WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Scholars define prehistory as events that occurred before the existence of written records in a given culture or society. History refers to the time period after the invention of written records in a given culture or society.

Detailed explanation-2: -Prehistoric period is the period for which no written records are available by which to write its history. Prehistory is the period that begins with the appearance of the human being like species, about five million years ago, and finishes with the invention of writing, about 6, 000 years ago.

Detailed explanation-3: -Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the first known use of stone tools by hominins c. 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Prehistoric Period-or when there was human life before records documented human activity-roughly dates from 2.5 million years ago to 1, 200 B.C. It is generally categorized in three archaeological periods: the Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age.

Detailed explanation-5: -Prehistory refers to the past in an area where no written records exist, or where the writing of a culture is not understood. Protohistory refers to the transition period between prehistory and history, after the advent of literacy in a society but before the writings of the first historians.

Detailed explanation-6: -Prehistory (or pre-history) is the time before people began to write. The word comes from the Ancient Greek words (pre = “before") and (historia = “history").