Historical facts I consistently forget
In rough chronological order Humans seem to have reached Europe, Australia, India, and China all before they reached non-Mahgreb West Africa. And then they kept moving back and forth between all these places, especially from Eurasia to Africa. (This is all on shaky evidence.) Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than to the building of the Egyptian pyramids. And the pyramids were built when there were still wooly mammoths walking the earth.
In rough chronological order Humans seem to have reached Europe, Australia, India, and China all before they reached non-Mahgreb West Africa. And then they kept moving back and forth between all these places, especially from Eurasia to Africa. (This is all on shaky evidence.) Cleopatra lived closer in time to us than to the building of the Egyptian pyramids. And the pyramids were built when there were still wooly mammoths walking the earth. Sedentarity of cultures != agriculture (!= pottery?). Cultures living in one place came first. Then agriculture developed, with pottery coming and certain
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