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Sedentary Late Epi- Paleolithic hunter gatherers
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First agricultural revolution in which cultures moved from hunting and gathering to agriculture and settlement.
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Crsent shaped region in the middle east by Iraq, Israel, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, and Jordan. In-between the rivers
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In middle Egypt, known for its fertility and abundance of plant and animal life.
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Neolithic and Chalaclthic settlement in modern day turkey
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Ancient civilization in the Mesopotamia region of the fertile crescent. Known for innovations of language, and architecture.
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Located in china, important for fishing and economic growth
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Peak of civilization in Egypt
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Modern Day Pakistan
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Began when Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II reunited Upper and Lower Egypt.
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Ancient people who established an empire in Asia and Syria
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War between Mycenaean people and Troy people after the abduction of Queen Helen of Sparta
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Building the first civilization to appear on European soil. They were famous for the palaces they built.
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Major contributions to philosophy, math, astronomy, and medicine. The Greeks at this time were known for their architecture and sculptures.
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King of Macedonia. He united Greece, and conquered the Persian Empire
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Chinese dynasty that established the first centralized imperial government and built a lot of the great wall.
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Post republican period of ancient Rome when Augustus Caesar proclaimed himself the first emperor of Rome.
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Led by Charles Martel which kept the Moors form entering France and the defeat of the muslims
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The first emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. His name stands for Charles the Great and he was the king of France and is known for his encouragement of education
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Defeat of King Harold, creating the fall of the Anglo-Saxon's
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One of the most powerful leaders of the Mongolian nomads. He was able to communicate over the words larges empire which was over twice the size of the United States.
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A military expedition made by the Europeans to recover the Holy land from the Muslims
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One of the most devastating pandemics in human history. Also known as the bubonic plague which effected most of Europe. It resulted in 200 million deaths
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Age of Enlightenment and the reformation of the church.
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Also known as Cristobal Colon. He actually never knew here he was, he thought he was in India and was never actually on the mainland of America. He also did not prove the world was round
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Condemned the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church with the printing press creating a list of complaints
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Also known as the lost colony located on Chesapeake Bay off the coast of NC. Nobody to this day know where the colonists went .
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Settled by the English, had many problems with Native Americans that already occupied that land but then were able to make peace and learn from each other
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First colonial settlement in New England. Settlers came here on the Mayflower to leave the religious strike in Europe. They named the town after their port of departure.
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This was a seven year war in the Ohio River valley between the English and the French. They battled for colonial domination and Britain was provided enormous territorial gains in North America.
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Series of laws passed by the British parliament that created restrictions on colonial trade.
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Created revenue from the American Colonies by creating a charge for stamps on legal documents
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Secret revolutionary organization that was created during the thirteen American Colonies to advance the rights of the European colonists and fight taxation from the British government
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Street fight which happened in Boston, Massachusetts in which 5 colonists were killed
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No taxation without representation in which 342 boxes of tea were dumped in the Boston Harbor because of anger over taxes on tea.
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The first battle of the Revolutionary ward which was fought in Massachusetts. British troops moved from Boston to seise the colonists military supplies and arrest revolutionaries
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The 13 American colonies severed their political connections to great Britain to create their own country. Signifies the principles and ideas of the founding fathers in which the government still follows today
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Turning point in the revolutionary war
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The original constitution of the U.S which was replaced by the US consitution
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A machine for separating cotton form its seeds built by Eli Whitney
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State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the southern sates
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An act that prohibits importation of slaves. No new slaves were allowed to me imported into the United States.
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Signed into law by President Andrew Jackson authorizing the president to grant unsettled lands west of the Mississippi in exchange for Indian Lands.
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War because of uncompromising differences between the free and slave states over the power of government to prohibit slavery in the territories that had not yet become free states
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Worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. Began after the stock-market crash of October 1929.
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Civil rights movement, anti-vietnam war movement, women's movement, gay rights movement, environmental movement. Assassination of John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King