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Simultaneously in Africa and Asia, Homo Sapiens began appearing. The species is the most advanced of the hominids and is our direct ancestor. Today humans are still classified as Homo Sapiens -
The beginning of the last Ice Age caused many changes in Earth's climate. First, it caused Mega Fauna such as buffalo and mammoths to migrate, with Homo Sapiens following them the entire way. Second, the last Ice Age created land bridges such as the Bering Sea land bridge that connected Asia and the Americas. -
Homo Sapiens emerge in Europe, ending the Neanderthal's run as top dawg in Europe. Homo Sapiens were essentially the more evolved version of Neanderthal's and quickly overran the species. Scientists believe most Neanderthals were killed or they assimilated with Homo Sapiens through mating. -
Cave paintings from Chauvet Cave in France, date back to this time. -
At this point the Ice Age reaches its height, it had its greatest extent of ice coverage, ice was covering a large amount of the Earth's ocean -
Homo Sapiens begin the migration to North America from Siberia by crossing the glacial and frozen Bering Sea Land Bridge -
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From the melting glaciers and ice melting after the end of the Ice Age, ocean waters rise dramatically, separating Australia and New Guinea, and Korea and Japan -
Indigenous People in the Amazon basin domesticates cocoa (chocolate) and rubber trees. At the same time people in the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia) begin to cultivate (farm/harvest) wheat and Barely. The NEOLITHIC REVOLUTION HAS BEGUN! -
the Age of Farming/Agriculture
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Foundation of Catal Huyuk, the worlds first city in Anatolia (Turkey) -
Communities in the Near East learn to fire clay pottery -
Formation of the city called Eridu in Sumer begins, launching Sumerian culture in Mesopotamia -
Farming spreads in Africa, Asia, and Europe
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The dawn of the Empire begins to settle, farms begin sprouting in Egypt