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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Jericho, often quoted as the first town, grows into a settlement covering ten acres | |
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| c. 8000 BC |
| | | Sun-dried bricks are used in the construction of buildings in Jericho | |
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| c. 6500 BC |
| | | The neolithic town of Catal Huyuk has rectangular rooms with windows, a design with lasting appeal | |
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| c. 6500 BC |
| | | The neolithic town of Khirokitia in Cyprus has a paved public street with lanes leading off to courtyards of round tent-like houses | |
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| c. 4000 BC |
| | | A passage grave with a superb corbelled dome is constructed on the Île Longue off the southern coast of Brittany | |
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| c. 3000 BC |
| | | Complex societies, with sophisticated temple architecture, develop at sites such as Aspero and Caral in the Norte Chico region of Peru | |
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| c. 2620 BC |
| | | Imhotep creates the first pyramid - the 'step pyramid' at Saqqara - as a tomb for the pharaoh Djoser | |
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| c. 2580 BC |
| | | Egypt enters the period known as the Old Kingdom, its first era of monumental architecture | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | The first and largest of the three great pyramids at Giza is built for the pharaoh Khufu, later known to the Greeks as Cheops | |
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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | A small neolithic community builds a village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, of stone houses with built-in stone furniture | |
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