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China is located in Southeast Asia.
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Mesoamerica was a region in the Americas, extending up there approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica.
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Mesopotamia was situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in modern days roughly corresponding to most of Iraq plus Kuwait, the eastern parts of Syria, Southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Turkish-Syrian and Iran–Iraq borders.
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The Indus Valley Civilization was a civilization mainly in the northwestern regions of South Asia, extending from what today is northeast Afghanistan to Pakistan and northwest India.
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Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in the place which is now the country Egypt.
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The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Khufu or the Pyramid of Cheops) is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza pyramid complex bordering what is now El Giza, Egypt. It is the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the only one to remain largely intact.
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The Hebrews lived in the ancient Middle East. Around 1400 BC they settled in Canaan, the country on the eastern coast of Mediterranean sea, the territory of modern Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.
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The Code of Hammurabi is a well-preserved Babylonian law code of ancient Mesopotamia, dating back to about 1754 BC. It is one of the oldest deciphered writings of significant length in the world.
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Phoenicia originated in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the west of the Fertile Crescent. It included the coastline of what is now Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Syria, and south-west Turkey, though some of its colonies later reached the Western Mediterranean and even the Atlantic Ocean.
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India is a vast South Asian country with diverse terrain – from Himalayan peaks to Indian Ocean coastline.
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Persian Empire is any of a series of imperial dynasties centered in Persia (modern–day Iran)
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Rome was originally an Italic settlement that grew into the city of Rome and which subsequently gave its name to the empire. The Roman Empire expanded to become one of the largest empires in the ancient world, though still ruled from the city, it covered 5.0 million square kilometers at its height.
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Athenian democracy developed around the fifth century BC in the Greek city-state/polis of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica, and is the first known democracy in the world.
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Gautama Buddha died in 483 BC aged 80 years in the city of Kusinara
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The Battle of Thermopylae was fought between an alliance of Greek city-states, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of Greece.
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Alexander the Great began his invasion of the Persian Empire and subsequently defeated the Persians in a number of battles before looting and destroying the capital Persepolis by fire. With the Persian Empire now effectively under Alexander's control, Alexander then decided to pursue Darius. Before Alexander reached him, however, Darius was killed by the satrap Bessus, who was also his cousin.
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After a period of confusion following Alexander's death, the Antigonid dynasty, descended from one of Alexander's generals, established its control over Macedon and most of the Greek city-states.
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Japan is an island located on the eastern edge of Asia
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Qin Shi Huang was the first Chinese sovereign to proclaim himself Emperor, after unifying China. That year is therefore generally taken by Western historians to be the start of the "Qin dynasty"
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The African Kingdoms were spread out across Africa
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Constantine founds the new capital of the Roman Empire on the existing site of the ancient Greek city Byzantium: Byzantium was renamed Constantinople and it would become the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
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Constantine moved the seat of the Empire to Constantinople, which he founded as a second Rome on the site of Byzantium, a city strategically located on the trade routes between Europe and Asia and between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea.
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The Fall of the Western Roman Empire was the process of decline in the Western Roman Empire in which it failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities.
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Middle Age Europe consisted of England, France, Spain, Germany/Holy Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire
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The Hagia Sophia was built between 532 and 537 on the orders of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I
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The Islamic civilization is centered in the Middle East.
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After being warned of a plot to assassinate him, Muhammad secretly left his home in Mecca to emigrate to Yathrib
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Following the death of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. A dispute over succession to Muhammad as a caliph of the Islamic community spread across various parts of the world, which led to the Battle of Jamal and Battle of Siffin.
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The Battle of Tours was fought between Frankish and Burgundian forces under Charles Martel against an army of the Umayyad Caliphate led by 'Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi, Governor-General of al-Andalus.
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The Vikings lived in Scandinavia (Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark)
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Russia is a country in Eurasia
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The Great Schism was the break of communion between what are now the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches
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The Mongol Empire existed during the 13th and 14th centuries and was the largest contiguous land empire in history, conquering most of Europe & Asia.
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The Magna Carta is a charter agreed to by King John of England at Runnymede, near Windsor, on 15 June 1215.[b] First drafted by the Archbishop of Canterbury to make peace between the unpopular King and a group of rebel barons, it promised the protection of church rights, protection for the barons from illegal imprisonment, access to swift justice, and limitations on feudal payments to the Crown, to be implemented through a council of 25 barons.
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Mansa Musa, fourteenth century emperor of the Mali Empire, is the medieval African ruler most known to the world outside Africa. His elaborate pilgrimage to the Muslim holy city of Mecca in 1324 introduced him to rulers in the Middle East and in Europe.
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Tenochtitlan was a Mexica (city-state) located on an island in Lake Texcoco, in the Valley of Mexico. Founded on June 20, 1325, it became the capital of the expanding Aztec Empire in the 15th century
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The Hundred Years' War was a series of conflicts waged from 1337 to 1453 by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the House of Valois, rulers of the Kingdom of France, over the succession of the French throne. Each side drew many allies into the war
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The Fall of Constantinople was the capture of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by an invading army of the Ottoman Empire
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The Milan Decree was issued on December 17, 1807 by Napoleon I of France to enforce the Berlin Decree of 1806 which had initiated the Continental System. This system was the basis for his plan to defeat the British by waging economic warfare.
