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  2. List of pre-Columbian cultures - Wikipedia

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    Saladoid culture, 500 BC—545 AD [2] Ostionoid culture, 600—1500 AD [2] Arawak people, c. 5001500 AD [2] Taíno, Lesser Antilles and Guadeloupe [2] Lucayans, Greater Antilles and Bahamas 700 AD–1500 AD [2] – group encountered by Columbus; Nepoya and Suppoya, Trinidad [2] [4] [5] Igneri, Dominica 500 AD, St. Croix 650 AD, Puerto Rico ...

  3. Pre-Columbian era - Wikipedia

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    Pre-Olmec civilization began with the production of pottery in abundance, around 2300 BCE in the Grijalva River delta. Between 1600 and 1500 BCE, the Olmec civilization had begun, with the consolidation of power at their capital, a site today known as San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán near the coast in southeast Veracruz. [50]

  4. Olmecs - Wikipedia

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    San Jose Mogote is another site that has elements of cultural strides that the Olmecs could have adopted as the site can be dated back to 1500-500 BCE. San Jose Mogote is a site that dates to the early Zapotecs , [ 111 ] a civilization that situated well outside the Olmec heartland.

  5. Civilization - Wikipedia

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    [a] In The Philosophy of Civilization (1923), Albert Schweitzer outlines two opinions: one purely material and the other material and ethical. He said that the world crisis was from humanity losing the ethical idea of civilization, "the sum total of all progress made by man in every sphere of action and from every point of view in so far as the ...

  6. Post-classical history - Wikipedia

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    In world history, post-classical history refers to the period from about 500 CE to 1500 CE, roughly corresponding to the European Middle Ages.The period is characterized by the expansion of civilizations geographically and the development of trade networks between civilizations.

  7. Middle Ages - Wikipedia

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    Middle Ages c. AD 5001500 A medieval stained glass panel from Canterbury Cathedral, c. 1175 – c. 1180, depicting the Parable of the Sower, a biblical narrative Including Early Middle Ages High Middle Ages Late Middle Ages Key events Fall of the Western Roman Empire Spread of Islam Treaty of Verdun East–West Schism Crusades Magna Carta Hundred Years' War Black Death Fall of ...

  8. Cradle of civilization - Wikipedia

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    A cradle of civilization is a location and a culture where civilization was developed independent of other civilizations in other locations. A civilization is any complex society characterized by the development of the state , social stratification , urbanization , and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or spoken languages (namely ...

  9. History of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    It emerged from the earlier Las Vegas culture and thrived along the coast of Santa Elena peninsula in Santa Elena Province of Ecuador between 3500 BCE and 1500 BCE. [citation needed] Norte Chico. One of the oldest known civilization of the Americas was established in the Norte Chico region of modern Peru. Complex society emerged in the group of ...