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133
Rome - Economic
133 BC: Farmers that went to war and fought came home to find their farms in bad shape. -
200
China - Interaction with Environment
200 BC: China finshed builded the Great Wall -
200
Rome - Interaction with Environment
200 BC: Rome took over the rest of the Greek cities and ruled all of Italy. -
264
Rome - Political
264 BC: The First Punic War begins. -
300
Rome - Social
300 BC: Romans began to elect magistrates called praetors. -
450
Rome - Social
450 BC: Plebians forced Patricians to write down the Law of the Twelve Tables. -
471
Greece - Culture
471 BC: Phidias crafted a giant statue of Athena that was 30 feet tall. -
477
Greece - Economic
477 BC: The beginning of the Golden Age of Greece. -
500
China - Culture
500 BC: Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) was born. -
500
Greece - Social
500 BC: Cleisthenes created reforms based on where you live, not wealth. -
500
Rome - Political
500 BC: Rome makes Cincinnatus dictator of Rome. -
551
China - Social
551 BC: Confucius was born. -
570
Middle Ages - Social
570: Muhammad was born. -
Jan 1, 600
Middle Ages - Interaction with Evironment
600: Islamic people are settled on the Arabian Peninsula. -
Jan 1, 600
Middle Ages - Culture
600: Abraham introduced monotheism (Allah). -
Jan 1, 600
Middle Ages - Economic
600: Trade routes connected Arabia to places by land and water. -
Jan 1, 613
Middle Ages - Culture
613: Muhammad began to preach publicly in Mecca. -
Jan 1, 621
Greece - Social
621 BC: Draco developed a legal code of law -
Jan 1, 656
Middle Ages - Political
656: Uthman was murdered to create a civil war. -
Jan 1, 750
Greece - Political
750 BC: The polis was the fundamental political unit. -
Jan 1, 750
Greece - Culture
750 BC: Homer wrote epics about the history of the Greek people. -
Jan 1, 750
Middle Ages - Social
750: Muslim Empire stretched 6,000 miles from Atlantic Ocean to the Indus River. -
Jan 1, 753
Rome - Interaction with Environment
753 BC: The Italian Peninsula allowed quick tranportation. -
Jan 1, 753
Rome - Interaction with Environment
753 BC: Italy had mountins to help protect them to the North. -
Jan 1, 753
Rome - Economic
753 BC: Romulus and Remus founded Rome. -
Jan 1, 753
Rome - Economic
753 BC: Italian Peninsula served as a great center of trade. -
Jan 1, 762
Middle Ages - Interactions with Environment
762: Abbasids moved the capital to Baghdad -
Jan 1, 762
Middle Ages - Economic
762: Baghdad is located on key trade routes for gold and other goods. -
Jan 1, 775
Middle Ages - Social
775: Muslim women have specified legal rights in marriage, family, and property. -
Jan 1, 776
Greece - Culture
776 BC: First recorded Olympic games. -
Jan 1, 1000
China - Social
1000 BC: The Chinese believed that family was most important to the society. -
Jan 1, 1000
China - Social
1000 BC: Women in CHina were treated as inferiors. -
Jan 1, 1000
China - Culture
1000 BC: The chariot was introduced to China -
Jan 1, 1027
China - Culture
1027 BC: Iron weapons were made (axes and swords) -
Jan 1, 1027
China - Economic
1027 BC: Created iron tools to help with agriculture -
Jan 1, 1027
China - Economic
1027 BC: Roads and canals were built to help with trade and agriculture. -
Jan 1, 1027
China - Political
1027 BC: The Zhou overthrew the Shang. -
Jan 1, 1027
China - Political
1027 BC: The Zhou Dynasty beginning marks the baginning of Feudalism. -
Jan 1, 1027
China - Economic
1027 BC: Coined money was introduced and helped with trade. -
Jan 1, 1200
Greece - Social
1200 BC: Mycenaeans were attacked and destroyed by Dorians. -
Jan 1, 1200
Greece - Economic
1200 BC: The Trojan Horse was made to end the Trojan War. -
Jan 1, 1200
Greece - Political
1200 BC: Mycenaeans fought in the Trojan War against Troy. -
Jan 1, 1258
Middle Ages - Political
1258: Abbasid caliphate rule ended. -
Jan 1, 1500
China - Interaction with Environment
1500 BC: Walls to protect China's first cities were made. -
Egypt - Social
1630 BC: Hyksos gain full control of Egypt. -
Egypt - Political
1640 BC: The Hyksos invaded and took control of Egypt. -
China - Political
1700 BC: The Shang Dynasty begins. -
Mesopotamia - Political
1792 BC: Amorite King Hammurabi became king. -
Mesopotamia - Political
1792 BC: Hammurabi creates code of law. -
Mesopotamia - Interaction with Environment
1792 BC: Amorites tribe settles in Babylon -
Mesopotamia - Interaction with Environment
1792 BC: Babylonian Empire was created -
Egypt - Interaction with Environment
1799: French soldiers found the Rosetta Stone. -
Rome - Culture
43 BC: The Second Triumvirate took power (Octavian, Antony, Lepidus). -
Rome - Culture
44 BC: Julius Caesar was murdered by revolting Senators. -
Rome - Social
50 BC: Julius Caesar was one of the most powerful men in Rome. -
Rome - Culture
60 BC: Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus took over Rome as First Triumvirate. -
Egypt - Interaction with Environment
2000 BC: Egyptians dug a canal to connect the Nile River and Red Sea. -
Egypt - Interaction with Environment
2000 BC: Egyptians drained swamps in Lower Egypt for farmland. -
India - Social
2000 BC: The largest cities in India were Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro. -
India - Social
2000 BC: Most women in India specialized in arts and crafts. -
Greece - Political
2000 BC: Mycenaeans settled on Greek mainland. -
Egypt - Social
2000 BC: Hunters and gatherers based food system. -
China - Interaction with Environment
2000 BC: China's first cities were built -
India - Cultural
2014: Historians have still not deciphered the Indus system of writing. -
Rome - Political
509 BC: Romans overthrew Estruscans and created a Republic. -
Middle Ages - Interactions with Environment
800: Muslims created their cities in well planned circular shaped cities. -
Middle Ages - Political
691: The Dome of the Rock was completed. -
Middle Ages - Culture
800: Astronomy helped decide when to pray and face toward Mecca. -
Middle Ages - Economic
800: Caliph al-Ma'mun opened the House of Wisdom. -
Egypt - Political
2040 BC: Strong pharoahs regain power during the Middle Kingdom. -
Egypt - Political
2180 BC: The power of pharoahs started to decline and marks the end of the Old Kingdom. -
Egypt - Culture
2500 BC: Egyptians developed a calendar system to keep track of floods. -
Egypt - Economic
2500 BC: Hieroglyphics was written on papyrus reeds instead of stone. -
Egypt - Economic
2500 BC: Egyptians developed a system of counting -
Egypt - Culture
2500 BC: Scribes created hieroglyphics as the writing system. -
Egypt - Social
2500 BC: Egyptian women are granted many equal rights as men. -
Egypt - Social
2500 BC: People are not locked into their specific social classes. -
India - Political
2500 BC: People of India had a strong central government. -
India - Political
2500 BC: India's land climate and formations kept from invaders. -
India - Culture
2500 BC: People started building India's first cities. -
India - Culture
2500 BC: People constructed strong levees to keep from flooding. -
India - Economic
2500 BC: People made oven-baked bricks for houses, instead of sun-baked mud -
India - Interactions with Environment
2500 BC: World's largest mountains protected India to the North and desert protected it to the East. -
Egypt - Economic
2500 BC: Egyptians made medicine for the ill and splints for the injured. -
India - Political
2500 BC: India was made of a sigle society, instead of city-states. -
India - Interactions with Environment
2500 BC: Civilization was discovered in India. -
India - Interactions with Environment
2500 BC: The Indus and Ganges Rivers made the land fertile for farming -
India - Economic
2500 BC: Engineers created plumbing and sewage systems. -
Egypt - Culture
2556 BC: The Great Pyramids of Giza were completed. -
Mesopotamia - Social
3000 BC: Large cities first appeared -
Mesopotamia - Social
3000 BC: Sumerians created a social pyramid -
Mesopotamia - Interaction with Environment
3000 BC: Sumerians invented the wheel. -
Greece - Interaction with Environment
3000 BC: Minoans ived on the large island of Crete. -
Greece - Economic
3000 BC: Mycenaeans used the seas around them to aid in trading. -
Mesopotamia - Culture
3000 BC: Sumerians practiced polytheism, believing in multiple Gods -
Mesopotamia - Economic
3000 BC: The mesopotamians traded for metals, timber, and stone. -
Mesopotamia - Economic
3000 BC: Trade with people began with others across southwestern Asia. -
Mesopotamia - Social
3000 BC: Women in Sumerian society cooked food for men and cared for children. -
Mesopotamia - Culture
3000 BC: Writing in cuneiform was created. -
Mesopotamia - Culture
3000 BC: Math based system was created based on the number 60. -
Greece - Interaction with Environment
3000 BC: Rugged mountains covered most of Greece. -
Mesopotamia - Political
3000 BC: Sumerians build ziggurats to be closer to the Gods. -
India - Economic
3200 BC: Farming in villages has begun. -
Mesopotamia - Economic
5500 BC: Farming and agriculture begins in southern Mesopotamia