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The Sumer establish powerful city-states building large ziggurats at the center of their cities as temples to their gods.
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Is located along three rivers:the Fortaleza River, Pativilica, and the Super River.
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The Sumerians start to implement mathematics using a number system with the base 60.
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The old kingdom was an age of prosperity and unity lasting from about 2700 to 2200 B.C.
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The Pyramid city of Caral is a center constructed out of stone and mud,circular plazas,and staircases.
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The Egyptian ruler took the title ”Son of Re” and was considered an earthly form of Re,one of the sun god´s names.
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the first Chinese state for which clear written records remain - unites much of north central China.
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The Olmecs were the first great culture to arise in Mexico and Central America. They established a city on a river island in 1200 B.C. or so: archaeologists, who do not know the original name of the city, call it San Lorenzo.
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The Mandate of Heaven. Among the earliest rulers of China, the Zhou established the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, in which a just ruler must maintain harmony between heaven and Earth.
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The Olmecs were extremely talented artists and sculptors: they produced many statues, masks, figurines, stelae, thrones and more
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Chavín art represents the first recognizable artistic style in the Andes, the construction of the “Old Temple” at Chavín de Huántar (c. 900-500 BCE) corresponds to the first of the two phases.
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The toltec Empire first emerged in Mesoamerica near modern day Mexico City.This was right after the Teotihuacans had fallen.(800CE)
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The Chavín Civilization developed in the northern Andean highlands of Peru between 900-250BC
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The toltecs had fallen due both internal and external conflicts.
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The city of Tenochtítlan is built and the first Aztec temple was built.(1325CE).
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In 1517, a comet was seen in the sky which the Aztecs interpreted as the harbinger of doom and destruction.