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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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Period: 5000 BCE to 500 BCE
Agriculture develops in Egypt and Mesopotamia
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3300 BCE
Mesopotamians/Sumerians settled around Tigris and Euphrates
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3000 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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Period: 1700 BCE to 1200 BCE
Indo-Europeans begin to migrate
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1000 BCE
Minor kings began setting up kingdoms in India
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Period: 750 BCE to 550 BCE
Hindu teachers begin interpreting Vedic hymns
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Period: 563 BCE to 483 BCE
Siddhartha Gautama lives