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We do not know when man first appeared upon the Earth.  We only know that in ages 
long past, in some favored regions, as in the valleys of the Nile and the Euphrates,
there were nations and civilizations already venerable with age, and possessing 
arts, governments, and institutions that bear evidence of slow growth through very 
long periods of time.  The Hittites, the Assyrians, the Hebrews, the Medians, the 
Babylonians, the Persians, and the Egyptians were among the first to attempt to 
build man's first great civilization.  By the Hebrew way of reckoning, the world was  
created 3,761 years before the birth of Christ.  They also held that God destroyed 
almost all the world by means of a great flood in the 1,656th year after creation. 
Beginning 21 years after the Biblical Flood, you have until 334 B.C. to create the 
most advanced civilization possible before the game ends due to the arrival of 
Alexander the Great's massive army in Asia Minor.  

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