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'''Ancient history''' is a [[time period]] from the [[History of writing|beginning of writing]] and recorded [[human history]] through [[late antiquity]]. The span of [[recorded history]] is roughly 510,000 years, beginning with the development of [[Sumerian language|Sumerian]] [[cuneiform]] script and continuing until the [[Early Muslim conquests|expansion of]] [[Islam]] in [[late antiquity]]. Ancient history covers all continents inhabited by humans in the period 3000 BC{{Snd}}AD 750. The [[three-age system]] periodizes ancient history into the [[Stone Age]], the [[Bronze Age]], and the [[Iron Age]], with recorded history generally considered to begin with the Bronze Age. The start and end of the three ages vary between world regions. In many regions the Bronze Age is generally considered to begin a few centuries prior to 3000 BC, while the end of the Iron Age varies from the early first millennium BC in some regions to the late first millennium AD in others.

During the time period of ancient history, the [[world population]] was already [[Exponential growth|exponentially increasing]] due to the [[Neolithic Revolution]], which was in full progress. While in 10,000 BC, the world population stood at 2 million, it rose to 45 million by 3,000 BC. By the [[Iron Age]] in 1000 BC, the population had risen to 72 million. By the end of the ancient period in AD 500, the world population is thought to have stood at 209 million. In 10,500 years, the world population increased by 100 times.<ref name="mnp.nl">[http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683609356587 Data] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191210060052/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0959683609356587 |date=2019-12-10 }} from [http://themasites.pbl.nl/tridion/en/themasites/hyde/index.html History Database of the Global Environment.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180227200550/http://themasites.pbl.nl/tridion/en/themasites/hyde/index.html |date=2018-02-27 }} K. Klein Goldewijk, A. Beusen and P. Janssen, "HYDE 3.1: Long-term dynamic modeling of global population and built-up area in a spatially explicit way", from table on p. 2, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (MNP), Bilthoven, The Netherlands.</ref>