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Encyclopedia > 1000 BCE
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Europe before 1000 BCE (1502 words)
It was preceded by agriculture and the raising of animals, which appeared in sunny Greece as early as 6000 BCE - around the time that people there built stone walls around their villages, presumably to protect themselves from wild animals and marauding outsiders.
By 4000 BCE, Europeans were using a wooden plow, and, sometime after 4000, farming spread to people around the Vistula River and into Scandinavia, while in Finland those people to be known as Finns hunted seals and bred pigs.
By around 2000 BCE the Bell Beakers had traveled as far as what is now Czech Republic in central Europe, as far as Corsica, Sicily and North Africa, and they had entered Britain as far north as what is now Scotland.
1000s BC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (173 words)
1000 BCE - Latins come to Italy from the Danube region.
1000 BCE - Archaeological evidence obtained from inscriptions excavated in 2005 dates the Tamil language, a classical language spoken in India.
Zoroaster, ancient Iranian prophet (approximate date, estimates range from 1000 BC to 600 BC).
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