Historical events by how long ago they happened (approximate)
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About this puzzle
Deep time compresses badly in memory: anything older than a few centuries tends to collapse into a single vague category labelled ancient. This puzzle spreads five moments across roughly 4,500 years and asks for them by how long ago they happened, most recent first. Figures are rounded to the nearest few years, because several of these dates are themselves estimates.
Ranked most recent to oldest · years ago it happened
What's in this puzzle
Listed alphabetically, without their values - the answer order stays hidden until you play.
- Cleopatra is born
- Oxford University begins teaching
- The Aztecs found their capital, Tenochtitlan
- The Great Pyramid of Giza is completed
- The last woolly mammoths die out
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