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Only partly correct.
The humans created an interplanetary empire around 160k BC. Shortly before the Human-Forerunner war, they allied with the Prophets and combined their territory. Then the Flood arrived.
They fought it conventionally, but finally the humans figured out how to beat it. They infected a full third of their galactic population/territory with the pathogen, and pulled back. Let their people become absorbed. The Flood literally choked to death on Humanity. Then they re-engaged the survivors, and beat them out of the galaxy.
During this war, they pushed into Forerunner and other neutral races territory and took world after world, for resources. The Forerunner attacked at this sign of aggression. They bribed the Prophets to surrender.
Deprived of a full third of their territory, coming off the heels of a major war, and with their allies abruptly pulling their resources, Humanity still fought the Forerunner for a few decades before eventually being overrun. This occured in 110k BC. They were devolved to savages, and banished back to their homeworld Earth. They then re-evolved to what the UNSC was.
As for the Prophets, the young warriors of their culture were, and are, still "hot." Back then, the warriors ruled. Today, the elders do and no Prophet ever engages in combat.
[Edited on 03.01.2011 1:05 AM PST]