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Minoan Period
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Indo-Iranian (Aryan) tribes move south into the Iranian plateau and the Punjab of India
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Probable date of the arrival of the Greeks on the mainland
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Military campaign of Senusret III of Egypt against Nubia
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Founding of the kingdom of Kush, Nubia
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Mycenaean Period
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Kushitic-speaking peoples migrate from pian plateau south along Rift Valley
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Possible year that the Sack of Troy occured
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Destruction of Mycenaean centers in Greece
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Dark Ages
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The Cimmerians are ousted from the Pontic steppe by their cousins the Scythians
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Major period of Greek colonization
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Probable date of Homer
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Major period of Greek Tyranny
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Indo-Iranian (Aryan) tribes move south into the Iranian plateau and the Punjab of India
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Achaemenid Empire
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Greco-Persian wars
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Probable era of major Bantu migrations into central, East, and southeastern Africa
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End of the Kingdom of Kush and city of Meroë in Nubia.
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Alexander the Great (d. 323 B.C.E.) conquers Achaemenid Empire
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The successor wars between Alexander's successorts
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Seleucos conquers Babylon and founds Seleucid dynasty
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Seleucids rule in eastern territories of Achaemenid realm
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Agathocles of Syracuse successfuly campaigns in North Africa defeating Carthaginian armies and taking Utica and Hippacra.
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Demetrius I rules as king of Macedon.
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Rome defeats the Celts in Italy. Rome's dominance in central Italy is secured.
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Founding of the Achaean League in the Peloponnese of Greece.
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Ptolemy II invades the Meroitic Nubian kingdom and annexes Lower Nubia.
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Parthian Empire of the Arsacids in Iran, Babylonia
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East African coast becomes involved in Indian Ocean trade
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First appearance of multiple Euthydemid kings at the same time. Beginning of the Indo-Greek kingdoms.
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Rome sacks Corinth and dissolves the Achaean league. Greece is ruled by Rome.
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Probable time of first Indonesian immigration to East African coast
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Julius Caesar’s conquest of Gaul.
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Herod the Great is installed as King of Judaea. Rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem.
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Roman poet Virgil writes his Aeneid.
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First century C.E. Rise of Aksum as trading power on Ethiopian plateau
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The Huns from southern Siberia invade Eastern Europe, pushing the Alans (a Samartian-descended tribe) westward
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Nilotic-speaking peoples spread over upper Nile valley; Nilotic peoples spread over Rift Valley region
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Heyday of Aksumite Ethiopia
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Fall of Kushite Empire to Elzana of Aksum
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The next invaders from the steppe were the Avars
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Probable date of Hesiod
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Mongol empire reaches and invades Europe