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Farmers establish early settlements along the Indus and the Gangus rivers
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The first cities settled in Mesopotamia were created around the Fertile Crescent in what is now Saudi Arabia.
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Kannapen civilization thrives within walls and advanced sewer systems.
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Netjerikhet's step pyramid was built in Egypt and marked the stage of the Age Of Pyramids.
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In the year 2125 B.C. Egypt falls into a civil war.
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Mentuhotep reunited the country after a hundred year civil war.
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By 2200 Minoan civilization had created a palace society. There were no defensive walls and there were small villages on the countryside.
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Akkadian becomes the main spoken and written language of Mesopotamia.
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Leader of Babylon, ruler Hammarabi imposed an 'eye for an eye' based law system over the worlds first Metropolis.
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Leaders of foreign origin known as Hykos, establish rule over Egypt.
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The oldest writing in China is dated to this time.
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Archaeological evidence has hinted to the fall of Troy being caused by the Mycenaean warlike culture.
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In 1200 B.C. Assyrians start to conquer much of Mesopotamia.
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The wars in ancient Greece left its people hungry and poor for the next 200 years. This is officially known as the Greek dark ages.
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Over the next 300 years Assyrian kings sent armies to spread there territory.
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The Hindu culture in India invent the zero
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Iron is produced in China leading to advances in military strength.
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Rome is founded under the rule of a man named Romulus.
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Siddhartha reaches enlightenment and establishes the Buddhism religion.
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The last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus is defeated by the German Goth Odoacer. This is the start of the Dark Ages in Europe.
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The start of the warring states period starts and ends in 221 B.C.E.
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This was the first time in 800 years that the city of Rome has fallen to an enemy. It was a huge uproar.
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In 395 AD, Rome split into two empires - the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire. Each side had a ruler in charge of it. The Roman Empire was split by Theodosius.
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Alexander the Great defeats the Persians at Issus and is given Egypt by the Persian Satrap where he builds a capital at Alexandria and creates the great library.
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A golden age of peace and prosperity advances arts and sciences in India.
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Some time around 220 B.C.E Construction of The Great Wall started, and was finished in 206 B.C.E.
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The Han dynasty begins in 206 B.C.E.
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The infamous roman emperor Nero set fire to most of Rome and blamed it on the Christians.
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Cleopatra VII was the last queen of an independent Egypt.
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The Germanic tribes from the north come down and pillage some of Greece's most well known cities
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Pope Urban II orders the first crusade. Muslims are defeated and Jerusalem is retaken.
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Rebels oppose King John of England. But they have no ruler to take his place. Instead they have him sign a document, the Magna Carta, stating that there is no divine right of kings.
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Orhan captured the Anatolian city of Bursa in 1326, and made it the new capital of the Ottoman state. This resulted in the loss of Byzantine control over the Anatolia.
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Edward III of England declares war on France since he feels he should also be king of that country. The fighting continues until about 1453.
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Portugal became a prominent sailing force around the world and seized the coastal city of Ceuta, inspiring Henry The Navigator to explore the south coast of Africa.
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Joan of Arc wins the Battle of Orleans for France during the Hundred Years War. She encouraged her troops in their war against the English, until she was captured. Falsely accused of being a witch, she is tried and then sentenced to death by burning.
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Johannes Guttenberg creates the first printing press created with movable pieces of letters to line up with the paper.
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Ferdinand and Isabella appointed Dominican priest Tomás de Torquemada as Grand Inquisitor and he headed for the ranks of Jews and Muslims who had converted to Christianity.
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Christopher Columbus knew that the world was round so he thought he could sail to the west and end up in eastern India. What he didn't know was that there was two continents in the way. He landed in the Caribbean and thus the Americas were discovered.
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Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama rounds the southern coast of Africa and lands in India setting up trading posts along the way.
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The Mona Lisa was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci and is though to be a painting of Lisa Gherardini. The Mona Lisa is one of the most well known paintings to this day and has an estimated worth of about 1 billion.
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A German map maker reads about columbus' "New World" and decides to rename the newly discovered region the Americas.
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Martin Luther puts his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenburg Cathedral, against the Catholic doctrine of indulgences and begins the Protestant Reformation.
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William Tyndale translates the first bible into English and with the invention of the printing press this book has become one of the most printed books in the world.
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English traders wanted to exploit the spice monopoly created by the Portuguese and the Spanish, so with royal charter they create the East India Company.
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Mary Astell The Serious Proposal to the Ladies which stated that women needed a higher level of education.
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Holbach published The Systems of Nature which stated that the universe is made up of matter and motion.
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Hume Published The Treaties on Human Nature
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In 1774 Georges Louis Lesage patents the electric telegraphhttp://storiesofusa.com/industrial-revolution-inventions-timeline-1712-1942/
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Immanuel Kant publishes The Critique of Pure Reason, which states his analysis of the human mind and how it relates to nature.
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Being only a prison with 7 inmates it was a symbol of abuses by the monarchs, and its fall was the flash-point of the French Revolution.
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The United States issued its first patent to William Pollard for a machine that spins cotton in 1790
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After a factory raised its prices on food due to a bad winter the citizens in the streets rioted and demanded food.
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Thomas Paine Publishes his Rights of Man which has 31 articles, that say that popular political revolution is permissible when a government does not safeguard the natural rights of its people
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Robespierre was decreed the new religion of the Supreme Being and on June 8th he was Inaugurated.
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Due to the de christianization in France during the revolution churches were forced to shut down but were re-opened in 1795.
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Napoleon assumes command of the French army in Italy
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Henry Blair patents a corn planter and is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
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Samuel Morse invents the telegraph and Morse code which modernizes communication around the world. Morse code is still used today by the military and for recreational use.
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Karl Benz invents the first practical automobile to be powered by an internal-combustion engine. almost all cars today still use internal combustion engines and they are the most popular way of transportion to this day
http://storiesofusa.com/industrial-revolution-inventions-timeline-1712-1942/
