Jordan Goodman, in his book Tobacco in History, theorizes that tobacco was first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Americas, around the regions that have become known as Mexico and Brazil.
Humans in South American begin smoking tobacco for ceremonial and medicinal purposes Read more
About 1000 B.C.E., speakers of Uralic language arrived in the north and assimilated with the indigenous population, becoming the Sami people.
The Sami People emerge in modern-day Norway Read more
The Bantu expansion is a major series of migrations of the original proto-Bantu language speaking group, who spread from an original nucleus around West Africa-Central Africa across much of sub-Saharan Africa.
The Bantu expansion spreads across sub-Saharan Africa Read more
Pre-Columbian Venezuela had an estimated population of one million. The Timoto-Cuica culture was the most complex society in Pre-Columbian Venezuela; with pre-planned permanent villages, surrounded by irrigated, terraced fields and with tanks for water storage.
Timoto-Cuica culture thrives in modern-day Venezuela Read more
Vanga was an ancient kingdom and geopolitical division on the Ganges delta in the Indian subcontinent. It was located in southern Bengal, with the core region including present-day southern West Bengal (India) and southwestern Bangladesh.
The Vanga Kingdom comes to power in modern-day India and Bangladesh Read more
The bronze inscriptions are one of the earliest scripts in the Chinese family of scripts.
Chinese bronze inscriptions come into use in modern-day China Read more
The Zhou dynasty lasted longer than any other dynasty in Chinese history. The military control of China by the royal house lasted initially from 1046 until 771 B.C.E.
The Zhou Dynasty rises to power in China Read more
