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Originally Posted by Byrd
3,500 years ago (that's 1500 BC) there were many literate civilizations from the Indians to the Egyptians to the Chinese (to name the 3 biggies) plus the Sumerians.
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Er, no. We do not have historical records from
ca 1500 BC India or China, and the Sumerians were long gone as an ethnic group by then.
The civilizations we've got historical records of from this period are all in and around the Middle East, such as Egypt, Babylonia, and the Hettites.