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Imhotep was an architect who built Egypt's first step pyramid. He is also considered the first physician to use plants for medicine. It is said Imhotep created or improved the papyrus scroll. -
Sargon of Akkad was the first emperor. -
Pyramids are built in Egypt
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The Indus Valley civilization flourishes.
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Civilization develops at Caral in South America in Peru between the Pacific Ocean and some mountains.
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Stonehenge was erected around this time. -
Egyptians import cedar from Lebanon. -
God calls Abram to move to Canaan. -
Amorites conquer Babylon. -
Hammurabi Is king of the Babylonian Empire from about 1790 to 1750 BC. -
The Hittite people started building an empire. -
Labarnas II establishes his capital at Hattusha and becomes known as Hattusilis I and reigned over the Hittite Empire until about 1620 BC. -
Shang civilization develops in China. -
Hittites raid Babylon. -
God leads the Israelites out of Egypt. -
Minoan civilization declines on Crete. -
Nefertiti was a queen of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. -
God gives Israel judges.
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He ruled for the second-longest amount of time in Egypt. Nine pharaohs used his name after him. He was married to Nefertari.
"Ramesses II, also known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the New Kingdom, itself the most powerful period of Ancient Egypt."" -
Battle between Egyptians and Hittites. They "agreed to a peace treaty in 1258 BC." -
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Fire destroyed the city of Mycenae. -
Nebuchadnezzar I reigned in Babylon. -
Saul becomes king of Israel. -
The Phoenicians develop the first alphabet-based writing. -
Greeks built a shrine in a wooded valley to worship Zeus. It was in Olympia. -
Solomon starts building the temple in
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Israel is divided into Judah and Israel. -
Traditional date for the founding of Carthage. -
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Greeks made their own alphabet. -
The first Olympic games are held. -
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Assyrians defeat the northern kingdom of Israel. -
2 Kings 18-19. -
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Josiah restores the temple and recommits to the Law. -
According to tradition, this is when Aesop was born as a slave. -
Josiah dies after injuries from fighting Pharaoh Neco. -
Babylonians win the Battle of Carchemish. -
Reign of King Nebuchadnezzar II
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Thales predicted planetary movement. -
Babylonians capture Jerusalem. -
Jewish captives are taken to Babylon. -
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Anaximenes of Miletus believed everything was made of a single substance: air. -
Persians conquer Babylon. -
Cyrus II conquers the Babylonian Empire. -
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Anaximander suggested all life began in the sea. -
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The Greeks won. -
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He believed in absolute truth. -
Leucippus said all matter was made of atoms. -
Democritus thought everything looked solid but it was like sand. -
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He adopts a policy of nonviolence. -
Archimedes used math for science. -
He began the Great Wall of China and created the terra cotta army.
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Antiochus Epiphanes desecrates the Temple's altar by forcing the priest to sacrifice a pig. -
Jews restore worship of God in the temple. -
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Ptolemy studied the sky and thought planets orbited Earth. -
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Craftsmen in Syria create blown glass vessels and export them widely. -
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They put his embalmed body into armor and used his body to scare off a Morse chieftan. -
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Robert Grosseteste was known as the father of the scientific method. -
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Roger Bacon used experiments to prove superstitions wrong. -
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Thomas Bradwardine proved most of Aristotle's ideas about motion wrong. -
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7 voyages from 1405 to 1433 -
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Nicolas of Cusa believed Earth spun on its axis. -
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He discovers the eastern path to the Indies from Portugal -
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Nicolaus Copernicus believed planets orbit the sun. -
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The earth revolves around the sun. The sun stays still. -
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Andreas Vesalius wrote an accurate book on the human body. -
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Landed at Newfoundland -
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Johannes Kepler described planetary orbits. -
Galileo Galilei improved the telescope. -
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He is known as the founder of modern chemistry, and he experimented with gases. -
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He built the first high-powered single lens microscope. He opened up the world of tiny bacteria. -
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He made 3 laws of motion. He studied science to learn about God. -
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John Aubrey explores Stonehenge. -
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Blaise Pascal demonstrated atmospheric pressure. -
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He believed Earth was organized. He wrote a book that classified animals. -
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He was a chemist and made the law of mass conservation. -
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He did experiments with gases, and he is known as the father of modern atomic theory. -
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He did experiments on electricity. He argued for Christianity.
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He proposed the theory of evolution and improved the study of living things. -
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America's national anthem. -
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He discovered energy can only change forms, not be destroyed. He made the First Law of Thermodynamics. -
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He said life could only come from other living things. He invented pasteurization. -
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John James Audubon published "Birds of America." -
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James Clerk Maxwell was a Scottish mathematician.
He is considered the father of modern physics. He found electromagnetism. -
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He discovered that washing hands would help keep people from dying. -
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He found quanta. -
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He used quanta to explain the photoelectric effect. -
He made a picture of an atom. -
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Archaeologist discovered a stone stele (or column) inscribed with laws Hammurabi developed. The Code of Hammurabi. -
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"By 1918, when Germany finally surrendered after four years of constant war, the defeat shocked the nation." (The Faithful Spy p.15) -
"In 1919, Germany was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, accepting total responsibility for the Great War!" (Faithful Spy, p.15) -
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"In October of 1929, the world was devastated by the collapse of the global financial markets, which marked the beginning of the Great Depression." (Faithful Spy, p.25)
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Dadaab Refugee Complex: The first camp was established in 1991, when refugees fleeing the civil war in Somalia started to cross the border into Kenya. A second large influx occurred in 2011, when some 130,000 refugees arrived, fleeing drought and famine in southern Somalia. Link text -
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