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We lived on earth over a thousand years ago.

一千多年前，我们生活在地球上。

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The earliest process of making paper was done almost five thousand years ago in Egypt and the Nile Valley.

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People moved into the American Southwest more than ten thousand years ago as the last ice age was ending.

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The Roman historian Pliny said that Phoenician sailors accidentally discovered how to make glass over three thousand years ago.

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Fifty thousand years ago, a meteor carrying trace amounts of silicone carbide crashed into present-day Arizona.

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Twenty thousand years ago the spot where I live was under a mile of ice.

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This is based on a true story that happened almost a thousand years ago.

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