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Upper Egypt and lower Egypt split.
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Other kings started to take advantage of and rule Egypt.
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Pyramids of Giza were built.
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Djoser becomes pharaoh; first pyramid is built by the architect Imhotep.
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First stone pyramid was built and the pyramids of Giza were starting to get built.
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In Mesopotamia copper is mixed with arsenic, and later with tin to make their harder metal bronze.
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The worlds first city, Jericho is built in the Jordan valley with a population of about 2500 people.
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Flax is grown and spun to make linen cloth. Pigs, sheeps and goats are domesticated.
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Barley and wheat varieties are domesticated. The first towns grew up around the grain fields.
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Gatherers in the Middle East and North Africa are collecting wild grains. Zagros mountains around the modern Iran-Iraq begin to herd flocks of wild goats and sheep.
