Simple guide to old things (e.g. prophecies, cultures, traditions, etc) in fiction
10-50 years - a while ago, vintage, still within a human's living memory
50-100 years - starting to get old, getting into the territory of not within living history but probably still within a generation of the present.
100-300 years - definitely old
300-500 years - quite old. We're talking Renaissance-ish timeline here.
500-1000 years - solidly medieval, I'm willing to start calling things ancient here.
1000-1500 years - early medieval, quite ancient. We're talking Catholic Church levels of tradition/history
1500-2000 years - this is the Roman Empire era. Solidly ancient.
2000-3000 years - Ancient Greece ancient.
3000-6000 years - mind bogglingly old. We're looking at the edge of recorded history here.
6000-10,000 years - end of the Stone Age old
10,000-20,000 years - invention-of-agriculture ancient.
20k-30k years - literally the Ice Age.
30k-50k years - Upper Paleolithic i.e. the very earliest evidence of permanent settlements. Neanderthals go extinct about now.
50k-100k years - anatomically modern humans leave Africa basically for the first time (or at least the first time it stuck)
100k-300k years - There are lots of other human species around the world, like neanderthals and denisovans, who are doing way better off than we are.
300k+ years - literally this is when anatomically modern humans started. Before this, whatever the thing is, it's not our species doing it.
300k-1 million years - we mentioned it's not homo sapiens yeah? It's barely even Homo. We're talking like homo erectus and homo habilis here.
1-3 million years - our earliest known stone tools are from this time and like. You only know they're tools and not just literally rocks picked up off the ground if you're a trained archaeologist.
3+ million years - I'm not even going to bother going back farther than this because it is literally absurd. Fucking stop my guy.
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