From Prehistoric Life to Ancient Civilizations (Global, updated Rome and Persia)

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From Prehistoric Life to Ancient Civilizations (Global, updated Rome and Persia)Online version From Prehistoric Life to Ancient Civilizations (Global, updated Rome and Persia) by Vijo Gor 1 Africa - The birthplace of humankind. Over 3 million years ago, the first humans began their journey here, hunting & sharing food and working together. 2 Bering Land Bridge (Beringia) - Around 18,000 BCE, during the Ice Age, people from Asia crossed this frozen bridge into the Americas, following herds of animals. 3 Fertile Crescent - Around 10,000 BCE, people here learned to plant seeds, domesticate animals and settle, triggering an agricultural revolution. 4 North America - By 10 000 BCE, hunter-gatherers spread here across plains, forests, and coasts, adapting to new climates and beginning to plant native crops. 5 Mesopotamia - “Land between two rivers.” Around 5400 BCE, an urban revolution started here as people built cities, invented writing and began organized government. 6 Sumer - Around 3200BCE in this southern part of Mesopotamia, city-states like Ur and Uruk rose, people built ziggurats and traded by river and sea. 7 Egypt - Around 6000 BCE, people settled along the Nile, by 2700 BCE pharaohs ruled a united land, built pyramids & created a long-lasting civilization. 8 Indus Valley - Around 3300 BCE, cities like Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro rose here with straight streets, brick houses and advanced drainage. 9 China - Around 3000 BCE, farmers along the Yellow River grew millet, built walled towns and began dynasties like the Xia and Shang. 10 Greece - Around 3000 BCE, people on Crete built the Minoan civilization, a world of trade, art, and palaces that shaped early Greek culture. 11 Mesoamerica - Around 9000 BCE, people here began domesticating maize, beans & squash, by 1500 BCE, the first civilizations rose like Olmec and Maya. 12 Ganges Plain - After 1900 BCE, as Indus cities declined, farmers and herders settled east to the fertile Ganges valley. 13 Pontic–Caspian Steppe - Around 3000 BCE, nomads here tamed horses & spread their Indo-European cultures, shaping peoples like Hittites, Persians, Indians & Europeans. 14 Indo-European Western Route (to Europe) - Around 2500 BCE, Indo-European peoples spread west into Europe, giving rise to Greek, Italic, Celtic, and Germanic languages and cultures. 15 Asia Minor (Anatolia) - Around 1700 BCE, powerful kingdoms like the Hittites rose in this mountainous land between Asia and Europe, ruling by chariot and forming early written laws. 16 Indo-Iranian Southern Route - Around 1800 BCE, Indo-European groups traveled south across the Iranian Plateau, forming early Persian kingdoms. 17 Indo-Aryan South-Eastern Route - Around 1800 BCE, Indo-European tribes moved southeast into India, conquering local peoples and shaping early Hindu culture and the caste system. 18 Europe - By 1000 BCE, Indo-European tribes had settled here; Celts in the forests and plains, Germanics in the north, later all clashing with imperial Rome. 19 Rome - Founded in 753 BCE on the Tiber River, it grew from a small Latin town into the center of an empire that conquered much of Europe and the Mediterranean. 20 Persia - Around 550 BCE, Cyrus the Great united Persian tribes and overthrew the Medes, creating the largest empire yet, from the Indus to the Mediterranean