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  2. David Wilkinson (political scientist) - Wikipedia

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    Wilkinson introduces the idea of "Central Civilization" [6] or "Central World-System", [7] which he argues emerged about 1500 BC with the integration of the Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations, and then engulfed the Aegean civilization in 560 BC, Indic civilization in 1000, the New World after the Age of Discovery, and finally the Far ...

  3. Celts - Wikipedia

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    Celtic cultural centres developed in central Europe during the late Bronze Age (c. 1200 BC until 700 BC). Some, like the Heuneburg , the oldest city north of the Alps, [ 97 ] grew to become important cultural centres of the Iron Age in Central Europe, that maintained trade routes to the Mediterranean .

  4. Civilization - Wikipedia

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    The ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia were the oldest civilization in the world, beginning about 4000 BCE. Ancient Egypt is an example of an early culture civilization. [1]A civilization (also spelled civilisation in British English) is any complex society characterized by the development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, and symbolic systems of communication beyond signed or ...

  5. Timeline of historic inventions - Wikipedia

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    The Lower Paleolithic period lasted over 3 million years, during which there many human-like species evolved including toward the end of this period, Homo sapiens.The original divergence between humans and chimpanzees occurred 13 (), however interbreeding continued until as recently as 4 Ma, with the first species clearly belonging to the human (and not chimpanzee) lineage being ...

  6. List of historical films set in Near Eastern and Western ...

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    Occurs in the pseudo-historical "Hyborian Age", set after the destruction of Atlantis and before the rise of any known ancient civilization. Conan the Destroyer: 1984 Neolithic 32,000 – 10,000 BC 10,000 BC: 2008 Neolithic 10,000 BC Set in the prehistoric era (12,000 years ago) and depicts the journeys of a prehistoric tribe of mammoth hunters ...

  7. Civilized core - Wikipedia

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    Civilized Core refers to the four advanced civilizations that emerged during the 1st millennium BC, during the earlier Iron Age after the collapse of the Bronze Age civilizations that preceded them. A primary characteristic of these civilizations was monocentrism and, together with historical developments such as hereditary rule, it led to a ...

  8. Category:Civilization (series) - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Civilization (series)" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  9. Civilizing mission - Wikipedia

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    The civilizing mission (Spanish: misión civilizadora; Portuguese: Missão civilizadora; French: Mission civilisatrice) is a political rationale for military intervention and for colonization purporting to facilitate the cultural assimilation of indigenous peoples, especially in the period from the 15th to the 20th centuries.