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Long distanced trade with polities in modern-day afghanistan. Dams, canals, stone sculptures using inclined plane and lever in Sumer. Urkesh (northern Syria) founded during the fourth millennium BC possibly by the Hurrians. The Courtyard is introduced to Mesopotamia. [4] Persian plateau 4000 BC – Susa is a center of pottery production.
c. 3500 BC: The first monument of which there is still a trace (Duma na nGiall) is built on the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the High King of Ireland. [2] c. 3500 BC: Tin is discovered. c. 3500 BC: The Eruption of Mount Isarog in the Philippines. [3] c. 3500 BC: The Sumerians develop a logographic script, cuneiform
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
6000 BC: Evidence of habitation at the current site of Aleppo dates to about c. 8,000 years ago, although excavations at Tell Qaramel, 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of the city show the area was inhabited about 13,000 years ago, [124] Carbon-14 dating at Tell Ramad, on the outskirts of Damascus, suggests that the site may have been occupied since ...
c. 3700-1800 BC: Caral-Supe flourished between the fourth and second millennia BC, with the formation of the first city generally dated to around 3500 BC, at Huaricanga, in the Fortaleza area. It is from 3100 BC onward that large-scale human settlement and communal construction become clearly apparent, which lasted until a period of decline ...
c. 3500 BC Garth tsunami impacts the Northern Isles. [20] c. 3000 BC First henge monuments. [19] c. 2600 BC Main phase of construction at Stonehenge begins, replacing earlier wooden and earthen works. c. 2300 BC Arrival of the Beaker People in Britain, replacing 90% of the earlier population. [21] [19]
The oldest radio carbon date found at Sechin Bajo is 4500 BCE although other signs of human occupation of the Casma valley date back to before 6,000 BCE. [ 8 ] Sechin Bajo is located about 130 kilometres (81 mi) north of the Norte Chico civilization , believed to be the oldest in the Americas.
Paleolithic c. 35,000 – c. 10,000 BCE Jōmon period c. 10,000 – 300 BCE Yayoi period c. 300 BCE – 250 CE Yamato period c. 250 – 710 CE China China Periods: Paleolithic c. 1.36 million years ago Neolithic period c. 10,000 – 2100 BCE Ancient China c. 2100 – 221 BCE Imperial period c. 221 BCE – 1911 CE Modern period. Americas North ...