-
3200 BCE
Egypt - Upper and Lower Egypt
Villages banded together and make to kingdoms upper and lower Egypt. (p.88) -
Period: 3100 BCE to 2900 BCE
Egypt - First Dynasty
Menes founded the first dynasty in Egypt and unified upper and lower Egypt. Menes also wore the upper and lower Egyptian crown to show that he unified Egypt. (p.89) -
2700 BCE
Egypt - Old kingdom
The third dynasty ruled rose to power in the old kingdom. (p.90) -
Period: 2330 BCE to 2000 BCE
Mesopotamia - Sumerian Society
The Sumerians took over Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent under Sargon. (p.60-64) -
Period: 2300 BCE to 320 BCE
India - Indus Valley
In the Indus valley there were the Harappans and the Aryans. (p.126-129) -
Period: 2200 BCE to 1500 BCE
China - Xia Dynasty
According to an ancient stories Yu the great ruled China and founded the Xia Dynasty. (p.163) -
2050 BCE
Egypt - Middle Kingdom
Mentuhotep II unified Egypt again and started the Middle Kingdom a period of stability. (p.69) -
Period: 2000 BCE to 1500 BCE
Hebrews - Early Hebrews
Hebrews were ancestors of Israelites and Jews. They were simple herders but had a great impact on later civilizations. (p.202) -
Period: 2000 BCE to 350
Egypt - Kush Became a Kingdom
In ancient Nubia there were villages. In some villages farmers became village leaders. One village leader took over other villages and called himself king, he called his kingdom Kush. (p.107-109) -
Period: 2000 BCE to 1600 BCE
Ancient Greece - The Minoans
The Minoans lived on the island of Crete so they were great sailors and spent most of there time at sea and also traded a lot of goods. But when a volcano erupted north of Crete it made a tsunami and wiped out most of Crete. (p.230) -
Period: 2000 BCE to 620 BCE
Mesopotamia - Later People
Lots of people ruled in the Fertile Crescent during this period those people were Babylonians, Hittites, Kassites, the Assyrians, and the Chaldeans. (p.72-75) -
Period: 2000 BCE to 1200 BCE
Ancient Greece - Mycenaens
The Mycenaeans were considered to be the first Greek people because the Minoans didn't speak Greece. The Mycenaeans built fortresses in the Greece mainland. (p.231) -
1792 BCE
Mesopotamia - Hammurabi
Hammurabi was a ruler that ruled Babylon and was said to be the best monarch. He had a code called hammurabi's code that was a set of 282 laws that dealt with every day life. (p.72-73) -
1550 BCE
Egypt - New Kingdom
Ahmose rose to power beginning Egypt's eighteenth dynasty and the beginning of the New Kingdom. (p.97) -
1500 BCE
Hebrews - First King
The first king was Saul he had some military success but he wasn't a strong king. (p.205) -
1500 BCE
Egypt - Egypt Conquers Kush
As Kush grew stronger Egypt didn't want to get attacked by them so the set out to conquer Kush. When Egypt won and they also destroyed the Kushite capital Kerma. (p.109) -
1200 BCE
Mesopotamia - Assyrians
The Assyrians briefly took control of Babylon but soon overrun by invaders. (p.74-75) -
1200 BCE
Ancient Greece - Decline of the Mycenaeans
The Mycenaeasns decline was caused by invaders from Europe and at the same time earthquakes were happening and destroyed many cities. (p.231) -
Period: 1100 BCE to 481 BCE
China - Zhou Dynasty
The Zhou Dynasty was the longest lasting dynasty in china. During the Zhou Dynasty people created ideas on how to live the three ideas were Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism. (p.166-171) -
753 BCE
Roman Republic - First King
Romulus killed his brother Remus and named Rome after himself and became Romes first king. (p.297) -
Period: 753 BCE to 476
Rome - Roman Empire
Romulus founded the Roman Empire in 753 BC. In 476 AD Rome declined because of invaders. During the Roman Empire the Romans created a new type of government called the Roman Republic. (p.297-341) -
716 BCE
Egypt - Kush Conquers Egypt
After Kush regained there power they wanted to take over Egypt and they succeeded. (p.109) -
612 BCE
Meosopotamia - Chaldeans Conquer Assyrian Empire
A series of wars broke out in the Assyrian Empire and the Chaldeans took advantage of that and attacked the Assyrians. (p.75) -
600 BCE
India - Buddhism Created
Siddhartha Gautama created Buddism and called himself the Buddha "Enlightened One". (p.136-138) -
600 BCE
China - The Great Wall
The great wall protected china from invaders and later was extended by the Qin Dynasty. (p.175) -
Period: 600 BCE to 404 BCE
Greece - Athenians
Athens focused on learning and teaching about many subjects and also had a strong army. (p.268-269) -
Period: 600 BCE to 430 BCE
Greece - Spartans
The Spartans valued military and fighting. They made the boys train hard and long to be in the military. (p.266-268) -
550 BCE
Greece - Cyrus the Great
Cyrus the Great drove out invaders he also expanded his empire to cover the Fertile Crescent and almost all of Asia minor. (p.260-261) -
550 BCE
Ancient Greece - Trade
City-states used to trade between each other and some became richer than others and became great trading centers. The Greeks had become the best traders in the Aegean area, Greek ships sailed to Egypt and other cities around the black sea. (p.233) -
Period: 550 BCE to 334 BCE
Greece - Persians
The Persians built an empire under Cyrus I, Cyrus II (Cyrus the Great), Cambyses, Darius, and Xerxes. (p.260-265) -
509 BCE
Roman Republic - New Government
The Romans created a new government system call a Republic the Roman Republic was the idea that people select leaders to govern them. (p.298) -
500 BCE
Ancient Greece - Greek Democracy
A man named Cleisthenes became leader in Greece and he overthrew the aristocracy "rich land owners that rule". He made a new type of government called a democracy where everyone would rule themselves. (p.238-241) -
499 BCE
Greece - Greeks Rebel.
Some Greek cities in Asia Minor rebelled against Persia and a few cities in mainland Greece sent soldiers to help rebel even though they lost the rebellion Darius the Persian king swore revenge on the Greeks. (p.263) -
481 BCE
China - Decline of the Zhou Dynasty
Invaders reached the capital and they got defeated but the dynasty survived. But the lords started fighting each other and started the waring states period. (p.168) -
480 BCE
Greece - Delian League
After the Persian War ended many city-states formed an alliance they wanted to punish the Persians they call the alliance the Delian League. (p.270) -
387 BCE
Roman Republic - Gaul Conquers Rome
Gaul Conquered Rome and Rome had to pay a lot of money to make them leave the city. Other people herd of this so they tried to attack Rome to get a lot of money but Rome defeated all of the invaders and took all there land. (p.308) -
334 BCE
Greece - Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great built a huge empire it included Macedonia, part of Greece, Asia Minor, the Persian Empire and some of Egypt. His empire was so big it started in Macedonia and reached to the Indus River. (p.272-274) -
Period: 320 BCE to 185 BCE
India - Mauryan Empire
Candragupta Maurya controlled the northern part of India and founded the Mauryan Empire. (p.142-143) -
Period: 320 BCE to 500
India - Later Empires
There were two later empires in India and they were the Mauryan and Gupta Empire. (142-145) -
251 BCE
India - Buddhism Spreads
Missionaries sailed to Sri Lanka and traveled on trade routes to spread Buddhism. (p.140) -
Period: 213 BCE to 206 BCE
China - Qin Dynasty
The king Ying Zheng unified china and called himself Shi Huangdi "first emperor". He used was legalism because it had a strong government with strict laws and bad punishments. The Qin dynasty declined when Shi Huangdi died and nobody could keep the people from rebelling against the new emperor and the country fell into civil war. (p.172-176) -
Period: 206 BCE to 220
China - Han Dynasty
The Han Dynasty was the first Dynasty to have a peasant to become emperor he was Liu Bang. Later a new emperor took the throne and his name was Wudi he wanted a strong government so he took land from the lords and raised taxes. Wudi also used Confucianism for his government. (p.178-183) -
100 BCE
Hebrews - Dead Sea Scrolls
In 1947 the Dead Sea Scrolls were found by a group of young boys looking for a lost goat near the Dead Sea, one of the boys went exploring and found jars of filled with moldy scrolls. Careful studies reveled that is was written between 100 BC and 50 AD they also found that it included prayers, commentaries, letters, and passages. (p.112-113 -
50 BCE
Rome - Julius Caesar Captures Gaul
Julius Caesar was known for being a great and powerful general. In 50 BC he captured nearly all of Gaul (modern day France). (p.323) -
31 BCE
Rome - Caesar Augustus
After the death of Julius Caesar his son Octavian (later called Augustus) and his assistant Mac Antony. Later Mac Antony divorced Octavian's sister and Octavian wanted to kill Mac but he excepted and committed suicide with his new wife. (p.324) -
30
Rome - Jesus Dies
Jesus was arrested then was executed by crucifixion and three days later he rose from the dead. (p.336) -
200
China - Buddhism Spreads to China
At first Indians had trouble explaining Buddhism to China but then they used some Daoism ideas to help explain Buddhism and soon almost everyone in China liked the idea of Buddhism. Soon there were Buddhist temples altars in the emperor's palace. (p.188-189) -
Period: 320 to 480
India - Gupta Dynasty
The first emperor of the Gupta Empire was Candra Gupta I and he was Hindu, he reunited India after the Mauryan Empire collapsed. Candra Gupta took over some neighboring areas and brought a lot of northern India under his control. Candra Gupta II took the throne in India and the Gupta Empire reached its high point under his rule people prospered and the economy strengthened. (p.144- 145) -
350
Egypt - Decline of Kush
The cause of Kushs' decline were multiple things. Cows were allowed to overgraze, and trade declined. Then they got attacked by the Aksumite army and the last influences in Kush were gone. (p.113) -
400
Hebrews - Talmud
The Talmud is a set lessons for everyday life. (p.212) -
Social Studies - Democracy
In the USA they use a government system called a representative democracy. In ancient Greece they used a democracy. They are similar because in both they have the people vote on changes. -
Social Studies - Advancements
The first computer was created in 1938 and was considers to be the first working modern computer. In Harappan society in India they had indoor bathrooms and pluming. So there were advancement in ancient times and now. -
Social Studies - Nine Eleven
Nine eleven was a tragic day tons of people died kind of like the black death. The black death killed many people not by terrorists but by a deadly plague. Both had a similar result that was a lot of people died. -
Social Studies - Natural Disasters
In 2004 there was a huge tsunami that killed a bunch of people. Like in 2004 on the island of Crete there was a volcano eruption that wiped out the Minoan civilization. They were similar by that a lot of people died because of natural Disasters.
