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  2. Early world maps - Wikipedia

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    Terra incognita, uncharted territories documented in early maps; Vinland Map, a claimed 15th-century map later confirmed as a 20th-century forgery; Virtual Mappa, a project to digitise medieval mappa mundi; Mao Kun map, also called Zheng He's navigation map, a world map dated to the 17th century but thought to be a copy of an early 15th-century map

  3. Timeline of ancient history - Wikipedia

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    The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...

  4. Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History - Wikipedia

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    Adams Synchronological Chart or Map of History, originally published as Chronological Chart of Ancient, Modern and Biblical History is a wallchart which graphically depicts a Biblical genealogy alongside a timeline composed of historic sources from the history of humanity from 4004 BC to modern times.

  5. Babylonian Map of the World - Wikipedia

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    The Babylonian Map of the World (also Imago Mundi or Mappa mundi) is a Babylonian clay tablet with a schematic world map and two inscriptions written in the Akkadian language. Dated to no earlier than the 9th century BC (with a late 8th or 7th century BC date being more likely), it includes a brief and partially lost textual description.

  6. Human history - Wikipedia

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    The Bronze Age saw the development of cities and civilizations. [64] Early civilizations arose close to rivers, first in Mesopotamia (3300 BCE) with the Tigris and Euphrates, [65] followed by the Egyptian civilization along the Nile River (3200 BCE), [66] the Norte Chico civilization in coastal Peru (3100 BCE), [67] the Indus Valley ...

  7. Ancient history - Wikipedia

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    Ancient history is a time period from the beginning of writing and recorded human history through late antiquity. The span of recorded history is roughly 5,000 years, beginning with the development of Sumerian cuneiform script.

  8. List of first human settlements - Wikipedia

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    Overview map of the peopling of the world by anatomically modern humans (numbers indicate dates in thousands of years ago [kya]). This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens).

  9. Portal:Civilizations - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia were the oldest civilization in the world, beginning about 4000 BCE.. 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 spoken languages (namely, writing systems and graphic arts).