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  10th millennium BC
10000 BC - Beggining of Jomon era in Japan.
9600 BC -- End of the Younger Dryas cold period -- boundary between Pleistocene and Holocene and traditionally the boundary between the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic.
Before 9000 BC - First stone structures at Jericho.
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The 10th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic time period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.
9000 BC - Neolithic culture began in Ancient Near East.
Sea levels rise abruptly and massive inland flooding occurs due to glacier melt.
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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: 10th millennium BC   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The 10th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic time period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.
The 2nd millennium BC marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age.
During the 6th millennium BC, agriculture spreads from the Balkans to Italy and Eastern Europe and from Mesopotamia to Egypt.
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 Millennium Information
The majority popular approach was to treat the end of 1999 as the end of a millennium, and to hold millennium celebrations at midnight through December 31 1999 to January 1 2000, as per viewpoint 2.
In an episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld entitled "The Millennium", it is revealed that the character Newman specifies the date of the millennium party that he is planning to be for the "millennium new year," meaning December 31 2000.
Millennium is also the name of a popular show by Chris Carter (The X-Files) staring Lance Henriksen as a retired F.B.I. agent working for the "Millennium Group" a criminal consulting firm, during the approach of the year 2000.
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 Predynastic Egypt
The Predynastic Period of Egypt (prior to 3100 BC) is the period that culminates in the rise of the Old Kingdom and the first of the thirty dynasties based on royal residences, by which Egyptologists divide the history of pharaonic civilization using a schedule laid out first by Manetho's Aegyptiaca.
Subsistence in organized and permanent settlements in ancient Egypt by the middle of the 6th millennium BC centered predominantly on cereal and animal agriculture: cattle, goats, pigs and sheep.
By 4000 BC we have evidence of pre-dynastic alchemists having invented the use of mortar (masonry) via one of the oldest known of chemical reactions.
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 9th millennium BC information - Search.com
Circa 8000 BC– Norway - Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited
Circa 8000 BC– Antarctica - long-term melting of the Antarctic ice sheets is commencing
Circa 8000 BC– Mesopotamia - Agriculture in Mesopotamia
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/10th millennium BC
The 10th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic time period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.
It is likely that the earliest incidence of Agriculture, based on the cultivation of primitive forms of millet and rice, occurred in southest Asia, around 10,000 BC.
Agriculture also began to develop in the Armenian Highlands, and the Fertile Crescent, but was not be practiced widely or predominantly for another 2,000 years.
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 10th millennium BC
10th millennium BC Pleistocene, Paleolithic - 10th millennium BC - 9th millennium BC - other millennia)
circa 9600 BC End of the Younger Dryas cold period -- boundary between Pleistocene and Holocene and traditionally the boundary between the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
Before 9000 BC First stone structures at Jericho
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 History
Along the Nile, in the 10th millennium BC, a grain-grinding culture using the earliest type of sickle blades had become replaced by another culture of hunters, fishers and gathering peoples using stone tools.
Scientific analysis of the remains of their culture indicates that by 6000 BC they were herding cattle and constructing large buildings.
Around 3100 BC a king unified the whole of the Nile Valley between the Delta and the First Cataract at Aswan, with the centre of power in Memphis.
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At the beginning of the 3rd millennium BC, an artificial stone often regarded as a forerunner of concrete was in use at Uruk (160 miles south-southeast of modern Baghdad), but the secret of its manufacture apparently was lost in subsequent years.
For the next millennium, the 5th, it is customary to speak in terms of various "cultures" or "horizons" distinguished in general by the pottery, which may be classed by its color, shape, hardness, and, above all, by its decoration.
At the turn of the 4th to 3rd millennium BC, the long span of prehistory is over, and the threshold of the historical era is gained, captured by the existence of writing.
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 Agriculture - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Limited anthropological and archaeological evidence both indicate a grain-grinding culture farming along the Nile in the 10th millennium BC using the world's earliest known type of sickle blades.
There is even earlier evidence for conscious cultivation and seasonal harvest: grains of rye with domestic traits have been recovered from Epi-Palaeolithic (10,000+ BC) contexts at Abu Hureyra in Syria, but this appears to be a localised phenomenon resulting from cultivation of stands of wild rye, rather than a definitive step towards domestication.
By 8000 BC, farming was in practice in Anatolia.
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By 8500-8000 BC farming communities arose in the Levant and spread to Anatolia, North Africa and North Mesopotamia.
By about 7000 BC it included domesticated cattle and pigs, the establishment of permanently or seasonally inhabited settlements, and the use of pottery.
6200 BC in the Ganges valley of the Indian subcontinent.
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 Spain Before Christ
Beginning in the 10th millennium BC, the populations sheltered in Iberia, descendents of the Cro-Magnon, migrate and recolonize all of Western Europe..
In 202 B.C., at the end of the Second Punic War, Carthage had lost Spain, and Rome began its conquest and occupation of the Iberian peninsula, thus beginning the era of Roman Spain.
Roman armies invaded Hispania in 218 BC, using it as a training ground for officers and as a proving ground for tactics during campaigns against the Carthaginians and the nations of Hispania, such as the Iberians, the Lusitanians, the Celtiberians and the Gallaecians.
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 Agriculture - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
8,500 BC, in middle-Eastern cultures referred to as Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB), where there is the first definite evidence for the emergence of a widespread subsistence economy that was dependent on domesticated plants and animals.
Although localised climate change is the favoured explanation for the origins of agriculture in the Levant, the fact that farming was 'invented' at least three times, possibly more, suggests that social reasons may have been instrumental.
In addition to emergence of farming in the Fertile Crescent, agriculture appeared by at least 6,800 BC in East Asia (rice) and, later, in Central and South America (maize, squash).
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 History of Ancient Egypt and Egyptian Pyramids
Along the Nile, in 10th millennium BC, a grain-grinding culture using the earliest type of sickle blades had been replaced by another culture of hunters, fishers, and gathering peoples using stone tools.
Climate changes and/or overgrazing around 8000 BC began to desiccate the pastoral lands of Egypt, eventually forming the Sahara (c.2500 BC), and early tribes naturally migrated to the Nile river where they developed a settled agricultural economy and more centralized society (see Nile: History).
By 6000 BC ancient Egyptians in the southwestern corner of Egypt were herding cattle and constructing large buildings.
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 10th millennium BC - Suprari (beta)
Interwiki: Millenniabox BC » 10 Interwiki: otheruses4 » the time periodRoland Emmerich's 2008 film10,000 BC (film) Interwiki: for » more remote dates1 E11 s The 10th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Mesolithic, or Epipaleolithic time period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch.
9000 BC Neolithic culture began in Ancient Near East.
Australia: People migrate to the Australian continent and began nomadic hunting and herding, and they are the ancestors of the present day Australian Aborigines.
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 The Ultimate 10th millennium BC - American History Information Guide and Reference
Circa 9600 BC – End of the Younger Dryas cold period—boundary between Pleistocene and Holocene and traditionally the boundary between the Paleolithic and Mesolithic.
Circa 9700 BC – Lake Agassiz is formed.
Circa 9500 BC – Ancylus Lake, part of the modern-day Baltic Sea, is formed.
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 10th millennium BC - Wikinfo
(Pleistocene, Paleolithic - 10th millennium BC - 9th millennium BC - other millennia)
10000 BC - Beginning of Jomon era in Japan.
This page was last modified 15:58, 26 July 2003.
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 On the Religion of the Samanid Ancestors - Transoxiana 11 - Julio 2006
On site of ancient settlement Djarqutan (the middle of the 2nd millennium BC), located in 60 km to the north from Termidh, was discovered a proto-Zoroastrian temple of fire, devoted to a cult of the Sun.
Its images have been found on the walls of the Neolith cave parking, among the picture inscriptions of ancient Egypt, on clay tablets of Mesopotamia (IV millennium BC), and on walls of temples of the Indians of Maya in the Latin America.
The pentagram was a symbol of followers of Pithagor (586 - 506 BC) in the ancient Greece, and it was a symbol of Jerusalem in the IV century BC.
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 9th millennium BC at AllExperts
mb =10th millennium BC m =9th millennium BC ma =8th millennium BC Europe and surrounding areas in the 9th millennium BC.
The 9th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Neolithic period.Agriculture spreads throughout the Fertile Crescent and use of pottery becomes more widespread.
*Circa 8000 BC– Norway - Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited
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 Ounjougou: Early Neolithic
Consequently, it has to be seen in the context of heavy rainfalls and a resettlement of the vegetation cover, during the 10th millennium BC, that a new population arrives on the Plateau of Bandiagara.
The tenth and ninth millennium (Phase 1 of the Holocene in Ounjougou)
The pottery and the seed grinding implements of phase 2 of Ounjougou are the oldest artefacts of this type known at present in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The Mesolithic 1 (Kebara culture)(20-18,000 BC to 12,150 BC) throughout the Levant followed the Aurignacian or Levantine Upper Paleolithic.
The 10th millennium BC seems to correspond with three other sites at Kebara (9200 BC) and Mugharet el Wad (9970 and 9525 BC), and Jericho 9216 BC.
It began at the end of the Pleistocene epoch around 8000 BC and ended with the introduction of farming, the date of which varied in each geographical region.
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10th millennium BC 10th millennium BC Pleistocene, Paleolithic - 10th millennium BC - 9th millennium BC - other millennia)
circa 9600 BC End of the Younger Dryas cold period -- boundary between Pleistocene and Holocene and traditionally the boundary between the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic
Before 9000 BC First stone structures at Jericho
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 Archaeology Wordsmith
A second period of occupation later in the 1st millennium BC used Northern Black Polished Ware.
That of Mentuhotep I of the 11th dynasty (Middle Kingdom, c 2033-1982 BC) consisted of a chamber tomb and a pyramid set in elaborately planned colonnades and terraces.
It is famous for a series of reliefs including one portraying a trading expedition to the Land of Punt and the transport of an obelisk.
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 History of Ancient Egypt - Crystalinks
Around 3100 BC a king unified the whole of the Nile Valley between the Delta and the First Cataract at Aswan, with the center of power in Memphis.
Around 2055 BC, Mentuhotep II from Thebes ended this period of unrest and united the country again.
The Thirtieth Dynasty was established in 380 BC and lasted until 343 BC.
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 Syria Gate - About Syria - Aleppo's History
Aleppo (Halab) was the capital of the Amorite kingdom of Yamkhad, in the middle centuries of that millennium.
In 333 BC, Aleppo was taken over by Alexander the Great, and was kept under the Greeks for 300 years in the form of the Seleucid Empire.
In the 10th century Aleppo was taken over by the Hamdanids who made it virtually independent until 962 AD when it was retaken by the Byzantine Empire.
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