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10,000 BCE
Paleolithic era
Paleolithic era: Old Stone Age, pre agriculture. Archeological evidence indicates that during this era hunting-foraging bands of human gradually migrated from their origin in East Africa to Euroasia, Australia and the Americas. The people used stone tools, fire. -
Period: 10,000 BCE to 600 BCE
Prehistory
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8000 BCE
Neolothic era
The different tribes were different river valleys:
Nile (Ancient Egypt), Tigris Euphrates (Ancient Mesopotamia and Babylonia), Indus Ganges (Harappan and Vedic civilization), Yello river (Shang)
People can settle, this began to transform human societies, began specialization of labor, social stratification, increased trade, complex government systems, armies, increase population, increase urbanization. -
8000 BCE
The new stone age
New technological innovations like iron weapons, chariots, some record keepings like hieroglyphics, pictographs, alphabets. Monumental architecture: pyramids, temples, defensive walls, roads, water systems and law codes.