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[Anonjohn20]

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[Shiriru_B]

Absolutely winning. 10/10

.... I wish I could go back in time and do it again.

 

[ElijahRyne]

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[Anonjohn20]

.... I wish I could go back in time and do it again.

When making lasagna, the trick is to make so much that you have leftovers and can eat a cheesy meal the next day too.

 

[Tempokai]

I'm winning currently by eating noodles like a champ

 

[Shiriru_B]

When making lasagna, the trick is to make so much that you have leftovers and can eat a cheesy meal the next day too.

..... My family ate most of it 〒▽〒.

 

[ElijahRyne]

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[Anonjohn20]

..... My family ate most of it 〒▽〒.

My answer remains the same, make more next time.

 

[Tempokai]

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[ElijahRyne]

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[Tempokai]

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Below is a quick-survey of the best-documented large-scale societies that flourished before their own people (or anyone else) left decipherable writing. Their scale, monumentality and social complexity let archaeologists speak of them as “civilisations,” even though they sit inside what we still call prehistory.

Region & name	Core dates (approx.)	How “big” & why it counts	Hall-mark achievements
Upper Mesopotamia – Göbekli Tepe nexus	9 600 – 8 200 BCE	Megalithic sanctuaries built by organised hunter–gatherers; 5–10 m-high T-pillars up to 20 tonnes each	The earliest known monumental architecture and symbolic stone carving anywhere on earth UNESCO World Heritage Centre
Central Anatolia – Çatalhöyük	7 100 – 5 700 BCE	Proto-city mound covering ≈ 13 ha; peak pop. commonly estimated 5 000 – 10 000 inhabitants living in agglutinated mud-brick houses	Dense urban layout, wall-paintings, household shrines, early agriculture and obsidian craft networks Wikipedia
Lower Yangtze, China – Liangzhu civilisation	3 300 – 2 300 BCE	Walled capital c. 290 ha within a managed landscape of dams and canals—the earliest large hydraulic system yet found	Palatial platform, state-level jade ritual industry, engineered flood-control works Wikipedia
Middle–Lower Yellow River – Longshan culture	3 000 – 1 900 BCE	Hundreds of fortified towns with rammed-earth walls; regional centres up to 300 ha	Egg-shell black pottery, stratified cemeteries, wide exchange sphere that seeds later Chinese states Wikipedia
Indus Basin – Early (Pre-Harappan) phase	3 300 – 2 600 BCE	Fortified towns such as Rehman Dheri, Kot Diji, Kalibangan; grids, citadels and craft quarters long before the Mature Harappan script	Standardised weights, long-distance lapis and marine trade, canal irrigation; script is present but still undeciphered, so the period remains effectively “prehistoric” Wikipedia
North-central coastal Peru – Caral–Supe (Norte Chico)	3 500 – 1 800 BCE	About 30 major centres in four river valleys; pyramidal platforms up to 160 × 150 m	Pre-ceramic cotton economy, sunken circular plazas, early quipu-like fiber artefacts; oldest cities in the Americas Wikipedia
Northern Japan – Middle Jōmon megasites	5 000 – 3 000 BCE (core florescence)	Large pit-house villages (e.g., Sannai Maruyama c. 40 ha) run by sedentary forager–fishers	Elaborate lacquered pottery, ancestor mounds, stone circles, long-distance jade trade—all without farming or writing jomon-japan.jp

Why these societies qualify as “big” in prehistory​

• Population & urban scale – Most covered tens to hundreds of hectares and supported thousands to (in Norte Chico’s combined valleys) perhaps tens of thousands of people.
• Monumental labour projects – Pyramids, megalithic rings, hydraulic dams, or massive town walls reveal sustained, centralised coordination.
• Regional influence – Each acted as a core for peripheral settlements and long-distance exchange networks.
• No readable texts – Their organisation, beliefs and politics must be reconstructed archaeologically, keeping them inside the historian’s “prehistoric” bracket.

A note on the label​

“Prehistoric” simply means “before we can read their own words.”
Some of these cultures (Early Harappan, Longshan, maybe Caral’s quipu precursors) did use symbols, but none that modern scholars can yet translate. Until decipherment (or fresh textual finds) closes that gap, these remarkably sophisticated societies remain the giants of the world’s unwritten past.

 

[ElijahRyne]

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[Anonjohn20]

researching about how do we know that we know

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[Anonjohn20]

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