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Peoples

Culture Region Circa
the Upper Paleolithic Revolution and Sapient Paradox aren't real Europe 45000 BCE
Upper and Lower Fertile Crescents Middle East 10000 to 7000 BCE
Uruk Middle East 3500 BCE
Cucuteni-Tripolye Eastern Europe 4100 to 3300 BCE
Indus Valley Civilization South Asia 2600 to 1900 BCE
Pharaonic Egypt North Africa 3000 to 30 BCE
Olmec Central America 1500 to 400 BCE
Chavín de Huántar South America 1200 to 400 BCE
Hopewell Interaction Sphere North America 1000 BCE to 800 CE
Teotihuacan Central America 100 to 600 BCE
Classical Maya Central America 250 to 800 CE
Théoloël North America 800 to 1731 CE
Cahokia North America 1050 to 1350 CE
Bali East Asia 1000 CE
Aztec Central America 1150 CE to Cortés
Inca South America 1200 CE to Pizzaro
Americans of the Pacific Coast North America 1900

Note: Many of these are living cultures. The times given here are the periods that Graeber and Wengrow discuss.