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Mesopotamia · c. 3500 B.C.
Civilization's Beginning
The Fertile Crescent, the first surplus, and the Sumerians — the world's very first civilization.
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Ancient China · 1650 B.C.
China's Earliest Dynasties
Dynasties like sports dynasties — the Shang, the Zhou, bronze, the first writing, and the Mandate of Heaven.
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Ancient Greece · 2000 B.C.
Minoans & Mycenaeans
Before there were "Greeks": the island of Crete, Sir Arthur Evans, and the people who became Greece.
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Egypt · No. 004
Gift of the Nile
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