The History of the World Podcast, written and presented by Chris Hasler.

You're listening to volume one, The Pre-historic World.

This is episode 11, settling the world, part two. World Part 2. Oh, So far we have explored the migration of Homo sapiens from their heartland in Africa out into the Levant across Sinai and then eastwards parallel

to the Himalayan mountain range across the Indian subcontinent and then down into Southeast Asia, crossing the East Indies and onto Australia.

It was such a crazy journey that it pretty much took up an entire podcast and then some.

Now we have to look at the rest of Eurasia and the Americas, so this week is going to be no different

packed full of information and stories and fascinating to boot.

Going back to Eurasia we know that by 80,000 years ago, Homo sapiens were present in both

the Levant and China, so we can assume that there was a good migration of peoples before that time.

Populations would have headed south after encounters with the Denisovans and populated Australia and Melanesia, which is New Guinea and the islands directly to its east.

They could have encountered Homo Floreorescenceis on this migration.

What we do know is that there is not much evidence of Homo fluorescence

after 50,000 years ago and not much evidence of Denisovans after 40,000 years ago, but

whether Homo sapiens was directly responsible for their disappearance is debatable.

Pinpointing the disappearance of Homo erectus is also a tricky affair.

The highly respected Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History website suggests

that it existed up until 143,000 years ago.

So by this time, Homo Erectus had disappeared too. This left just Homo sapiens and

Neanderthals as the only two known hominin animals left on planet Earth after around

40,000 years ago.

Obsidian.

Let me jump out of this story briefly and fast forward to the days of the Roman Empire

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