West Asian economy – Mesopotamia and Iran
Obsidian tools West Asia is located in the middle of the very wide land mass we call Europe and Asia and Africa, and so it has always played an important part [...]
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Before 10,000 BC – World history timeline
Sibidu Cave, South Africa. People lived here from about 77,000 BC until about 38,000 years ago. In the early years of human history, beginning with the earliest humans about two million years [...]
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Stone Age Japan – Japanese history
Jomon carving of a killer whale, ca. 3000 BC - Stone Age Japan The first people in Japan People probably first reached Japan from two directions around the same time. [...]
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Paleolithic Greece – the first people
Outside Franchthi Cave The first people came to Greece not long after leaving Africa, about 55,000 BC. They probably came along the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, through what is [...]
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Mesolithic Greece – the Middle Stone Age
Mainland Greece is on the left and Turkey is on the right,and the Greek islands are scattered between them When was the Mesolithic in Greece? Nobody knows much yet about [...]
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Ancient Greek climate, plants, and animals
Ancient Greek climate: The island of Rhodes Good fishing Fishing was very important to early Stone Age people, and fishing is probably what brought the first people to [...]
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Economy in Archaic Greece
Archaic Greek economy: A black-figure vase showing a blacksmith at work (Athens, about 550 BC) Not much trade in the Dark Ages During the political collapse of the Greek Dark [...]
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What causes volcanoes? Geology
Volcano erupting Volcanoes are places where the plates of the Earth's surface have cracks in them, so that the very hot melted rocks that are under the tectonic plates bubble [...]
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What are igneous rocks? Volcanic stone
Igneous rocks: Obsidian tools What does "igneous" mean? Igneous means "fiery", and igneous rocks are rocks that were made by heating them up in a fire. Usually that fire is [...]
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What is obsidian? Stone tools
Obsidian spear point, one of many obsidian tools from New Mexico (National Park Service) Where does obsidian come from? Obsidian is a kind of volcanic glass. It is shiny and [...]
