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Mesolithic Period
(10,000-8,000 BC) Development of agriculture (cultivation of crops and domestication of animals)
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Prehistoric Cultural Periods
Paleolithic (Old Stone Age)Mesolithic (Middle Stone Age)Neolithic (New Stone Age)Bronze AgeIron Age
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Paleolithic Period
- (5 million – 10,000 BC)
- Hunters and gatherers,Verbal forms of communication
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Venus of Willendorf
30,000-25,000BC(Paleolithic Period)Fertility
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Mesolithic Period
Development of agriculture (cultivation of crops and domestication of animals)
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 Stonehenge
- Attempts to gain control over the powersof nature
- Winter Solstice-Spring EquinoxSummer Solstice-Autumnal Equinox
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Neolithic
(8,000-4,000 BC) World’s first settlements, along rivers (the Tigris and Euphrates, and the Nile)
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 Cuneiform
Ancient script developed by the Sumerians in 3100 B.C.
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BronzeAge
(4,000-1,000 BC) Developmentof world’s first civilizations(Mesopotamia and Egypt, followed by India, China, Minoan, and Mycenaean)
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Perhaps the oldest written story on Earth. It comes to us from Ancient Sumeria,and was originally written on 12 clay tablets in cunieformscript
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Iron Age
(1,000-800 BC) Use of iron for weapons
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