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4784486050-6000Fossil, linguistic, & genetic DNA evidence supports homoerectus & homosapiens migrating out of Africa.0
4784486051-6000The first region of the world where there is evidence of permanent agricultural villages was the eastern Mediterranean.1
4784487043-6000Small villages surrounded by agricultural fields caused the Neolithic Revolution.2
4784487044-6000The transition from hunting to gathering caused patriarchal families.3
4784488163-6000Paleolithic hunter-gatherers used fire for warmth, hunting, and foraging.4
4784687504paleolithicabout 14,000 years ago when human being only had simple tools (suitably shaped rocks and sticks).5
4784695972Mesolithicfrom about 12,000 BCE to 8,000 BCE. Improved stone weapons, began to tame animals and farm.6
4784708908Neolithicinvention of agriculture, creation of cities, and other foreshadowings of civilization.7
4784722618Neolithic RevolutionDevelopment of agriculture.8
4784726432Hunting and GatheringThe original human economy, ultimately eclipsed by agriculture; groups hunt or meat and forage for grains, nuts and berries.9
4784767503FarmingInitially developed in the middle east and black sea regions.10
4794440509Nomadscattle and sheep herding societies, the first of these people were the Indo-Europeans.11
4794449034Catal Huyukan unusually large neolithic town founded about 7,000 BCE covering about 32 acres.12
4794454684Bronze Agelasting from 4,000 BCE until 1,500 BCE where bronze tools were used until Iron replaced it.13
4811469215mesopotamialand between two rivers.14
4811471264sumerianspeople who migrated into mesopotamia, created first civilization within region, organized areas into city-states.15
4811487625cuneiformform of writing developed by the sumerians.16
4811493980Hammurabithe most important ruler of the babylonian empire.17
4811501827-2000Enema Elisha was written to assert a special relationship between the city of Babylon and her gods.18
4811507772-2000Data showing a close genetic relationship between Indians and indigenous Siberians support the land bridge theory.19
4811509165-1500The Code of Hammurabi of Babylon was filled with social inequalities.20
4811511272-1500The Bantu people took their languages to other African regions.21
4811513953-670The Mesopotamian government maintained and expanded agricultural production.22
4811516812-670Assyrian forced other weaker nations to pay tribute to them.23
4811518703-670The emergence of social Mesopotamian hierarchies supported the unequal distribution of surplus food.24
4811519897-670Assyrian military conquests caused Jewish diasporic communities.25
4811521437-600Landholding aristocracies tend to be the dominant class of most societies.26
4811522539-600Early civilization shared urban centers, growing populations, and writing systems.27
4811522540-600Myths provide insights about the cultures and traditions of their societies.28
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