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1 day ago · According to Leonardo A. Chisena, the area was first settled in the Palaeolithic (10th millennium BC). [verification needed] According to Anne Parmly Toxey, Matera has been "occupied continuously for at least three millennia". Mdina: Antiquity Malta Malta: 8th century BC: founded as Phoenician Melite. Derbent: Caucasus Russia: 8th century BC
18 hours ago · Roman expansion in Italy from 500 BC to 218 BC through the Latin War (light red), Samnite Wars (pink/orange), Pyrrhic War (beige), and First and Second Punic War (yellow and green). Cisalpine Gaul (238–146 BC) and Alpine valleys (16–7 BC) were later added. The Roman Republic in 500 BC is marked with dark red.
1 day ago · A first Indoeuropean migration occurred around the mid-3rd millennium BC, from a population who imported coppersmithing. The Remedello culture took over the Po Valley . The second wave occurred in the Bronze Age , from the late 3rd to the early 2nd millennium BC, with tribes identified with the Beaker culture and by the use of bronze smithing ...
1 day ago · The word Holocene was formed from two Ancient Greek words. Hólos ( ὅλος) is the Greek word for "whole". "Cene" comes from the Greek word kainós ( καινός ), meaning "new". The concept is that this epoch is "entirely new". [7] [8] [9] The suffix '-cene' is used for all the seven epochs of the Cenozoic Era.
1 day ago · The beginning of bronze-smelting coincides with the emergence of the first cities and of writing in the Ancient Near East and the Indus Valley. The Bronze Age starting in Eurasia in the 4th millennia BC and ended, in Eurasia, c.1200 BC. Late 4th millennium BC: Writing – in Sumer and Egypt. 3300 BC: The first documented swords.
3 days ago · It has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage back to the 6th to 4th millennia BCE.
1 day ago · In the second millennium BC, the territories between the Kama and the Irtysh Rivers were the home of a Proto-Uralic-speaking population that had contacts with Proto-Indo-European speakers from the south. The woodland population is the ancestor of the modern Ugrian inhabitants of Trans-Uralia.
