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700 BC - 500 AD. Ancient Greece - Origin of Democracy and Olympic Games
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Ancient Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus in 753 BC. Ancient Rome lasted through the Kingdom, the Republic and the Empire.
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Black Death or Plague kills up to sixty percent of European Population
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Columbus reaches the New World which is the beginning of the Iberian colonization of the Americas
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A period of huge change in agriculture, manufacturing, mining, transportation and technolgoy which started in Great Britain and spread to the rest of the world
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French people rose up against the absolute monarchy and installed a republic standing for liberty, citizenship and rights
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Three Balkan Wars fought along ethnic lines by people of Bosnia, Slovenia, Montenegro, Croatia
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Overthrow of Czar in Russia, civil war and creation of USSR in 1922 by Lenin and the Communist Party
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World War II started in September 1939 when German invaded Poland and ended with Allied Victory in September 1945
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After WWII Scandinavian Welfare State established where the government aims to protect health and welfare of all citizens
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Society based around the ownership of land
