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  6th millennium BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the 6th millennium BC, agriculture spreads from the Balkans to Italy and Eastern Europe and from Mesopotamia to Egypt.
It's possible this process pushed some natives into migrating to the region of the Nile in the east, thereby laying the groundwork for the rise of Egyptian civilization.
5500 BC pottery at Mehrgarh in South Asia
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/6th_millennium_BC   (366 words)

  
 Minerva Magazine Online Exclusive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
2340-2316 BC Lugul-zage-si, ruler of Umma, Uruk, and Sumer.
2155-2111 BC Rulers of Lagash (Post-Akkadian or Gutian).
1400-1155 BC Kassite Dynasty (at Babylon and Aqar Quf).
minervamagazine.com /exc/iraq_02.html   (1662 words)

  
 History of Computing - Pre Historic Era 100.000 bc - 1438 bc
6000 BC In the Indian Vedah compiled at least before 6000 BC a verse (Richa) mentions the numerals of 12 (dwawash), 2 (treemi), and 300 (trishat).
Dated to the 5th century BC Time and tracking time was something that intrigued people and would inspire many inventors throughout the centuries into creating all kinds of clocks.
600 BC In this century Pythagoras rediscovered the theorem: the sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse.
www.thocp.net /timeline/0000.htm   (2712 words)

  
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According his theory, Mr Sarmast claims that the Mediterranean basin was 'flooded in a deluge around 9,000 BC which submerged a rectangular land mass he believes was Atlantis...' The problem is: there is no evidence whatsoever for any large-scale flooding of the Mediterranean basin at that time.
He argues that this battle must have been prior to 3100 BC and that the Narmer Palette and Gebel-Arak knife(4000 BC.), found in Egypt prior to King Menes(3100 BC), is evidence of an earlier foreign Sea-People invasion.
In 570 BC, in the time of Pharaoh Amasis, the extremely elderly Egyptian Priest, realizing the end of Egypt was near, let the secret of Atlantis finally fall from his well guarded lips.
anthropology.tamu.edu /downloads/AtlantisHoax.htm   (7772 words)

  
 Ancient Near and Middle East Excerpts
HalafOutline Halaf Period (5500-4700 BC) by Dr. Bruce Owen at Sonoma State
HassunaOutline Hassuna (6000-5250 BC) by Dr. Bruce Owen at Sonoma State
SamarranOutline Samarran Culture (5500 BC-4800 BC) by Dr. Bruce Owen at Sonoma State
ancientneareast.tripod.com /Excerpts_Un_Numbered.html   (148 words)

  
 Co-evolution of neocortex size, group size and language in humans
It is of interest to note that estimates of the size of Neolithic villages in Mesopotamia are of about the same magnitude.
Oates (1977), for example, gives a figure of 150-200, based on the fact that 20-25 dwellings seems to be the typical size of a number of village sites dated to around 6500-5500 BC.
In the Roman Army of the classical period (350-100 BC), the basic unit was the maniple (or "double-century") which normally consisted of 120-130 men; following the reforms instituted by Marius in 104BC, the army was re-organised into legions, each of which contained a number of semi-independent centuries of 100 men each (Haverfield 1955, Montross 1975).
www.bbsonline.org /documents/a/00/00/05/65/bbs00000565-00/bbs.dunbar.html   (11018 words)

  
 food humor The Pumpkin: Gourd of Gourds and King of All Things Halloween
Read on, no matter how you may feel about the color orange.
The pumpkin has a noble history, dating as far back as 7,000 years to 5500 BC.
Seeds from related plants have been found among the ruins in ancient Mexico, and Native American Indians used pumpkin as a diet staple centuries before the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock.
www.ingestandimbibe.com /Articles/pumpkin.html   (1070 words)

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