Human History Dates Only - 2.6Ma - 2000 BCE Flashcards
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PALEOLITHIC
2.6M BP - 20,000-10,000 BCE
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OUT OF AFRICA THESIS
approximately 50,000 years ago
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MESOLITHIC
~20,000-10,000 BCE First agriculture
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BERING LAND BRIDGE
14,500 years BCE glaciers melted
9,000 years BCE covered by sea
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NEOLITHIC
~10,000 first Proto-cities
End: ~3000 BCE Bronze Age
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JERICHO
Began
Jericho began 9600 BCE
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ÇATALHÖYÜK
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Çatalhöyük (Cha-tal-HOO-yik)
Began: 7500 BCE
Flourished: 7000 BC
Ended: 5700 BC
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FIRST CITY-STATES (FIRST CIVILISATION)
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~ 4000 B.C.
Location: Sumerian City States in Mesopotamia
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SUMERIA
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4000 BCE
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CUNEIFORM FIRST DEVELOPED
3300 BCE: Ancient Sumerians
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ANCIENT EGYPT
Roughly dated
3200 BCE to 330 BCE
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BRONZE AGE
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Beginning: 3000 BCE
End: Iron Age at its earliest in 1200-1100 BC
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THE GREAT FLOOD
Simultaneous flooding of the KURUN, Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, studied at SHURUPPAK.
2900 BCE
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THE GREAT FLOOD Gilgamesh is king of Uruk. He travels to meet the sage Utnapishtim (Oot nah PISH tim), who had survived the Great Flood. Poems are composed about it.
2700 BCE
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OLDEST SURVIVING WRITINGS
2500-2300 BCE
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THE GREAT FLOOD
Epic of Gilgamesh, a poem in ancient Akkadian, is written down.
2200 BCE
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SARGON THE GREAT
2200 BCE
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WORLD’S FIRST EMPIRE
2200 BCE
