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  Climate, Culture, and Catastrophe in the Ancient World
This was the beginning of the Younger Dryas, (10500 BC) a millenium in which the circulation system of the North Atlantic went into a kind of planetary fibrillation, the African monsoons migrated southward, drying the desert.
BP (6000-3500 BC) at which time the temperature is warming culminating in an era warmer than present, when equatorial weather patterns may have reached farther north than at present, and the westerly storms of the north would have been confined to latitudes higher than at present.
By 4500 BC the favorable climatic conditions and stabilized lower alluvial plains favoring territorial control and mound building (4500 BC) among native Amercan groups in the lower valleys.
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 Dalyan
Ardvates (317-284 BC) who was a Persian provincial governor under the Seleucids broke away from the Seleucids rule to create the Kingdom of Armenia, but the Seleucids quickly regained control and lost it just as quickly as the kingdom was split into two.
In 94 BC it was re-united by Tigranes 1st as the Kingdom of Armenia and for the period 83-69 BC became very powerful.
The Romans arrived in 190 BC and were for a time content to leave the Anatolia region to rule its self.
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 7th millennium BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the agricultural communities of the Middle East, the cow is domesticated and use of pottery grows common, spreading to Europe and South Asia, and the first metal (gold and copper) ornaments are made.
7000 BC – Agriculture and settlement at Mehrgarh in South Asia.
Circa 6100 BC – The Storegga Slide, causing a megatsunami in the Norwegian Sea
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 3000bc
BP (6000-4000 BC) at which time the temperature is warming culminating in an era warmer than present, when equatorial weather patterns may have reached farther north than at present, and the westerly storms of the north would have been confined to latitudes higher than at present.
At about 3500 BC the lower Tigris and Euphrates alluvial plain was under extreme pressure from both rapidly rising sea and buildup of the Karun delta.
The 3199 BC value is associated with an acidity peak in Camp Century ice cores dated at 3150 B,c demonstrating unquestionably that adverse weather conditions, probably due either to volcanic eruption or meteoric impact, occurred at this time.
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 NPS Archeology Program: Kennewick Man
The major differences are projectile point forms (Figures 9 & 10), the presence of burins in Windust assemblages, the relative frequencies of one artifact class, edge – ground cobbles (higher in the Cascade\Vantage phase) – and a greater reliance on basalt for tool stone during the latter phase.
The beginning of the Cascade\Vantage phase (7000 – 4500 BC) is marked by a reduction in the variety of projectile point forms that characterizes the Windust phase.
Edge–ground cobbles are a diagnostic artifact of the Cascade phase (7000 – 4500 BC) (B. Butler 1961, 1965; Leonhardy and D. Rice 1970).
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 History of India
Historians believe that the Indus Valley Civilization (known as the Harappan Civilization) flourished between 3000 BC and 1800 BC, stretching from Afghanistan in the west to the Ganges plains in the east; from the Pamir knot in the north to the Rann of Kutch in the south.
The people of India have had a continuous recorded civilization since the 7000 BC, traced to the Mehrgarh complex of the Indus Tradition in northwest India.
This reached its most prosperous phase in the 2600 BC in the valleys of the Indus river as an urban culture based on commerce and sustained by agricultural trade.
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 Cyprus Island - Information - History
7000 - 3900 BC Remains of the oldest known settlements in Cyprus date from this period.
Pottery appeared on a second phase after 5000 BC The era of prosperity continues, but the island falls prey to several conquerors.
Destructive earthquakes occur during the 1st century BC and the 1st century AD and cities are rebuilt.
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 TVM Entry Floor: Proto-Greek Cycladic and Minoan Art
The 1500 BC Eruption of the Theran Volcano
Prehistory 7000 - 2800 BC Evidence exists of sporadic human presence in the Aegean region (nomads, hunters, fruit gatherers; cultural affinities with the Balkans) in Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods.
About 4,500 BC manufacture of native copper make their appearance; widespread use of copper contributes to agricultural development and population growth, with more organized social structures.
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 Brief History
3900-2500 BC Remains of the oldest known settlements in Cyprus date from this period.
1050-750 BC Cyprus is now a Greek island with ten city- 7000-3900 BC NEOLITHIC AGE Remains of the oldest known settlements in Cyprus date from this period.
The Ptolemies abolish the city-kingdoms and unify Cyprus.
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 How old is Chinese civilization? - Asia Finest Discussion Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Symbologies have been found as far back as 6600 BC (Peiligang, Jiahu), 6000 BC (Dadiwan, Gansu), 4000 BC (Banpo, Xian) and 2800 BC (Dawenkou, Shandong), many symbols of which resemble characters of the later formalized writing system of China.
A city complex was excavated in the eastern province of Anhui dating back to 3500 BC, making it the oldest known Chinese city, after the 3000 BC Dadiwan city structures.
Flutes from Jiahu dating back to around 7000 BC had 5 to 8 holes and were made taking into account scale and temperament.
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 History of TRANSPORT AND TRAVEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Wooden sledges are first known, by at least 7000 BC, among communities living by hunting and fishing in northern Europe, on the fringes of the Arctic.
Whether first developed as an 'invention' in one place, or re-invented in several, wheels seem to have evolved as a natural solution to the problem of transport in areas where both oxen and wood are available.
By 2000 BC heavy wheeled transport is in use in a region stretching from northern Europe to western Persia and Mesopotamia.
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 Timeline of Fabric Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
9000 BC TO 3000 BC The domestication of sheep, goats and dogs dates from 9000 BC in the uplands of Zam Chem Shanidar from 7000 BC at Jarmo in the Zagros Mountains of north west Iran, and Israel and south Turkey from the 7000 to 6,000 BC.
7000 BC 7000 Flax was known in Syria and Turkey, and is apparently the earliest plant source for fiber (linen) as well as an important source of oil (pressed from the seed).
400 BC Aperlae in present-day Turkey indicate it was probably established in the 4th century BC to harvest marine snails, the source of a coveted dye known as "Tyrean purple" used by Roman emperors and others of the region's elite.
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 MATURE NEOLITHIC
One theory is that this practice came from the north as part of the PPNB cultural emergence.
Around 6000 BC well-documented environmental disruption (drying) caused breakdown of the Southern Levantine PPNB and most sites were abandoned for 500 years.
Catal Huyuk overlaps the late PPNB of the Levant and continues down to 5000 BC.
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 In General -Country, Neolithic Age
In the late eighth century BC by which time Phoenician enterprise had renewed early ties with the Syria coast, the island was divided into a series of independent kingdoms, tributaries of the Assyrian Empire.
It was conquered by the Egyptians in the sixth century BC and held until 525 BC, when, retaining its petty kingdoms, it became absorbed into the
In 499/8 BC a revolt to assist the Greeks of Ionia in their struggle against Persia was suppressed.
www.emu.edu.tr /english/ingeneral/trnc/countryhistory/hist_neolithicage.htm   (774 words)

  
 History of ANATOLIA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Bronze is used in the 3rd millennium BC, later than Sumeria but not by much.
Lydia emerges in the 7th century BC as a rich and powerful state in the interior of Anatolia, with its capital at Sardis.
The last king of Lydia, Croesus, has survived in popular memory as a man of legendary wealth (he is the first ruler in history to mint coins of gold and silver).
www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ab64   (804 words)

  
 Ancient History Timeline: 10,000-3000 BC - History for Kids!
Around 10,000 BC, with the end of the last major Ice Age, there began to be a lot more people in the world, and at the same time a global warming period meant that there were fewer good places to live.
About 7000 BC, there were people living at Franchthi Cave, hunting and gathering their food.
By 6000 BC, people in Greece had begun to settle down, keep sheep and farm.
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 Fermented beverages may date to 7000 BC - The Boston Globe   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Fermented beverages may date to 7000 BC Evidence found in Chinese pottery
The ceramics were dated to about 7000 BC, and the scientists analyzed residue that had collected inside the pots.
In 1990, McGovern was part of a team that found what was then the earliest known chemical evidence of wine, dating to about 3500 BC, from Godin Tepe in the Zagros Mountains of western Iran.
www.boston.com /news/science/articles/2004/12/07/fermented_beverages_may_date_to_7000_bc   (587 words)

  
 Pre-Harapan Chronology of Sindh
Already around 10,000 BC to 8000 BC, man had started domestication of animals in the Middle East, and around 7000 BC domestication had started at Mehrgarh.
By 4000 BC large scale cultivation of cereals, mixed farming (various types of wheat and barleys), and domestication of cattle, goats and sheep was practiced.
Neolithic period of Catal Huyuk (Turkey) is 6500 BC, and for Iraq and Egypt in the river flood plains, it is 4500 BC.
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 Early Scottish History
Queen Athaliah of Judah kills all her male descendants except for Jehosheba and Joash and is overthrown by priests in 837 BC.
Twins Romulus and Remus were ordered killed by their grand-uncle the King of Alba Longa, but on the banks of the Albula River a.k.a Tiber they are rescued by lupa: prostitute or she-wolf a.k.a Larentina: goddess of death and mother of the Lares, Greek Mania: mother of the Manes.
217 BC: Hannibal wounds Gnaeus Scipio at the Ticinius River Canne della Battaglia: Battle of Cannae: 216 BC: Hannibal routes the 50,000+ army of Lucius Aemilius Paullus and C.Terrentius Varro on the Apulian plain in the vicinity of Cannae.
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 July 5, 2000
Cardial C-14 datings from 7000 BC were unnerving because they were so close to the very earliest Neolithic radiocarbon dates from the Near East.
They were excavated between 1954 and 1979 and dated to about 600 BC because alphabetic writing was discovered at both places.
The closer to the Near East it was, the older it was allowed to be (back to 1600 BC at the earliest).
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 Boing Boing: Dental drilling, circa 7000 BC
Boing Boing: Dental drilling, circa 7000 BC suggest a link
University of Kansas anthropologists dated skulls containing drilled teeth that were found in a Pakistan graveyard.
The research was published in the scientific journal Nature, which also released photos demonstrating how a drill fashioned from flint, a rod, and a bow string might have been wielded sometime around 5500 - 7000 B.C..
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 9th millennium BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 9th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Neolithic period.
8000 BC – Norway - Øvre Eiker of Norway inhabited.
8000 BC – Mesopotamia - Agriculture in Mesopotamia.
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 SolArts Projects
7000 B.C. exists to promote an understanding of the cultural significance of comic arts as well as to provide opportunities and milieux for New Mexico cartoonists to develop their personal styles and storytelling 'voices'.
7000 B.C. participants have recently had their work featured in nationally distributed comics collections.
7000 B.C. has prepared an anthology of short comics work for publication and national distribution.
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 KryssTal : Inventions: 10,000 BC to 4,000 BC
The domestication of large animals (the beasts of burden) gave human beings enormous power in agriculture, transport and warfare.
Around 4500 BC, human settlements began to band together into cities and states.
These are the beasts of burden that have increased the power available to humans.
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 All Sides of the Story
In southern France is the Venus of Laussel which is carved in basrelief in a rock shelter.
In this carving the woman is painted red, perhaps to suggest blood, and holds a bison horn in one hand.
During the pre dynastic Egyptian period, prior to 3110 BC, the Goddess was known as Ta-Urt (Great One) and was portrayed as a pregnant hippopotamus stand on her hind legs.
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 CYPRUSIVE - North Cyprus Web Guide - History
New waves of settlers arrived in about 6000 BC and they brought with them skills in making pottery, and gradualily the stone vessels used by the first settlers were replaced by earthenware pots as cooking utens~iIs>.
The adoption of bronze for implements and weapons, about 2500 BC, ¼c6~ticided with the appearance of the ox, the plough, and a plain red pottery, suggestive of Anatolian origin, of which large quantities have been found in rock-cut tombs of the period.
At the division of his Empire, Cyprus passed to the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt; it became a Roman province in 58 BC, was early converted to Christianity and on the partition of the Roman Empire fell under the rule of the Byzantine Emperor.
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 Miss Charming's History BC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
7000 BC Northern China uses earthen pottery for winemaking.
1700 BC A highly organized American Indian society lives in what we call today, Louisiana, which is the birth state of the American cocktail.
58 BC Julius Ceasar builds a stone basin for the natural spring which today is called Perrier.
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 DASHÖFER HOLDING LTD - Holiday page
After 1400 BC influences from the west-aegean area are noticeable.
The Persian rule (until 331 b.c.) was marked by conflicts among the population.
Destructive earthquakes occur during the 1 st century BC and the 1 st century AD and cities are rebuilt.
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