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133 BC: Farmers that went to war and fought came home to find their farms in bad shape.
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200 BC: China finshed builded the Great Wall
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200 BC: Rome took over the rest of the Greek cities and ruled all of Italy.
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264 BC: The First Punic War begins.
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300 BC: Romans began to elect magistrates called praetors.
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450 BC: Plebians forced Patricians to write down the Law of the Twelve Tables.
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471 BC: Phidias crafted a giant statue of Athena that was 30 feet tall.
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477 BC: The beginning of the Golden Age of Greece.
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500 BC: Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) was born.
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500 BC: Cleisthenes created reforms based on where you live, not wealth.
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500 BC: Rome makes Cincinnatus dictator of Rome.
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551 BC: Confucius was born.
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570: Muhammad was born.
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600: Islamic people are settled on the Arabian Peninsula.
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600: Abraham introduced monotheism (Allah).
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600: Trade routes connected Arabia to places by land and water.
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613: Muhammad began to preach publicly in Mecca.
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621 BC: Draco developed a legal code of law
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656: Uthman was murdered to create a civil war.
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750 BC: The polis was the fundamental political unit.
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750 BC: Homer wrote epics about the history of the Greek people.
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750: Muslim Empire stretched 6,000 miles from Atlantic Ocean to the Indus River.
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753 BC: The Italian Peninsula allowed quick tranportation.
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753 BC: Italy had mountins to help protect them to the North.
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753 BC: Romulus and Remus founded Rome.
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753 BC: Italian Peninsula served as a great center of trade.
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762: Abbasids moved the capital to Baghdad
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762: Baghdad is located on key trade routes for gold and other goods.
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775: Muslim women have specified legal rights in marriage, family, and property.
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776 BC: First recorded Olympic games.
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1000 BC: The Chinese believed that family was most important to the society.
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1000 BC: Women in CHina were treated as inferiors.
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1000 BC: The chariot was introduced to China
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1027 BC: Iron weapons were made (axes and swords)
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1027 BC: Created iron tools to help with agriculture
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1027 BC: Roads and canals were built to help with trade and agriculture.
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1027 BC: The Zhou overthrew the Shang.
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1027 BC: The Zhou Dynasty beginning marks the baginning of Feudalism.
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1027 BC: Coined money was introduced and helped with trade.
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1200 BC: Mycenaeans were attacked and destroyed by Dorians.
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1200 BC: The Trojan Horse was made to end the Trojan War.
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1200 BC: Mycenaeans fought in the Trojan War against Troy.
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1258: Abbasid caliphate rule ended.
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1500 BC: Walls to protect China's first cities were made.
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1630 BC: Hyksos gain full control of Egypt.
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1640 BC: The Hyksos invaded and took control of Egypt.
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1700 BC: The Shang Dynasty begins.
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1792 BC: Amorite King Hammurabi became king.
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1792 BC: Hammurabi creates code of law.
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1792 BC: Amorites tribe settles in Babylon
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1792 BC: Babylonian Empire was created
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1799: French soldiers found the Rosetta Stone.
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43 BC: The Second Triumvirate took power (Octavian, Antony, Lepidus).
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44 BC: Julius Caesar was murdered by revolting Senators.
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50 BC: Julius Caesar was one of the most powerful men in Rome.
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60 BC: Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus took over Rome as First Triumvirate.
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2000 BC: Egyptians dug a canal to connect the Nile River and Red Sea.
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2000 BC: Egyptians drained swamps in Lower Egypt for farmland.
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2000 BC: The largest cities in India were Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro.
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2000 BC: Most women in India specialized in arts and crafts.
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2000 BC: Mycenaeans settled on Greek mainland.
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2000 BC: Hunters and gatherers based food system.
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2000 BC: China's first cities were built
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2014: Historians have still not deciphered the Indus system of writing.
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509 BC: Romans overthrew Estruscans and created a Republic.
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800: Muslims created their cities in well planned circular shaped cities.
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691: The Dome of the Rock was completed.
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800: Astronomy helped decide when to pray and face toward Mecca.
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800: Caliph al-Ma'mun opened the House of Wisdom.
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2040 BC: Strong pharoahs regain power during the Middle Kingdom.
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2180 BC: The power of pharoahs started to decline and marks the end of the Old Kingdom.
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2500 BC: Egyptians developed a calendar system to keep track of floods.
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2500 BC: Hieroglyphics was written on papyrus reeds instead of stone.
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2500 BC: Egyptians developed a system of counting
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2500 BC: Scribes created hieroglyphics as the writing system.
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2500 BC: Egyptian women are granted many equal rights as men.
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2500 BC: People are not locked into their specific social classes.
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2500 BC: People of India had a strong central government.
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2500 BC: India's land climate and formations kept from invaders.
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2500 BC: People started building India's first cities.
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2500 BC: People constructed strong levees to keep from flooding.
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2500 BC: People made oven-baked bricks for houses, instead of sun-baked mud
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2500 BC: World's largest mountains protected India to the North and desert protected it to the East.
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2500 BC: Egyptians made medicine for the ill and splints for the injured.
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2500 BC: India was made of a sigle society, instead of city-states.
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2500 BC: Civilization was discovered in India.
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2500 BC: The Indus and Ganges Rivers made the land fertile for farming
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2500 BC: Engineers created plumbing and sewage systems.
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2556 BC: The Great Pyramids of Giza were completed.
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3000 BC: Large cities first appeared
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3000 BC: Sumerians created a social pyramid
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3000 BC: Sumerians invented the wheel.
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3000 BC: Minoans ived on the large island of Crete.
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3000 BC: Mycenaeans used the seas around them to aid in trading.
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3000 BC: Sumerians practiced polytheism, believing in multiple Gods
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3000 BC: The mesopotamians traded for metals, timber, and stone.
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3000 BC: Trade with people began with others across southwestern Asia.
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3000 BC: Women in Sumerian society cooked food for men and cared for children.
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3000 BC: Writing in cuneiform was created.
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3000 BC: Math based system was created based on the number 60.
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3000 BC: Rugged mountains covered most of Greece.
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3000 BC: Sumerians build ziggurats to be closer to the Gods.
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3200 BC: Farming in villages has begun.
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5500 BC: Farming and agriculture begins in southern Mesopotamia