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HISTORY HISTORY 360 FIRST MODERN HUMANS 362 EARLY FARMING 364 MEGALITHIC EUROPE 366 PREHISTORIC POTTERY 367 FIRST METALWORKERS 3 ...

360 History History History is a record of what happened in the past. It is all about people – how they lived and worked, where ...

FIND OUT MORE. Ancient Greece 376–377 • Early Americans 380 • First Metalworkers 367 • Prehistoric Pottery 367 History^361 ARCHA ...

362 History First Modern Humans Homo sapiens (modern humans) first evolved between 200,000 BCE and 100,000 BCE. They were like o ...

FIND OUT MORE. Africa 238–239 • Australia and New Zealand 274–275 • Evolution 74–75 History^363 FLINT-KNAPPING Early and modern ...

364 History Farming began c. 9,000 BCE on land that became known as the. FERTILE CRESCENT. Hunter-gatherers, who were travelling ...

FIND OUT MORE. Early Americans 380 • Farming 66 • Maya 381 • Western Asia and the Middle East 264–265 History^365 WHY WAS ÇATALH ...

366 History CHAMBER TOMBS Megalithic tombs with several chambers (rooms) were built using massive stone slabs, then covered with ...

FIND OUT MORE. Alloys 174 History^367 Prehistoric Pottery The earliest pottery was made by Japanese fishing communities, in c. 1 ...

368 Mesopotamia Mesopotamia is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. Farmers used the river water to irrigate fields ...

FIND OUT MORE. Ancient Egypt 370–371 • Writing 339 History^369 ROSETTA STONE 3 In 196 BCE, Egyptian scribes carved the same text ...

370 History Nemes headdress made of solid gold and bands of coloured (dark blue) glass paste Uraeus (cobra), symbol of Lower Egy ...

FIND OUT MORE. Ancient Religions 282 • First Scripts 369 • North and West Africa 240–241 History^371 5500– Pre-Dynastic 3100 BCE ...

372 History Middle Eastern Empires From around 2000 BCE, rival peoples in the Middle East fought to either conquer or defend lan ...

FIND OUT MORE. Western Asia and the Middle East 264–265 GATEWAY GUARDIAN 3 This is one of a pair of huge stone figures that ador ...

374 History Mediterranean Seafarers From around 2000 BCE, people living close to the Mediterranean Sea, such as the. MINOANS and ...

FIND OUT MORE. Western Asia and the Middle East 264–265 History^375 GOLDEN ARMLET 3 Persia was rich in gold. This armlet was fou ...

Ancient Greece WHAT WERE ANCIENT GREEK PLAYS ABOUT? Greek tragedies and comedies re-told stories about gods and goddesses, or ma ...

FIND OUT MORE. Ancient Rome 382–383 • Southeast Europe 256–257 History^377 HOPLITES IN CLOSE COMBAT 3 This picture of hoplites i ...

FIND OUT MORE. Imperial China 393 • Revolutionary China 429 China’s First Empire China was a collection of kingdoms ruled by riv ...