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May 6, 2024 · Illustration by Daniele Castellano. In the summer of 1856, laborers at a limestone quarry near Düsseldorf were clearing mud and chert out of a cave when they turned up a fossilized skull. It was ...
Apr 21, 2024 · The relatively well-known figures in his history are given their due: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his influential ideas about the “state of nature,” Charles Darwin’s account of human evolution ...
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3 days ago · Scholars have relied on overarching themes, though, to explain how human history changed trajectory over time. This is embodied by the three ages of prehistory that are so often mentioned in essays and textbooks alike — the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. The three-age model does the unthinkable, taking millions of years of ...
Apr 25, 2024 · Published: April 25, 2024 7:49pm EDT. Seventy thousand years ago, the sea level was much lower than today. Australia, along with New Guinea and Tasmania, formed a connected landmass known as Sahul ...
May 4, 2024 · Much of the early defining politics, artistic thought (architecture, sculpture), scientific thought, theatre, literature and philosophy of Western civilization derives from this period of Greek history, which had a powerful influence on the later Roman Empire.
3 days ago · Italy was the birthplace and centre of the ancient Roman civilisation. [3] [4] Rome was founded as a kingdom in 753 BC and became a republic in 509 BC. The Roman Republic then unified Italy forming a confederation of the Italic peoples and rose to dominate Western Europe, Northern Africa, and the Near East.
3 days ago · The First Civilization Emerged From Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia, the cradle of civilization, emerged between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Syria, and Turkey. Its fertile ...
