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World history.

6 eras, 40 moments. Where legend meets archaeology.

FIRST CIVILISATIONS · c. 10000–500 BCE

CULTURE / 1 OF 40

c. 10000–9000 BCE

First farmers

Communities in the Fertile Crescent begin cultivating wheat and barley and herding animals.

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