The American Revolution was the first wave of the Atlantic Revolutions: the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, and the Latin American wars of independence. Aftershocks reached Ireland in the Irish Rebellion of 1798, in the PolishâLithuanian Commonwealth, and in the Netherlands.
A reconstruction of Homo erectus, the earliest human species that is known to have controlled fire (reconstruction shown in WestfÃ¤lisches Landesmuseum, Herne, Germany, in a 2006 exhibition)
All people today are classified as Homo sapiens. Our species of humans first began to evolve nearly 200,000 years ago in association with technologies not unlike those of the early Neandertals.It is now clear that early Homo sapiens, or modern humans, did not come after the Neandertals but were their contemporaries.he first fossils of early modern humans to be identified were found in 1868 at the 27,000-23,000 year old Cro-Magnon rock shelter site near the village of Les Eyzies in southwestern France.