Caption

The spread of civilization (3500 to 1500 BCE)

Summary

The map shows the locations of the following groups:

• Carpathian and Balkan Bronze Age groups
• Shang Chinese bronze working
• Bell-Beaker groups
• Tumulus cultures
• Steppe cultures
• Steppe nomads
• Desert nomads
• Irrigated agriculture (Mesopotamia, Nile, Indus Valley, Yellow River)

The following trade routes are also indicated:

• Bell-Beaker exchange routes, c. 2800-1800 BCE
• amber routes after c. 1800 BCE
• trade routes between urban areas

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Copyright © Times Books 2007
Reproduced from The Times Complete History of the World by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.

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Source

The Times Complete History of the World (2007), p. 54-5.