Original: The "Mesolithic", or "Middle Stone Age" (from the Greek "mesos", "middle", and "lithos", "stone") was a period in the development of human technology between the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Stone Age.
Simplified: These include homo erectus ("standing man") and homo neanderthalensis ("man from Neandertal"). The word "Prehistory" means "before history". Renaissance is a French word meaning "rebirth". The Incans are called a "pre-Columbian" empire. The search for a "place in the sun" ended with the outbreak of World War I. In the desperation of war, the Russian Revolution promised the people "peace, bread and land". During the time of the war, it was called "The Great War", or "The War to End All Wars".