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Around 1700 B.C. a system of beliefs called Judaism arose among the Israelite
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Highly skilled farmers called Hohokam dug irrigation canals in the deserts in present day Arizona
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In 509 B.C. the Romans overthrew there king and set up a republic
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A strong ruler unified China into a single empire. Later rulers added to the empire until it covered a large part of Asia.
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The empire of the Mayans was built
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Trade centers begins to appear in eastern Africa. The Most powerful was in Zimbabwe, which became the center a flourishing empire in the 1400's.
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China had a higher level of technology that any other civilization of the time. Around 1050, the Chinese invented printing with movable type.
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Ghana was obsorbed into the empire of Mali. Mali reached its height under the Muslim ruler Mansa Musa.
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Mysteriously in the 1300's the Anasazi abandon their cliff dwellings.
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Chinese ships were sailing trade routes that stretch from Japan to east Africa. The Chinese explorer Zheng He made several voyages with a fleet of more than 300 ships
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They built the largest empire, it stretched from the coast of South America along the Andes across the Atacama desert and reached the fringes of the Amazon rain forest.
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Aztec armies brought half of modern day Mexico under their control.
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Nomads capture Timbuktu in 1433, the empire had been in decline for some time. It would soon be replaced with Songhai.
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The Rulers of Songhai capture Timbuktu in 1468 Songhai restored the city as a center of Islamic Learning.
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A complex trade network linked Europe, Africa, and Asia. Much of this trade passed throw the Arabian Peninsula in the middle east
