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The construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza/Cheops completed in 2540 BC. and was built for the ruler Khufu. It is the oldest and largest of the three pyramids of Giza.
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Hammurabi's code is a law code written in Ancient Mesopotamia by the Babylonian King Hammurabi. It is one of the oldest written law codes.
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Athenian Democracy was established in in 507 BC. by Solon, a lawmaker of Athens. This form of government gave power to the people.
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The Battle of Thermopylae occurred in 480 BC. in Greece during the second Persian invasion of Greece. King Xerxes I of Persia set out to conquer all of Greece but was unsuccessful.
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The Battle of Gaugamela occurred in 331 BC. between Alexander the Great of Macedonia and Darius III of Persia. Alexander the Great's army was about 35,000 and Darius greatly outnumbered him with 200,000 soldiers. The battle ended with Darius fleeing due to Alexander's tactics.
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The Qin Dynasty was created when Qin Shi Huang proclaimed himself emperor after he unified China in 221 BC. It lasted 15 years.
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In 330, Constantine I, the Roman emperor, moves the capital from Rome to Byzantium, later named Constantinople.
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The Fall of Rome occurred in 476 due to several reasons. One speculation is that Western Rome focused too much on military, and not enough to the civilians.
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Siddhartha Gautama the founder of Buddhism, dies on 483.
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The Hagia Sophia was built under the rule of Justinian I in Constantinople in 532. It took just under 6 years to complete.
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Hegira is Prophet Muhammad's journey from Mecca to Medina began on 622 with his followers. He moved cities because he heard of an assassination plot on him. This later became a practice called Hajj that many Muslims did.
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The Schism of Sunni and Shia occurred after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632. It split over the disagreements of who would become the Muslim Empire's Caliph. The Sunnis favorited a legitimate Caliph who were related to the Prophet. The Shiites didn't favorite the legitimate Caliph because they came after Muhammad's successor.
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The Battle of Tours occurred in France 732 CE between the Franks, lead by Frankish leader Charles Mantel, and the Islamic army, led by Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi. The Franks won, stopping the Islamic conquests into Christian land.
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The Great Schism was the splitting of the Christian Church in 1054 into two parts, East (Eastern Orthodox) and West (Roman Catholic).
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The purpose of the Magna Carta was to limit the power of the King Of England, and increase the power of the people. King John of England signed it in 1215.
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Mansa Musa of Mali went on his Hajj in 1324, going from Mecca to Medina like the Prophet Muhammad.
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The Mesoamerican civilizations were located in South America. https://classzone.com/net_explorations/U4/U4_article1.cfm Tenochtitlan was founded by the Aztecs in 1325 at what is now Mexico City.
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The Hundred Years War was a war between England and France in 1337, ending in 1453. It was caused over rights to lands, and a dispute in the French throne.
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The Fall of Constantinople occurred after the Ottoman Turks invaded Constantinople after many years of the city failing. The Byzantines had limited troops for defending the city, and failed.
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The Decree of Milan stopped British trading ports, weakening the British intensely. This policy was created by Napoleon in 1807 as a part of the Continental System.
