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After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC:Mithen, Steven:0674015703:eCampus.com (1053 words) |
 | 20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing the threat of extinction. |
| Animal and plant domestication in the Andes, and coastal foragers, 10,500-5000 BC 30 A Double-Take in the Oaxaca Valley |
| Early farming in South and Central Asia; the domestication of cotton, 7500-5000 BC 44 Vultures of the Zagros |
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Ancient Egypt - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta (3697 words) |
| A culture known as Badarian is represented as early as 5000 bc in Upper Egyptian settlements. |
| By 3500 bc, the settlement of Hierakonpolis, located on the west bank of the Nile between Luxor and Aswān, had become a central site of Predynastic culture—that is, the culture that existed before the time of the first Egyptian dynasties, or families of rulers. |
| The Egyptians were able to regain control in 404 bc, but their last native dynasties ruled under conditions of internal discord and continual external conflicts. |
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