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Prehistory. We divide history into periods. The oldest period is called prehistory. Prehistory started about 5 million years ago. This was when the first humans appeared.

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People lived in caves

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People made clothes from animal skins

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People hunted and fished

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People collected wild plants and fruits to eat

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In prehistory, people didn't know how to read and write

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But we know about how they lived from their cave paintings, tools and other objects

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Paintings, tools, objects.

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Prehistoric people discovered important things.

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First they discovered how to make fire.

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Much later on they invented the wheel.

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Then they invented writing.

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The invention of writing was the end of prehistory.