Ancient Greek people
Ancient Greek people: boys playingknucklebones (ca. 440-430 BC, now in the Getty Museum, Los Angeles) Like other Indo-European people, the Greeks had a general tendency to divide the world into [...]
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Minyans – Middle Bronze Age Greece
Minyan Ware - Greek pottery from about 2000 BC Indo-Europeans The new invaders who destroyed Lerna at the end of the Early Bronze Age in 2100 BC, were the Greeks. [...]
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History of dogs and wolves
History of dogs: Footprints of a child walking next to a dog, Chauvet Cave, France, ca. 24,000 BC) Where do dogs come from? Dogs are a kind of wolf. They [...]
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History of Cheese – Central Asia
History of cheese: There are lots of different kinds of cheese. How to preserve milk? If you don't have a refrigerator, there's no way to keep milk from going bad [...]
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Shang Dynasty China – The first dynasty of ancient China
Shang Dynasty China: Late Shang bronze pitcher from Henan, about 1100 BC, with inscription (Musee Guimet, Paris) China enters the Bronze Age Around 2000 BC, people in China learned how [...]
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History of Coal – Central Asian science
History of coal: These are lumps of coal What is coal made of? Most of the coal on Earth formed during the Carboniferous Period about 350 million years ago, when [...]
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Central Asian stories and languages
Central Asian stories and languages: People speaking Mongolian Central Asian languages Around 3000 BC, most people in Central Asia spoke one of three different kinds of languages. Some people spoke Indo-European languages [...]
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Sogdians – History of Central Asia
Sogdians: A horse-drawn chariot from the Oxus Treasure (British Museum, thanks to Mary Harrsch) Where did they come from? The Sogdians came to Sogdiana probably about 1500 BC. (That's modern [...]
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Scythians and Sogdians – Early Central Asia
Central Asian yurts Nomads were travelling around Central Asia probably by 50,000 BC or so. By 24,000 BC, if not earlier, these nomads had split into at least two different [...]
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Khans and Czars in Central Asia – Government
Scythian comb,about 400 BC (Metropolitan Museum, New York) Most early Central Asian people were Indo-European, or Yamnaya. The biggest group may have been the Scythians. Until about 500 BC, the Scythians lived [...]
