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3000 BCE
Ancient Civilizations
Indus, Mesopotamia, Shang. (https://library.ccis.edu/hist111a/part1) -
2670 BCE
Step Pyramid
Djoser's vizier, Imhotep, conceived of building a more impressive tomb for his king by stacking mastabas on top of one another, progressively making them smaller (https://www.ancient.eu/article/862/the-step-pyramid-of-djoser/#:~:text=Djoser's%20vizier%2C%20Imhotep%20conceived%20of,2680%20BCE).) -
1800 BCE
Interest Rates
the first recorded attempt to regulate interest rates (https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/research/a-brief-history-of-world-credit-interest-rates/3000-b-c-500-a-d-the-ancient-economy/) -
1492 BCE
Hatshepsut
First fully empowered female pharaoh (https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-history/hatshepsut#:~:text=Did%20you%20know%3F,rule%20some%2014%20centuries%20later.) -
1116 BCE
Justices in Eyre
Started in around 1166 with Henry appointing Geoffrey de Mandeville and Sir Richard de Lucy to tour the whole country resulting as the forerunners of circuit judges making international travel safer (https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/oct/30/10-greatest-changes-of-the-past-1000-years) -
1020 BCE
Israelite "United" Monarchy
Profound changes in forming of government from a loose confederation of tribes to a monarchy through Saul, David and Solomon enshrining the biblical Ark of the Covenant ( http://www.oxfordbiblicalstudies.com/article/book/obso-9780195288803/obso-9780195288803-div1-4266/https://www.enterthebible.org/periods.aspx?rid=904) -
594 BCE
Slave Societies
The first true slave society in history emerged in ancient Greece (https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3027) -
330 BCE
Alexander the Great
The Achaemenid dynasty finally fell to the invading armies of Alexander the Great of Macedon (https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-middle-east/persian-empire) -
30
Christianity is established
Jesus is crucified (https://www.fincher.org/History/WorldAD.shtml) -
410
Fall of Rome
the Visigoth King Alaric successfully sacked the city of Rome (https://www.history.com/news/8-reasons-why-rome-fell#:~:text=Finally%2C%20in%20476%2C%20the%20Germanic,Western%20Empire%20suffered%20its%20deathblow.) -
610
Founding of Islamic Religion
A lifetime of religious revelations collected as the Qur’an provides the foundation for the Islamic religion by the self proclaimed last prophet of the Judaic-Christian tradition Muhammed. (https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/founder-of-islam-dies) -
800
Charlemagne
Pope Leo III crowned Charlemagne emperor of the Romans for which he encouraged the Carolingian Renaissance, a cultural and intellectual revival in Europe ensuring the survival of Christianity in the West (https://www.history.com/topics/middle-ages/charlemagne) -
1054
Creation of European Civilization
The final split of the Eastern and Western churches resulting in the creation of European civilization known as the second great transition of the faith (https://www.britannica.com/topic/Christianity/Second-transition-to-ad-1500) -
1453
Constantinople Falls
The Ottomans finally brought the Byzantine Empire to its knees when they captured the seemingly unconquerable city of Constantinople, the first Christian emperor of Rome (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/reference/modern-history/why-ottoman-empire-rose-fell/)