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)
Cro-Magnon was one of the first fossils of an ancient human ever discovered. Image courtesy of Wikicommons. Paleoanthropologists agree that modern humans evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago, yet the fossil evidence for the earliest examples of Homo sapiens is scarce.mage courtesy of Wikicommons. Paleoanthropologists agree that modern humans evolved in Africa about 200,000 years ago, yet the fossil evidence for the earliest examples of Homo sapiens is scarce.