Ancient world | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-14

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_history


00:02:42 1 Study
00:03:15 1.1 Archaeology
00:04:35 1.2 Source text
00:06:37 1.3 Timeline of ancient history
00:06:58 2 Chronology
00:07:07 2.1 Prehistory
00:09:13 2.1.1 Middle to Late Bronze Age
00:12:10 2.1.2 Early Iron Age
00:14:50 2.1.3 Axial Age
00:19:45 3 Developments
00:19:54 3.1 Religion and philosophy
00:22:57 3.2 Science and technology
00:25:56 3.3 Maritime activity
00:27:05 3.4 Warfare
00:28:36 3.5 Artwork and music
00:29:32 4 Timelines
00:29:42 4.1 Comparative timeline
00:29:51 4.2 Comparison table
00:30:00 4.3 Historical ages
00:30:10 5 History by region
00:30:19 5.1 Southwest Asia (Near East)
00:30:57 5.1.1 Mesopotamia
00:35:28 5.1.2 Rise of Persia
00:39:31 5.1.3 Armenia
00:41:31 5.1.4 Israel
00:43:34 5.1.5 Others
00:45:24 5.2 Afro-Asiatic Africa
00:45:34 5.2.1 Carthage
00:46:33 5.2.2 Egypt
00:48:48 5.2.3 Nubia
00:51:27 5.2.4 Land of Punt
00:53:12 5.2.5 Axum /Ancient Ethiopia
00:54:57 5.3 Niger-Congo Africa
00:55:06 5.3.1 Nok culture
00:56:08 5.4 South Asia
01:03:16 5.5 East Asia
01:03:25 5.5.1 China
01:09:21 5.5.2 Neighbors of China
01:14:46 5.6 Americas
01:15:18 5.6.1 Andean civilizations
01:16:22 5.6.2 Mesoamerica
01:18:08 5.7 Northern America
01:18:57 5.8 Europe
01:19:06 5.8.1 Etruria, Greece and Rome
01:24:52 5.8.2 Late Antiquity
01:25:43 5.8.3 Nomads and Iron Age Peoples
01:29:21 6 End of the Period
01:31:29 7 Maps
01:31:38 8 See also



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Ancient history as a term refers to the aggregate of past events from the beginning of writing and recorded human history and extending as far as the post-classical history. The phrase may be used either to refer to the period of time or the academic discipline.
The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with Sumerian Cuneiform script; the oldest discovered form of coherent writing from the protoliterate period around the 30th century BC. Ancient History covers all continents inhabited by humans in the 3,000 BC – 500 AD period.
The broad term Ancient History is not to be confused with Classical Antiquity.  The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to Western History in the Ancient Mediterranean from the beginning of recorded Greek history in 776 BC (First Olympiad). This roughly coincides with the traditional date of the Founding of Rome in 753 BC, the beginning of the history of ancient Rome, and the beginning of the Archaic period in Ancient Greece.
The academic term "history" is not to be confused with colloquial references to times past. History is fundamentally the study of the past through documents, and can be either scientific (archaeology) or humanistic (history through language).
Although the ending date of ancient history is disputed, some Western scholars use the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 AD (the most used), the closure of the Platonic Academy in 529 AD, the death of the emperor Justinian I in 565 AD, the coming of Islam or the rise of Charlemagne as the end of ancient and Classical European history. Outside of Europe the 450-500 time frame for the end of ancient times has had difficulty as a transition date from Ancient to Post-Classical times.
During the time period of 'Ancient History', starting roughly from 3000 BC world population was already exponentially increasing due to the Neolithic Revolution which was in full progress. According to HYDE estimates from the Netherlands world population increased exponentially in this period. In 10,000 BC in Prehistory world population had stood at 2 million, rising to 45 million by 3,000 BC.  By the rise of the Iron Age in 1,000 BC that population had risen to 72 million. By the end of the period in 500 AD world population stood possibly at 209 million. In 3,500 years, world population increased by 100 times.