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The Minoan civilization created a new political system that centered on the king. This created social hierarchy and classes.
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Knossos rose as the most important and sophisticated palace that served as the home of the ruler of the island (Crete). It came to its end on 1400 BCE when an earthquake destroyed it.
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Trojan war between Troy and Mycenaean Greece in which Greece obtained the victory. Narrated during the Iliad and Odyssey.
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The Olmec CIvilization rose in Pre.Classical Mesoamerica in the Gulf of Mexico. It is considered the forerunner of other civilizations like the Maya and Azteca
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Mesoamerican people started buillding pyramids around this time for religious purposes in Mexico and its near lands.
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Rome was founded by Romulus, the first of the seven Roman kings that ruled during the period in which Monarchy was the political system
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Persia invaded Greece twice. Greece won both times and in that way it could conserve and persevere in their civilization. (From 490 to 480)
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The First Peloponnesian War happened between Athens and Sparta. Sparta won the conflict by destroying the main Athenian ship.
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Julius Caesar defeats Pompeii in a civil war and becomes Rome´s supreme leader during the transition from the Late Republic to the Empire
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The Roman Empire began with the ruling of Octavian Augustus as the first emperor and ended with the ruling Romulus Augustulus
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The Taironas were a precolombian culture who settled in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. They were one of the two major cultures in Colombia.
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Nero, emperor from 54-68, set fire to Rome and destroyed much of it. He blamed the christians for this act when blame was built uppon him.
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Rome splits into the Western Roman Empire and the Eastern Roman Empire to have a better control and management of its territory as the power was wrongly distributed
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The Muiscas rose in the highlands of Bogota and Cundinamarca in ancient Colombia. They were often recognizedby their amazing work in gold and the "El Dorado" legend.
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The Inca civilization flourished in ancient Peru and their empire extended across South America, making it the largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in the world at that time.
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Texcoco and Azcapotzalco, two of the dominant small empires of the Aztec Civilization came face to face in this war.
