Many historians and climate scientists believe strongly that among the factors that influenced the movement to Mesopotamia of the first humans that left Africa, this was because of the first heatwave that the end of the Ice Age was bringing, for geoscientist and historians this heatwave found in studies done on the Antartica and Greenland shows that the massive migration from Africa, through Mesopotamia and into Asia was mostly related to the end of the Ice Age.
The first gold rush in Australia began in May 1851 after prospector Edward Hargraves claims to have discovered payable gold near Orange, at a site he called Ophir.
