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200
ANCIENT MINOAN CRETE
The Trojan War occured after Paris of Troy kidnapped Helen of Sparta. King Menelaus was outraged and attacked Troy with allies such as Odysseus and Achilles. -
260
ANCIENT CHINA
The Mongol conquests did not end with Genghis Khan's death, though. His sons and grandsons continued to raid lands all over Asia and Eastern Europe. -
322
ANCIENT GREECE
322BC Aristotle dies. -
323
ANCIENT MYCENAEAN GREECE
323 BC Alexander the Great dies. -
540
ANCIENT BABYLON
Cyrus the Great from Persia attacks Babylon and manages to conquer the empire. His men lowered a river so they could walk through it. Once they got there, there was no fight. All he had to do was get into town. -
550
ANCIENT PERSIA
The Achaemenid Persian empire was the largest that the ancient world had seen, extending from Anatolia and Egypt across western Asia to northern India and Central Asia. Its formation began in 550 B.C. -
Feb 12, 600
ANCIENT MYCENAEAN GREECE
The Mycenaean Age dates from around 1600 BC to 1100 BC, during the Bronze Age. -
Feb 12, 753
ANCIENT ROME
The Roman Empire was one of the greatest civilizations in history. It began in Rome in 753 BC. -
Feb 12, 1050
ANCIENT ROME
The earliest attempt by the Romans to create a code of law was the Laws of the 12 Tables. A commission of ten men were appointed to draw up a code of law binding on both patrician and plebeian and which consuls would have to enforce. The commission produced enough statutes to fill ten bronze tablets. The plebeians were dissatisfied so two additional tablets were added. -
Feb 12, 1100
ANCIENT MINOAN CRETE
In about 1100 BC, a people called the Dorians invaded from the north and spread down the west coast. -
Feb 12, 1539
ANCIENT EGYPT
Thebans expel the Hyksos and reunite Egypt. -
ANCIENT PERISA
Dariusi died and was succeeded by his son Xerxes I. After reconquering Egypt Xerxes was ready to take up his father's plans for Greece. The army he assembled was far largwer then the Greek's had seen before. -
ANCIENT INDIA
In about 185 BC the Mauryan Empire came to an end. -
ANCIENT INDIA
Dravidian civilization was developed in Indus River Valley. -
ANCIENT EGYPT
Early settlers in the Nile valley. -
ANCIENT SUMER
The Sumer establish powerful city-states building large ziggurats at the center of their cities as temples to their gods. -
ANCIENT BABYLON
The city of Babylon was the capital of this area for so many centuries, the term Babylonia has come to refer to the entire culture that developed in the area from the time it was first settled, about 4000 bc. -
ANCIENT SUMER
From its beginnings as a collection of farming villages before 5000 BC through its conquest by Sargon of Agade around 2370 BC and its final collapse from the Amorite invasion around 2000 BC the Sumerians developed a religion and a society which influenced both their neighbors and their conquerers. -
ANCIENT CHINA
5000 BCE there were Neolithic village settlements in several regions of China. -
ANCIENT GREECE
The Classic period.
