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  • Cuneiform
    3600 BCE

    Cuneiform

    Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-shaped impressions which form its signs. Cuneiform was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia.
  • Period: 3600 BCE to 3000 BCE

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  • The Wheel
    3000 BCE

    The Wheel

    The wheel was invented to be used in pottery making, but the Mesopotamians soon developed it further into a means of transportation in the form of the chariot around 2400 BC. The invention of the wheel cannot be understated, and in ancient times, it revolutionized trade, ceramics, irrigation, and warfare.
  • circa
    3000 BCE

    circa

    Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt unite. Successive dynasties witness flourishing trade, prosperity and the development of great cultural traditions. Writing, including hieroglyphics, is used as an instrument of state
  • The Caral civilization
    3000 BCE

    The Caral civilization

    The Caral culture developed in America
  • Period: 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE

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  • The fall of Cral civilization
    1800 BCE

    The fall of Cral civilization

    In the end, after various and devastating famines that put an end to this brilliant civilization
  • Period: 1800 BCE to 1200 BCE

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  • Great ceremonial centre
    1200 BCE

    Great ceremonial centre

    San Lorenzo becomes the great ceremonial centre of the Olmec civilization.
  • Period: 1200 BCE to 1046 BCE

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  • The Mandate of Heaven
    1046 BCE

    The Mandate of Heaven

    Among the earliest rulers of China, the Zhou established the idea of the Mandate of Heaven, in which a just ruler must maintain harmony between heaven and Earth.
  • Period: 1046 BCE to 900 BCE

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  • The Chavin civilization
    900 BCE

    The Chavin civilization

    The Chavin civilization flourishes in ancient Peru.
  • Period: 900 BCE to 750 BCE

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  • Chavin de Huantar
    750 BCE

    Chavin de Huantar

    The Old Temple is constructed at Chavin de Huantar.
  • Period: 750 BCE to 699 BCE

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  • Period: 699 BCE to 400 BCE

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  • The taking of Egypt
    669 BCE

    The taking of Egypt

    Assyrians from Mesopotamia conquer and rule Egypt.
  • The end of Olmec civilization
    400 BCE

    The end of Olmec civilization

    La Venta is destroyed, monuments are defaced and the Olmec civilization ends.
  • Period: 400 BCE to 221 BCE

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  • The First Emperor
    221 BCE

    The First Emperor

    A Qin emperor, whose tomb is guarded today by the Terracotta Army near Xi’an, created China’s first centralized, unified state.
  • Period: 221 BCE to 900

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  • Toltec civilization
    900

    Toltec civilization

    The Toltec civilization flourishes in Mesoamerica
  • Period: 900 to 935

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  • The birth of Ce Acatl Topiltzin
    935

    The birth of Ce Acatl Topiltzin

    Ce Acatl Topiltzin the legendary leader of the Toltecs was born.
  • Period: 935 to 1428

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  • Great City of Tenochtitlán
    1428

    Great City of Tenochtitlán

    During the reign of the Aztec ruler Itzcóatl, an alliance is formed between Tenochtitlán and the neighboring states of Texcoco and Tlacopan. This alliance allows the Aztec to become the dominant power in central Mexico.
  • Period: 1428 to 1486

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  • Human sacrifice to the Aztec war god, Huitzilopochtli
    1486

    Human sacrifice to the Aztec war god, Huitzilopochtli

    Ahuitzotl becomes the Aztec ruler in 1486. The following year Ahuitzotl’s new temple at Tenochtitlán is dedicated to the gods in a ceremony that lasts four days and with as many as 20,000 prisoners of war sacrificed at the altar. As the captives are marched up to the altar, priests and Aztec nobles, including Ahuitzotl, cut open their chests and tear out their hearts.