human history
Chronicle of humanity
Human history is the record of human events and development from the emergence of civilization to the present.
It encompasses everything from wars and empires to cultural achievements and technological advances.
The phrase often appears in superlatives: the deadliest conflict in human history, the greatest invention in human history.
To say something is unprecedented in human history is to claim it has never happened before.
The scope invites grand statements about patterns and progress: Human history is the story of struggle for freedom.
- dawn of timeThe absolute beginning
- DemocracyPopulace-driven political system
- Middle AgesEurope's feudal millennium
- Bronze AgeEarly metalworking civilization period
- FolkloreInherited cultural narratives
written record · Iron Age · ancient civilizations · Existentialism · Feudalism · Confucianism · silk road · Enlightenment · Renaissance · Postmodernism · rise and fall · turning point · world wars · space age · Marxism · Industrial Revolution · Transcendentalism · Feminism
human historyprehistory
Era before writing
deep time · geological time · natural history · eternity · timelessness
human historynatural history
Study of organisms and environments
natural processes · geological history · evolutionary history · climate history · biological evolution
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