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From 100000BC onwards, small family groups drifted northwards to Asia
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The most important human movement began in about 60000BC during the last ice age, when humans began migrating out of Africa.
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By 10,000BC our hunter gatherer ancestors were becoming farmers or herders.
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Sumer, in present-day, Iraq, was settled in about 4000BC
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Modern human beings originated in Africa