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Semitic tribes move up from the Arabian peninsula, through Sinai into Palestine and Syria
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The Canaanites establish themselves in the region around what is now Jerusalem
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Bantu-speaking tribes begin to spread through Africa, from their original homelands south of the Sahara
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As many as 50,000 US pioneers travel west this year on the Oregon Trail
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A journalist in the Terre Haute Express gives a piece of advice, 'Go west, young man', that chimes perfectly with the US pioneer spirit