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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. Cradle of civilization - Wikipedia

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    A cradle of civilization is a location and a culture where civilization was developed independent of other ... The earliest examples of the Indus script date to ...

  4. 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).

  5. List of time periods - Wikipedia

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    Aegean Civilization (Crete, Greece and Near East; c. 3000 BC – c. 1050 BC) [4] Iron Age Europe (c. 1050 BC – c. 500 AD) Early Iron Age (c. 1050 BC – 776 BC) – part of the Greek Dark Ages; Classical antiquity (776 BC – 476 AD) Archaic Greece (776 BC – 480 BC) – begins with the First Olympiad, traditionally dated 776 BC

  6. Human history - Wikipedia

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    Human history is the record of humankind from prehistory to the present. Modern humans evolved in Africa around 300,000 years ago and initially lived as hunter-gatherers.They migrated out of Africa during the Last Ice Age and had spread across Earth's continental land except Antarctica by the end of the Ice Age 12,000 years ago.

  7. Indus valley civilization disappeared 3,600 years ago — we ...

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    A cave in the Himalayas revealed the most detailed explanation yet for the ancient civilization’s decline. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800 ...

  8. Five Civilized Tribes - Wikipedia

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    The term "civilized tribes" was adopted to distinguish the Five Tribes from other Native American tribes that were described as "wild" or "savage". [11] [12] Texts written by non-indigenous scholars and writers have used words like "savage" and "wild" to identify Indian groups that retained their traditional cultural practices after European contact.

  9. 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.