Snap Ice Age

The Ice Age of twenty eight thousand years ago began to thaw fourteen thousand years ago. In ten thousand BCE, another bitter ice age called the Snap Ice Age quickly followed it. This forced more waves of Caucasian Homo Sapien (Sapien) migration into Mesopotamia, Bactria and up the Danube River into Europe. 

Following the Snap Ice Age a warm interglacial period was quickly reestablished that favored agriculture. About five thousand five hundred BCE, an urban type Samara civilization arose at Eridu in Sumer and in the Nile and Indus Valleys. First dynasty Egyptian society emerged in about 3400BCE. 

The warm interglacial period that followed the Snap Ice Age also drew Semitic speaking peoples from the Ethiopian Highlands back to the Near East and Asia Minor. These were now nomadic sheep and goat herders and their routes to Canaan passed through Egypt, South Arabia and Sumer. 

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