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38,000 BCE
Modern humans, called Cro-Magnons, emerge
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8000 BCE
Neolithic Age begins
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5000 BCE
Agriculture develops in Egypt and Mesopotamia
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3300 BCE
Mesopotamians/Sumerians settled around Tigris and Euphrates
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3200 BCE
Unification of Egypt into one kingdom
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2500 BCE
Indus Valley people plan and build first cities
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1700 BCE
Indo-Europeans begin to migrate
1700 and 1200 B.C. -
1000 BCE
Minor kings began setting up kingdoms in India
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750 BCE
Hindu teachers begin
750 B.C and 550 B.C. -
563 BCE
Siddhartha Gautama lives
563-483 B.C.