Ancient Civilizations
15 entries in the Ancient Civilizations compendium.
NeolithicThe New Stone Age: dawn of farming and settlement.Neolithic RevolutionThe wide-scale transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement in the Neolithic period.Paleo-IndiansFirst peoples of the Americas during the Late Pleistocene.PaleolithicThe Old Stone Age: from the first stone tools to the end of the Pleistocene.Prehistoric EgyptFrom the first human occupation to the dawn of the First Dynasty, explore the deep prehistory of Egypt.PrehistoryHuman history before written records, studied through material evidence.Stone AgeThe Stone Age was a broad prehistoric period during which stone was widely used to make tools.SumerEarliest known civilization, emerging in southern Mesopotamia.PhoeniciaAncient Semitic maritime traders who spread the alphabet across the Mediterranean.PhrygiaAncient Anatolian kingdom of legendary kings and the Gordian Knot.Pannonian AvarsEurasian nomads who ruled the Carpathian Basin for centuries.Proto-Indo-EuropeansPostulated prehistoric speakers of the ancestor of the Indo-European language family.SarmatiansIranian equestrian nomads who dominated the Pontic steppe for nearly a millennium.SaxonsGermanic people of early medieval Old Saxony, conquered by Charlemagne.SogdiaAncient Iranian civilisation and key Silk Road intermediaries.
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