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The term "prehistoric" literally means "before history." History is the time since people began to write things down, which was approximately 5,000 years ago in the Middle East. In other areas history began later. For example, in most of the Americas and Australia, history didn't begin until Europeans arrived in 1492 and the late 1700's respectively, because the locals didn't write yet.

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