Ancient Documentary 2015: History of Japan's Ancient and Modern Empire (HD)
Ancient history is the aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the
Early Middle Ages or the
Postclassical Era. 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.
The term classical antiquity is often used to refer to history in the
Old World 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. Although the ending date of
ancient history is disputed, some
Western scholars use the fa
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