Period 1 Timeline to 600 B.C.E.

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Period 1 Timelineto 600 B.C.E.
c. 10000 B.C.E. Neolithic Revolution
c. 600 C.E. Nok in West Africa smelt iron
c. 4000 B.C.E. discovery of metal tools
c. 1200 C.E. Nomadic Invaders from Central Asia
c. 240,000 B.C.E. Homo Sapiens emerge
c. 800 B.C.E. Phoenician Colonization
c. 3500 B.C.E. Civilization emerges in Fertile
Crescent, Nile Valley, Huang He Valley, Indus
Valley
c. 14000 B.C.E. Paleolithic Age Ends
c. 1000 B.C.E. Start of Judaism
c. 600 C.E. River Valley Civilizations in Decline
c.7000 B.C.E. Catal Huyuk villiage emerges in
Turkey
c. 605 B.C.E. Laozi (founder of Daoism) born
c. 1500 B.C.E. Start of Hinduism
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Phoenicians, Minoans
Huang He China
Fertile Crescent
Indus River Valley Aryan Invasion
Nile River Valley
Olmecs
Nok
Chavin
Austronesian Migration
Human Origin Point