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  2. Civilization - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. History of Western civilization before AD 500 - Wikipedia

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    The earliest urban civilizations of Europe belong to the Bronze Age Minoans of Crete and Mycenaean Greece, which ended around the 11th century BC as Greece entered the Greek Dark Ages. [9] Ancient Greece was the civilization belonging to the period of Greek history lasting from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to 146 BC and the ...

  4. History of Western civilization - Wikipedia

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    A map showing Charlemagne's additions (in light green) to the Germanic Frankish Kingdom. After his reign, the empire he created broke apart into the kingdom of France (from Francia meaning "land of the Franks"), Holy Roman Empire and the kingdom in between (containing modern day Switzerland, northern-Italy, Eastern France and the low-countries).

  5. Outline of the history of Western civilization - Wikipedia

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    History of Western civilization – record of the development of human civilization beginning in Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, and generally spreading westwards. Ancient Greek science, philosophy, democracy, architecture, literature, and art provided a foundation embraced and built upon by the Roman Empire as it swept up Europe, including ...

  6. River valley civilization - Wikipedia

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    The civilization was created after regular trading relationships started between multiple cities and states around the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. Mesopotamian cities became self-run civil governments. One of the cities within this civilization, Ur, was the first literate society in history.

  7. College Football Playoff: Notre Dame beats Penn State 27-24 ...

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    Notre Dame's third-down dominance. The Irish were much better on third downs than Penn State on both sides of the ball. Notre Dame converted eight of its last 11 third downs and finished 11-of-17 ...

  8. History - Wikipedia

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    History (derived from Ancient Greek ἱστορία (historía) 'inquiry; knowledge acquired by investigation') [1] is the systematic study and documentation of the human past. [2] [3] History is an academic discipline which uses a narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyse past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect.

  9. Venezuela's opposition decry arrests ahead of anti-Maduro ...

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    Venezuelan opposition parties and NGOs decried the arrests of a prominent press freedom activist and a well-known opposition figure, among others, ahead of planned protests against Friday's ...