Ancient Civilizations 1-15
15 entries in the Ancient Civilizations compendium.
NeolithicThe Neolithic period introduced farming and permanent settlements.Neolithic RevolutionFirst archaeologically verifiable transition to agriculture and settlement.Paleo-IndiansFirst peoples to enter and inhabit the Americas.PaleolithicThe Old Stone Age of human prehistory.Prehistoric EgyptLongest phase of human development in the Nile Valley.PrehistoryHuman history before written records, studied through material evidence.Stone AgeThe Bronze Age civilizations of Greece around the Aegean Sea.SumerEarliest known civilization, emerging in southern Mesopotamia.PhoeniciaAncient Semitic maritime traders who spread the alphabet across the Mediterranean.PhrygiaAncient Anatolian kingdom of legendary kings and the Gordian Knot.Pannonian AvarsEurasian nomads who ruled the Carpathian Basin for centuries.Proto-Indo-EuropeansPrehistoric speakers of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language.SarmatiansIranian equestrian nomads who dominated the Pontic steppe for nearly a millennium.SaxonsGermanic people of early medieval Old Saxony, conquered by Charlemagne.SogdiaAncient Iranian civilisation and key Silk Road intermediaries.
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