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Period: 8000 BCE to
China
China is located in Southeast Asia.
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Period: 7000 BCE to Aug 13, 1521
Mesoamerica
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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Period: 5000 BCE to 3500 BCE
Mesopotamia
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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Period: 3300 BCE to 1300 BCE
Indus River Valley
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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Period: 3000 BCE to 1000 BCE
Egypt
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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2560 BCE
Pyramid of Cheops
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. -
Period: 2500 BCE to 6
Hebrew
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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1754 BCE
Hammurabi's Code
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Period: 1550 BCE to 300 BCE
Phoenicia
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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Period: 1500 BCE to 1044
India
India is a vast South Asian country with diverse terrain – from Himalayan peaks to Indian Ocean coastline.
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Period: 1000 BCE to 627
Persian Empire
Persian Empire is any of a series of imperial dynasties centered in Persia (modern–day Iran)
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Period: 673 BCE to 476
Rome
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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500 BCE
Democracy Begins in Athens
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Period: 490 BCE to 323 BCE
Hellenic Greece
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483 BCE
Siddhartha Gautama/Buddha dies
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480 BCE
Battle of Thermopylae
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331 BCE
Alexander the Great defeats Darius
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. -
Period: 323 BCE to 31 BCE
Hellenistic Greece
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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Period: 300 BCE to
Japan
Japan is an island located on the eastern edge of Asia
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221 BCE
Qin rule begins
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Period: 200 BCE to
African Kingdoms
The African Kingdoms were spread out across Africa
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Period: 330 to May 29, 1453
Byzantine
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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476
Fall of Rome
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Period: 500 to 1500
Middle Age Europe
Middle Age Europe consisted of England, France, Spain, Germany/Holy Roman Empire, and the Byzantine Empire
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537
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Period: 570 to
Islamic Civilization
The Islamic civilization is centered in the Middle East.
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622
Hegira Begin
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632
Schism of Sunni of Shia
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. -
Oct 10, 732
Battle of Tours
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Period: 789 to 1066
Viking
The Vikings lived in Scandinavia (Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark)
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Period: 860 to
Russia
Russia is a country in Eurasia
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1054
Great Schism
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Period: 1162 to 1368
Mongolian Empire
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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Jun 15, 1215
Magna Carta
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. -
1280
Mansa Musa Hajj
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Jun 20, 1325
Tenochtitlan founded
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1337
Hundred Years War begins
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May 29, 1453
Fall of Constantinople
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Decree of Milan
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.
