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At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sulla and Metellus Pius (or, less frequently, year 674 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 80 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
Year 80 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar. At the time it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sulla and Metellus Pius. The denomination 80 BC for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
History of Europe. Europe by cartographer Abraham Ortelius in 1595. The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the ...
- Temperate Europe
- The Indo-Europeans
- The Horse
- Mediterranean Transformations
By the mid-3rd millennium, Europe, except for the far north, was peopled byfarmingcommunities, practicing plow agriculture and raising cattle, pigs, sheep and goats. Except in the south east, where substantial villages had developed, Europeans lived in farmsteads or hamlets consisting of timber or wattle-and-daub huts. Over the preceding thousand y...
A major episode that was happening in Europe at this time is invisible to archaeology. This was the expansion of Indo-European peoples (and their languages) within Europe. Linguistic, historical and geographic considerations suggest that the speakers of Proto-Indo-European had been a relatively small population group that underwent significant expa...
Sometime around 4000 BCE, one of these groups, who still inhabited the steppes north of the Black Sea, was the first to domesticate the horse. There is evidence that horses were ridden from an early date, and this would have been an enormous help in managing herds of sheep and cattle – and of horses. It is clear that these groups came to rely more ...
The small-scale nature of settlement was as true for the Mediterranean region as for further north. However, sometime in the 3rd millennium, things began to change here. In the eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean, some settlements were getting larger. In Cyprus, on Malta, on the coast of Asia Minor and in the Aegean, settlements, such as the forti...
This event is followed by the beginning of the Iron Age. We define the Iron Age as ending in 510 BC for the purposes of this article, even though the typical definition is region-dependent (e.g. 510 BC in Greece, 322 BC in India, 200 BC in China), thus being an 800-year period. 700 BC: Saddle (fringed cloths or pads used by Assyrian cavalry)
Europe 1000 BCE. World 1000 BC Europe 1000 BC. Africa Middle East. Africa Middle East. ... especially in central Europe. Then, in this year, 1453, ...
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