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This time period experience important geographic and climatic changes that affected human societies.
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This was the time after the stone or ice age, it started in the Middle East and starts to move into the Copper Age
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A broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make implements with an edge. This period Lasted for about 3.4 million years.
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The first city-states gradually develop in southern Mesopotamia. In here, writing begins to be developed.
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This was the first major civilization in México. The Olmec were among the first Mesoamerican complex societies, and their culture influenced many other countries, like the Maya. The Olmec are known for the immense stone heads they carved from volcanic rock called basalt.
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This civilization had a different social structure from other societies of that and later times. Independent city-states was the political structure.
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This marked the transition in human history from small nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers to larger, agricultural settlements and early civilization.
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considered the greatest empire of Mesopotamia. Expanded, conquered, and ruled the Middle East for 300 years.
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The Akkadian language was briefly imposed on neighboring conquered states such as Elam and Gutium.
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The advanced drainage systems and baths of the great cities were built over or blocked.
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This was the second dynasty of China which succeeded the Xia dynasty.
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Well-preserved Babylonian code of law of ancient Mesopotamia.
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The Egyptian civilization reached the height of its wealth.
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The earliest known inscription is in the Phoenician alphabet come from Byblos and date back to 1000 BC.
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A large group of nomadic cattle-herders migrated into the region from central Asia.
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This dynasty was the longest-lasting of ancient China’s dynasties.
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This migration, or expansion, was discovered through language.
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The Chavin civilization in Andean South America was one of the earliest pre-Inca cultures that extended its influence to other civilizations along the coast.
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Nebuchadnezzar rebuilt the city with massive walls, a huge temple, and a ziggurat, and extended his rule over neighboring countries.
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An empire based in Western Asia founded by Cyrus the Great.
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These were a series of wars that were fought by Greek states and Persia over a period of almost half a century.
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The Golden Age of Pericles was a period of Athenian political hegemony, economic growth, and cultural flourishing.
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The Hittites got iron and chariots
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The people of Israel established the belief that there is only one God.
