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)
A range of views from WikiAnswers contributors. 1  Judaism and Christianity teach that the first humans were Adam and Eve (Hebrew: Chava). 2  Muslims refer to them as Adam and Hawaa. Muslims refer to them as Adam and Hawaa. 2  Many religions have stories that tell us who the first people in this world were and these usually have a time frame of a few thousand years ago. 3  Archaeologists tell us that people have lived on earth for millions of years.