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3000 BCE
Arabian peninsula
Semitic tribes move up from the Arabian peninsula, through Sinai into Palestine and Syria -
2600 BCE
Canaanities
The Canaanites establish themselves in the region around what is now Jerusalem -
2000 BCE
Bantu
Bantu-speaking tribes begin to spread through Africa, from their original homelands south of the Sahara -
the pioneers
As many as 50,000 US pioneers travel west this year on the Oregon Trail -
Journalist
A journalist in the Terre Haute Express gives a piece of advice, 'Go west, young man', that chimes perfectly with the US pioneer spirit