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| c. 13,000 years ago |
| | | Humans in the Clovis region of New Mexico show great skill in making spear points with which to hunt their favourite large prey, mammoths | |
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| c. 13,000 years ago |
| | | People in the Clovis culture also make specialized tools for scraping, for hammering or smashing, and for extracting marrow from bones | |
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| c. 13,000 to 12,000 years ago |
| | | The Clovis culture spreads extensively through the Great Plains of north America | |
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| c. 11,000 years ago |
| | | People in the Folsom region of New Mexico develop even greater skills in the making of stone weapons and tools than their neighbours and predecessors of the Clovis culture | |
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| c. 11,000 years ago |
| | | In the Folsom culture the favourite large prey is the giant bison, as opposed to the mammoth preferred in Clovis circles | |
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| | | Christians decide (long after the event) that this is the year of Christ's birth, making it AD 1 in the Christian chronology | |
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| c. 10 |
| | | The period of stability achieved during the reign of Augustus Caesar has been given the name Pax Romana ('Roman peace') | |
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| | | After the death of two of his grandsons, the emperor Augustus formally adopts his stepson Tiberius as his successor | |
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| | | Augustus Caesar insists on Tiberius adopting as his successor Germanicus, a talented young member of the imperial family | |
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| | | Germanicus, designated eventual heir to the throne, marries Agrippina, granddaughter of the ruling emperor | |
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