peninsula of approximately 780 years between the Umayyad conquest of Hispania The complete conquest of Granada marks the end of the period.
. The Reconquest ended with the conquest of the emirate of Granada, the last Muslim state on the peninsula, in 1491.

AL ÁNDALUS

711 BCE

Between 711 and 715, the generals of the Umayya Caliphate conquered a part of the Iberian Peninsula, although without any effective dominance north of the Central System. The conquest of the peninsular south was sustained. The entry of Muslims into the peninsula came with the landing in Gibraltar on 27 April 711, leading an army of 9000 men. Shortly thereafter, on July 19, the Visigoths were defeated and their king Rodrigo died at the Battle of Guadalete.

AMPHITHEATRE

70 BCE

An amphitheatre is an open-air venue used for entertainment, performances, and sports. Ancient Roman amphitheatres were oval or circular in plan, with seating tiers that surrounded the central performance area, like a modern open-air stadium. In contrast both ancient Greek and ancient Roman theatres were built in a semicircle, with tiered seating rising on one side of the performance area. In modern usage, an "amphitheatre" consist of theatre-style stages with spectator seating on only one side

ROMAN CONQUEST OF IBERIAN PENINSULA

19 BCE

The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula was a process by which the Roman Republic seized territories in the Iberian Peninsula that were previously under the control of native Celtiberian tribes and the Carthaginian Empire. The Carthaginian territories in the south and east of the peninsula were conquered in 206 BC during the Second Punic War. Control was gradually extended over most of the Iberian Peninsula without annexations.

THE DISCOVERED OF FIRE

14 BCE

The discovery of fire, or, more precisely, the controlled use of fire, was one of mankind's first great innovations. Fire allows us to produce light and heat, to cook plants and animals, to clear forests for planting, to heat-treat stone for making stone tools, to keep predator animals away, and to burn clay for ceramic objects. It has social purposes as well. Fires serve as gathering places, as beacons for those away from camp, and as spaces for special activities.