Timeline of Ancient European History: 3500 BC - AD 500
  • Europe 3500 BC

Farming in Europe has been spreading for the past two thousand years or so, and now covers most of the European continent. People live in small village communities, mostly practicing a mixed economy of agriculture, hunting and gathering. In northern Europe the hunter gatherer elements predominate.

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Related Articles:
The World of the Hunter-Gathers
The Coming of Farming

Related Timelines:
Timeline of World History



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