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Period: 5000 BCE to 3500 BCE
Mesopotamia
Located in Iraq in the East Mediterranean
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Period: 3300 BCE to 1617 BCE
Mesoamerican Civilization
Located in Central/ South America
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoamerica -
Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE
Egyptian Civilization
Located in North East Africa next to the Nile river
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt -
Period: 2800 BCE to 327 BCE
Indian Civilization
Located in the Indus Valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India -
2589 BCE
Pyramid of Cheops
This Egyptian pyramid took 30 years and 100,000 slaves to build.
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Period: 1979 BCE to 610 BCE
Islamic Civilization
Located on the Arabian Peninsula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam -
1754 BCE
Hammurabi's code
This is the oldest deciphered writing known from the Babylon Civilization.
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Period: 1550 BCE to 539 BCE
Phoenecian Civilization
Located below Asia Minor
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Period: 1453 BCE to 330 BCE
Byzantine Empire
Also known as the Eastern Roman Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire -
Period: 1300 BCE to 476 BCE
Middle Age Europe
Located in Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages -
Period: 1300 BCE to 135 BCE
Hebrew Civilization
Located in between Egypt and Arabia, under Syria.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_language -
Period: 1237 BCE to
Russian Civilization
Located above China and below the Arctic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia -
Period: 1046 BCE to 256 BCE
Chinese Civilization
Located in modern day China, Near the Yellow River Valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China -
Period: 1000 BCE to 627 BCE
Persian Civilization
Located in Persia, from Egypt to China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran -
Period: 753 BCE to 146 BCE
Roman Empire
Located in Europe, controlled most of the Mediterranean sea.
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Period: 532 BCE to 537 BCE
Hagia Sophia is built
Known as "The Church of Holy Wisdom," it was built under the rule of Justinian for the Byzantine Empire.
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483 BCE
Siddartha/ Buddha dies
Founder of Buddhism, created the thought of nirvana and enlightenment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gautama_Buddha -
480 BCE
Battle of Thermopylae
Fought between Persia and Sparta.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Thermopylae -
476 BCE
Fall of Rome
The Western Roman Empire failed to enforce the rules and the Empire was divided.
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Period: 334 BCE to 31 BCE
Hellenistic Civilization
Located in Egypt to Asia Minor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellenistic_period -
331 BCE
Alex the Great defeats Darius
This happens at the Battle of Guagamela.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_the_Great -
Period: 300 BCE to
Japanese Civilization
Located in Japan, an island off the coast of Eastern Asia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan -
221 BCE
Qin Rule Begins
The beginning of his dynasty was marked when he unified China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qin_dynasty -
Period: 146 BCE to 8 BCE
Hellenic Civilization
Located on the Balkan Peninsula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Greece -
330
Constantinople is made capital
Constantine named it as the start of "New Rome."
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Period: 400 to 500
Democracy begins in Athens
This is the first known democracy in the world and it started in Greece.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens -
622
Hegira Begins
Muhammad's migration from Mecca to Yathrib.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegira -
632
Schism of Sunni and Shia
This Islamic dispute was over the succession to Muhammad.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_schools_and_branches -
732
Battle of Tours
Fought between the Frankish and the Burgundian forces.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Tours -
Period: 800 to 1066
Viking Civilizations
Located in Norway, Sweden, and Denmark
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_Age -
Period: 830 to
African Kingdoms
Located in Africa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarchies_in_Africa -
1054
Great Schism
The split in Christianity which created the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Churches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Schism -
Period: 1206 to 1368
Mongol Empire
Located in between the Pacific and Indian Ocean
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongol_Empire -
1215
Magna Carta
Charter for liberties signed by the King of England
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta -
Period: 1280 to 1337
Mansa Musa Hajj
Under his rule in Western Africa there were decades or peace and prosperity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansa_(title) -
1325
Tenochtitlan is Founded
Capital of the Aztec civilization, this city was built floating on a lake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenochtitlan -
1337
Hundred Years War Begins
Fought between England and France over the French Throne.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War -
1453
The Fall of Constantinople
Ottoman Empire took over the Byzantine Empire.
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Decree of Milan
The French King made this decree to initiate the continental system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan_Decree -
Period: to 1600 BCE
Indus Civilization
Located in the Indus River valley and the Fertile Crescent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_Valley_Civilisation
