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People began to use iron to make weapons.
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Metallurgy with iron spreads to Western Asia, Southeastern Europe and North Africa. Aryan people begin to settle in India and King David founds the city of Jerusalem.
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Bananas reach Africa
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Sugar Cane is cultivated in southeastern Asia and in India.
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Rise of the Nubian Kingdom which dominates Egypt until 660 CE.
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The Zhou kingdom ends in China.
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Iron metallurgy spreads to China
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Buddhism was founded.
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The Roman Republic begins.
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Jainism is founded.
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Darius I is the ruler of Persia.
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Confucianism begins in China.
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Rise of the Athenian Empire in Greece.
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Kingdom of Meroe rises in Nubia.
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Alexander the Great conquers western Asia and gives rise to the Hellenistic period.
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The Sassanid Empire rules in Persia until Chosroes is defeated by Arab Muslims.
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The Han dynasty rules in China.
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The one humped camel and the date palm spread from southern Arabia to Africa.
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Caesar Augustus rules the Roman Empire.
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Christianity begins after the crucifixion of Jesus.
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The birth of Jesus in Nazareth.
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Apostle Paul spread Christianity around the Mediterranean.
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Coins were produced in the Chola Kingdom.
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Pearls were traded by Romans
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Peppercorn was traded in India in the first century CE.