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Hello, today we're going to talk about prehistory.

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The period known as prehistory began when the first human beings appeared, about 2.5 million years ago.

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Prehistory ended when writing was invented, over 5,000 years ago.

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This period is divided into the Paleolithic Age, the Neolithic Age and the Metal Ages.

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The Paleolithic and Neolithic Ages are also known as the Stone Age.

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The Paleolithic Age. Paleolithic women and men lived from hunting, fishing and gathering fruit.

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they were predators. They were also nomads because they moved from one place to another

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looking for food and materials. They did not have permanent homes and often found refuge

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in caves or rock shelters. It was at this time that fire was discovered. Paleolithic

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Neolithic women and men were also responsible for making the first works of art, by engraving

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or painting the walls of caves and rock shelters.

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Cave paintings have been discovered in the Iberian Peninsula.

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One of these discoveries is the cave of Altamira, in the north of Spain.

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The Neolithic Age

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The Neolithic Age started when women and men learned to cultivate the land, which was the

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beginning of agriculture, and when they learned to domesticate animals, which was the beginning

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of livestock farming.

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Since humans now could produce their own food, they did not need to move from one place to

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another and became sedentary.

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This was the time when the first settlements appeared.

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The Neolithic settlements were located on flat, fertile ground near rivers and were

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usually surrounded by walls made of weeds and mud.

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The women and men lived in huts made of adobe.

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the metal agents metallurgy was invented 5 000 years before christ

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when humans discovered metal and how to work it settlements became larger and had stone walls

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around them skilled metal workers became artisans and soon after trade and transport developed

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The Metal Ages ended when writing was invented, about 3000 years before Christ.