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| c. 24,000 years ago |
| | | An unusually decorated female figurine is carved from limestone at Kostenky, in the river Don region of Russia | |
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| c. 23,000 years ago |
| | | Someone carves a figure of a flying bird, in mammoth ivory, in the Malta settlement in Siberia | |
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| c. 18,000 years ago |
| | | A bison figurine is carved in mammoth ivory in the region of Zaraysk, southeast of Moscow | |
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| c. 4000 BC |
| | | In Mesopotamia, and on the grass steppes of southern Russia, oxen are used to pull heavy loads on sledges | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The Slavs settle in the regions of eastern Europe and western Russia | |
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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | Indo-European tribes, speaking Baltic languages, settle in the regions of modern Lithuania and Latvia | |
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| c. 500 BC |
| | | The Lapps, hunters of reindeer, have Scandinavia to themselves before the arrival of Germanic tribes | |
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| c. 50 |
| | | Tribes speaking Finno-Ugric languages are by now settled around the northeast of the Baltic, in modern Estonia and Finland | |
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| c. 650 |
| | | The Vikings develop the fast and narrow longships with which they raid across the North Sea | |
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| c. 800 |
| | | Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons | |
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