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Earliest Humans

By mrsjwelsh
  • Humans begin migrating out of Africa
    100,000 BCE

    Humans begin migrating out of Africa

  • Neanderthals die out
    40,000 BCE

    Neanderthals die out

    Neanderthals may have died out due to climate change and / or contact with modern humans (homo sapiens)
  • Neolithic Age begins
    10,000 BCE

    Neolithic Age begins

    Humans in the Fertile Crescent first begin domesticating plants for food (i.e., farming)
  • 3000 BCE

    Bronze Age begins

  • Code of Hammurabi
    1754 BCE

    Code of Hammurabi

    One of earliest written law codes ordered by King Hammurabi of Babylon.