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Many historians believe that the modern humans emerged from Africa about 200,000 years ago. About 50,000 years ago they started to spread across the globe. The Paleolithic age is the first period in prehistory. and that is when they used stone tools for cutting and stabbing into things. In this time people also lived as hunters and gatherers, and they would move from place to place. Neolithic is the second period about 10,000 years ago, with the Agricultural revolution. This revolution was a result of taming animals, adapting plants, many new skills. Farming started to evolve and the life of the people became villages. During the Neolithic age people also started to trade with others and they would use plants and animals for their human needs.