• The first men on the Island (500.000 B.C. - 10.000 B.C.): stone tools.
  
  
• The Ozieri Culture (3500-2700 B.C.):
  graves dug in the rock, menhir, dolmen, obsidian.
  
  
• Nuragic Culture (XVII Cent. B.C. - IX Cent. B.C.):
  7000 nuraghi, "bronzetti", Tombs of the Giants, well temples, warriors.
  
  
• The Phoenician Period (X Cent. B.C. - VI Cent. B.C.):
  merchants and sailors, Semite origin, many towns founded.
  
  
• The Carthaginian Period (VI Cent. B.C. - III Cent. B.C.):
  Carthage, Punic gods and traditions, Tofet.
  
  
• The Roman Period (III Cent. B. C. - V Cent. A.D.):
  Roman province in 227 B.C., Nuragic resistance, roads, theatres, towns.
  
  
• The Vandalic and Byzanthine Period (V Cent. A.D. - VIII cent A.D.):
  persistence of Paganism, first churches and pirate raids.
  
  
• I Giudicati (IX Cent. A.D. - XV Cent. A.D.):
  4 independent "kingdoms", Sardinian language, law codes.
  
  
• Pisa and Genoa (XI Cent. A.D. - XIV Cent. A.D.):
  domination of the Maritime Republics.
  
  
• The Aragonese and Spanish Period (XIII Cent. A.D. - XVIII Cent. A.D.):
  oppression, poverty, influence on Sardinian culture.
  
  
• The Savoy (XVIII Cent. A.D. - XX Cent. A.D.):
  rebellions, brief independence.
  
  
• Kingdom of Italy and Italian Republic (XX Cent. A.D.):
  difficult development, bombing during WWII, Autonomous Region.

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