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3200 BC: Caral–Supe civilization begins in Peru. 3200 BC: Rise of Proto-Elamite Civilization in Iran. 3200 BC: Skara Brae is built in Scotland. 3100 BC: First Dynasty of Egypt. [3] c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge construction begins. In its first version, it consisted of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts. [4]
In Crete, the Minoan civilization emerged by 2000 BCE and is regarded as the first civilization in Europe. [99] Over the following millennia, civilizations developed across the world. [100] By 1600 BCE, Mycenaean Greece began to develop. [101]
The ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia were the oldest civilization in the world, beginning about 4000 BCE. Ancient Egypt is an example of an early culture civilization. [1]A civilization (also spelled civilisation in British English) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or ...
The first well-known literate civilization in Europe was the Minoan civilization that arose on the island of Crete and flourished from approximately the 27th century BC to the 15th century BC. [ 6 ] The Minoans were replaced by the Mycenaean civilization which flourished during the period roughly between 1600 BC, when Helladic culture in ...
The Indus Valley Civilization starts around 3300 BC with what is referred to as the Early Harappan Phase (3300 to 2600 BC), although at the start this was still a village-based culture, leaving mostly pottery for archaeologists.
The first recorded permanent inhabitant was Isaac Bodden, the grandson of one of these first settlers, born on Grand Cayman around 1661. Indian Ocean: Rodrigues: 1691: Settled 1691 by a small group of French Huguenots led by François Leguat; abandoned 1693. The French settled slaves there in the 18th century. [118] East Pacific: Clipperton ...
3600 BC: The first monumental buildings are constructed in Sechin Bajo, an urban center in what is now coastal Peru. It belonged to the Casma–Sechin culture, possibly the oldest civilization in the Americas. [139] 3500 BC: Uruk period in Sumer. 3500 BC: First evidence of mummification in Egypt. [140] [141]
Greece is home to the first advanced civilizations in Europe beginning with the Cycladic culture on the islands of the Aegean Sea around 3200 BC, [177] and the Minoan civilisation in Crete (2700–1500 BC).