LESSON1.1 Overview
INQUIRY QUESTION Why is the ancient world important to study, and what skills do I need to understand History? Our study starts in a period called the Old Stone Age, when the ancestors of every modern human on our planet lived in Africa. We then follow the path of these human-like species, who migrated out of Africa less than 100 000 years ago. Most archaeologists believe that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians arrived in Australia between 50 000 and 65 000 years ago and possibly much earlier, spreading throughout the land over many thousands of years. Approximately 11 000 years ago, people in the Middle East changed from hunting and gathering to a way of life based on farming. Gradually, farming spread, enabling people to live in settled communities from times around 3000 and 2000 BCE.
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This timeline is divided into 1000-year sections.
Key dates and brief descriptions of events are given.
The timeline is broken to show a break in the time scale.
1279 BCE Rameses the Great becomes pharaoh of Egypt.
1100 BCE Decline of Mycenaean civilisation on Greek mainland
356 BCE Alexander the Great is born.
c. 2900 BCE Earliest known writing recorded in Mesopotamia.
c. 2550 BCE Great Pyramid built at Giza in Egypt.
776 BCE First known Olympic Games
2000 BCE Knossos palace built on Crete.
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