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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | At Huaca Prieta, the earliest known farming community in South America, squash, gourds and chili are cultivated | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | The inhabitants of Huaca Prieta grow cotton, from which they weave a coarse cloth | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | A small neolithic community builds a village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, of stone houses with built-in stone furniture | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | A superb passage grave is built at Newgrange in Ireland | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | Enuma Elish, the Babylonian creation story, spreads in oral form | |
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| c. 2400 BC |
| | | The rich trading city of Mari, on the Euphrates, is an important centre in northern Mesopotamia | |
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| c. 2200 BC |
| | | A ring of large standing stones is raised in England at Avebury, now a village in Wiltshire | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | Trade is carried on from Crete round the Mediterranean as far west as Sicily and in the east down to Egypt | |
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| c. 2000 BC |
| | | The Beaker people arrive in Britain, bringing several desirable commodities - including horses, alcohol and bronze | |
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| c. 1300 BC |
| | | Mycenaean merchants trade as far west as Spain and have links with neolithic societies far away in the interior of Europe | |
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