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African lands south of Egypt where archeologists and historians have found remnants of a sophisticated African civilization

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Nubia

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Early civilizations of the Andes region-both coastal and especillay high mountain valleys

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Chavin/Moche/Inca cultural region

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More recent excavations here are revising ideas about urban development outside of Egypt/Nubia

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Jenne Jeno

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Early civilizations of Meso American

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Olmec/Mayan/Aztec cultural region

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Remnants of “goddess” culture found here

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Matre.Crete

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New capital city build by Egyptian pharoah who replaced the Egyptian pantheon of gods with only one-god- Aten sun god

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Armarna

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Once a green environment and possible place of orgins for Nile and Niger River peoples

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Sahara Desert

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Homeland of the !Kung! people that DNA research has identififed as the oldest people living on our planet

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Kalahari Desert

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Capital city of Middle and New Kingdoms where Ramses and other build huge mortuary and temple complexes

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Thebes

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Elaborate Stone Age cave paintings can be found here

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Lasaux/Chauvet/Altimira

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First Chinese civilizations developed here

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Shang Dynasty/Ban Po/Anyang

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Associated with productive high altitude agriculture-unique in the world

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Andes Mountains

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Paleonathropoligists have found many fossils of human orgins/evolution here thus the term “Cradle of Humanity”

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Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Ethopoa, Tanzania

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Sumerian civilization developed here in and around these city states

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Ur/Uruk/Lagsh/Babylon

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“Nursery of Humanity”. Place where DNA researches trace the migration of homo sapiens Out of Africa to-before they branched off to China, Siberia and Europe.

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Kashakstan

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Capital city of the Old Kingdom and location of the Pyramids

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Memphis

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Region where roots of early Egyptian civilization are found as well as early Nubia.

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First Cataract & Aswan Dam area

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Indus River Valley civilization developed here

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Mehensjo Daro/Harrappa

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