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This is a list of dates associated with the prehistoric peopling of the world (first known presence of Homo sapiens). The list is divided into four categories, Middle Paleolithic (before 50,000 years ago), Upper Paleolithic (50,000 to 12,500 years ago), Holocene (12,500 to 500 years ago) and Modern ( Age of Sail and modern exploration).
The city corresponds to the ancient Assyrian city of Arbela. Settlement at Erbil can be dated back to possibly 6000 BC, but not urban life until c. 2300. [86] [87] Ankara: Anatolia Turkey: c. 2000 BC [88] The oldest settlements in and around the city center of Ankara belonged to the Hattic civilization which existed during the Bronze Age. Jaffa ...
Kingdom city state 2000–1650 BC Qatna: Qatna City-State 2000–1340 BC Sea Peoples: Not specified Tribal confederacy 1575–1175 BC Sumer: Various Kingdom city states 4500–1900 BC Troas: Troy Kingdom 2000–700 BC Ugarit: Ugarit Kingdom city state 2500–1090 BC Ur: Ur city state 3800–800 BC Urkesh: Urkesh Kingdom city state/client 2250 ...
Pages in category "Ancient cities" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Ado-Odo;
Classical Antiquity is a period in the history of the Near East and Mediterranean, extending roughly from the 8th century BC to the 6th century AD.It is conventionally taken to begin with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (8th–7th century BC), and continues through the emergence of Christianity and the decline of the Roman Empire in the 5th to 6th centuries, the period during which ...
This article lists the largest human settlements in the world (by population) over time, as estimated by historians, from 7000 BC when the largest human settlement was a proto-city in the ancient Near East with a population of about 1,000–2,000 people, to the year 2000 when the largest human settlement was Tokyo with 26 million.
Peoples of the ancient world (i.e. prior to AD 476). For individuals, see Category:Ancient people . Pages in this category should be moved to subcategories where applicable.
The largest cities of the Bronze Age Near East housed several tens of thousands of people. Memphis in the Early Bronze Age , with some 30,000 inhabitants, was the largest city of the time by far. Ebla is estimated to have had a population of 40,000 inhabitants in the Intermediate Bronze age . [ 1 ]