About one million years ago, early people began to spread out across the continents.
Around 3000 bce, Egypt became the first superstate.
By 117ce, the Roman Empire stretched across western Europe and into Asia.
China has the oldest continuous known civilization, lasting at least 4,000 years.
In 622, Muhammad established the Islamic state in the Arabian Peninsula.
HISTORY AND
POLITICS
HISTORY AND POLITICS
Why was Russia
renamed the
Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics?
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rebuilt during
the Ming Dynasty?
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194–195