Five Important Moments in History

  • 10,000 BCE

    Humans cross the Bering Ice Bridge

    Humans migrate from Siberia and cross over the Bering Ice Bridge in an attempt to migrate with the Megafauna of the Pleistocene Period.
  • 5000 BCE

    The City of Ur

    Ur is considered one of the largest settlements in the region of Mesopotamia discovered the rise of the more prominent kingdoms of the Fertile Cresent.
  • 490 BCE

    Battle of Marathon

    One of the most significant battles during the First Greco-Persian War, culminating in the victory of the Athenians and the defeat of Darius I.
  • May 29, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople

    The Ottoman Empire has finally defeated what they had considered their greatest enemy. With the conquest of Constantinople, the Byzantine Empire had finally been slain after nearly a millennia of ruling the city.
  • Sep 13, 1521

    Spain conquers the Aztec Empire

    Within merely a few decades after sending explorers to navigate the Americas, Hernán Cortes had successfully conquered the Capital of Tenochtitlan in Mexico, allowing for the rapid influence of European Powers to lay their own claims across the Americas.