This group gathers events that began between before 3000 BCE, placed among the events of Prehistory and the Ancient World. Before 3000 BCE the first farming villages grew into the earliest cities, and great language families and seafaring peoples began their long migrations. An event belongs here when its cited article gives a start date inside this span. It excludes events that began earlier or later, which sit in the neighboring groups of the same period, and it does not turn on how large or famous an event was.
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Events of the Earliest Cities and Migrations, before 3000 BCE
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Bantu expansion, Wikipedia
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(approximately 4,000 BC to 500 AD)
Indo-European migrations - Wikipedia
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The Indo-European migrations are hypothesized migrations of peoples who spoke Proto-Indo-European (PIE) and the derived Indo-European languages, which took place from around 4000 to 1000 BCE, explaining how these related languages came to be spoken across a large area of Eurasia, spanning from the Indian subcontinent and Iranian plateau to Atlantic Europe.
Austronesian peoples - Wikipedia
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The group originated from a prehistoric seaborne migration, known as the Austronesian expansion, from Taiwan, circa 3000 to 1500 BCE.
Wikipedia: Indus Valley Civilisation
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The Indus Valley Civilisation (IVC), also known as the Indus Civilisation, was a Bronze Age civilisation in the northwestern regions of South Asia, lasting from 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE, and in its mature form from 2600 BCE to 1900 BCE.
Uruk period, Wikipedia
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The Uruk period (c. 4000/3900 to 3300/3100 BC; also known as Protoliterate period) is a period of the protohistoric Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age in Mesopotamia and the ancient Near East.
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