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What is happening in South America in 500CE
Peru
The past centuries have seen both the Moche and Nazca civilizations in Peru are reaching their peak.
Amazonia
Elsewhere in the continent, the Arawak-speaking diaspora has now more or less reached its limits. In Amazonia, large, densely populated regional chiefdoms are now established on the floodplains of the great rivers of the region. At the Amazon’s vast mouth, on the island of Marajo, a flourishing culture has emerged, which will last until the final period of Pre-Columbian America. This culture is known for its beautiful multicoloured ceramics, and for the large platform mounds it constructs.
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Most of Africa is home to bands of hunter-gatherers, but in the Nile valley, the civilization of Egypt is beginning to emerge
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The first city-based civilization in history is appearing in Mesopotamia
Middle East history 3500BCE
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By this date Ancient Egypt has developed one of the great civilizations of world history.
India and South Asia history 2500BCE
One of the earliest civilizations in world history has emerged in ancient India, the Indus Valley civilization
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