The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000-5,500 years, with cuneiform possibly being the oldest form of writing. Genetic evidence, however, points to the first appearance of human beings about 150,000 years ago. There is also a growing body of evidence that Homo sapiens first left Africa about 60,000 years ago. For further information about human origins, see Human evolution.
Ancient history is from the period of time when writing and historical records first appear, roughly 5,500 years before the Common Era. For some, the discovery of Agriculture, roughly 6,000 BCE is the beginning of ancient history. The end of ancient history is A.D. 476 (the fall of the Western Roman Empire).
Ancienthistory is the study of significant cultural and political events from the beginning of human history until the Early Middle Ages.
Another term that is often used to refer to ancienthistory is antiquity, although this term is most often used to refer specifically to the civilizations of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome.
The fundamental difficulty of studying ancienthistory is the fact that only a fraction of it has been documented, and only a fraction of those recorded histories have survived into the present day.
The ancient Chinese were the first to develop a science of acoustics and placed a high value on the accurate tuning of instruments.
Ancient literature describes a variety of tuned chimes, drums, bells, wind instruments, and string instruments in use in ancient Chinese music.
By the time the last Roman emperor, the young Romulus Augustulus, was finally deposed in 476, the papacy had established itself in Rome and was asserting jurisdiction over the Christian church.
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